"Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were smarter than people? If, in the future, people, animals and plants were products of technology? If you don't like these ideas, then for you the computer and biological sciences clearly are dangerous."

-- Theodore Kaczynski

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“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.”
“People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.”
“Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps oneâ€™s hands free of another manâ€™s throat, free of oneâ€™s own. These machines have all, as someone said, gone too long in the elements. Gummed now, rusted, bloodless. I forget who said it and I no longer care.”
“If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.”
“I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.”
“The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.”
“Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says to the citizen: â€œYour earnings are not exclusively your own; we have a claim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keep some of it, because we recognize your need, not your right; but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide.”

Source : Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.119, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“Every burned book enlightens the world.”

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