The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation. ' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft. '
The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.
The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.
In general, I go to see the stuff that for me is, "Thank God for that actor, he's doing something that I never imagined; thank God for this filmmaker, because if this person didn't exist, this movie wouldn't exist. " That's why I go to the movies. That, to me, is what's so exciting about this movie.
They take the greats from the past and compare us. I wonder if they'd ever survive in this era. In a time where it's recreation, to pull all your skeletons out the closet like Halloween decorations.
I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.