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We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to…
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Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the…
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States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize…
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Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
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Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
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In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has…
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Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than…
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Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.
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But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic…
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It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
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Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you…
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If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to…
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[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from…
— Christopher Hitchens
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If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is…
— Albert Einstein
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Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to…
— Jason Stanley
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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally…
— Vaclav Havel
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The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are…
— Paul Feyerabend
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Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Human action is purposeful behavior.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If…
— James H. Cone
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I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.
— Horst Kohler
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The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
— Abraham Lincoln
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Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.
— Dalai Lama
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