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Henry Hazlitt delivers a devastating critique of Marxism:
“The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are.
Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community.
Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others.
Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weaknesses, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects—his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.”
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«C'est un véritable enfer pour une personne d'être consciente et de discerner la vérité, lorsqu'elle est entourée d'un troupeau aveugle qui ne voit que ses instincts, sa peur et son ignorance.»
➖️ José Saramago
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Mensonges d’idéologue marxiste.
La densité de milliardaires est corrélée au niveau de vie mesuré par le PIB par habitant.
"Quand il y avait moins de milliardaires, on avait plus de prospérité": Thomas Piketty réclame un référendum pour taxer les fortunes de plus de 100 millions d'euros
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"The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government." — Walter E. Williams
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"Aquellos que no saben gobernarse a sí mismos están constantemente buscando un líder al que adorar"
Hermann Hesse
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“Nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.”
— F. A. Hayek
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“We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.”
— Thomas Sowell
Dawkins: The body is just a vehicle for the gene to be cast off as it propagates across generations. The gene is immortal.
Lord Krishna: The body is just a garment for the soul to be shed as it migrates to another body on its cosmic journey. The soul is immortal.
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To offend a strong man, tell him a lie, To offend a weak man, tell him the truth
— Marcus Aurelius
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Milton Friedman on the U.S. public school system:
“What we have is a monopoly, and like every monopoly, it’s producing a low-quality product at a very high cost.”
“The way to improve that is to have competition—to make it possible for parents to have a choice of the schools their children attend.”
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Science doesn’t require scientists to be perfect.
It requires their claims to be testable.
That’s the clever bit.
