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Political Control
The fewer things politicians control, the less it matters who controls the politicians.
Thomas Sowell Honest Man
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread amount a multitude of hypocrites.
Thomas Sowell on Rent Control
Not a single apartment building was built in Melbourne for years after World War 2 because of rent control laws.
Bastiat – The Law
“As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose–that it may violate property instead of protecting it–then everyone…
Ayn Rand Altruism Corrupts
It is altruism that has corrupted and perverted human benevolence by regarding the giver as an object of immolation, and the receiver as a helplessly…
Ayn Rand on Consent
Any undertaking that involves more than one man, requires the voluntary consent of every participant. Every one of them has the right to make his…
Ayn Rand Purpose of Morality
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand, Individual vs the State
The world conflict of today is the conflict of the individual against the state… The names change, but the essence, and the results remain the…
Ayn Rand, Freedom in Political context
Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, or freedom from the employer, or freedom from…
Ayn Rand on Egalitarianism
The motive of egalitarianism… is not the desire to help the poor, but to destroy the competent.
Ayn Rand on Hatred of the Good
“Envy is regarded by most people as a petty, superficial emotion and, therefore, it serves as a semihuman cover for so inhuman an emotion that…
To oppose war oppose statism
“If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.”
Principle of Individual Rights
“If men are to live together in a peaceful, productive, rational society and deal with oneanother to mutual benefit, they must accept the basic social…
Ayn Rand on Individualists
“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says:“I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s…
Civilized Society
“The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from socialrelationships, thus establishing the principle that if men wish to deal with…
Society is Doomed
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion. When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain…
Consistency Wins
“When men share the same basic premise, it is the most consistent ones who win. So long as men accept the altruist morality, they will…
Coming Looters
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is theleper’s bell of an approaching looter.”
So long as government holds power over the economy.
“So long as a government holds the power of economic control, it will necessarily create a special elite, an aristocracy of pull, it will attract the…
Futile to fight
“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. A merely negative trend or movement cannot win and,…
Objectobot Original: Political Spectrum
Political spectrum based on essentials.
Thatcher on standards of living
The most debilitating myth was that the state could perpetually provide a higher standard of living regardless of individual effort. It can’t and it never…
Thomas Sowell Stupidest way to do things
It’s hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who…
Thomas Sowell on dumbed down education
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their…
Labor vs Capital after thousands of years
Labor was always around, we didn’t have an explosion of wealth and earnings per person until capital was introduced.
How the Media Covers the Middle East
No, it is not inherently antisemitic to criticize Israel. You are not antisemitic for criticizing Israel. You are antisemitic due to the content of your…
Thomas Sowell, Left’s Ideas Do Not Work
“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find…
ObjectoBot Original: Leftists on Price Increases Due to Minimum Wage Hikes
Leftists for some reason don’t believe that increasing the cost of doing business in the food industry will cause an increase in prices, at the…
Ayn Rand on achieving something good by force
“An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picturegallery at the price of cutting out…
Ayn Rand, Know what you are fighting for
“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. A merely negative trend or movement cannot win and,…
Ayn Rand Government and Economic Control
“So long as a government holds the power of economic control, it will necessarily create a special elite, an aristocracy of pull, it will attract the…
Ayn Rand on Economic vs Political Power
“Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value. political power is exercised by…
Ayn Rand Justice by Inflation
“Justice does exist in the world, whether people choose to practice it or not. The men of ability are being avenged. The avenger is reality.…
Ayn Rand Power Seekers
“Power seekers have always known that if men are to be made submissive, the obstacle is not their feelings, their wishes or their instincts, but…
Bridging the Gap between Ayn Rand and Jordan Peterson
Recently, Jordan Peterson has been mentioning and asking questions about Ayn Rand on his show’s guests. Some of these comments prompted a response from the…
What to say to those who say they just want peace.
The scale and nature of the brutality of Hamas’s attack on Israel may have garnered unequivocal support for Israel in the immediate aftermath. However, as…