"The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality."

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Source : Jeffrey Tucker's Facebook post, www.facebook.com. May 24, 2013.

Jeffrey Tucker

#Government Quotes #Personality Quotes #World Quotes

“Nearly half the earth's surface is unclaimed by any country, so seasteads would be startup countries on the blue frontier. Patri Friedman is a Google engineer and theorist of political economy who realized that if society floated, it would completely change the nature of governance itself. If seasteads are modular and can be moved about, allowing people to choose new societies, we'd create a market of governance providers, competing to attract residents.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The true measure of your character is what you would do if you were sure no one would ever find out.”
“'Have fun' is my message. Be silly. You're allowed to be silly. There's nothing wrong with it.”

Source : "Jimmy Fallon: The New King of Late Night TV" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. March 20, 2013.
“Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were "the people," and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority.”
“Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job.”
“I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.”
“The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human ethics. It is one of the many unique qualities of man, the new sort of animal, that he is the only ethical animal. The ethical need and its fulfillment are also products of evolution, but they have been produced in man alone.”

Source : George Gaylord Simpson (1956). “The Meaning of Evolution”
“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”

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