People - pardon me, journalists and politicians - have often accused me of believing that I'm above the law. And yet, who isn't? Everywhere you prod it, even with the shortest stick, the established system isn't simply corrupt, it…
People - pardon me, journalists and politicians - have often accused me of believing that I'm above the law. And yet, who isn't? Everywhere you prod it, even with the shortest stick, the established system isn't simply corrupt, it's unequivocally putrescent. The law is created by demonstrable criminals, enforced by demonstrable, interpreted by demonstrable criminals, all for demonstrably criminal purposes. Of course I'm above the law. And so are you.
L. Neil Smith
Believe, Law, People
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Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.
L. Neil Smith
Giving Up, Needs, Causes
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The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.
L. Neil Smith
Government, Media, Vaseline
L. Neil Smith (2001). “The American Zone”, p.21, Macmillan
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Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry a weapon, you're telling them, 'I'll defend you as if you were my own family.' And anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible: 'I don't trust you unless you're rendered harmless'!
L. Neil Smith
Home, Gun, House
L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.121, Macmillan
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And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.
L. Neil Smith
Bravery, Goes On, Capacity
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Victim disarmament types are sick, sick people, who'd rather see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose than see her with a gun in her hand.
L. Neil Smith
Gun, Hands, People
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Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.
L. Neil Smith
Respect, Authority, Has Beens
L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.295, Macmillan
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The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.
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