As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim.
Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.
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.
There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.
Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.
Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.