L. Neil Smith Quotes - Page 5

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• Most libertarians agree that all rights are, in effect, property rights, beginning with this fundamental right to self-ownership and control of one's own life. As owners of their own lives, individuals are completely free to do absolutely anything they wish with them provided, of course, that it doesn't violate the identical right of others whether the people around them approve of what they do or not.

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  Rights, Self, People

  "What Libertarians Believe, 'Introduction: The Zero Aggression Principle'". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 04, 2009.

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• As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

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  Media, Firsts, First Amendment

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• Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange Days that a "dogwhistle" is a guy whose asshole is so tight that when he farts, only dogs can hear him.

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  Dog, Guy, Soul

  "The Bad Guys". April 28, 2009.

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• There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.

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  Law, Differences, Bigs

  "Ceres". Book by L. Neil Smith, 2009.

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• Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.

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  Civilization, Doe, Popularity

  "Revenge of the Cookie Monster". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 31, 2010.

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• As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.

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  Giving, Radio, Als

  "The Pot and the Kettle". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 21, 2010.

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• I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong.

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  Country, Reality, Hands

  "The Pot and the Kettle". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 21, 2010.

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• It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

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  Race, Effort, Genocide

  "How Many Americans Does It Take to Change a Dim Bulb?". L. Neil Smith's remarks to the Second Annual Freedom Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, www.lneilsmith.org. October 12-13, 2002.

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• What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

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  War, America, Independence

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• I'm as radical as libertarians come.

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  Libertarian, Radical

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• Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another. 'Value' is entirely subjective economic value, anyway while 'price' reflects whatever a buyer is willing to give up to get the object in question, and whatever the seller is willing to accept to give it up. Both are governed by the Law of Marginal Utility, which is actually a law of psychology, rather than economics. For government to attempt to dictate a 'fair price' betrays complete misunderstanding of the entire process.

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  Giving Up, Government, Law

  "Ceres". Book by L. Neil Smith, 2009.

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• Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

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  Lying, Sea, Civilization

  "Empire of Lies" by L. Neil Smith, www.lneilsmith.org. June 15, 2003.

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• If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim and if they used both halves of their brains then they'd be libertarians. Instead, they sabotage themselves, and their cause, by constantly generating one spurious reason after another to deprive other people of their freedom.

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  People, Brain, Liberty

  "Revenge of the Cookie Monster". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 31, 2010.

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• Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity - and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.

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  Names, Enemy, Trying

  "Some New Tactical Reflections". www.ncc-1776.org. January 15, 1998.

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