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December 20th, 2002 | Comments are closed
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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man is of his bones. But if you break a nation’s nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again. December 18th, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
A lie told often enough becomes the truth I suspect Vladimir is more widely read in Broadcasting House (The BBC) than Hayek, Rand, Mises, Bastiat, Friedman and Popper added together December 13th, 2002 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
When a woman marries a wealthy man for his money, she is often described as having ‘married well’. Yet when a woman merely rents herself to a man, she is called a prostitute and threatened with legal sanction. December 11th, 2002 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
You don’t stop violent crime by devoting resources to making excuses look less reasonable. December 10th, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS1. 1 = for non-US readers, IRS is the December 9th, 2002 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
Admissions are mostly made by those who do not know their importance. December 8th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Brotherhood, solidarity, unity, love: they all mean these but not those, you but not them. December 7th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Even more significant of the inherent weakness of the collectivist theories is the extraordinary paradox that from the assertion that society is, in some sense, more than merely the aggregate of all individuals, their adherents regularly pass by a sort of intellectual somersault to the thesis that, in order that the coherence of this larger entity be safeguarded, it must be subjected to conscious control, that is, to the control of what in the last resort must be an individual mind. December 6th, 2002 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. December 5th, 2002 | Comments are closed
It was futile to argue with politicians, I realized, to try to persuade them that your scepticism concerning their views might be well founded. Politicians developed habits of self-justification and certitude which were immune to logic or emotion: their rhetoric was like a blanket which they wrapped around themselves to keep out the bracing air of dissent. December 4th, 2002 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
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