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Ludwig von Mises
“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.”
Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy

Cormac McCarthy
“Sheddan pulled at his cigar. He shook his head. Not even all that sexy a woman. Goodlooking but in an odd way. Incisors like a Jurassic cat. A man shouldnt ignore a thing like that.

Pleistocene
What?
Pleistocene. Cat.
Yes, well. Find me something that alliterates.”
Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

Ludwig von Mises
“The Marxist dialectic is essentially word-fetishism. Every article of the faith is embodied in a word fetish whose double or even multiple meaning makes it possible to unite incompatible ideas and demands. The interpretation of these words, as intentionally ambiguous as the words of the Delphic Pythia, eventually brings the different parties to blows, and everyone quotes in his favour passages from the writings of Marx and Engels to which authoritative importance is attached.”
Ludwig von Mises, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

Cormac McCarthy
“The truth is that everyone is under arrest. Or soon will be. They dont have to restrict your movements. They just have to know where you are.”
Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

Confucius
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius

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