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“It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.”
— Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter.
Francisco d’Anconia, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Page 383
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If you are fine with government surveillance, you are not anti-fascist
If you are fine with censorship, you are not anti-fascist
If you are fine with obedience by force, you are not anti-fascist
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Socialism seeks to appeal to the common man through envy, it appeals to the statesman and the aspiring statesman through the lust for power, it appeals to the academic and the intellectual with the promise of patronage (he no longer has to strive to produce within the "vulgar" free market that does not appreciate his ability, and which reduces everything to a matter of practical value. And he can contribute to intellectually shaping and engineering society). It keeps everyone else in line with force.
Nothing says government like forcing people to do what they don’t want and fining them in the process.
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Good ideas don’t require force
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a man who makes no enemies is never a positive force
Simon Cameron (1799 – 1889) American statesman (via philosophicalconservatism)