“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 include the respect for autonomy and inviolability of personal boundaries that define liberty and peace and… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share
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 include the respect for autonomy and inviolability of personal boundaries that define liberty and peace and allow for cooperation for mutual ends. Support for such an environment has led to the flourishing of human activity not… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share
“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
