“No one owns truth. It evolves through discourse and facts revealed in time. The Earth was once the center of the Universe. Any fool could see the heavens revolve around it - an obvious truth. Truth evolves. Who owns the truth of vaccines?" - John McAfee
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“Whenever the government fails to prevent a plane crash, the event is cited as justification for having the government prevent plane crashes.” - Harry Browne
“Totalitarianism is collectivism. Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group — whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called "the common good." Throughout history, no tyrant ever rose to power except on the claim of representing "the common good." Napoleon "served the common good" of France. Hitler is "serving the common good" of Germany. Horrors which no man would dare consider for his own selfish sake are perpetrated with a clear conscience by "altruists" who justify themselves by — the common good.” - Ayn Rand
“Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” - P. J. O'Rourke
“One lied, mendaciously inventing reasons for these laws, simply to avoid admitting that one had become used to these laws and no longer wanted things to be different.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“The most fanatical attacks against gold are made by those intent upon credit expansion. With them credit expansion is the panacea for all economic ills.” - Ludwig von Mises
“What is tradition? A higher authority which one obeys, not because it commands what is useful to us, but because it commands.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Bitcoin is a device for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.” - Stephan Livera
“His whole nature fails to persuade; that is because he has never remained silent about any of his good deeds.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“What the government gives it must first take away.” - John S. Coleman
“I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.” - Leo Tolstoy
“While it is desirable that the old should treat with respect the wishes of the young, it is not desirable that the young should treat with respect the wishes of the old. The reason is simple, namely that in either case it is the lives of the young that are concerned, not the lives of the old.” - Bertrand Russell
“One must be able at times to lose oneself if one wants to learn something from things that we ourselves are not.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Those coins can never be recovered, and the total circulation is less. Since the effective circulation is reduced, all the remaining coins are worth slightly more. It's the opposite of when a government prints money and the value of existing money goes down.” - Satoshi Nakamoto
“This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention, the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State; that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long-run sustains, nourishes and impels human destinies.” - Jose Ortega y Gasset
“There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party. Both represent some range of business interests. In fact, they can change their positions 180 degrees, and nobody even notices.” - Noam Chomsky
“A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men.” - Woodrow Wilson
“It is impractical for anyone to develop wealth in government money without government acceptance. Government can confiscate money from the banking monopolies it controls, inflate the currency to devalue holders' wealth and reward it to the most loyal of its subjects, impose draconian taxes and punish those who avoid them, and even confiscate bills.” - Saifedean Ammous
“One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.” - Giorgio Agamben
“Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.” - Benjamin N. Cardozo