If those who oppose violent invasions of other countries are considered ”isolationists,” is a person who refuses to break into his neighbor’s house to be regarded as ”anti-social”?Butler Shaffer (4/2/2011)
democracy is the illusion that my wife and I, combined, have twice the political influence of David Rockefeller.Butler Shaffer (2009)
After some 2,400 years of worshiping at the feet of Plato’s “philosopher kings,” is it not time to shift to a new paradigm? Why do any of us pay any more attention to such established drivel than we do to a woman with her tarot cards, or who claims to read the future by squeezing a goat’s testicles?
It is the essence of intelligence to be able to discriminate, i.e., to make relevant distinctions between and among various facts and principles and alternative courses of action.Butler Shaffer, Boundaries of Order, 2009
though I disapprove of how you conduct your life, as long as you do not violate the property boundaries of others, I shall defend to the death your right to act as you chooseButler Shaffer, Boundaries of Order, 2009
Of necessity, this will lead us to a consideration of the questions: do we, in fact, own ourselves, and do we desire to do so?Butler Shaffer (Boundaries of Order, 2009)
We eagerly trespass one another's property interests out of an arrogance that threatens to destroy human society, if not humanity itself.Butler Shaffer (Boundaries of Order 2009)
"Liberty" is life pursuing what it wants to pursue, through its self-directed energy.Butler Shaffer (Boundaries of Order, 2009)
