The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.
But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
If I go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich. Authority may (and may not) make all men equally rich in purse; it certainly will make them equally poor in all that makes life best worth living.
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end of that social organization which will arise, not out of the ruins of government, but out of the transformation of government into voluntary association for defence.
We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
My scalp tingled like Christmas candy on a cold tongue.
To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.
Le mot 'psychologie'est un de ceux qu'aucun auteur d'aujourd'hui ne peut entendre prononcer a' son sujet sans baisser les yeux et rougir. The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.
It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.