Individualism turns a band into a society. Collectivism turns society into a mob.
– Jakub Boydar Winiewski
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- 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
- The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem. – 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
- Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- 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 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
- To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means. – 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
- 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
- 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
- REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band. – Demetri Martin
- If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band? – Steve Turner
- Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room – John Green
- Iron turns red when it corrodes, and copper turns green. Meat turns to maggots, and thoughts turn to speech. – Stepan Chapman
- A world of fully developed individuals is immune to the cult of collectivism. – Bryant McGill
- Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends. – Barack Obama
- A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society. – Edward Abbey
- Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out. – Ron Currie Jr
- Phrases like ‘the team spirit’ are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties. – Muriel Spark
- Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. – Oscar Wilde
- At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart – Robert Holden
- Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism – Yahya Mohamed
- The Dreaming is always; forever… it’s always happening, and us mob, we’re part of it, all the time, everywhere, and every-when too. – Kate Constable
- 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
- Anyone who is ignorant, even a lord and prince, can and should be counted as one of the mob. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- I am against justice -¦ whenever it is carried out by a mob. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. – Thomas Jefferson