"Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force."

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Anthony de Jasay

#Self Quotes #Balance Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“The meek shall inherit the earth, but they'll never increase market share.”
“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.”
“An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.”
“Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)”
“Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.”

Source : "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.
“I think it's a privilege to be able to fly to somewhere where people want to see my show.”
“You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.”
“Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.”

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