Ivan L.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable...”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Third Series

“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Nerve doctors who pathologize genius should have their heads bashed in with the collected works of genius. And those humanists who decry the vivisection of guinea pigs while while applauding the subjection of works of art to psychologizing deserve the same treatment.”
― Karl Kraus

“The inferiority of the multitude manifests itself most convincingly in the fact that they loathe the capitalistic system and stigmatize the profits that their own behavior creates as unfair.”
― Ludwig von Mises, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method