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#1

“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: crime, government, innocence, law, libertarian

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#2

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
― Frederic Bastiat

tags: bastiat, france, government, history, liberal, libertarian, philosophy

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#3

“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.”
― Camille Paglia

tags: america, art, criticism, culture, democrat, inspirational, liberal, libertarian, republican, responsibility, sex, trauma, victim

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#4

“I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.”
― Mikhail Bakunin

tags: freedom, libertarian, liberty

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#5

“It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.”
― Murray N. Rothbard

tags: anarchy, austrian-economics, austrian-school-of-economics, charity, coercion, communism, free-markets, freedom, libertarian, liberty, philosophy, socialism, statism, virtue, voluntaryism, welfare

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#6

“I'm not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers.
I'm scared of the thousands of millions of people that hallucinate them to be "authority", and so do their bidding, and pay for their empires, and carry out their orders.
I don't care if there's one looney with a stupid moustache. He's not a threat if the people do not believe in "authority".”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarchy, ancap, delusion, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, statism, superstition, voluntaryism

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#7

“The law is an opinion with a gun.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: freedomai-radio, government, law, libertarian, stefan-molyneux

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#8

“We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.”
― Mikhail Bakunin

tags: freedom, libertarian, libertarian-socialism, liberty, socialism

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#9

“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: beliefs, critical-thinking, ethics, false, freedom, indoctrination, libertarian, liberty, objective, philosophy, psychology, rational, religion, sanity, self-knowledge, statism, superstition, voluntaryism

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#10

“When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.”
― Ron Paul

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, communism, freedom, libertarian, liberty, medicine, national-health-service, nhs, non-aggression-principle, self-ownership, socialised-medicine, socialism, socialized, statism, totalitarian, voluntaryism, voluntaryist

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#11

“But who would build the roads if there were no government?

You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this country and 7 billion people on the planet would just sit around in their houses and think “Gee, I’d like to go visit Fred, but I can't because there isn’t a flat thing outside for me to drive on, and I don’t know how to build it and the other 300 million or 7 billion people can’t possibly do it because there aren’t any politicians and tax collectors. If they were here then we could do it. If they were here to boss us around and steal our money and really inefficiently build the flat places, then we would be set. Then I would be comfortable and confident that I could get places. But I can’t go to Fred’s house or the market because we can’t possibly build a flat space from A to B. We can make these really small devices that enable us to contact people from all over the word that fits in our pockets; we can make machines that we drive around in, but no, we can’t possibly build a flat space.”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarchy, austrian-school-of-economics, bureaucracy, coercion, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, roads, slavery, socialism, statism, taxation, technology, theft, utopia, voluntaryism

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#12

“Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.”
― Doug Stanhope

tags: anarchy, countries, delusions, irrationality, libertarian, statism

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#13

“If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ”
― Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means

tags: alternative, libertarian, native-american

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#14

“I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on grounds of expediency, not on principle.”
― Milton Friedman

tags: charlie-rose-show, libertarian, republican

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#15

“People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.”
― Hany Ghoraba

tags: freedom, libertarian, libertarianism, liberty

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#16

“As far as socialism, I used to think I was fundamentally opposed to it, but eventually came to realize that wasn't really true, and that what I actually oppose is aggression. Voluntary socialism can be a wonderful way of living for small groups, and most people practice some form of it in their families. Only when imposed on people by force does socialism become evil. One of the beautiful things about a libertarian society is that people could still create socialist communes and be left alone to redistribute resources within them to their hearts' content, so long as no one is forced to join or prevented from leaving. This stands in stark contrast to a state-socialist society, which cannot similarly tolerate peaceful acts of capitalism among consenting participants.”
― Starchild

tags: aggression, capitalism, changing-your-mind, consent, libertarian, libertarian-socialism, libertarian-society, socialism, state-socialism, voluntary-socialism

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#17

“...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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#18

“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: absolution, brooding, guilt, morality, remorse, repentance, wallowing, wrongdoing

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#19

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: child-abuse, conditioning, indoctrination, mind-control, parenting

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#20

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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#21

“The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.”
― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

tags: americans, difference, similarities, uniqueness

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#22

“The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.”
― Aberjhani, The American Poet Who Went Home Again

tags: american-identity, american-poets, americans, black-history-month, contemporary-authors, contemporary-poetry, contemporary-poets, diversity, multiculturalism, multiculturalismo, national-history-day, national-poetry-month, poem-in-your-pocket-day, poets-and-poetry, world-poetry-day, writers-and-writing

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#23

“What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion. Not the pedigree of his family nor the place of his birth. Not the coincidence of his citizenship. Not his social status nor his bank account. Not his trade nor his profession. An American is one who loves justice and believes in the dignity of man. An American is one who will fight for his freedom and that of his neighbor. An American is one who will sacrifice property, ease and security in order that he and his children may retain the rights of free men. An American is one in whose heart is engraved the immortal second sentence of the Declaration of Independence.”
― Harold Ickes

tags: america, americans, speech, what-makes-an-american

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#24

“The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.”
― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

tags: americans, barack-obama, choosing, civic-duty, courage, democratic-national-convention, famous-quotes, fear, gun-violence, hope, legacies, making-choices, mitt-romney, options, patriotism, police-reform, police-shootings, political-advocacy, political-awareness, political-philosophy, political-responsibility, politics, presidential-election, presidential-election-campaign, quotes-by-aberjhani, republican-national-convention, savannah-author-aberjhani, social-awareness, social-responsibility, the-future, vision-of-america, voting, xenophobia

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#25

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: america, disgrace, inequality, love, poor

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#26

“Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!”
― Bill Hicks

tags: america, humor, politics, society

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#27

“The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.”
― Frida Kahlo

tags: ambition, america, fame

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#28

“As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Letters

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#29

“It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit is that, but white people’s shit?”
― Miles Davis, Miles: The Autobiography

tags: america, columbus, columbus-day, indians

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#30

“You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.”
― Naomi Klein

tags: america, freedom, image, impressions, peace, war

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