Super Quotes for Super Heroes

[Darren Dirt]

Bruce Yandle has a wonderfully insightful theory of regulation he calls the Bootleggers and Baptists theory. Both groups want to ban Sunday liquor sales. One out of concern for others. One out of self-interest. Politicians who support such a ban always invoke the altruistic motive. The altruists give cover to the self-interested advocates for a particular policy.

The altruists often inspire the general public to encourage politicians to "do something." But they lose interest in the details of the legislation. The bootleggers, the self-interested folk, spend a lot of time on those details making sure that the legislation is structured to line their pockets.


- Don Boudreaux, 08May2007 "Cafe Hayek" blog entry

[Darren Dirt]

[insert here your favorite line spoken by "V" or by Evey]

- many listed on this "Indy quotes" page (as in indy-pendent, indy-vidualistic spirit ^_^ )

[NonEntity]

from an investment letter:

Finally, (and this is a paraphrase), Munger said something like, "If you want to be an adult, you need spend a lot of time sitting our your ass reading. That's how I did it, and that's how anyone else can do it."

("Munger" meaning Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet's partner in Berkshire Hathaway's success.)

- NonE

[creolefood]

nonentity said:

from an investment letter:

Finally, (and this is a paraphrase), Munger said something like, "If you want to be an adult, you need spend a lot of time sitting our your ass reading. That's how I did it, and that's how anyone else can do it."

("Munger" meaning Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet's partner in Berkshire Hathaway's success.)

- NonE

NonE,
That's a good line & I agree. However, I've found that many of these hard-nosed, "it's a tough world and you gotta face reality" type of people (so-called) will put their hands over their ears and run away if anyone even hints at bringing up the subjects that we discuss here (e.g., the true nature of the state, of taxation, etc.)

[Darren Dirt]

"It can be discouraging when viewing this state of affairs. However, we should instead focus on the important parts ... In the end, the market is bigger than the government."

-James Turk, talking about gold prices, but in the process [unwittingly] espousing a more general truism

[NonEntity]

Sorry if our flesh harmed your knives... is that what they want us to say. Is this what they came for?

Inside Iraq

- NonE

[lummox2]

The government is seperate from market forces?

Eh?

I thought the government existed BECAUSE of market forces.......

[NonEntity]

Lummox,

You're totally out of line, dude! This is the Super Quotes for Super Heroes thread, not the Discussion of Weird Things that have been posted in the Super Quotes for Super Heros thread. Please be properly chastised and NEVER again do anything wrong or I'll have to SLEEP WITH YOUR DOG!

- Super Quotes for Super Heroes thread dictator

[eye2i2hear]

nonentity said:

Lummox,

- Super Quotes for Super Heroes thread dictator

^what he said... ;D

[lummox2]

"Bugger" -

Lummox2 ;D

Don't mind me, I am off to buy a dog.

[marc stevens]

nonentity said:

Please be properly chastised and NEVER again do anything wrong or I'll have to SLEEP WITH YOUR DOG!
- Super Quotes for Super Heroes thread dictator

I had no idea NonE was an illegal alien. ;D

[Darren Dirt]

The Matrix is society. It is culture. It is all the things that have been built to blind us to the innate freedoms to be who and what we want to be. And frankly, if you can't unplug, if you can't break away, the things you see remain tinted and obscured by the Matrix.

That's more easily said than done. Some people cannot imagine a world without structure. Without order. Without binary rules to help guide their lives. They wouldn't take the Red Pill for anything. These people cannot imagine a world of freedom, and actually perceive attempts at freedom as threats to their very existence, to the foundations of life itself! In fact, And, they do what they feel they need to do to protect it.

- " There Is No Spoon: All I Ever Needed To Learn In Life Is Right There In 'The Matrix' "

[Darren Dirt]

Here's my favorite parts of Larken Rose's latest sharp observations, although it's hard to pull out just the "key excerpts" of this gem...

Is it bad to break the law? Is it bad to disobey the official commands of "government"?

What are we talking about when we speak of obeying the "law"? In short, we're talking about politician scribbles.

A bunch of politicians got together, wrote down some command-- either requiring us to do something or prohibiting us from doing something--and threatened some punishment for failure to obey. Every such "law" is a threat of violence. It's not a suggestion or a request; it's a command backed by a threat of force.

Whether we call something "law" does NOT depend upon the nature of the command, or what it's about. As long as it was created via the "legislative" process, we call it "law," and we treat is as something which--except in rare situations--should be obeyed.

But why?

How can it be inherently good to obey a command, ONLY BECAUSE OF WHO GAVE IT, and not because the command itself is justified?

So-called "laws" are ALWAYS threats of force, but they can be in either category: justified or unjustified. For example, I consider a threat like "If you try to steal my car, I'll punch you in the nose," to be justified. On the other hand, "Give me your car or I'll punch you in the nose" is unjustified. But either one can just as easily be "legislated" into being "law."

In short, respecting "law" is utterly insane.

In other words, what almost everyone calls "law" deserves NO respect at all. (Your moral obligation to refrain from murder comes, NOT from the fact that some "law" forbids it, but from such an act being an infringement upon the rights of someone else.)

If people respected individual rights, but had no respect for politician scribbles, what would happen?

[Darren Dirt]

He comes and goes as he wishes, for his success or failure lies with no one other than himself. If he takes the day off for golf or fishing, or several weeks off for vacation, there is no boss to reverse his decision. But he is completely aware that only when he is producing is he rewarded for his efforts; and when he does not produce, he earns nothing.

The startling new concept derived from this experience is that whenever employees can cease to be employees and become individual entrepreneurs instead, the maximum human energy is released. True freedom of action and self-reliance are prerequisite to achievement of this great potential.

- "Production Unlimited" By John C. Sparks (via this thread)

[Darren Dirt]

darrendirt said:

"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich."

- Peter Ustinov*, as quoted by Eric Margolis, "The BIG LIE about 'Islamic Fascism'", 28Aug2006.


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* Ustinov was a lover of the U.N. and indeed World Government (e.g. "World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable..."), but he still nailed the obvious in the above Superquote.

For a frighteningly large collecion of quotes similarly-themed to Ustinov's gag-inducer, check this out: (amazingly, nothing from Gene Roddenberry!?)
"THE ABSOLUTE, URGENT NEED FOR PROPER EARTH GOVERNMENT FROM FOUR THOUSAND IDEAS FOR A BETTER WORLD" by DR. ROBERT MULLER Former UN Assistant Secretary General Co founder and Former Chancellor of the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica




I think this is my personal "favorite" (perhaps due to its brevity)
"The only possibilities are now world government or death."
- Bertrand Russell


(oddly enough, the GMW.org website was found on the silly link page for this internet comedy show )