"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."

-- Benjamin Tucker

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“Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically.”

Source : "Kumail Nanjiani Can Totally Relate to His Character on HBO’s 'Silicon Valley'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 2016.
“It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness.”
“You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.”
“Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.”
“When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.”
“Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.”
“Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase.”
“The ultimate cause of the October Crisis was the ideological embrace of Milton Friedman's warped but still dominant view that "the only social responsibility of business is to make a profit for its shareholders," and until that socially and economically counterproductive - and empirically, legally and ethically inaccurate - view is corrected, we will continue to have the increasing and more intense crises of global capitalism that we have seen recur with ever greater frequency over the past forty years. Sadly but clearly, the lessons have still not been learned.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

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