I’m not anti-capitalist. I actually support capitalism, I think it’s a good thing. I just think you can have capitalism without corruption,Source: Alessio Rastani, October, 2011
Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, "See, if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk."Source: Harry Browne, "A solution for the Middle East," WorldNetDaily (April 11, 2002)
I have this distressing habit which I have to disclose to you. I have a very linear mind. I believe that this is true, and this is true and this is true and this is true and this is true and this has to happen. What I do is I confuse two words in English - one is inevitable, and the other is imminent.Rick Rule - May 2011
An Economist is somebody who doesn't just see the immediate and direct effects of an action. A six year old can usually tell you the immediate and direct effect of actions. That's not hard. An Economist tells you the indirect and delayed effects.Doug Casey (March 7th-9th)
The higher the technological level of a society, the less sense theft makes. The whole story of civilization is one of the replacement of theft by production as a means to live. ... In a hi-tech world, theft is actually counterproductive, much like stealing the answers to a test really gains one nothing.Doug Casey (07/2007, Waiting for WWIII)
Fighting a multi-decade war against plants is just a dumb idea, ranking up there with other such gems as spending our way out of recession, borrowing our way out of debt, and invading other countries to reduce hatred against America.Simon Black (3/8/2011)
I'm reminded of Herbert Hoover's 1928 winning presidential campaign slogan, "A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage." Perhaps the modern analogy is "a government agent on every corner, a wiretap on every phone." It is, after all, for our security.Simon Black (1/25/2011, Notes from the Field)
To futurists, advances in technology are equated with advances in civilization. Intellectually sophisticated, philosophically naïve, the futurists live in a world where new equals better.Gerald Celente (1998, Trends 2000, pg 19)
I abhor violence. Non-retaliatory violence is a desperate act of intolerant men who cannot sort out their differences reasonably and peacefully. Violence is the answer for those who lack the intellectual merit to win a battle of ideas and can only resort to more animalistic behavior to impress their point.Simon Black (1/10/11)
An economist is someone who describes the way the world works.Doug Casey (12/10/2010)
You could say it's the process by which the system assures that no qualified person serves on a jury – or the process by which we make sure to get the dregs of society's barrel instead of the cream of society's crop.Louis James
Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.Jim Rogers (A Gift to my Children, 2009)
...giving politicians the ability to borrow is like giving a teenager a bottle of whiskey and the keys to a Corvette.Doug Casey (Sept 3rd, 2010)
Anarchy is simply a form of political organization that does not put one ruler, or ruling body, over everyone in a societyDoug Casey (4/2/2010)
How can the solution for debt and consumption be more debt and more consumption? How can that be the solution to our problems?Jim Rogers
I fear that most of what kids get today, whether in grade school, high school, college, or post-grad, is not education. It’s training.Doug Casey (2009)
