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... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question… — Bob Black
Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most of what little… — Bob Black
Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can at least change… — Bob Black
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst. — Bob Black
In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public… — Stephen Holmes
Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is… — Robert Anton Wilson
... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that… — Robert Anton Wilson
Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger
But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory -… — Unknown Author
The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent- they believe in individual liberty.… — Molly Ivins
Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions… — Molly Ivins
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil. — Eric Hoffer
Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor… — Thomas Paine
In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who would be more… — Denise Caruso
The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism. — George Soros
In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to economic fundamentalism, with… — Carlos Fuentes
Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste… — Molly Ivins
... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces independently of government… — William Vickrey
Information technology alone cannot provide us an absolute shield against its evil twin disinformation technology. Our only protection is law, and that protection is available… — Paul Starr
Liberalism demands that people without guns be able to tell people with guns what to do. — Stephen Holmes
The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of the history of… — Douglass North
Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I… — Paul Krugman
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as… — Unknown Author
For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of the community… — Unknown Author
The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our… — Molly Ivins

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