"In order for a government to act humanely……" — L. Neil Smith

"In order for a government to act humanely towards someone, it must first act inhumanely towards someone else"

— L. Neil Smith

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55 Quotes by L. Neil Smith

L. Neil Smith has 55 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against…
Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is…
Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is…
People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals…
Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What…
Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When…
It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its…
As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to…
A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft,…
Government is waging war against the people.
Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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