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Curtis Yarvin on Government

born 1973 United States

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Limited government is a recipe for corrupting the judiciary.

Every society in human history that has ever given itself over to government by intellectuals has lived to regret it. Ours will be no different.

The entire intellectual system of the West was corrupted by its twentieth-century connection to government.

Most people in the West don't think their entire system of government is fundamentally, irreparably corrupt. Nor did most people in the Soviet Union.

Perhaps the principal error of modern libertarians is their failure to distinguish between weak government and small government.

I can't imagine counting the number of times I've heard someone say "we should…" when what they really mean is "the government should…".

Limited government simply has no motivation to stay limited. And so it doesn't.

If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia.

I distrust all velvet gloves. Take the abstract ideals off and show us government as it really is. Law enforcement is not a bad thing.

[Y]ou don't want to be governed by a persistently unprofitable government any more than you want to eat in a persistently unprofitable restaurant.

[T]he ruling caste are the people who say "we" when they mean "the government". The ruled castes always say "they".

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Curtis Yarvin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.