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John Holdren has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have…
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A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing…
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There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring…
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A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might…
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In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other…
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The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating…
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The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional…
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Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too…
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Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and…
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If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by…
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A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.
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Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs),…
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No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals…
— Ayn Rand
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Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the…
— Ayn Rand
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The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes,…
— David Boaz
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Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a…
— Ralph Raico
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When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be…
— Roderick T. Long
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Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional…
— John Holdren
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Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It…
— Errico Malatesta
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Consider the sexual harassment which continually occurs between a secretary and a boss . . . while objectionable to many women, [it]…
— Walter Block
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No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will…
— Leo Strauss
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