Butler Shaffer

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[Wikipedia] Butler D. Shaffer was an American author, law professor and speaker, known for his numerous libertarian books and blog articles for LewRockwell.com. He was a professor of Law Emeritus at the Los Angeles-based Southwestern University School of Law.

Quotes by Butler Shaffer

The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look…

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“The problem with all of this, as historians advise us, is that the institutionalization of the systems that produce the values upon…

Butler Shaffer

Culture

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“The origins of any productive system seem to be traceable to conditions in which the self-interest driven purposes of individuals are allowed…

Butler Shaffer

Freedom

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“The hubris that attends all political programs of central planning is fueled by an ignorance of the forces of chaos.”

Butler Shaffer

Ignorance

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“Western Civilization is in the crisis it is because we have sacrificed more profound values than the immediate and quantifiable consequences we…

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Culture

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“The belief that order must be intentionally generated and imposed upon society by institutional authorities continues to prevail. This centrally-directed model is…

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Faith

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“Modern society is in a state of turbulence brought about, in large part, by political efforts to maintain static, equilibrium conditions; practices…

Butler Shaffer

Creative process

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In this war - as in others - I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead.

Butler Shaffer

War

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“As the creators of sophisticated technologies, we have made ourselves increasingly machine-like; robotic servants of institutional systems we have been conditioned to…

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Ask questions

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