Let's call something a rigid designator if in every possible world it designates the same object, a non-rigid or accidental designator if… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes… — John Adams Copy Share Image
All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin… — Ascanio Sobrero Copy Share Image
... I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The land afterward was cleared by oxen, the fallen trees stripped of their bark and cut for lumber that would be used… — David Grand Copy Share Image
“An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet or a soap-works. Partnership was a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
One difference between libertarianism and socialism is that a socialist society can't tolerate groups of people practicing freedom, but a libertarian society… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
We must expropriate gently the private property on the state assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property,… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a liberal...There hasn't been for a long, long time. I never use the word and you… — Alexander Beresford Hope Copy Share Image
And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country…. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The bank's product is debt, because the banks want to make sure that they can get paid for the debt. But ultimately… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Private property works like circuitry in electronics, or piping in hydraulics. It conveys wages to the owners of labor power, as well… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
If you dropped me off a space platform onto the ground where a line was drawn, I would fall to the left… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If you look at the minutes of the constitutional convention - which we have - Madison who was the main framer, proceeded… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures… — Ouida Copy Share Image