“During the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every profession is chosen and commenced as a means to an end but continued as an end in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent of all acts of stupidity.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.” - Noam Chomsky

“Right now, drugs are ours. They aren't tainted by the government. We the people control their manufacture, distribution and consumption.” - Ross Ulbricht

“Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.” - Nassim Taleb

“I think the entrepreneurial spirit is still alive and kicking. I hope it never ever dies, because I think when it does, the world dies.” - Duncan Bannatyne

“Britain was the first to adopt a modern gold standard in 1717, under the direction of physicist Isaac Newton, who was the warden of the Royal Mint, and the gold standard would play a great role in it advancing its trade across its empire worldwide... The economic supremacy of Britain was intricately linked to its being on a superior monetary standard, and other European countries began to follow it.” - Saifedean Ammous

“It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.” - Julian Assange

“The most important event in the history of the last hundred years is the displacement of liberalism by etatism. Etatism appears in two forms: socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state, the social apparatus of compulsion and coercion.” - Ludwig von Mises

“Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.” - Sen. Barry Goldwater

“Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard. There's nothing to relate it to.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

“Governments don't protect you. They can't. All they can do is promise to make the person who hurts you pay for his crime — if they can catch him. The criminal won't pay you back, of course, so they punish him only as a deterrent to future crime. If you think the deterrent is working, why is crime always such a public issue?” - Harry Browne

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

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

“No matter how circumstances conspire against the man with a low time preference, he will probably find a way to keep prioritizing his future self until he achieves his objectives.” - Saifedean Ammous

“The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave.” - Ludwig von Mises

“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.” - Satoshi Nakamoto, genesis block

“The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.” - Milton Friedman

“Every action you take outside the scope of government control strengthens the market and weakens the state.” - Ross Ulbricht

“Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.” - Ayn Rand

“The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor... those who favor a different form of international integration, which privileges the rights of human beings, become "anti-globalist." This is simply vulgar propaganda... It is not only vulgar, but idiotic. Take the World Social Forum, called "anti-globalization" in the propaganda system... It is a gathering of huge numbers of people from all over the world, from just about every corner of life one can think of, apart from the extremely narrow, highly privileged elites who meet at the competing World Economic Forum, and are called "pro-globalization" by the propaganda system.” - Noam Chomsky