#mon

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#confiscation #conquest #had #history #invariably

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#money #none #own #power #state

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#christianity #common #conditioned #correspondence #could

I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#becoming #diverse #example #for example #forms

Money doesn't make people happy. People make people happy. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#make #money #people

Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks. ↗

— Lou Thesz

#atlanta #bucks #buy #by the time #dollars

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed. ↗

— David Thewlis

#am #back #disappointed #england #expecting

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part. ↗

— David Thewlis

#books #first #flat #good #good idea

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published. ↗

— Sigrid Undset

#among #been #before #books #care

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#debt #doubling #get #growing #money