Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.
If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.
The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great skepticism - which foretells a coming change. As soon as skepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith.
Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in which you are told that it is the highest civic virtue to approve of those who want to rob you.
Pulse proximity is not intimacy.
Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.
The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.
If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.
Politicians are propaganda, the people with guns are the enforcers and the media is the enthusiastic lapdog who enables the entire behavior and acts as the verbal abuser against those who deviate from nodding their heads at the vast statues of evil that we inherited.
Anger is the immune system of the soul.
You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
The only freedom is freedom from illusion.
Do Libertarians care about the poor? Well, we're not ladening them down with debt, we're not sending them off to God damned wars, we're not creating a permanent underclass, we're not trapping them in shitty schools where they graduate unable to read, WE DO CARE ABOUT THE POOR, and that's why we want the State out of their way!!
If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.
Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.
The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.
When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.
If the majority is moral then why do they need to be ruled by a group of people who are power hungry and gun hungry and probably not quite so good? And evil people want two things: they want something for nothing, and to escape the consequences of their actions, which is pretty much the definition of what government is.
Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days. You have to sail with the winds are they are now.
There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.
Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.
In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love.
Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.
Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.
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