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Tag: L. Neil Smith

American writer

Democracy equals brute force

[N]o one’s ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It’s just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 9, 2018Format QuoteCategories democracyTags L. Neil Smith

Choosing serfdom

People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically ‘right.’ Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 3, 2015March 25, 2021Format QuoteCategories Second AmendmentTags L. Neil Smith

Guns don’t cause crime

Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage.

Author Greg RavenPosted on August 14, 2013November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories Second AmendmentTags L. Neil Smith

Government medicine

Politicians need human misery … Government’s a disease masquerading as its own cure.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 14, 2011November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags L. Neil Smith

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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