Indeed, their main complaint was usually feeling victimized by their family, friends, and doctors who were pressuring them to accept treatment for an illness they didn’t have!


“Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.”
― Discourses and Selected Writings
― Discourses and Selected Writings

“One other thing this skinny Arab knew: the power of hating the Jew. He could quote from the Holy Book chapter and verse the perfidy of Jews. He could show the dagger of Israel stuck in the soul of Jerusalem where Prophet Muhammad ascended to Heaven. And this son of Islam’s most holy places could wrap it all up in a tidy little conspiracy, the Jews in New York controlling America, the Great Satan, launching their crusades against Muslims everywhere. See, we Muslims are nursed on the mother’s milk of conspiracies. And unless you have a conspiracy to explain everything in one neat package, we simply won’t believe you.”
― Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals
― Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals
“Yes, health care is a crucial component of a person’s lifestyle, and that might make Americans hesitant to rely on “the free market” to deliver it. But food, clothing, and shelter are even more fundamental staples of life, and most Americans would agree that having the government act as a “single payer” for all of their purchases at the grocery store and The Gap would be an absolute disaster.”
― The Primal Prescription: Surviving The "Sick Care" Sinkhole
― The Primal Prescription: Surviving The "Sick Care" Sinkhole
“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight for! — Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy”
― The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West
― The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West
“And if a giant new government agency—perhaps called “Housicare”—were given the power to tax all paychecks in order to pay for all home purchases and apartment rentals (according to an official schedule of prices corresponding to family size and job location), the disruption in the market would be mind-boggling. By severing the direct connection between buyer and seller, consumers’ satisfaction with their homes and apartments would suffer while prices would soar. After a few years of such a nutty system, the housing market would be just as screwed up as … well, as the health care and health insurance markets currently are.”
― The Primal Prescription: Surviving The "Sick Care" Sinkhole
― The Primal Prescription: Surviving The "Sick Care" Sinkhole

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