#cap

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#collective #constitutionally #corpses #incapable #producing

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#back #boom #capable #capacity #cripple

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#being #eat #eaten #enough #escaped

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#apart #believe #certain #decree #determination

Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone! ↗

— Robert Stack

#al #al capone #being #capone #eliot

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#escape #free #freedom #movement #respects

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#assuming #capitalism #competition #defenders #does

I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it. ↗

— Aaron Stanford

#escape #films #horror #horror films #i

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#capitalists #cease #determined #device #enable

The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#come #distribution #equal #honest #labor