Surath Giri

“Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.”
― Edward Snowden

“As I soon learned, 95 percent of my former network didn’t care. It was more important to them to be identified as enlightened (albeit wealthy) critics of capitalism. That was depressing.”
― Magatte Wade, The Heart of A Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to about African Poverty, and What That Means for Human Flourishing

“The state is a human institution, not a superhuman being. He who says “state” means coercion and compulsion. He who says: There should be a law concerning this matter, means: The armed men of the government should force people to do what they do not want to do, or not to do what they like. He who says: This law should be better enforced, means: The police should force people to obey this law. He who says: The state is God, deifies arms and prisons. The worship of the state is the worship of force.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government