"An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms"

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Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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“If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.”
“I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.”
“The thing about animals that speaks to me so much is that my passion for the animals and against animal abuse is based on the knowledge that these creatures which think and feel can't speak for themselves. I feel it is my responsibility to speak for those who can't speak for themselves.”
“Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?”

Source : Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”
“It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hath not to others. Read these, and think God is like a friend who sendeth a letter to a whole house and family, but who speaketh in His letter to some by name that are dearest to Him in the house.”
“More and more, I am beginning to understand why every one who has ever accomplished anything really great and truly beautiful in the past has come to Italy - have lived here and stayed here until some of its imprint has enriched their souls.”
“I've done a lot of living and a lot of adventuring and I think that's very healthy, ya know. And I think everybody should adventure life 'cos that's what life is, it's for adventuring. You gotta know what you wanna do with your life. And you gotta know when you have something special and you don't wanna blow it.”
“Poor soul - very sad; her late husband, you know, a very sad death - eaten by missionaries - poor soul.”

Source : Quoted in William Hayter, Spooner: A Biography (1977)

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