Pavan

“Since the function of politics is to reduce the diversity of individual ends to a set of common ends (the ends of the majority, the dictator, the party in power, or whatever person or group is in effective control of the political institutions), public property imposes those common ends on the individual. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask rather what you can do for your country.” Ask not, in other words, how you can pursue what you believe is good but how you can pursue what the government tells you is good.”
― David D. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism

“Of course, topologists don’t care about any of this “applied math” nonsense. They’re just trying to find all the shapes.”
― Milo Beckman, Math Without Numbers

“It is generally supposed that governments strengthen their forces only to defend the state from other states, in oblivion of the fact that armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You

“The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.”
― David D. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism