“And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior. If the government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals, history shows that power is always abused. Every single time.”
― Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom
― Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom
“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
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“If two parties with two sets of bad ideas cooperate, the result is not good policy, but policy that is extremely bad. What we really need are correct economic and politcal ideas, regardless of the party that pushes them.”
― Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom
― Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom
“Don’t just teach your children to read…
Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.”
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Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.”
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“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
― The Basis of Morality
― The Basis of Morality
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