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Money is good. Profit is good. Human thriving is good. Free voluntary exchange is good. None of the above are in conflict with human well-being.

— Mark Pellegrino

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Captalism is the system of economic, spiritual, and political liberty that holds free choices as the cornerstone of a good society.

No good ethics requires you to be decent to the indecent.

Any country that violates the sovereignty of its own citizens cannot claim the status of a sovereign state.

Power does not corrupt. Corrupt people seek power.

People who seek power over others are the weakest people on Earth. That means Washington is populated not by powerful movers and shakers, but by neurotic weaklings.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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