"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
-Frederic Bastiat
"I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful in each of us, a combination of our efforts, a great chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interests that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you differently either has his hand in your pocket or a pistol to your neck."
-Andrew Ryan, Bioshock
"A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings."
-Ludwig Von Mises
"Democracy is not, cannot be, and has never been anything more than glorified mob rule. It is the taking of an institution originally founded as a way for a group of religious military leaders to gain tribute from those that they subjugated by force, and turning it into a great popularity contest. Democracy is not pure; it is not sacred unless one considers a mob sacred. Democracy is not freedom unless one considers 4 men voting another 2 into slavery freedom, and indeed unless one agrees that the American slave trade was freedom. Democracy is the barbaric practice of having 51% of the population to put a gun to the head of the other 49%. Democracy takes humankind’s oldest lie and turns it into a virtue to be sold off to those with the best speaking abilities and most appealing promises.”
-Me
