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“Race and crime can be discussed as long as the topic is framed in ‘root-causes’ terms: stick to the Three Ps—patriarchy, poverty, and powerlessness.”

— Ilana Mercer

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"The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule."

"If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he was never free in the first place."

"Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes."

"In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off."

"Anti-discrimination law is inconsistent with freedom of association and the right of private property."

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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