"War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security."

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Source : Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.35, Ludwig von Mises Institute

Gustave de Molinari

#War Quotes #Monopoly Quotes #Establishment Quotes

“I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.”
“A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.”
“The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more than merely aware of the idol he wishes to destroy. He must be intimate with it and understand it in all its aspects. This means that he must have devoted serious thought to it, and have beliefs of his own which will stand up in the place of the broken idol. In other words, any child can complain, but it takes an adult to clash with accepted beliefs . . . an adult with ideas.”
“Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to.”
“Marriage is a garden that I'm constantly growing in.”
“You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.”

Source : "Great speeches of the 20th century: Emmeline Pankhurst's Freedom or death". www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2007.
“... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find an excuse for loving it. Everything is a matter of points of view, and misfortune is often only the sign of a false interpretation of life.”
“You donâ€™t make art out of good intentions.”

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