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A culture that allows the concept of “safety” to creep so far that it equates emotional discomfort with physical danger is a culture that encourages people to systematically protect one another from the very experiences embedded in daily
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“Having said that Individuality is the same thing with development, and that it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings, I might here close the argument: for what more or better can be said of any condition of human affairs, than that it brings human beings themselves nearer to the best thing they can be?”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
“Anticapitalism can maintain itself in existence only by sponging on capitalism.”
― Liberalism
― Liberalism
Classical (Laissez-Faire) Liberalism
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Including within it neo-liberalism, libertarianism, objectivism, anarcho-capitalism, minarchism, and American conservatism, this classical or "market" ...more
Austrian School of Economics
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A group devoted to books related to the Austrian School of economics and libertarian political and social theory.
Q&A with Bart DePalma
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How do, I will be here to discuss my new book Never Allow A Crisis To Go To Waste: Barack Obama and the Evolution of American Socialism during Ja ...more
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