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There are four ways of distributing drugs. One is licensed premises, one is just ordinary retail markets, one is through the doctor, and the other one is through organised crime. Why all the3 governments have decided on this last option as the way to do it, I don't know.
Howard Marks in an interview in The Philosophers' Magazine 54
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Philosophy is as incapable of demonstrating Government as it is of proving God. Authority, like Divinity, is not a matter of knowing; it is, I repeat, a matter of faith.
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“Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.”
Thomas Paine 1776
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“The Democrats,” wrote PJ O’Rourke in 1991′s Parliament of Whores, “are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.”
- quoted in this post at C4SS.
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One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're right.' If you don't have that, if you think you've got an inside track to absolute truth, you become doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated. The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.
Saul Alinsky in an interview originally published in 1972 in Playboy.
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“Taking a job, is a lot like becoming part of a religion. Relinquishing control to a higher power takes away some of the responsibility for your decisions. Being told what to do and toeing the line is much easier than making decisions for yourself and coping with the outcomes. …"
Yaro Starak quoted in this post at Wally Conger's blog.
Probably true, but once I stopped being a wage slave, I felt a huge load lifted from my shoulders.
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The journalist’s job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Elke Friedman, wife of journalist Saul Friedman, who has just died, in a tribute to her husband at Time Goes By, where he had a regular column.
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People ask, “How would voluntary institutions in a stateless society prevent something like the BP oil spill?” I don’t know — how did government prevent it?
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