Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-8] of 8 L. Neil Smith quotesL. Neil Smith QuotesL. Neil Smith Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage.~ L. Neil Smith Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.~ L. Neil Smith Politicians need human misery. ... Government’s a disease masquerading as its own cure.~ L. Neil Smith Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.~ L. Neil Smith [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.~ L. Neil Smith 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.~ L. Neil Smith Nine tenths of everything is tax. Everything you buy has a complicated history of robbery: land, raw materials, energy, tools, buildings, transport, storage, sales, profits. Don’t forget the share you contribute toward the personal income tax of every worker who has anything to do with the process. Inflation by taxation: there are a hundred taxes on a loaf of bread. What kind of living standard would we enjoy if everything cost a tenth of what it does? What kind of world? Think of your home, your car, your TV, your shoes, your supper—all at a 90% discount! Government can’t fight poverty—poverty is its proudest achievement!~ L. Neil Smith One thing about a police state, you can always find the police.~ L. Neil Smith Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print