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“Fear is being used by the political class as an excuse to accumulate more power and self-importance - and collect a lot more taxes to support their agenda.” quote by Doug Casey — Download Open image

“Fear is being used by the political class as an excuse to accumulate more power and self-importance - and collect a lot more taxes to support their agenda.”

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Government intervention in the economy - through taxes, regulation and, most importantly, currency inflation - causes distortions and misallocations of capital that must eventually be unwound. The distortions degrade the general standard of living, and the economy goes into a recession (call that an incomplete cleansing). Or it goes into a depression - wherein the entire sickly structure comes unglued.

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There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's…

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There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…

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At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen…

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We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the…

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The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps…

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It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

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The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready…

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There certainly are situations where I feel not empowered or uninspired. Particularly when the person's agenda is to intimidate through abusing their position or their authority. When I am present and in a nonreactive state, then I can become like snake and slide through their "intimidation net" back into the creative plane. When I am in a reactive state, I…

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

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