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This is not a review, but a comment on the very first chapter: "The Architect." It appears that this chapter is inspired by the real story of a building, now known as the "Looshaus," built in 1911 by Adolf Loos on the Michaelerplatz in Vienna. The bu
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“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.”
― No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
― No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
“Now I understood the meaning of the phrase ‘deprivation of political rights for life’.”
― Pink Flower: Growing Up in Mao's China
― Pink Flower: Growing Up in Mao's China
“It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals, in their attempts to control the world. And since...it is futile to reason someone out of a thing that he was not reasoned into, we can conclude that Marxism owes its remarkable power to survive every criticism to the fact that it is not a truth-directed but a power-directed system of thought.”
― A Political Philosophy
― A Political Philosophy
“Thus, in the name of re-education, the process of nation-building based on technology and science was reversed. Instead of being trained for industrial development, millions of teenagers would be sent off to be re-educated by the peasants.”
― Pink Flower: Growing Up in Mao's China
― Pink Flower: Growing Up in Mao's China
“As regards the social apparatus of repression and coercion, the government, there cannot be any question of freedom. Government is essentially the negation of liberty. It is the recourse to violence or threat of violence in order to make all people obey the orders of the government, whether they like it or not. As far as the government’s jurisdiction extends, there is coercion, not freedom. Government is a necessary institution, the means to make the social system of cooperation work smoothly without being disturbed by violent acts on the part of gangsters whether of domestic or of foreign origin. Government is not, as some people like to say, a necessary evil; it is not an evil, but a means, the only means available to make peaceful human coexistence possible. But it is the opposite of liberty. It is beating, imprisoning, hanging. Whatever a government does it is ultimately supported by the actions of armed constables.”
― Liberty And Property
― Liberty And Property
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