Dylan Miles

“To most of the world sucess is never bad. I remember how, when Hitler moved unchecked and triumphant, many honourable men sought and found virtues in him. And Mussolini made the trains run on time, and Vichy collaborated for the good of France, and whatever else Stalin was, he was strong. Strength and success-they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“They are subjected to all manner of taxes: the tithe, the hearth tax and the capitation tax. When all those are paid, they are left with a pittance, which means they spend their lives struggling to survive. I can understand their despair. And I can understand their anger when they look at the nobility and the clergy and see them enjoying lives of luxury, unburdened by any tax. What astonishes me is that they have put up with it for so long. I can only begin to imagine the suffering that has driven those people in Seurre to action.”
― Simon Scarrow, Young Bloods

“If you take the data from the Oxford Covid-19 Government Response tracker index and plot it against health outcomes, in other words, if you look to see if there's any apparent connection between the severity of lockdowns and health outcomes, you find no connection at all. The distribution is entirely random. As future ages look back on the 21st century, our "public health" establishment will be a laughingstock, dressed in white coats and holding clipboards, but prescribing leeches and rain dances and human sacrifice and calling it "science".”
― Thomas E Woods Jr, Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During Covid Mania

“Another tried-and-true method for bending subjects to the state's will is inducing guilt. Any increase in private well-being can be attacked as "unconscionable greed, "materialism",, or "excessive affluence." Profit-making can be attacked as "exploitation" and "usury", mutually beneficial exchanges are denounced as selfishness, and somehow, with the conclusion always being drawn that more resources should be siphoned from the private to the public sector. The induced guilt makes the public more ready to do just that. While individual persons tend to indulge in "selfish greed", the failure of the state's rulers to engage in exchanges is supposed to signify their devotion to higher and nobler causes, parasitic predation being apparently morally and aesthetically lofty as compared to peaceful and productive work.”
― Murray N. Rothbard, Anatomy of the State