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born 1951 United States

Lawrence K. Samuels (born December 7, 1951) is an American author, classical liberal, and libertarian activist.

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‘Bolshevism and Fascism were heresies of socialism.’

Killing History: The False Left-Right Political Spectrum and the Battle between the ‘Free Left’ and the ‘Statist Left (2019)

To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.

Under National Socialism, the state plundered and killed other national groups and races and use their resources to provide Germans with an unsparing welfare-warfare society.

Killing History: The False Left-Right Political Spectrum and the Battle between the ‘Free Left’ and the ‘Statist Left (2019)

Every system that has existed emerged somehow, from somewhere, at some point. Complexity science emphasizes the study of how systems evolve through their disorganized parts into an organized whole.

In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action (2013)

If people don’t have free agency, they become mere chattel to the herdsman who wields the biggest horsewhip.

Killing History: The False Left-Right Political Spectrum and the Battle between the ‘Free Left’ and the ‘Statist Left (2019)

Paradoxes often arise because theory routinely refuses to be subordinate to reality.

In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action (2013)

When it comes right down to physical war and bloodshed, governments don’t protect people; people protect governments.

In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action (2013)

Money and generous benefits can easily alter a person’s political outlook. Ideology follows the money.

In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action (2013)

Decentralized systems are the quintessential patrons of simplicity. They allow complexity to rise to a level at which it is sustainable, and no higher.

In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action (2013)

Simplicity in a system tends to increase that system’s efficiency. Because less can go wrong with fewer parts, less will.

In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action (2013)

Although most religions promise paradise after death, most collectivists, especially Marxists, preach paradise on earth, but through means rarely considered heavenly.

Killing History: The False Left-Right Political Spectrum and the Battle between the ‘Free Left’ and the ‘Statist Left (2019)

In the absence of truth, there is no penalty for failure. We seem destined to live in a failure-prone society.

Mussolini’s regime eventually morphed into Fascist socialism as its means of production was placed under public ownership.

Killing History: The False Left-Right Political Spectrum and the Battle between the ‘Free Left’ and the ‘Statist Left (2019)

I had always subscribed to the cockroach theory: if you find one, there are bound to be far more. That meant that Dylan’s mission stank with a hoard of dirty-crawling secrets.

Government succeeds by failing: the more incompetence, the greater the potential reward in the arena of the public sector.

In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action (2013)

The more complexity, the more unpredictability and therefore the more uncontrollability. You cannot control what you cannot predict.

’Tis like a child playing in the dirt; he cannot help but besoil his garments. As Cromwell associated with England’s powermongers and elite, his temperament became more like them—muddier and corrupt.

Ferret: The Reluctant King (2020)

True change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. It is futile for political systems to force human beings to cooperate or construct social bonding structures. People already do that, naturally; it is evident in our evolutionary history.

In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action (2013)

It was amazing how fast the shiny luster of fame could tarnish.

Every man creates his own private hell,… Brutal men believe they may challenge the mighty, and when they fall, they become embittered or befriend a shallow grave.

Ferret: The Reluctant King (2020)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: L. K. Samuels (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.