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Bobby Bræger
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“Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.”
― Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
― Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
“The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.”
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“If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.”
― Planning for Freedom
― Planning for Freedom
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”
― Minority Report
― Minority Report
“They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship, philosophers judging the merits of thinkers and authors, not according to the value of their contributions but according to their achievements on battlefields, are the spiritual leaders of our age of perpetual strife.”
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Bobby’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Suspense, and Travel
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