“Human maturity: this means rediscovering the seriousness we had towards play when we were children.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.” - Bertrand Russell

“It’s as silly to blame social media for causing fake news as it would be to blame the internal combustion engine for causing road rage... The mass-market tabloid press fomented the Spanish-American War on dubious pretexts in 1898, and from this point on, powerful media corporations, driven to boost profits by fanning the resentments of people.” - Jim Sleeper

“A power has arisen up in the Government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.” - John C. Calhoun

“Mediocrity is the most successful mask the superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, that is to say the mediocre, it will not seem a mask - and yet it is on precisely their account that he puts it on - so as not to provoke them, indeed often out of benevolence and pity.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Government wants to control information and control language because that's the way you control thought, and basically that's the game they're in.” - George Carlin

“The state doesn't create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.” - John McAfee

“What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.” - Mark Twain

“As ecstatic as governments can be when citizens in other, “bad” countries take charge of their lives, they are equally terrified when citizens of their own country use the same technology to take charge of their lives where there is a “good” government.” - Rick Falkvinge

“I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.” - Noam Chomsky

“I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.” - Murray Rothbard

“If you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.” - Milton Friedman

“It will always be the mark of nobility that one feels no fear of oneself.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.” - Abraham Lincoln

“There is no capacity to kill Bitcoin.” - Patrick McHenry, US Representative

“He lacks charm and knows it: oh, how well he understands how to mask this fact with strict virtue.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“But who will guard the guardians themselves?” - Juvenal, Satire VI

“We owe the existence and character of the police state which has sprung up all around us largely to government excesses in the name of the War on Drugs.” - L. Neil Smith

“You dislike him and present many grounds for this dislike - but I believe only in your dislike, not in your grounds! You flatter yourself in your own eyes when you suggest to yourself and to me that what has happened through instinct is the result of a process of reasoning.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“The state — or, to make the matter more concrete, the government — consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.” - H.L. Mencken