Ian Zen
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“When looting becomes a way of life for a group in society, over time it creates a legal system that legalizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. Claude-Frédéric Bastiat,
Economist and Politician”
― Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You
Economist and Politician”
― Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You
“Life with a cheat code isn't life. Our existence isn't something to be engineered or optimized for the avoidance of pain. That's what it is to be human - the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“Without a healthy emotional life, a relationship is not a relationship; it is a social arrangement where no intimacy or connection exists.”
― The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again
― The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again
“Politics is by its very nature cooperation-inhibiting intervention - it destroys liberty in every form it has. There is therefore no 'right' policy in the sense of liberty; only the consistent abstinence from politics produces and maintains liberty. Rolf W. Puster,
Philosopher”
― Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You
Philosopher”
― Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You
“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates”
― Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom
― Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom
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