“Every friend of freedom... must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.” StatesUnitedLibertyVisionUnited StatesCitizensDrugEvidenceArmyFilledLibertarianAlcoholJailCampsUsersLibertarianismEmpoweredCasualFreedom And LibertyProhibitionFreedom LibertyDrug ProhibitionArmed Citizens Author:Milton Friedman
“If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America, without being thrown in jail, I would not have written The Anarchist Cookbook, and there would be no need for it.” IfsNeedsBookStatesWould BeAmericaUnitedUnited StatesWrittenRevolutionViolentIf I CouldThrownJailUnited States Of AmericaAnarchistCookbook Author:William Powell
“Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I have, for my books or myself, been somewhat warmly denounced -- there was one good pastor in California who upon reading my Elmer Gantry desired to lead a mob and lynch me, while another holy man in the state of Maine wondered if there was no respectable and righteous way of putting me in jail.” IfsMenWayWellsLittlesBookStatesReadingKnownPovertyStruggleHolyFortuneGenerosityCaliforniaJailRighteousNow And ThenPastorRespectableMaineHoly Man Book:Why Sinclair Lewis got the Nobel prize Source: Why Sinclair Lewis got the Nobel prize
“I start from the supposition that the world is topsyturvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail and the wrong people are out of jail, that the wrong people are in power and the wrong people are out of power, that the wealth is distributed in this country and the world in such a way as not simply to require small reform but to require a drastic reallocation of wealth. I start from the supposition that we don't have to say too much about this because all we have to do is think about the state of the world today and realize that things are all upside down.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayCountryStatesTodayRealizingWealthToo MuchReformJailWorld TodayUpside DownDrasticSupposition Book:The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy