It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.
– Jakub Boydar Winiewski
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- A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can’t be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn’t a single war started by anarchists? – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
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- The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Individualism turns a band into a society. Collectivism turns society into a mob. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Economics without ethics is a caricature. Ethics without economics is a fairy tale. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Anarcho-capitalism: the realization that the only way to effectively govern the market is to have an effective market in governance. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
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- To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they don’t need anyone’s permission to be free. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Wishful thinking does wonders for a wishful mind; but in the end, reality always has the final say. – Steve Maraboli
- God determines the goals of the prosperity before giving prosperity before giving prosperity to His children – Sunday Adelaja
- A claim that event horizons exist is like someone’s claim to be immortal: You would have to wait until the end of time to confirm the claim. – Seth Lloyd
- Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract. – Richard Diebenkorn
- The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless. – Israel M Kirzner
- The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. – William Hutton
- Reality does not yield to wishful thinking and truth cannot be established by a political party (or any other organization for that matter). – Bill Schutt
- Without total dedication & discipline, success in any field is just a wishful thinking. – Subodh Gupta
- Don’t wish away your problems. They need action, not wishful thinking – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn’t depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives. – Timothy Ferriss
- I fantasized how no matter what happened, no one could ever come between us, call it wishful thinking, I called it a fact. – Holly Hood
- Self-confidence is usually little more than wishful thinking in a thigh-high pair of Come F*ck Me boots. – Alistair Cross
- Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob. – Jim Rogers
- The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action. – Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
- It is only wishful thinking that makes a sheep seek that a lion feeds on grass just to make it comfortable. – Magnus Nwagu Amudi
- Wishful thinking isn’t particularly bad. Without it, how would you paint happy ideas inside your mind? Don’t be so cynical. – BA Gabrielle
- Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything…away. – Dave Matthes