"The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions are positive rather than negative."

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Source : Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2013). “A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics, and Ethics”, p.151, Springer Science & Business Media

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#Effort Quotes #Negative Quotes #Action Quotes

“There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.”
“Aggression means emotions. Emotions means youâ€™re gonna get off your plan and that means youâ€™ll lose the fight.”
“I'm a designer, not a businesswoman.”
“A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.”
“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.”
“If Iâ€™m a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washingtonâ€™s promises of a year ago have gone unfulfilled, I see that perhaps for a second time, the courtâ€™s inability to mete out justice in a blind fashion, why shouldnâ€™t I vent my anger?”
“The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.”
“The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.”

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