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In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured,…
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Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
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To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured,…
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The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which…
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Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority…
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All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas…
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By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I…
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The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.
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AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
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I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which…
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To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on…
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Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason…
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If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.
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The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established,…
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the…
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime...
— Lord Acton
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Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating…
— Unknown Author
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We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.
— Saint Basil
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The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near…
— William S. Burroughs
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