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2024-10-11 12:00:17 UTC

“No one owns truth. It evolves through discourse and facts revealed in time. The Earth was once the center of the Universe. Any fool could see the heavens revolve around it - an obvious truth. Truth evolves. Who owns the truth of vaccines?" - John McAfee

2024-10-11 08:00:18 UTC

“Whenever the government fails to prevent a plane crash, the event is cited as justification for having the government prevent plane crashes.” - Harry Browne

2024-10-11 04:00:17 UTC

“Totalitarianism is collectivism. Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group — whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called "the common good." Throughout history, no tyrant ever rose to power except on the claim of representing "the common good." Napoleon "served the common good" of France. Hitler is "serving the common good" of Germany. Horrors which no man would dare consider for his own selfish sake are perpetrated with a clear conscience by "altruists" who justify themselves by — the common good.” - Ayn Rand

2024-10-11 00:00:18 UTC

“Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” - P. J. O'Rourke

2024-10-10 20:00:17 UTC

“One lied, mendaciously inventing reasons for these laws, simply to avoid admitting that one had become used to these laws and no longer wanted things to be different.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-10-10 16:00:18 UTC

“The most fanatical attacks against gold are made by those intent upon credit expansion. With them credit expansion is the panacea for all economic ills.” - Ludwig von Mises

2024-10-09 20:00:18 UTC

“I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.” - Leo Tolstoy

2024-10-09 16:00:18 UTC

“While it is desirable that the old should treat with respect the wishes of the young, it is not desirable that the young should treat with respect the wishes of the old. The reason is simple, namely that in either case it is the lives of the young that are concerned, not the lives of the old.” - Bertrand Russell

2024-10-09 08:00:18 UTC

“Those coins can never be recovered, and the total circulation is less. Since the effective circulation is reduced, all the remaining coins are worth slightly more. It's the opposite of when a government prints money and the value of existing money goes down.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

2024-10-09 00:00:17 UTC

“There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party. Both represent some range of business interests. In fact, they can change their positions 180 degrees, and nobody even notices.” - Noam Chomsky

2024-10-08 20:00:18 UTC

“A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men.” - Woodrow Wilson

2024-10-08 16:00:18 UTC

“It is impractical for anyone to develop wealth in government money without government acceptance. Government can confiscate money from the banking monopolies it controls, inflate the currency to devalue holders' wealth and reward it to the most loyal of its subjects, impose draconian taxes and punish those who avoid them, and even confiscate bills.” - Saifedean Ammous

2024-10-08 08:00:18 UTC

“Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.” - Benjamin N. Cardozo

2024-10-08 04:00:18 UTC

“Being open source means anyone can independently review the code. If it was closed source, nobody could verify the security. I think it's essential for a program of this nature to be open source.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

2024-10-08 00:00:18 UTC

“Many individuals in government don't seem to understand the laws of economics. ... They often brag at news conferences that their interception of drugs between producer and consumer has raised the 'street value' of the drugs, meaning that the drugs are now scarcer than they were. What these statists stubbornly refuse to acknowledge is that this only increases the market incentive to cash in on those higher prices by making up for the artificial scarcity.” - L. Neil Smith

2024-10-07 20:00:18 UTC

“In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.” - Walter Lippmann

2024-10-07 12:00:18 UTC

“Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.” - L. Neil Smith

2024-10-07 08:00:17 UTC

“The people are on the side of sound money. They are so unalterably on the side of sound money that it is a serious question how they would regard the system under which they live, if they once knew what the initiate can do with it.” - Henry Ford

2024-10-07 04:00:18 UTC

“Bitcoin is a seed of hope in a society which lost vision years ago and perspective just recently.” - Kim Neunert

2024-10-07 00:00:20 UTC

“I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded. That's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build, and it's not something I'm willing to live under.” - Edward Snowden

2024-10-06 20:00:19 UTC

“To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.” - L. Neil Smith

2024-10-06 16:00:18 UTC

“Stay Humble. Stack Sats.” - ODELL

2024-10-06 08:00:18 UTC

“Money should work like email. At the end of the day, it is information. It is simply an entry in a ledger, and why does it not work that way? It is because the money that we are used to predates the internet, was built by bankers, not technologists. Bitcoin is really the first money purpose-built for the internet.” - Tyler Winklevoss

2024-10-06 04:00:20 UTC

“Free speech is not speech you agree with, uttered by someone you admire. It's speech that you find stupid, selfish, dangerous, uninformed or threatening, spoken and sponsored by someone you despise, fear or ridicule. Free speech is unpopular, contentious and sometimes ugly. It reflects a tolerance for differences. If everyone agreed on all things, we wouldn't need it.” - Robert J. Samuelson

2024-10-05 20:00:18 UTC

“Taxes are an evil - a necessary evil, but still an evil, and the fewer of them we have the better.” - Winston Churchill

2024-10-05 16:00:19 UTC

“Herein lies the value of free speech. It makes concealment difficult, and, in the long run, impossible. One heretic, if he is right, is as good as a host. He is bound to win in the long run. It is thus no wonder that foes of the enlightenment always begin their proceedings by trying to deny free speech to their opponents. It is dangerous to them and they know it. So they have at it by accusing these opponents of all sorts of grave crimes and misdemeanors, most of them clearly absurd - in other words, by calling them names and trying to scare them.” - H. L. Mencken

2024-10-05 12:00:19 UTC

“I don't respect people unless I think they deserve the respect. There are people who think that respect is something that should be given, and I happen to be one of the people who is perfectly happy saying no; respect should be earned. And without being earned, you don't get it. It's really that simple.” - Linus Torvalds

2024-10-05 08:00:18 UTC

“The more loathsome people that use bitcoin, the better. The more it works even if teeming with people that mutually despise each other, the more faith I have in its ability to protect us all.” - Nic Carter

2024-10-05 04:00:19 UTC

“Hugs not drugs.... no wait, hugs AND drugs!” - Ross Ulbricht

2024-10-04 20:00:21 UTC

“Many a one cannot deliver himself from his own chains and yet he is his friend’s deliverer.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-10-04 16:00:18 UTC

“Experience teaches only the teachable.” - Aldous Huxley

2024-10-04 12:00:18 UTC

“The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.” - H. L. Mencken

2024-10-04 08:00:18 UTC

“I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.” - Voltairine de Cleyre

2024-10-04 00:00:18 UTC

“One person devotes his life to helping the poor. Another one lies and steals. Still another person tries to create better products and services for which he hopes to be paid handsomely. One woman devotes herself to her husband and children. Another seeks a career as a singer. In every case, the basic motivation has been the same. Each person is doing what he believes will bring him happiness. What varies between them is the means each has chosen to gain his happiness.” - Harry Browne

2024-10-03 20:00:18 UTC

“The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.” - H.L. Mencken

2024-10-03 16:00:18 UTC

“For it seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.” - Augustine of Hippo

2024-10-03 08:00:19 UTC

“For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives, freedom entails the right of government to do just about anything it wants, even if its conduct is violent.” - Jacob G. Hornberger

2024-10-03 00:00:18 UTC

“You average joe pot dealer, who wouldn't hurt a fly, that guy became my hero. By making his living outside the purview of the state, he was depriving it of his precious life force, the product of his efforts. He was free. People like him, little by little, weakened the state and strengthened the market.” - Ross Ulbricht

2024-10-02 12:00:18 UTC

“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies.” - Sen. Barry Goldwater

2024-10-01 20:00:19 UTC

“If we are content with knowledge as a commodity, accessible only through a computerized bureaucracy, we can simply let companies provide it. But if we want to keep human knowledge open and freely available to humanity, we have to do the work to make it available that way.” - Richard Stallman

2024-10-01 16:00:19 UTC

“Which came first - The lies our government tells us, Or the lies we tell ourselves?” - John McAfee

2024-10-01 08:00:19 UTC

“I am very intrigued by Bitcoin. It has all the signs. Paradigm shift, hackers love it, yet it is described as a toy. Just like microcomputers.” - Paul Graham

2024-10-01 00:00:18 UTC

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” - Noam Chomsky

2024-09-30 20:00:19 UTC

“In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.” - Thích Nhất Hạnh

2024-09-30 12:00:18 UTC

“There is one thing one has to have: either a cheerful disposition by nature or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-09-30 08:00:19 UTC

“Several excuses are always less convincing than one.” - Aldous Huxley

2024-09-29 20:00:20 UTC

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C.S. Lewis

2024-09-29 12:00:19 UTC

“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.” - Milton Friedman

2024-09-29 08:00:25 UTC

“Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.” - David D. Boaz

2024-09-29 04:00:21 UTC

“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.” - Calvin Coolidge

2024-09-28 20:00:18 UTC

“If a politician won't trust you, why should you trust him?” - L. Neil Smith

2024-09-28 12:00:19 UTC

“If people are saying, look, we gotta ban Bitcoin because it's somewhat anonymous and anonymous transactions can occur, or because it's possible for criminals to use it, all of those arguments can be used to say, just ban dollars.” - Jared Polis

2024-09-28 00:00:23 UTC

“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight!” - Ludwig von Mises

2024-09-27 16:00:19 UTC

“The War on Drugs has continued for some 20 years, and we see little prospect of peace, despite the fact that it has totally failed and given the US an imprisonment rate almost equal to Russia. I fear that the War on Copying could go on for decades as well. To end it, we will need to rethink the copyright system.” - Richard Stallman

2024-09-27 12:01:03 UTC

“I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can’t take them violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something they can’t stop.” - Friedrich Hayek, 1984

2024-09-27 08:00:19 UTC

“Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history.” - Richard Stallman

2024-09-27 04:00:19 UTC

“Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.” - Murray Rothbard

2024-09-26 16:00:22 UTC

“Reports I'm a murderous psychopath have been greatly exaggerated.” - John McAfee

2024-09-26 12:00:20 UTC

“We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no, Sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors, and a ruined people.” - Daniel Webster

2024-09-26 08:00:23 UTC

“Law is a bottomless pit.” - John Arbuthnot

2024-09-26 04:00:18 UTC

“Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.” - Murray Rothbard

2024-09-26 00:00:18 UTC

“Solvency is maintained by means of the national debt, on the principle, if you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2024-09-25 20:00:19 UTC

“I did not reveal any US operations against legitimate military targets. I pointed out where the NSA has hacked civilian infrastructure such as universities, hospitals, and private businesses because it is dangerous.” - Edward Snowden

2024-09-25 00:00:19 UTC

“Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2024-09-24 20:00:18 UTC

“Statism is the Utopian ideal that just the right amount of violence used by just the right people in just the right direction can perfect society.” - Keith Hamburger

2024-09-24 16:00:20 UTC

“All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are essentially better than all the other causes in the world and refuse to believe that, if their cause is to prosper at all, it requires precisely the same evil-smelling manure as all other human undertakings have need of.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-09-24 12:00:19 UTC

“I don't ask for money. I don't ask for sexual favors. I don't ask for access to the hardware you design and sell. I just ask for the thing I gave you: source code that I can use myself.” - Linus Torvalds

2024-09-22 04:00:19 UTC

“During the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every profession is chosen and commenced as a means to an end but continued as an end in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent of all acts of stupidity.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-09-21 20:00:20 UTC

“Right now, drugs are ours. They aren't tainted by the government. We the people control their manufacture, distribution and consumption.” - Ross Ulbricht

2024-09-21 04:00:19 UTC

“It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.” - Julian Assange

2024-09-21 00:00:20 UTC

“The most important event in the history of the last hundred years is the displacement of liberalism by etatism. Etatism appears in two forms: socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state, the social apparatus of compulsion and coercion.” - Ludwig von Mises

2024-09-17 00:00:21 UTC

“There is as much wisdom in pain as in pleasure.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-09-16 20:00:20 UTC

“If the coercion of government can endow one person with property he hasn't earned, then everyone will want to use government to get something he wants. So it's not surprising that, over the past two centuries, more and more people have concluded that they deserve government's help.” - Harry Browne

2024-09-13 04:00:21 UTC

“If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.” - Lysander Spooner

2024-09-13 00:00:21 UTC

“I do as I please, as all free people do. It brings youth back into your life.” - John McAfee

2024-09-12 12:00:18 UTC

“Most of the governments of the world today are, as they have been throughout history, of a totalitarian (statist) variety to varying degrees. These governments have gone by a variety of names: fascist, communist, socialist. They are totalitarian to the extent that the state governs the individual’s life; the more sectors of life in the hands of the government (and correspondingly, the less left to the individual liberty), the more totalitarian or statist that government is.” - John Hospers

2024-09-10 16:00:18 UTC

“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” - Benjamin Franklin

2024-09-08 20:00:20 UTC

“When entering a marriage, one should ask the question: do you think you will be able to have good conversations with this woman right into old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time in interaction is spent in conversation.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-09-06 20:00:18 UTC

“The problem with politics and the media is that you must separate the portrayed image from the reality of the person. They are not one in the same.” - John McAfee

2024-09-06 16:00:22 UTC

“That which has been most stringently forbidden is, without exception, truth.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-09-05 20:00:19 UTC

“Modern liberalism, however well intentioned, is a byproduct of the same collectivist thinking that characterizes racism. The continued insistence on group thinking only inflames racial tensions. The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.” - Ron Paul

2024-09-03 00:00:18 UTC

“The state wants to be absolutely the most important beast on earth; and it is believed to be so, too!” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-09-02 04:00:18 UTC

“It’s as silly to blame social media for causing fake news as it would be to blame the internal combustion engine for causing road rage... The mass-market tabloid press fomented the Spanish-American War on dubious pretexts in 1898, and from this point on, powerful media corporations, driven to boost profits by fanning the resentments of people.” - Jim Sleeper

2024-09-01 04:00:20 UTC

“Sound money allows people to think about the long term and to save and invest more for the future. Saving and investing for the long run are the key to capital accumulation and the advance of human civilization.” - Saifedean Ammous

2024-08-28 08:00:19 UTC

“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-22 20:00:19 UTC

“Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history.” - Richard Stallman

2024-08-19 04:00:19 UTC

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” - Aldous Huxley

2024-08-19 00:00:20 UTC

2024-08-18 04:00:19 UTC

“Political correctness is America's newest form of intolerance, and it is especially pernicious because it comes disguised as tolerance. It presents itself as fairness, yet attempts to restrict and control people's language with strict codes and rigid rules.” - George Carlin

2024-08-17 00:00:19 UTC

“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.” - Sigmund Freud

2024-08-16 20:00:19 UTC

“Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” - Ayn Rand

2024-08-16 16:00:19 UTC

“No victor believes in chance.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-16 12:00:19 UTC

“Gun-control laws don't inhibit criminals, who rarely buy their guns in stores. But the laws do prevent you from defending yourself.” - Harry Browne

2024-08-15 04:00:19 UTC

“And thus we see the government is at once both protector and predator. It is not that governments begin in virtue only to end in sin. Government begins by protecting some against others and ends up protecting itself against everyone.” - Robert LeFevre

2024-08-11 04:00:20 UTC

“Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is of the essence of knowledge.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-09 12:00:21 UTC

“A western citizen is being brainwashed much more than a soviet citizen ever was during the era of communist propaganda. In ideology, the main thing is not the ideas, but rather the mechanisms of their distribution. The might of the Western media, for example, is incomparably greater than that of the propaganda mechanisms of the Vatican when it was at the zenith of its power.” - Aleksandr Zinovyev

2024-08-09 08:00:20 UTC

“The “neighbour” praises selflessness because it brings him advantages.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-08 20:00:19 UTC

“Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.” - Ron Paul

2024-08-08 16:00:21 UTC

“Be on your guard against the good and just! They would like to crucify those who devise their own virtue - they hate the solitary.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-07 12:00:18 UTC

“Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him.” - T. Coleman Andrews