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War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism

by Laurence M. Vance

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The Government against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government's Ongoing Destruction of the American Economic System through Price Controls (LvMI)

by George Reisman

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Man, Economy, And State: A Treatise On Economic Principles

by Murray N. Rothbard

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“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”
― George Orwell, The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell

tags: authoritarianism, libertarianism, politics

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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

tags: truth

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

tags: anti-nea, arts, diy, funding, government, grant, libertarianism, self-support, support

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“The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.”
― Stanley Milgram

tags: authority, ethics, government, obedience, responsibility, society, state

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“It is infinitely better to rely on the pursuit of economic interest by landowners or street companies than to depend on the dubious “altruism” of bureaucrats and government officials.”
― Murray N. Rothbard, For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

tags: altruism, compassion, libertarianism, murray-rothbard, statism

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