"Rationality is not a prerequisite to liberty. There……" — L. Neil Smith
"Rationality is not a prerequisite to liberty. There is a sapient right to be free, whatever conditions we find ourselves in. We do not need to earn it, nobody his a right to withhold it until we do."
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55 Quotes by L. Neil Smith
L. Neil Smith has 55 quotes on this site.
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A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against…
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Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is…
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Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is…
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People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals…
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Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What…
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Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When…
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its…
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As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to…
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft,…
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Government is waging war against the people.
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Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
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I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
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More Conditions Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
— Hannah Arendt
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;…
— Aristotle
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
— Karen Armstrong
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We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's…
— Margaret Atwood
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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always…
— Roger Babson
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You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle…
— Bernard Baruch
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
— Saint Basil
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always…
— Jane Addams
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to…
— Annie Besant
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