Tag: Government

1419: Caitlin Johnstone – Being Anti-War

W1419: Caitlin Johnstone - Being Anti-War
Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts. —Caitlin A. Johnstone
Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts. —Caitlin A. JohnstoneDownload Print Quality (7680×4020) 224KB  |  Normal Quality (3840×2010) 133KB
Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts. —Caitlin A. JohnstoneDownload Print Quality (6146×7680) 286KB  |  Normal Quality (3073×3840) 155KB

Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts.

Virtually everyone will tell you they love peace and hate war; war is the very worst thing in the world, and no healthy person relishes the thought of it.

But when the rubber meets the road and it’s time to oppose war and push for peace, those who’d previously proclaimed themselves “anti-war” are on the other side screaming for more weapons to be poured into a proxy war that their government deliberately provoked.

This is because the theory of being anti-war is very different from the practice. — Caitlin A. Johnstone

1418: Edith Hamilton – Freedom from Responsibility

W1418: Edith Hamilton - Freedom from Responsibility
In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all — security, comfort, and freedom. When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. —Edith Hamilton
In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all — security, comfort, and freedom. When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. —Edith HamiltonDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 4.05MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 264KB
In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all — security, comfort, and freedom. When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. —Edith HamiltonDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 5.45MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 323KB

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all — security, comfort, and freedom. When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. —Edith Hamilton

1417: Murray Rothbard – A History of Violence

W1417: Murray Rothbard - A History of Violence
The history of government is the history of violence, of the strong plundering the weak. Wicked tyrants engage in orgies of violence; being rulers they could give free rein to all their desires. —Murray Rothbard
The history of government is the history of violence, of the strong plundering the weak. Wicked tyrants engage in orgies of violence; being rulers they could give free rein to all their desires. —Murray RothbardDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 3.13MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 232KB
The history of government is the history of violence, of the strong plundering the weak. Wicked tyrants engage in orgies of violence; being rulers they could give free rein to all their desires. —Murray RothbardDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 4.14MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 290KB

The history of government is the history of violence, of the strong plundering the weak. Wicked tyrants engage in orgies of violence; being rulers they could give free rein to all their desires. —Murray Rothbard

1415: Hannah Cox – Strangling Capitalism

W1415: Hannah Cox – Strangling Capitalism
You can't strangle an industry with regulations, mandates, red tape, bureaucracy, and government control and then blame capitalism when it sucks. —Hannah Cox
You can't strangle an industry with regulations, mandates, red tape, bureaucracy, and government control and then blame capitalism when it sucks. —Hannah CoxDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 3.06MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 203KB
You can't strangle an industry with regulations, mandates, red tape, bureaucracy, and government control and then blame capitalism when it sucks. —Hannah CoxDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 4.34MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 263KB

You can’t strangle an industry with regulations, mandates, red tape, bureaucracy, and government control and then blame capitalism when it sucks. —Hannah Cox

1413: Frederic Bastiat – The Law Defends Plunder

W1413: Frederic Bastiat - The Law Defends Plunder
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal. —Frederic Bastiat
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal. —Frederic BastiatDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 2.34MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 247KB
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal. —Frederic BastiatDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 3.26MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 297KB

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal. —Frederic Bastiat

1412: Spike Cohen – Like Fish in a Barrel

W1412: Spike Cohen – Like Fish in a Barrel
Government will mandate that your children be left vulnerable like fish in a barrel in their school; hold you down outside while they are murdered, and then blame you for owning a rifle. —Spike Cohen
Government will mandate that your children be left vulnerable like fish in a barrel in their school; hold you down outside while they are murdered, and then blame you for owning a rifle. —Spike CohenDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 7.14MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 211KB
Government will mandate that your children be left vulnerable like fish in a barrel in their school; hold you down outside while they are murdered, and then blame you for owning a rifle. —Spike CohenDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 9.41MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 265KB

Government will mandate that your children be left vulnerable like fish in a barrel in their school; hold you down outside while they are murdered, and then blame you for owning a rifle. —Spike Cohen

1406: Dave Smith – Bold Messaging

W1406: Dave Smith - Bold Messaging
What bold messaging means, from a libertarian perspective, is telling the truth. If there's a libertarian who is telling the truth, there's no way that it isn't bold messaging. We are all radicals. We live under the biggest government in the history of the world. As Martin Luther King once said, “The United States government is the biggest purveyor of violence in the world” —Dave Smith
What bold messaging means, from a libertarian perspective, is telling the truth. If there's a libertarian who is telling the truth, there's no way that it isn't bold messaging. We are all radicals. We live under the biggest government in the history of the world. As Martin Luther King once said, “The United States government is the biggest purveyor of violence in the world” —Dave SmithDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 1.77MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 239KB
What bold messaging means, from a libertarian perspective, is telling the truth. If there's a libertarian who is telling the truth, there's no way that it isn't bold messaging. We are all radicals. We live under the biggest government in the history of the world. As Martin Luther King once said, “The United States government is the biggest purveyor of violence in the world” —Dave SmithDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 2.48MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 302KB

What bold messaging means, from a libertarian perspective, is telling the truth. If there’s a libertarian who is telling the truth, there’s no way that it isn’t bold messaging. We are all radicals. We live under the biggest government in the history of the world. As Martin Luther King once said, “The United States government is the biggest purveyor of violence in the world” —Dave Smith

1405: Karl Hess – Integration & Segregation

W1405: Karl Hess - Integration & Segregation
Racism has been supported in this country not despite of, but thanks to, governmental power and politics. Reverse racism — thinking that government is competent to force people to integrate, just as it once forced them to segregate — is just as political and just as disastrous. It has not worked. Its product has been hatred rather than brotherhood. —Karl Hess
Racism has been supported in this country not despite of, but thanks to, governmental power and politics. Reverse racism — thinking that government is competent to force people to integrate, just as it once forced them to segregate — is just as political and just as disastrous. It has not worked. Its product has been hatred rather than brotherhood. —Karl HessDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 1.96MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 248KB
Racism has been supported in this country not despite of, but thanks to, governmental power and politics. Reverse racism — thinking that government is competent to force people to integrate, just as it once forced them to segregate — is just as political and just as disastrous. It has not worked. Its product has been hatred rather than brotherhood. —Karl HessDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 2.98MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 340KB

Racism has been supported in this country not despite of, but thanks to, governmental power and politics. Reverse racism — thinking that government is competent to force people to integrate, just as it once forced them to segregate — is just as political and just as disastrous. It has not worked. Its product has been hatred rather than brotherhood. —Karl Hess

1404: Ayn Rand – Statism is Perpetual Violence

W1404: Ayn Rand - Statism is Perpetual Violence
Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power—to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. When brute force is the only criterion of social conduct, and unresisting surrender to destruction is the only alternative, even the lowest of men, even an animal—even a cornered rat—will fight. There can be no peace within an enslaved nation. —Ayn Rand
Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power—to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. When brute force is the only criterion of social conduct, and unresisting surrender to destruction is the only alternative, even the lowest of men, even an animal—even a cornered rat—will fight. There can be no peace within an enslaved nation. —Ayn RandDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 1.85MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 240KB
Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power—to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. When brute force is the only criterion of social conduct, and unresisting surrender to destruction is the only alternative, even the lowest of men, even an animal—even a cornered rat—will fight. There can be no peace within an enslaved nation. —Ayn RandDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 2.75MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 315KB

Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power—to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. When brute force is the only criterion of social conduct, and unresisting surrender to destruction is the only alternative, even the lowest of men, even an animal—even a cornered rat—will fight. There can be no peace within an enslaved nation. —Ayn Rand

1400: Andrew Napolitano – Government Lies to Us Regularly

W1400: Andrew Napolitano - Government Lies to Us Regularly
The government is not concerned with the truth. It lies to us regularly, consistently, systematically, and daily on matters great and small, but it prosecutes and jails those who lie to it! —Andrew Napolitano
The government is not concerned with the truth. It lies to us regularly, consistently, systematically, and daily on matters great and small, but it prosecutes and jails those who lie to it! —Andrew NapolitanoDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 6.53MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 317KB
The government is not concerned with the truth. It lies to us regularly, consistently, systematically, and daily on matters great and small, but it prosecutes and jails those who lie to it! —Andrew NapolitanoDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 7.37MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 379KB

The government is not concerned with the truth. It lies to us regularly, consistently, systematically, and daily on matters great and small, but it prosecutes and jails those who lie to it! —Andrew Napolitano