"A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to acheive equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests."
"The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy
of social cooperation and the
progressive intensification of the social nexis."
Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.
Americans Are Putting Up With a Spiraling Gestapo State By Paul Craig Roberts
"Before our system can claim success, it must not only create a people with a higher standard of living, but a people with a higher standard of character- character that must include religious faith, morality, educated intelligence, self-restraint, and an ingrained demand for justice and unselfishness. In our striving for material things, we must not change those basic principles of government and of personal conduct, which create and protect the character of a people. . We cannot hope to achieve salvation by worshipping the god of the standard of living."
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