Quote by Thomas Aquinas on Fear and Compassion
“Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.”
Thomas von Aquin
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Albert Jay Nock Quote on Humanity, Submission, and Freedom
“According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.”
Albert Jay Nock
Lies Are the Greatest Murder – Quote by Socrates
“Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.”
Sokrates
Quote by Terence McKenna on Culture and Consciousness
“Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.”
Terence McKenna
Ludwig von Mises on Interventionism and Economic Bias
“The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are. For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.”
Ludwig von Mises
Government and Prosperity – Quote by Ludwig von Mises
“Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.”
Ludwig von Mises
Quote by Ludwig von Mises on Freedom and Totalitarianism
“It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.”
Ludwig von Mises
Critique of the Trickle-down Theory by William Blum
“The “trickle-down” theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.”
William Blum
Economic Crises Due to Government Intervention – Ludwig von Mises Quote
“Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.”
Ludwig von Mises
Critical Quotes on US Foreign Policy by William Blum
“From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.”
William Blum