Quote #12

To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.

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  1. Although the ideal of free enterprise could, indeed, lend itself to the uplifting of the human condition, when it is practiced for profit a…
  2. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.
  3. When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in …
  4. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.
  5. As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.
  6. I say, embrace fear as a friend. It is nature's gift to us. It is the best weapon for liberty. ... It permits us to escape or to fight with…
  7. Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New A…
  8. There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.

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