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[Lord T Hawkeye]

Heh, they seem to be having fun with that cartoon.

http://blog.mises.org/13218/the-24-types-of-authoritarians/

[valvatica]

My favorites are Petty Tyrant, The Deluded, and The White Sheep. Every time I walk down the sidewalk to the transit center, I can't help but laugh when I pass the tall "No Littering, $500 Fine" sign planted in the grass, with trash scattered all around it. I should take a picture and post it here, now that I think about it :-)

[Travis Retriever]

Heh, they seem to be having fun with that cartoon.

http://blog.mises.org/13218/the-24-types-of-authoritarians/

DUDE!
Thanks for sharing!
That was pure win.

[MrBogosity]

"No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free." --G'Kar, Babylon 5: "The Long, Twilight Struggle"

[Travis Retriever]

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[MrBogosity]

Another great G'Kar quote:

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[VectorM]

Thank you very much Shane, now I will watch every single episode of that show  

Now some from me:

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[MrBogosity]

Thank you very much Shane, now I will watch every single episode of that show 

Now some from me:

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[VectorM]

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Edit: fixed.

[MrBogosity]

"We could not maintain the Gold Standard, nor the Silver Standard. We could not maintain the Copper Standard. And now, we cannot even maintain the Zinc Standard." --Ron Paul, Financial Services Committee Hearing, 20 July 2010, as shown in this video:

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(Also, big LOL starting at about 7:04.)

[Travis Retriever]

Ludwig von Mises:  "What elevates man above all other animals is the cognition that peaceful cooperation under the principle of the division of labor is a better method to preserve life and to remove felt uneasiness than indulging in pitiless biological competition for a share in the scarce means of subsistence provided by nature. Guided by this insight, man alone among all living beings consciously aims at substituting social cooperation for what philosophers have called the state of nature or bellum omnium contra omnes or the law of the jungle." - The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science

[MrBogosity]

Another great B5 quote:

"Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes...and all of this...all of this was for nothing...unless we go to the stars." --Jeffrey Sinclair, Babylon 5: "Infection"

[MrBogosity]

"What worries me more than the people who are trying to take over are the people who already have." Richard Coughlan, in this video

[Travis Retriever]

This entire video is a win:

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As I stated in the comment section:
About 16 minutes in, about "pirate publishers", it reminds me of how, before the government got involved in health care, many doctors (or at least the AMA) complained that health care was too cheap, too available to the point where the medical industry would soon be bankrupt.

I would bet that the publishers making similar claims are also full of it.

[Travis Retriever]

"Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him?" -- Blaise Pascal

"Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism." -- Ludwig von Mises

"The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State." -- Murray N. Rothbard

"The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments." -- Ludwig von Mises

"Socialism is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build; it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created." -- Ludwig von Mises

"Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs — to kill people and to destroy." -- Gen. Thomas S. Power