“The belief that order must be intentionally generated and imposed upon society by institutional authorities continues to prevail. This centrally-directed model is premised upon what F.A. Hayek called “the fatal conceit,” namely, the proposition “that man is able to shape… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
“Modern society is in a state of turbulence brought about, in large part, by political efforts to maintain static, equilibrium conditions; practices that interfere with the ceaseless processes of change that provide the fluctuating order upon which any creative system—such… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
“The problem with all of this, as historians advise us, is that the institutionalization of the systems that produce the values upon which a civilization depends, ultimately bring about the destruction of that civilization. Arnold Toynbee observed that a civilization begins to break down when there is “a loss of creative power in the souls of creative individuals,” and, in… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share
“The origins of any productive system seem to be traceable to conditions in which the self-interest driven purposes of individuals are allowed expression. These… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
“The hubris that attends all political programs of central planning is fueled by an ignorance of the forces of chaos.” — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
“Western Civilization is in the crisis it is because we have sacrificed more profound values than the immediate and quantifiable consequences we tend to… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
“The belief that order must be intentionally generated and imposed upon society by institutional authorities continues to prevail. This centrally-directed model is premised upon… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
“Modern society is in a state of turbulence brought about, in large part, by political efforts to maintain static, equilibrium conditions; practices that interfere… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
In this war - as in others - I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead. — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
“As the creators of sophisticated technologies, we have made ourselves increasingly machine-like; robotic servants of institutional systems we have been conditioned to revere, whose… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
