From: "John Zube" To: "Christian Butterbach" Cc: "Gian Piero de Bellis" References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021212141407.00a9a250@butterbach.net> Subject: 021214 Butterbach Re: Islamic banking and Slogans for Liberty H I J Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 18:29:07 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000B_01C2A39E.B0332FA0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C2A39E.B0332FA0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000C_01C2A39E.B0332FA0" ------=_NextPart_001_000C_01C2A39E.B0332FA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Christian,=20 with proof-reading my English translation of = my first peace book I am now at batch pages 250-300. SoL batch H I J is enclosed. I know no details on the Islamic ways of by-passing anti-interest = regulations but have long believed that the promise of fixed interest = rates by particular enterprises, in accordance with prevailing market = rates, has certain disadvantages for both parties which could be avoided = if they agreed upon percentage shares in the profits from investments. Sometimes the investor might gain a high rate thereby - and sometimes = nothing. The risk for the debtor would be reduced, so he could afford to = pay, in the average, more, of what would still be only a share in his = additional profits. Whether the additional profits were due only to a particular additional = investment or to other factors might be sometimes hard to impossible to = determine. Nevertheless, such a share could be haggled out. The benefits, e.g. for old age pensioners, when they could get e.g. 15% = from additional earnings of 45% which are due to their investments, even = after credit insurance premiums are deducted, could be enormous. To us these interest rates appear enormous but in Asia 10% monthly or = 120 % p.a. have been common for many years - probably largely due to = persistent deflations. If people were freed from taxes - and other forms of economic despotism = - then as high returns might become quite common, at least until such an = abundance of liquid capital for medium and long-term investments comes = into existence that the interest rates will tend to fall greatly. Any interest rate that amounts only to a fraction of the additional = profits gained is not really a burden to any debtor. PIOT, John Dear Gian Pietro,=20 some of the entries under H I J of my = growing Slogans for Liberty encyclopaedia are obviously relevant to the = panarchy & polyarchy debate. You might want to select and reword some of = them. I finally found the English master of my translation of my first peace = book, scanned it in and am proofreading this scan now. When finished I = will send it as well. Alas, I can't send you the time to do still more reading. But, if you = pick and choose, not so much extra reading might be involved. Proof-reading of scans is still very time-consuming and boring. I do hope this attachment batch is not too big for you. If it is, I = might have to subdivide it or Winzip it. PIOT, John ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Christian Butterbach=20 To: Thomas H. Greco, Jr.=20 Cc: John Zube=20 Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:54 AM Subject: Re: Islamic banking and a no-interest global payment system At 11:49 21.11.02 -0700, you wrote: Dear people,=20 On November 13, I sent out to a few of you a message in which I = proposed the development of a no-interest global payment system using an = alternative "credit" card. I suggested that such an approach might be = most welcomed initially within the Islamic world. [etc.] Dear Tom, I would like to thank you for the very interesting information you = sent me. Unfortunately, I do not have the time right now to deal with it = in detail. But I nevertheless want to let you have two remarks of mine, = after quickly glancing through what you sent me: 1. You seem to have fallen, like others before (decades ago the = followers of Silvio Gesell fell into the same trap), for the erroneous = concept that the Islamic world is really sticking to its banning of = interest. They do so only on the surface. They ask and get interest, = just calling it differently. A typical hypocrisy to cover up that = material interests are stronger than religious beliefs or precepts. = What's the difference between lending money to a business and getting = interest on that money and putting the same money at the disposal of = that business without asking "interest" but receiving part of the profit = of the business, which will probably result in a much higher "interest" = rate. Of course, you could lose your money altogether if that is the = risk agreement, but then you could also not get back the money lent for = interest if the business fails. On the other hand, sharing the risk = between borrower and lender sounds nice if you compare it to what is = customary in the non-Islamic world. 2. It is quite understandable that Islamic countries try to defend = themselves against the dependence on the dollar, but trading between = Islamic countries in the same fashion as between the former GDR and the = former Soviet Union is falling back a big step, trying to solve their = problem with the problem. Socialism is the problem. The state is the = problem. Bartering is an emergency solution when the state has failed. = When there is no freedom, no market. I am sorry not to be able to be more elaborate here and now. Best regards, Chris ------=_NextPart_001_000C_01C2A39E.B0332FA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear Christian,
           &n= bsp;           &nb= sp;  =20 with proof-reading my English translation of my first peace book I am = now at=20 batch pages 250-300.
SoL batch H I J is enclosed.
 
I know no details on the Islamic ways of by-passing anti-interest=20 regulations but have long believed that the promise of fixed interest = rates by=20 particular enterprises, in accordance with prevailing market rates, has = certain=20 disadvantages for both parties which could be avoided if they agreed = upon=20 percentage shares in the profits from investments.
Sometimes the investor might gain a high rate thereby - and = sometimes=20 nothing. The risk for the debtor would be reduced, so he could afford to = pay, in=20 the average, more, of what would still be only a share in his=20 additional profits.
Whether the additional profits were due only to a particular = additional=20 investment or to other factors might be sometimes hard to impossible to=20 determine. Nevertheless, such a share could be haggled out.
 
The benefits, e.g. for old age pensioners, when they could get e.g. = 15%=20 from additional earnings of 45% which are due to their investments, even = after=20 credit insurance premiums are deducted, could be enormous.
To us these interest rates appear enormous but in Asia 10% monthly = or 120 %=20 p.a. have been common for many years - probably largely due to = persistent=20 deflations.
If people were freed from taxes - and other forms of economic = despotism -=20 then as high returns might become quite common, at least until such an = abundance=20 of liquid capital for medium and long-term investments comes into = existence that=20 the interest rates will tend to fall greatly.
 
Any interest rate that amounts only to a fraction of the additional = profits=20 gained is not really a burden to any debtor.
 
PIOT, John
 
Dear Gian Pietro,
           &n= bsp;           &nb= sp;     =20 some of the entries under H I J of my growing Slogans for Liberty = encyclopaedia=20 are obviously relevant to the panarchy & polyarchy debate. You might = want to=20 select and reword some of them.
I finally found the English master of my translation of my first = peace=20 book, scanned it in and am proofreading this scan now. When finished I = will send=20 it as well.
Alas, I can't send you the time to do still more reading. But, if = you pick=20 and choose, not so much extra reading might be involved.
Proof-reading of scans is still very time-consuming and = boring.
I do hope this attachment batch is not too big for you. If it is, I = might=20 have to subdivide it or Winzip it.
 
PIOT, John
----- Original Message -----
From:=20 Christian=20 Butterbach
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 = 12:54=20 AM
Subject: Re: Islamic banking = and a=20 no-interest global payment system

At 11:49 21.11.02 -0700, you wrote:
Dear people,=20
On November 13, I sent out to a few of = you a=20 message in which I proposed the development of a no-interest global = payment=20 system using an alternative "credit" card. I suggested that such an = approach=20 might be most welcomed initially within the Islamic world.=20 [etc.]

Dear = Tom,

I would=20 like to thank you for the very interesting information you sent me.=20 Unfortunately, I do not have the time right now to deal with it in = detail. But=20 I nevertheless want to let you have two remarks of mine, after quickly = glancing through what you sent me:

1. You seem to have fallen, = like=20 others before (decades ago the followers of Silvio Gesell fell into = the same=20 trap), for the erroneous concept that the Islamic world is really = sticking to=20 its banning of interest. They do so only on the surface. They ask and = get=20 interest, just calling it differently. A typical hypocrisy to cover up = that=20 material interests are stronger than religious beliefs or precepts. = What's the=20 difference between lending money to a business and getting interest on = that=20 money and putting the same money at the disposal of that business = without=20 asking "interest" but receiving part of the profit of the business, = which will=20 probably result in a much higher "interest" rate. Of course, you could = lose=20 your money altogether if that is the risk agreement, but then you = could also=20 not get back the money lent for interest if the business fails. On the = other=20 hand, sharing the risk between borrower and lender sounds nice if you = compare=20 it to what is customary in the non-Islamic world.

2. It is = quite=20 understandable that Islamic countries try to defend themselves against = the=20 dependence on the dollar, but trading between Islamic countries in the = same=20 fashion as between the former GDR and the former Soviet Union is = falling back=20 a big step, trying to solve their problem with the problem. Socialism = is the=20 problem. The state is the problem. Bartering is an emergency solution = when the=20 state has failed. When there is no freedom, no market.

I am = sorry not=20 to be able to be more elaborate here and now.

Best=20 regards,

Chris

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disappointed, because = they seemed to me to be not much more than rapidly strung together = popular proverbs, or "old saws". To get freshness and full meaning into = old sayings, they ought either to be reworded=20 o r accompanied by suitable comments, jokes or analogies. - The brain = tends to switch off its attention and thinking capacity when it hears = the same wording over and over again. The sounds of alarm clocks and = other repetitive noises, or background ratio mus i c, are often no longer heard at all, after a while. But I do get annoyed = when I hear or read repeated bible bashing and avoid it as much as = possible. If God or the Bible are mentioned several times on each page = of a book - it is usually ignored by me. - J .Z., 25.4.00. \par Thus, please, consider all these remarks only as "works in = progress" - and do work on improving them, if the idea is important to = you. - J.Z., 29.11.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 HABEAS CORPUS. - You are to produce the person [of the = accused]. - Anonymous Latin Legal=20 maxim. - Meaning, produce the accused before a judge, instead of keeping = him incarcerated. - J.Z., 12.10.02. - I wish that ancient principle of = justice were applied to illegal immigrants before just courts, which = would grant them asylum in all cases where they are not wanted in other countries for crimes with victims. - J.Z., = 25.11.02. \par HABITS OF THOUGHT, CUSTOMS, TRADITIONS, FAITH, BELIEFS, MODELS, = RULING DOGMAS: The greatest threats and the greatest incentives are = often no help against habits of thoughts a nd actions. Instance the nuclear war threat as not yet demolished = territorialist notions and microfiche, floppy disks and CD-ROMs have not = yet done away with long established publishing and reading habits. - = J.Z., 12.9.00, 20.8.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HAMILTONIANS, STATISTS,=20 ETATISTS, INTERVENTIONISM, PANARCHISM: Hamiltonians were terrible = persons who actually believed there were circumstances under which some = individuals had the right to tell other individuals what to do. - L. = Neil Smith, The Nagasaki Vector, 167. - Innocent =20 people, when wrongfully attacked, have, indeed, the right to tell the = attackers what to do - and, moreover, the right to defend themselves = against them, even armed and organized. - Smith would be the last person = to deny that. His remark was intended as di r ected against meddlers and aggressors. Hamiltonians can rightly tell = each other what to do, as far as their own affairs are concerned. - They = should have no say over the rightful actions of others. Those who are = not Hamiltonians do not have the right to d ecide how Hamiltonians ought to treat each other. - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par HAND, INVISIBLE, HIDDEN, MARKET, REGULATIONS, LAISSEZ FAIRE: \'85 = that the hidden hand is the only trustworthy and indeed tolerable = regulator of economic affairs \'85 - Abel: Benn, 148. The ter m "hidden hand" is ascribed to Herbert Spencer. The term "invisible = hand" to Adam Smith.=20 \par HANDOUTS & MONETARY FREEDOM: Loans in the monies of monetary = freedom, combined with sufficient self-help advice, rather than handouts = by governments, churches or char ity groups and charitable individuals. Even the poor could come to issue = clearing certificates covered by their readiness to accept them in = payment for productive work done by them. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HANDOUTS, CHARITY, POVERTY, WELFARE, = TAXATION, CAPITAL,=20 FORGOTTEN MAN: When a millionaire gives a dollar to a beggar the gain of = utility to the beggar is enormous, and the loss of utility to the = millionaire is insignificant. Generally the discussion. is allowed to = rest there. But if the millionaire makes capit a l of the dollar, it must go upon the labor market, as a demand for = productive services. Hence there is another party in interest - the = person who supplies productive services. There always are two parties. = The second is always the Forgotten Man. - - W. G . Sumner, What Social Classes Owe To Each Other, 110. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HANDOUTS, GIFTS, WELFARE STATE, = HELP, POVERTY, CHARITY: He who gives too much belittles the recipient. = - D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HANDOUTS, GOOD-FOR-NOTHINGS, PARASITIC = POOR, LOAFERS, SUBSIDIES: \'85 a nation which fosters its good-for-nothings will end by becoming a = good-for-nothing nation. - Herbert Spencer in: "Reflections". \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 HANDOUTS, GOVERNMENT SPENDING, = WELFARE STATE, BUDGET, TAXATION: As long as there is a public feeding = trough pigs will tu rn up at it. - J.Z., 11.5.01. The best way to stop this feeding is to = remove the trough, e.g. by a tax strike, a monetary revolution and by = voluntary taxation for volunteer communities only. - J.Z., 30.7.01 \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HANDOUTS, HELP, POVERTY, LITTLE PEOPLE: A handout = is not a helpout. - Michael F. Flynn, The Common Goal of Nature, ANALOG, = 4/90, p. 33. \par HANDOUTS, LITTLE PEOPLE: Won't the little people go to the wall? = \'85 Not if the taxes go as well. (*) Let the economy grow and create = jobs, and yo won't need the handouts. - James P. Hogan, Mirror Maze, 131. - (*) And monetary despotism, = protectionism, compulsory licensing and regulations, minimum wagers, = immigration barriers, closed shops, all privileges and monopolies. - = J.Z., 19.10.02. \par HANDOUTS, SUBSIDIES, AID, HELP, CHARITY, WELFARE STATE, POVERTY: = Every handout goes too far unless it is a voluntary one, using the own = means. - J.Z., 12.10.85. \par HANDOUTS, SUBSIDIES, WELFARE STATES, SOCIAL SERVICES: No = government handouts are earned. - J.Z., 4.9.89. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HANDOUTS, WELFARE, POVE RTY, SOCIAL SERVICES, TAXATION: As a step towards realising the rights = of the taxpayer: Chop off all handouts. No public assistance any more or = subsidies except as high interest bearing loans. Even then, for instance = in welfare loans, they should be grant ed only when all first degree family members become guarantors. - J.Z., = n.d.}{\fs24=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 HANDOUTS: As a step towards realizing the rights of the taxpayer: Chop = off all handouts. No public assistance any more or subsidies except as = high interest bearing loans. Even then , for instance, in welfare loans, they should be granted only when all = first degree family members or close friends become guarantors. - J.Z., = n.d. & 17.10.02. \par HANDOUTS: Handouts hand out problems. - J.Z., 28.7.75. \par HANDOUTS: No more handouts at the expense of taxpayers. - J.Z., = 14.7.94. \par HANDSHAKE VS. SWORD: The handshake or the sword. - Heading by = Thomas W. Hazlett, in THE FREEMAN, Nov. 77.=20 \par HAPPINESS & FREEDOM: A well-planned, happy prison is still a = prison. A free market economy doesn't guarantee every one's happiness = \'85 but it guarantees everyone's freedom. - Charles Blackwell, SLM, = 8/76. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HAPPINESS & POWER, RATIONALITY VS. IRRATIONALITY: = I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose = happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. - Thomas = Jefferson. \par HAPPINESS & RIGHTS: No one has a right to happiness. - Eric Hoffer. = - He has only the right to try to make himself and others happy - if he = can manage to do so without infringing anybody's rights and liberties. - = J.Z., 11.2.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1046=20 HAPPINESS & WORTHY WORK: Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard = for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. - Heinlein, = To Sail Beyond the Sunset, 142. - That does not necessarily apply e.g. = to proof-reading, transcriptions v ia keyboarding, scanning and proof-reading and numerous computer-chores. = They can be very boring and tiring - but are necessary for certain = desired results. - J.Z., 18.10.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HAPPINESS HEDONISM, PLEASURE SEEKING, SENSUAL = GRATIFICATIONS: Happiness wasn't c onstructive, it didn't get you anywhere. It was insidious, too, the more = you had of it the more you wanted; it was a kind of drug, a = lotus-eating. - Ethel Mannin, Crescendo, 1928-1937, 61. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HAPPINESS THROUGH GOVERNMENTS? The only orthodox object = of the inst itution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness = possible to the general mass of those associated under it. }{\i\cf1 - = Thomas Jefferson to M. van der Kemp, 1812.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HAPPINESS, BELIEF, SKEPTICISM: The = fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic i s no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than = a sober man. - George Bernhard Shaw.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HAPPINESS, CONSENT, GOVERNMENT, VOLUNTARISM, = EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY: As the happiness of the people is the sole end = of government, so the consent=20 of the people is the only foundation of it, in reason, morality, and the = natural fitness of things. - John Adams - Its people are only its own = volunteers, not all people who happen to live in a certain territory. - = J.Z., 11.10.02. - Territorial government s do not and cannot fulfil their promises. But exterritorial governments = should be free to try, for their volunteers. - J.Z., 24.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HAPPINESS, CREATIVITY, PURPOSE: Happiness is like = coke - something you get as a by-product in the process of making = something else. - Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point, 1928. \par HAPPINESS, CREATIVITY, PURPOSE: Many persons have a wrong idea of = what constitutes true happiness. It is not obtained through = self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen = Keller, Journal, 1938. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = HAPPINESS, ERRORS, MISTAKES AND EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM: The pursuit of = unhappiness is an inalienable right of all humans. - Frank Herbert, Eye, = 174. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 HAPPINESS, FAITH, BELIEF, DOUBT, CREDULITY, SKEPTICISM: = The fact that a believer is happie r than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken = man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap = and dangerous quality. - George Bernard Shaw. - Can innocents imprisoned = in nation-wide prisons or reasonable peop le incarcerated in madhouses, under millions of irrational rules, be = happy? - J.Z., 30.10.02. \par HAPPINESS, FREEDOM OF ACTION, PROPERTY, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, = AGGRESSION: \'85 the essential requirement to general happiness - the = requirement that each shall enjoy=20 all those means to happiness which his actions, carried on without = aggression, have brought him. - Herbert Spencer, in S. Hutchinson = Harris, The Doctrine of Personal Right, 176. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HAPPINESS, HEDONISM, PLEASURE SEEKING, SENSUAL = GRATIFICATIONS: Happiness wasn' t constructive, it didn't get you anywhere. It was insidious, too, the = more you had of it the more you wanted; it was a kind of drug, a = lotus-eating. - Ethel Mannin, Crescendo, 1928-1937, 61. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HAPPINESS, INDEPENDENCE & DEPENDENCY: One should = never let one's happiness depend on other people. - H. Granville Barker, = The Voysey Inheritance, 1905.}{\fs24\lang1033 =20 \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HAPPINESS, MAJORITY, UTILITARIANISM, SLAVERY: \'85 = the utilitarian demand that each man merits equal }{\b\fs24\lang1046 = consideration}{\fs24\lang1046 . For equal consideration is compatible = with great injus tice. For example, I might give equal consideration to slaves in that I = think that their happiness is to be computed on the same scale as the = happiness of the slaveholders, but argue that the happiness of the = latter (because there are more of them, say) } {\b\fs24\lang1046 outweighs }{\fs24\lang1046=20 the unhappiness of the former. That is exactly what Kant wants to = preclude. It is immoral to deny the freedom of any man against his = rational will, no matter how good (on balance) the consequences of so = doing. - Jeffrie G. Murphy, Kant, The Philoso phy of Right, 161. \par HAPPINESS, PLEASURE, CREATIVITY, JOY: Wer schaffen will muss = froehlich sein. - Theodor Fontane. - Whoever wants to create must be = joyful.=20 \par HAPPINESS, PURITANISM, RELIGION, SIN, CHRISTIANITY: There is only = one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse = to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness. - H.L. = Mencken. \par HAPPINESS, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, EQUAL RIGHTS: Everyone may seek = his own happiness in the way that seems good to himself, provided that = he in fringe not such freedom of others to strive after a similar end as is = consistent with the freedom of all. - Kant, quoted by Sprading in = Freedom and its Fundamental. \par HAPPINESS, SELF-INTEREST, EGOISM VS. ALTRUISM: \'85 mankind obtain = a greater sum of happiness when each pursues his own, under the rules and conditions required by = the rest, than when each makes the good of the rest his only object. - = John Morley, On Compromises, 273. \par HAPPINESS, THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, VOLUNTARISM, FREEDOM, FREEDOM = OF ACTION, IN DIVIDUALISM, PANARCHISM: How can there be a general happiness wich is = anything other than the happiness of individuals, and of groups of = individuals, pursuing some end which they choose to pursue? How can the = State do anything to increase this happiness,=20 other than by allowing people to live their lives as they choose as = members of those associations which they desire to join? - David = Nicholls, The Pluralist State, 5. \par HAPPINESS, UTILITARIANISM, THE GREATEST GOOD OF THE GREATEST = NUMBER, LIBERTY, INDIVIDUALIS M, MAJORITY: "Bentham, deprecating the use of this force for the benefit = of the privileged few, urged that the aim of the law-makers should be = the greatest good of the greatest number. Spencer, recognizing that = happiness is not the same for all, and that=20 m en cannot rightfully be provided for thus in the lump, saw that greater = happiness lies in each being at liberty to pursue it in his own way, due = regard being paid to the restrictions necessary to prevent encroachment = on the equal rights of others. - Who?=20 In? page 379. \par HAPPINESS, UTOPIANISM, PLANNING, CENTRALISATION, = SELF-DETERMINATION, CONTROL: To refrain from harming others is one = thing; to design & order happiness for others and to enforce delivery = invites an equal and opposite reaction. - Frank Herbert,=20 The Godmakers, 81. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HAPPINESS, VIRTUE & RELIGION: There are a set of = religions, or rather moral writings, which teach that virtue is the = certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very = wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. - Henry Fielding = (1707-1754), Tom Jones (1749). \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HAPPINESS, WORTHINESS: Do what will make you = worthy of happiness. - Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason. \par HAPPINESS: \'85 it is true without a doubt: happiness is only = possible when the struggle for personal happiness is renounced. - = Tolstoi, in A. B. Goldenveizer, Talks with Tolstoi, 46.=20 \par HAPPINESS: A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and = nothing can stop him. - Alexander Slzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward. \par HAPPINESS: A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him = unhappy. This is the main reason whey there is more unhappiness than = happiness in the world. - Thomas Szasz, The Untamed Tongue, A Dissenting = Dictionary. \par HAPPINESS: Ein jeder ist seines Gluecks Schmied, doch keiner = Meister auf diesem Gebiet. - Willi Schirp, Gezirp, 84. - Everyone is the = smith of his happiness - but no one is master in this field.=20 \par HAPPINESS: For happiness is only a by-product of function, as light = is a by-product of the electric current running through the wires. - T. = H. White, The Book of Merlyn, 16.=20 \par HAPPINESS: Happines for a bee or a dolphin is simply to exist: for = man it is to know & to wonder. - Jaques Yves Cousteau, 1910-1997, marine = explorer. \par HAPPINESS: Happiness is not a simple matter. It is very difficult = to find it within us and impossible to find it without us. - Quoted by = Nicolas Chamisso, Aphorism, page 222. \par HAPPINESS: Happiness lies in the exercise of vital powers along the = lines of excellence in a life affording them scope. - Pres. J.F. = Kennedy, quoted in READER'S DIGEST, Aug. 67.=20 \par HAPPINESS: Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds - = that we cannot be happy without being free - that we cannot be free = without being secure in our property - that w e cannot be secure inour property if without our consent others may as = by right take it away. - John Dickinson, Letters from a Farmer in = Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies (1768).=20 \par HAPPINESS: Perhaps hogs are happy, but man should be moved by a = greater wish than to be jolly. - Dagobert D. Runes, A Book of = Contemplations, 58. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HAPPINESS: The great end of all human industry is the = attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences = cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modell ed, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the = lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and = the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of = his being. }{\i\cf1 - David Hume. }{\cf1=20 - By directly aiming at happiness it cannot be achieved. It is, usually, = the result of other efforts, especially free ones. - J.Z., = 30.6.00.}{\i\cf1 =20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 HAPPINESS: The office of government = is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out = happiness for themselves. -=20 William Ellery Channing - It should start by letting individuals and = minority groups secede from them. - J.Z., 11.10.02. - Otherwise, in is = like a despotic spouse that will not permit divorce from it, or like a = territorially and hierarchically established church that oppresses dissenters and non-conformists. - J.Z., 24.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HAPPINESS: There is no such thing as happiness. We = just have to be happy without it. - From film: Money From Home, 1954, = with Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin. \par HAPPINESS: To each his own road to happiness, at the own expense = and risk. - J.Z., 17.10.02. \par HAPPINESS: You cannot judge a man whether he was happy until after = he is dead. - Greek saying. - And then you have to ask him. - Michael = Greene. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HARD & SOFT CURRENCIES: This is a case = of false and misleading \-alternatives. Hard and soft currencies are not = necessarily and in\- all respects opposites and between them they do not cover all = \-possibilities except merely verbally and conceptually. More = \-significant are distinctions between honest and dishonest, sound\- and unsound, monopolistic and competitive, forced and optional,\- = stable enough and all too unstable currencies, whether any of them are = "hard" or "soft" by any definition. And what does hard \-or soft mean = with regard to any of thousands of=20 different ways to\- determine or to try to preserve the purchasing power = of an index\- currency? Physically one of the hardest currencies would = be one \-of diamonds. But they are not malleable enough to be coined. = (In \- future, when artificial diamond production becomes quite cheap, \-at = least for diamond coatings, we might come to diamond-coat pure\- gold = coins to prevent them from wearing down too fast. In the \- meantime, to the extent that we would still bother to use them, \-we = might mostly keep each of them in a cheap small plastic and = \-transparent pocket or pouch. A gold currency is usually \-considered a = "hard" currency and yet it is made out of one of the \- softest metals and also of a metal that has been more than any = \-other subjected to legal interventionism. Coins made out of\- harder and cheaper metals, copper or iron, were often not kept hard, = judged by their par value with better standards, but depreciated against = them. And soft materials, like wood, bamboo,\- paper and plastic, have = often been used in qui te sound private money \-tokens. The distinction merely between hard = money and soft money \-is as insufficient as that merely between rare = metal exchange \-media and paper means of exchange, with the = misunderstanding that \- the latter would always have to be fiat money or legal tender \-money = and depreciating, unless 100% covered by gold coins in the\- possession of the issuer. - J. Z., 26.4.97. - Here, too, our language, = our terms, definitions and notions, our choice of words, more or less = careless and injudicio us, leads to and maintains most of our remaining problems. How many = innocents will die because the war against terrorism and against Saddam = Hussein, with his aspiration to acquire and use a stock of ABC mass = murder devices (or anti-people "weapons", all t o be used under the "principle" of "collective responsibility", has = suddenly, via thoughtless journalists and politicians, become a planned = war against "Iraq", "Bagdad" and the people of Iraq, requiring massive = military forces and sacrifices, possibly lead i ng to WW III. While people are organized, think and act only in = territorialist terms, rather than in terms of individual sovereignty, = individual secessionism and exterritorial autonomy for volunteer = communities, such misjudgements and mistakes are almost=20 i nevitable, on both sides, among men on the street as well as among the = monopolistic and centralistic top decision-makers. Obviously, the = terrorists, to whose mass murder this and the previous war were supposed = to be rightful and rational responses, also a c ted upon the "principle" of collective responsibility and under = territorialist assumptions - and with these wrongful dogmas and = institutions the slaughter goes on, almost everywhere, at least on a = small scale, e.g., via racism or the war against the rich. - J. Z., 8.9.02. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\f0\fs24 = HARD CURRENCY: "The essence of hard money is that it has precise = \-limits to its supply." - A value standard like a gram of gold\- is not depreciated proportionately to the numbers of grams of \-gold = available. Compared with the accumulated gold stock even the \-largest = additional annual gold production amounts to little - and\- industrial use of gold is ever increasing and takes a larger and\- = larger share of current production. The value of meter and kg\-measures = is not depreciated by the number of meter and kg\- measures being = increased. And the same relatively stable value=20 \-standard can be used in an ever increasing circulation that = \-corresponds to the ever increasing flood of goods and services = \-offered for sale. The precise limit for any competitive private \- or cooperative currency is the same as that for any other product \-or = service. As long as it can be honestly offered and sold at \-competitive = prices, it does not exceed its limits. But any\- considerable and = lasting discount of a free market rated currency \-will induce the issuer to stop issuing and his = potential\- acceptors to refuse or still further discount his money = tokens - \-and to force them upon him, as the issuer, as soon as = possible, \- at par. In one's thinking and issue and reflux practice one\- should = distinguish between exchange media and value standards and \-between = forced acceptance and forced values as against optional \- acceptance and free market rating. Otherwise one will inevitably\- = arrive at wrong conclusions. - It indicates soft-headed\- "thinking" to = class all other currencies but gold or silver metal\- or 100% gold or silver covered certificates as "soft" currencies.\- - = J. Z., 16.3.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 HARD JOBS VS. EASY ROADS: It's the = hard jobs we tackle daily that get us somewhere. Easy roads all seem to = lead downhill. - Reader's Digest, Jan. 65. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 HARD JOBS, PERSISTENCE, SUCCESS, EASE: It's the hard jobs we tackle = daily that get us somewhere. Easy roads all seem to lead downhill. - = READER'S DIGEST, Jan. 65. \par HARD JOBS, UNPLEASANT JOBS, DAILY CHO RES: I've learnt to grasp the nettle. When I have something hard to do - = which happens practically every day - I get it out of the way first. = Then I can go through the rest of the day in much better spirits and get = more done. - READER'S DIGEST, Jan. 65. \par HARD MONEY VS. SOFT MONEY: Money needs neither to hard nor soft\- = but, rather, optional and should, preferably, be sound. - Then \-the = good money will be preferred by potential acceptors and thus\- drive out = the bad money, which can, in the absence of an \- exclusive currency status and legal tender powers, no longer be = \-forced, at par, upon unwilling creditors. - J. Z., 4.9.92 &\-15.4.97. = - Whether a ruler is made of wood, plastic or metal does \- not matter much if anything for its usefulness. Only its relative\- = accuracy and stability, convenient size, availability and easy = \-applicability does. Even mass produced and very cheap, thin and\- flexible rulers are accurate and stable enough for most purposes. - The = marking of goods prices, wages, salaries, debts, fees,\- subscriptions, = taxes, interest etc., can be done in supposedly "hard"\- value standards, in form of gram or ounce weight units of an\- agreed = upon fineness, of rare metal according to its value on a free \-market = for that metal. Only some trading in such units is needed, e.g., for = fold weight units on a free gold \- market, to establish and confirm its market value with regard to\- other = metals, value standards, currencies, goods and services. The "hardness" = of this standard does not require that the issue of any exchange\- media or clearing certificates has been covered by its units, either = 100% or\- fractionally or that the issuer is under any obligation to = redeem his\- notes or certificates in physical value standard units upon = demand. It might even be\- harder for=20 him in some ways, but still possible, and much easier in other ways, to = simply preserve the par\-value of his issue with their nominal gold = weight value, primarily by \-accepting them himself at par with their = gold weight value, and, perhaps, obliging his \- debtors, by corresponding contracts, to do the same, as long as\- = they still owe him something, which they can repay with those of\- his = notes which they would accept, at any time at par. The free\- gold market of the world would provide the greatest possible and\- = safest "redemption fund" for all notes reckoning in gold weight\- values = and kept at par with them. Such notes should not be\- dogmatically classed as "soft" money, as if they were as depreciated = or\- valueless as government paper money often becomes. Those who\- = provide cheap, plastic, cardboard or wooden rulers do not have to\- have them fully covered, each single one of them, by their equivalent = in a platinum ruler, either. Most people do not aim at \-purchasing gold = - if they do, they could, on the gold market - \- but, rather want to be sure that their notes and certificates are = \-readily accepted at par at least on the local consumer goods and\- = service market. That kind of cover can be indefinitely expanded,\- with = the growing demand for it among the consum ers, without\- depreciating the value standard units used. Only the = value\--carriers: the exchange media, expressing a certain number of = \-value standard units, would have to be correspondingly increased\- , temporarily - only to flow back again to the issuer, upon their = redemption in the ready for sale and wanted consumer goods and services. = - It is very misleading to call all\- monies not 100 % redeemable in = gold mere "soft" money. - J. Z.,\-22.8.92. \par HARD TIMES, PROSPERITY: When people have strong values, they c an survive hard economic times. When they have dissolute values, they = can't even survive prosperity. - Harry Henderson (hrh@well.com) - What = is more important, strong values or sound values? At present most people = all too strongly adhere to unsound value s. That would not matter much - if dissenters were free to do their own = things to and for themselves. Let ideologies of all kinds freely compete = - exterritorially, i.e., peacefully and tolerantly. - J.Z., 29.10.02. \par HARD WORK OR EVEN HARDER WORK, MORE PRODUC TIVITY, MORE SAVINGS & INVESTMENTS & LESS CONSUMER SPENDING ARE THE BEST = MEANS TO FIGHT INFLATION: Popular opinion. - As experience has shown, = one can increase the money circulation a billion-fold. Can one also, in = the same period, work a billion times a s hard or productively, in all spheres of the economy? - Why should I = work even harder to give the inflated currency, issued by someone else, = in this case "my" government, some more purchasing power? Why should = government scrip or chits have any purchasing =20 power at all towards my own goods, services and labour? Why should I not = be free to out-compete the government's depreciated or credit-restricted = currency - by my own note issues or clearing certificates within my = sphere of payments and receipts? - Why sh o uld one work harder and not be paid more, not even in depreciated = currency? Even if, now and then, one's wages are somehow adapted to the = inflation that has taken already taken place, in the recent past, one = would have lost out in purchasing power up to t h e time of the newly indexed wage settlement. Consumer prices race ahead = while wages limp behind. And neither the governmental arbitration = process nor its CPI can be relied upon to be just and fair to all = concerned, even on day one of new and imposed new w a ge "agreement" or "settlement" (which all too often and usually = intentionally, excludes any value-preserving clauses). - Harder work and = inflation adjustment of wages, now and then, would not help pensioners = on a fixed nominal pension, either, i.e., which =20 is payable at par in depreciated paper money. Nor would it help other = medium or long term creditors, fobbed off with depreciated paper money, = destroying much of their rightful property claims. Just allow all = producers, traders and employees to contract i n sound alternative currencies of their own and to boycott or reject or = ignore that of the governments altogether. Let the governments try to = work hard to give their paper some work value if they can. I doubt that = they could. We are not the slaves or serfs =20 or debtors of governments, or their central banks, although they try to = turn us into such or treat us as such. - Conveniently overlooked here is = also the fact or expectation that, due to inflation, full employment = does, supposedly, occur, i.e. that all of =20 the nation does work harder or more in the average. Does this stop = inflation? - When such nonsense is uttered, again and again, mostly in = the mass media, the mass media fail to counter it with any or enough = truths on the subject, i.e. they fail in their=20 e nlightenment role. - J. Z., 2. 4. 97. - See: WORK, PRODUCTIVITY, LABOUR, = DISCIPLINE, RESTRAINTS, SPENDING, GOVERNMENT SPENDING, SAVINGS, = INVESTMENTS, INFLATION. - Not only monetary fallacies are still popular = but even as primitive and obviously flawed not ions as: "Buy Australian" or "Buy American!" - as if such advice, if = followed, could achieve additional sales and jobs for all. - J. Z., 2. = 9. 02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 HARDSHIP & DUTY: It is easy enough = to bear hardship. A donkey can do that. It is the duty of a ruler to = accomp lish much more. - Robert Shea, All Things Are Lights, 492. - Instead of = "of a ruler", I would say: "of everyone", especially when it comes to = achieving a free, just and therefor peaceful society. - J.Z., 26.4.00. \par HARM & HURT, GOVERNMENTS & LAWS: It would seem that in Paine's view = the code of government should be that of the legendary king Pausole, who = prescribed but two laws for his subjects, the first being, = }{\i\fs24\lang1033 Hurt no man,}{\fs24\lang1033=20 and the second, }{\i\fs24\lang1033 Then do as you = please}{\fs24\lang1033 ; and that the whole business of government = should be the purely negative one of seeing that this code is carried = out. - A. J. Nock, Our Enemy, the State, Caxton, 1959, 36.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HARM, HURT, INJURY, INJUSTICE, WRONG, RIGHT, = IMMORALITY, ETHICS: Nothing is immoral that is not meant to hurt others, = and nothing=20 is moral that is meant to do so. - Dagobert Runes, A Dictionary of = Thought. - Here one should replace "hurt" by "wrong". - An efficient = defence can hardly help to hurt wrongdoers and aggressors, at least in = their mental expectations, if not their backsid e s or necks. Even their rights are not harmed by rightful defence = measures. - J.Z., 26.7.92. - Failure to distinguish between harm or = damages and losses and wrongs or aggressions, is still all too common = today and indicates a severe lack in education and=20 civilization. - J.Z., 19.10.02.=20 \par HARM, MORALITY, RIGHTS, : A first step might be a 'minimal moral = imperative' which states: "Thou shalt act so as to minimize harm caused = to others by thy actions. (You can harm yourself, if you insist; the = principle provides no justification for anyone else to interfere with that. It does = recognize that hurting }{\b\fs24\lang1046 others}{\fs24\lang1046 is = grounds for interference. \'85 Stanley Schmidt, Moral Engineering, ANALOG, Mid Sep. 82, editorial. - = Harming others is all right - as long as they are in no way wronged thereby, especially not when the harm is only done indirectly, = e.g. by the customers of the "harmed" persons preferring the goods and = services of his competitors to his, under free enterprise, free markets, = free trade, free competition and consum er sovereignty. - J.Z., 5.8.92.=20 \par HARM, WRONG, RIGHTS: The acts of individuals may be hurtful to = others, or wanting in due consideration to their welfare, without going = to the length of violating any of their constitutional rights. The = offender then may be j ustly punished by opinion, though not by law. - John Stuart Mill, On = Liberty. - A successful competitor may hurt my interests but not my = rights. I may hurt him and serve his customers better by becoming a = better competitor. - J.Z., 19.10.02.=20 \par HARMONY & LIBERTY VS. UNIFORMITY: When Kant speaks of harmony here, = he does not mean uniformity. His ideal moral world is not one in which = everyone would have the }{\b\fs24\lang1046 same}{\fs24\lang1046=20 purposes. Rather his vie is that the ideal moral world would be one in = which each man would have the liberty to realise }{\b\fs24\lang1046 = all}{\fs24\lang1046 of his purposes in so far as these purposes are = compatible with like liberty for all. \'85 The reasonable, the rational and the moral action for man is that = action which does not interfere with the systematic harmony of purposes = among men. - Jeffrie G. Murphy, Kant, The Philosophy of Right, 93. \par HARMONY & ORDER: Peace, security, prosperity, order, progress, = harmony, cannot be effectively imposed from above. Only the freedom = conditions for their natural growth from within and below can be = established. - J.Z., 5.4.89, 19.10.02. \par HARMONY VS. CHAOS, ANARCHISM VS. THE STATE: Anarchism is not chaos; = chaos is the malfunctioning fo the State. Anarchism is natural order and = harmony. - Arthur J. Miller, P.O. Box 5464, Tacoma WA 98415-0464, quoted = in MEANDER QUARTERLY, 5/93. \par HARMONY VS. DESPOTISM, UNITY, TERRITORIALISM, ORDER, COMMAND = ECONOMY, DIRIGISM, STATISM: \'85 it is a strange kind of harmony that = can be achieved only by an external and despotic act that runs contrary = to the interests of all! - Ba stiat, in Roche III, Bastiat, 242. \par HARMONY, DIVERSITY, FREEDOM, TOLERANCE, UNIFORMITY, TERRITORIALISM: = Diversity is the first step towards harmony, tolerance and its = protection is the next step. Enforced territorial uniformity is its = greatest enemy. - J.Z., 12.7.78, 19.10.02. \par HARMONY, FORCE, FREEDOM , INDIVIDUALISM, LAISSEZ FAIRE, = SELF-INTEREST: If men were left free to pursue their own devices, if = force were once and for all removed from the everyday productive life of = the individual, society could indeed be harmonious. - Roche III, Frederic Bastiat, 164.=20 \par HARMONY, INDIVIDUALISM, DIVERSITY, TERRITORIALISM, UNIFORMITY: Good = thinkers never committed a more fatal mistake than in expecting harmony = from an attempt to overcome individuality\'85 A State or a nation=20 is a multitude of indestructible individualities and cannot, by any = possibility, be converted into anything else! The horrid consequences of = these monstrous and abortive attempts to overcome simple truth and = nature, are displayed on every page of the worl d's melancholy history. - Josiah Waren, Equitable Commerce. \par HARMONY, MORAL LAW, ACTIONS: Actions which can and ought to be = willed in obedience to the moral law \'85 are those whose maxims, if = conceived as a law of nature, would further the systematic harmony o f purposes among men, or at least would do nothing to destry such a = systematic harmony. - Kant, on page 93 of: Jeffrie G. Murphy, Kant, The = Philosophy of Right. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = HARMONY, PRESS, MASS MEDIA: Harmony seldom makes a headline. - Silas = Bent, Strange Bedfellows, 179. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 HARMONY, TERRITORIAL NATIONALISM, PANARCHISM, NATION STATE: A glance at = the fresh-baked national States which appeared as a result of the World = War gives us a factual picture which cannot be easily misunderstood. The = same nationalities, which before t he War never ceased to revolt agianst the foreign oppressor, reveal = themselves today, when they have reached their goal, as the worst = oppressors of national minorities, and inflict upon them the same brutal = moral and legal oppressions which they themselve s , and with full right, fought most bitterly when they were the subjected = peoples. This ought to make plain to even the blindest that a harmonious = living together of peoples within the framework of the national State is = definitely impossible. - Rocker, Nat ionalism and Culture, 202. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HARMONY: Diversity is the first step = towards harmony, tolerance the next, and its protector. Enforced = uniformity is its greatest enemy. - J., 78. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HARMONY: If my little treatise of = the Economic Sophisms is successful, we may follow it up by another entitled Social Harmonies. It would be of the greatest = utility for it would meet the desires of an age in search of artificial = harmonies and organizations, by demonstrating the beauty, order, and = progressive principle of the natural and=20 providential harmonies. - Bastiat, in Roche III, 132. \par HARMONY: Thus, I repeat \'85 harmony does not mean the idea of = absolute perfection, but the idea of unlimited progress. It has pleased = God to attach suffering to our nature, since He has willed that we move from weakness to strength, from ignorance to knowledge, from want to = satisfaction, from effort to result, from acquisition to possession, = from privation to wealth, from error to truth, from experience to = foresight. - Bastiat, in Roche III, Bastiat, 209.=20 \par HATE & DISSENT: Dissention is disagreeable but it is hate that is = the danger. - D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought. - How much hate would = remain in the world if all dissenters where offered the options of full = exterritorial autonomy for their volunteer co mmunities? - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 HATE & LACK OF SELF-RESPECT, TRUE BELIEVERS, MASS MOVEMENTS: Passionate = hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people = haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content = not only by dedic ating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical = grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for = both. - Eric Hoffer. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HATE & LOVE: Hate is blind as well = as love. - Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1782. - That is one of the=20 many interesting books that I have never come across. I only encountered = appealing quotes from it. - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par HATE & LOVE: All men love themselves, but some also hate the rest = of the world. - D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought.=20 \par HATE & LOVE: Hate com es naturally, love is to be learned. - D. Runes, A Dictionary of = Thought, 71. - Justice, tolerance, peace, freedom, their conditions, = principles, institutions and processes are to be learned. Instincts and = mere reactions do not lead use to them. - J.Z., n .d. & 19.10.02. \par HATE & PEACE: All around me I see people shouting for peace with = hatred on their face. - Henry Miller. \par HATE & PEACE: All too many people love the things that make for war = and hate the things that make for peace. - J.Z., 18.10.02. - Compare the = 500 points I made in PEACE PLANS 16-17: An ABC Against Nuclear War. - = J.Z. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033\cgrid0 HATE, INTOLERANCE, CHOICE, VOLUNTARISM: When = there is no choice in governments for individuals, then dissenting = people become either apathetic or intolerant. Peace requires maxim um choice for all peaceful people in all spheres not just many private = activities. The letter choices are already enjoyed, by most people, = now. They assure us neither peace nor justice nor prosperity for all or = the degrees of freedom which different peop le desire for themselves in their political, economic says and social = systems. There is no substitute for full exterritorial autonomy for all = volunteer communities. -- J. Zube, 21 January and 24 February 99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 HATE, LOVE, DICTATORSHIPS: Dictators long ago found out = it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love. - = Dagobert D. Runes, A Book of Contemplations, 59. \par HATE, MAN, SURVIVAL, MUTATIONS, STATE, PANARCHISM: \'85 to survive = man must mutate and \'85 the survival mutation must win before the st orm of hatred could break. I ask you, my friend, what is the history of = conference? - Clifford D. Simak, Ring Around the Sun, 171. - Not man = must be mutated but territorial States must be mutated into = exterritorially autonomous communities of volunteers.=20 - J.Z., 23.10.02.=20 \par HATE, MOVEMENTS: Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and = I will join it at once. - Robert Anton Wilson, Right Where You Are = Sitting Now.=20 \par HATE, OPPONENTS, ALLIES, BETRAYAL, DISLOYALTY, TREASON: Opponents = are never hated as much as former allies. - Doris Lessing. - We simply = expected more from former lovers and friends - making the disappointment = all the greater. - J.Z., 5.8.92. \par HATE, POWER & INDIVIDUALS: I have learned not to confuse power = patterns with the personalities of the individuals involved; in other = words, to hate conditions, not individuals, - Saul Alinsky.=20 \par HATE, RACISM, NATIONALISM, PATRIOTISM, SUPERIORITY COMPLEX, ALIENS, = FOREIGNERS, IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS, MINORITIES: \'85 a culture founded = on a hatred and a terrible=20 pride and a suspicion of everyone who did not talk the same language or = eat the same food or dress the same as you did. I ask you, my friend, = what is the history of conference? - Clifford D. Simak, Ring Around the = Sun, 171.}{\b\fs24\lang1046=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HATE: Dictators long ago found out it is easier to = unite people in common hatred than in common love. - Dagobert Runes, A = Dictionary of Thought. \par HATE: Disease can be conquered but hate has to be dissuaded. - D. = Runes, A Dictionary of Thought.=20 \par HATE: Ein angemessenes Gefuehl angesichts der Ueberlegenheit eines = anderern. - Bierce. (Retranslated: Hate corresponds to the feeling of = superiority of another.)=20 \par HATE: Hass ist die Rache des Feiglings dafuer, dass er = eingeschuechtert wurde. - G. B. Shaw. (Retranslated: Hate is the revenge = of the coward for having been frightened.) \par HATE: Hate binds no less than love. The free man will want to put = it behind him. Hatred disfigures your lips no less than your words. - = Dagobert Runes, A Dictionary of Thought. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HATE: If you hate something thoroughly without = knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own = nature. - Friedrich Hebbel \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HATE: Love may be blind but hate sees what is not = there. - D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought.=20 \par HATE: Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it wil l be stilled only by non-hatred (*) - this is the Law Eternal. - Buddha, = 563? - 483? B.C. - The law eternal? Justice, trade, freedom, tolerance, = the realization of all individual rights and liberties. - J.Z., 9.6.92. = - Non-hatred does not describe these a lternatives any better than does the Christian term "love". - J.Z., = 19.10.02. \par HATE: There are actions, institutions and mottos that not only = deserve hate but counter-actions. Irrational and immoral hatreds are = likely to be reduced when everybody can come to feel equal or even superior within the society or State of his dreams, = among and for like-minded people. - J.Z., 5.7.92, 15.1.93. \par HATE: We tend to become like the people we love or we hate. - J.Z., = 8.6.88. - For the latter consider the number of cases in=20 which sexually abused people become themselves sexual abusers. It is as = if they never learned to love others properly. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 HATE: = When our hate is too strong, then it lowers us below those whom we hate. = - La Rochefoucauld, Reflexionen & moralische Sentenzen, 40. \par HATE: When our hate is too strong, then it lowers us below those = whom we hate. - La Rochefoucauld, Reflexionen & moralische Sentenzen, = 40. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HATRED, FOREIGNERS, ALIENS & FEAR OF = UNEMPLOYMENT: Xenophobia is diametrically opposed to liberta rianism. - Josh Gordon (josh@well.com) - I guess we will have to suffer = under such hatreds until libertarians finally explored which libertarian = steps would do away with involuntary mass unemployment and poverty. So = far only a fraction of them have explor ed a fraction of the monetary freedom options and solutions. - J.Z., = 29.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 HATRED, PROPAGANDA, PANARCHISM: Why is propaganda so much more = successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up = friendly feeling? - Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness, 1936. - Because hatreds are an inevitable consequence of = territorial rule. Only the exterritorial autonomy aspect of panarchism = for volunteers is sufficiently tolerant or even friendly towards diverse = people and their diverse systems, doing their things to and for themselves. Just consider how few panarchists = there are so far. - J.Z., 14.9.85, 27.6.92. \par HAVE NOTS: What they 'have not' is freedom. - David Walter, War & = Capitalism. - And they are not even aware of this and thus do not strive = for it. - J.Z., 17.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0=20 HAVE-NOTS & DEMOCRACY: Democracy is the liberty of the have-nots. Its = aim is to destroy the liberty of the haves. - H. L. Mencken, 1922. - = Democracy is rather a license for the have-nots to rob the haves. - John = Zube, 27.3.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 HAVE-NOTS, FREEDOM: What the have not nations have not, = is freedom. - Stormy Mon, Imagine Freedom, No. 10. \par HAVES & HAVE-NOTS, PROPERTY, FREEDOM, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, CAPITAL: It = is not a question of haves or have-nots but of either good opportunities = existing to a cquire and keep productive capital or to have little or no chance to = acquire and keep it. - J.Z., 8.1.84, 13.8.87. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HAVES & HAVE-NOTS, SEPARATION, PANARCHISM: It is = becoming increasingly difficult for haves and have-nots to live together = in one society. (J.Z.: Only when both are not sufficiently free!) \'85 The only alternative left is separation - to have only two different = societies side by side. In one society the chronically poor will have = ideal opportunities to learn new skills and become self-reliant. In=20 the other society the haves will be free to wheel and deal, compete, run = risks, build and tear down, experiment - in short, do as they please. - = Eric Hoffer, Before the Sabbath, Harper, 1979, 116/117. - Why only two = such societies? Why confine experimenta l freedom for the poor, as well as the rich - and any other groups, to = these two options? - If some poor choose full freedom for themselves and = the rich only the present system then these`` poor could soon become = more affluent than those presently rich. -=20 J.Z., 21.4.00. \par HAYMARKET AFFAIR: None of the defendants could be at all connected = with the case. Wholesale bribery and intimidation of witnesses were = resorted to. The defendants were not proved guilty of the crime charged = under the indictment. - John Peter=20 Altgeld, Governor's pardon for Fielden, Neebe and Schwab, three of the = "Chicago Anarchists," June 26, 1883 \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HEADOFFICE: How come all the headless are in the = headoffice? - J.Z., 25.2.76. - Read Hayek's chapter: Why the worst get = to the top, in his The Road to Freedom. \par }{\fs24\lang1033=20 HEALTH ADMINISTRATION: MINISTER OF HEALTH: Health can only be = self-administered or provided by a self-chosen professional. Any = minister who believes that he can provide health to a country is a quack = of the most dangerous kind. The official mini sters of health can only interfere with health, health insurance, the = provision of medicines and cures and increase the costs of any genuine = health services that remain after their administrative interventions. = Through the establishment of institutions li ke the FDA in the US they can definitely slow down the progress of = medical knowledge and the spread of new cures and medicines. Here as in = everything else government is the problem not the solution. - J.Z., = 20.9.00, 30.1.01. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HEALTH CARE, DOCTORS, STATE: Health care can't be = entrusted to doctors - if the State is involved. - FOREST meeting, = London, 26.7. 90. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HEALTH CARE, GOVERNMENT SUBSIDISED: = "All of this very much resembles free medicine -- getting treatment for = free means that you get what you pay for." -=20 from "Izvestia", Moscow. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HEALTH CARE, MEDICAL TREATMENT, = SELF-MEDICATION: \'85 people have the right to self-medication. - View ascribed to Dr. Thomas = S. Szasz, in REASON, 9/74 adv. for its Oct. 74 issue. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HEALTH CARE, MEDICARE: "A federally = administered healt h care system would have all the compassion of the IRS, the efficiency = of the Postal Service, and at Pentagon prices." - From a Libertarian = pamphlet. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HEALTH CARE: 1 million Canadians over 15 waited for = health services in 1991. 52% for less than 2 months, 4 1% for 2 to 6 months, 6.2%(62,000 people) for 6 months to a year, 1% for = more than a year. This is the equivalent of ten million US citizens = waiting for services, a hundred thousand waiting more than a year. - = Secrets of the Sentient. \par HEALTH CARE: Did You=20 Know: In Britain and New Zealand, elderly patients in need of a hip = replacement can wait in pain for years, and those awaiting heart surgery = often are at risk of their lives. Perhaps because Canada has had a = national health-care program for only half as l ong, the rationing problems are not as great. Even so, an estimated = 1,379,000 Canadians are waiting for some kind of medical service, and 45 = per cent of those waiting for surgery say they are "in pain." - Secrets = of the Sentient. \par HEALTH CARE: Did You Know:=20 In Canada, a nation of only 26 million people, their "managed" health = care plan already has 250,000 people on the waiting list for surgery. It = takes two and a half months to get a mammogram and five months to get a = pap smear. You are more likely to die on the waiting list than the operating table. - Secrets of the Sentient. \par HEALTH CARE: Did You Know: The D.C. rescue service has an employee = who is a carrier of Hepatitis B, an infectious disease. The department = kept him on, but told him not to perform mouth-t o-mouth resuscitation. He filed a discrimination lawsuit, and Federal = District Judge Joyce Green ruled that the worker was covered under the = Americans with Disabilities Act and the D.C. government could not = prevent the infected worker from giving mouth-to -mouth resuscitation. - Secrets of the Sentient. \par HEALTH CARE: Government Health Care: Efficiency of the Post Office, = Compassion of the IRS. - From Words of the Sentient. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HEALTH CARE: Health is a private = thing. - J.Z., 14.8.74. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HEALTH CARE: If you think health care is expensive now, = wait until you see what it costs when it's free. - P. J. O'Rourke.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HEALTH CARE: There exists no such = thing as a right to health care. - Garvan F. Kuskey, THE FREEMAN, 11/73. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HEALTH CARE: We are going to push health care = legislation through no matter what the people want.\line }{\i\cf1 - John = D Rockefeller Democrat, US Congress. }{\cf1=20 - Beware of the "caring" people, the do-gooders and reformers. They are = prepared to torture you to death so that your "soul" can "rise" into = their "heaven". - Trotzky wa s prepared to sacrifice 75% of the population of Russia for the victory = of communism. Mao believed that millions of Chinese would survive a = nuclear war and would be the winners! - J.Z., 1.7.00. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HEALTH DEPARTMENT: The Health = Department is dangerous to your=20 health. E.g., it keeps some worthwhile medicines and medical = practitioners from you. - J.Z., 25.1.98. \par HEALTH INSURANCE: Catastrophic health and accident insurance = coverage is available from many private health insurance companies for = less than a pack of ci garettes a day. - JAG, note of 1975. - I am afraid that insurance = salesmen are not very interested in pushing such insurance contracts = because there is not enough money for them in such contracts. They and = the companies they represent want high not low pr e mium insurance contracts. I am reminded of the example of cheap wood = heaters. They are not widely and permanently offered because stores = offering such heaters want to sell more of the expensive models. And the = cheap ones, too, are heavy and bulky. - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par HEALTH INSURANCE: Health insurance costs could be greatly reduced = if the insurance were confined to catastrophe insurance and if patients = renounced "malpractice" claims. - J.Z., 27.9.93. - So far it seems that = nowhere have governments allowed suc h private contracts. Most people in "developed" countries could now = cover either the first 2,000 or even 5,000 or 10,000 in health expenses = themselves, taking out insurance only against the rest. That doctors & = other hospital staff, as well as medicines a n d treatments are not perfect should be accepted as a fact of nature. = Only criminal negligence and malicious bodily harm, not every outcome = not desired by a patient, should suffice as for a claim to = indemnification against an insurance company. - J.Z., 18. 10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 HEALTH POLICY: "A federally administered health care system would have = all the compassion of the IRS, the efficiency of the Postal Service, and = at Pentagon prices." - from a Libertarian pamphlet. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HEALTH POLICY: Health arrangements = should never becom e political and bureaucratic footballs. Keep politics, taxation, = subsidies and regulations out, entirely. - J.Z., 27.3.95.=20 \par HEALTH SERVICES, POLITICIANS: Politicians are a health hazard. - = AMA slogan according to Harry M. Miler in THE AUSTRALIAN, 26.2.73. \par HEALTH SERVICES: I neither want a healthy government nor my health = administered by the government. - J.Z., 6/75. \par HEALTH SERVICES: I think individuals should be free to drop the = health service and its burden and benefits for themselves. - FOREST = meeting, London, 26.7.90. \par HEALTH SERVICES: The Health Bill has been passed. In other words: = Less health has been assured by the government, under the pretence of = offering more. - J.Z., 7.8.74, 18.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HEALTH, ABORTION & GOVERNMENT: I find = it ironic that many people who have spent years fighting to keep government from legislating = restrictions on the private medical decisions concerning abortion = between women and their physicians are now willing to effectively outlaw = private medical practice and place abortion, alon g with all other medical practice, directly within the purview of = government. - Seen on InterNet. - I find it ironic that so many people = who oppose the State because, ultimately, it even kills people, do here = oppose the anti-abortionist State because, how ever inaptly, it tries to prevent parents from killing their own unborn = children with the aid of professionals. - J.Z., 28.6.00. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HEALTH, DOCTORS, MEDICINES: Boycott = the doctors! Stay healthy! - Quoted by Veronica McCarthy.=20 \par HEALTH, EXERCISE, HYGIENE, DIRT,=20 IMMUNITY, POLITICIANS, CORRUPTION: Our immune system needs regular = exercise, too. A totally sterile environment could have a deadly effect = in the long run - upon the slightest exposure. - So, perhaps, we really = need some politicians? - J.Z., 17.2.90. \par HEALT H, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, PANARCHY, QUARANTINE, VACCINATION = (COMPULSORY): The sovereignty of persons may not be sacrificed even for = the sake of their physical health. - Tibor Machan, Liberty and Culture, = 57. - Nevertheless, on numerous issues it is cons t itutionally, legally and adminstratively sacrificed. - J.Z., 27.7.92. - = Some quarantine measures are justified to protect the health of others = against infectious diseases and their properties against pests. Some = vaccinations are justified to protect e.g.=20 t he young, who have not yet developed immunity against them against = certain diseases and cannot as yet be safely vaccinated. When an = individual endangers the rights of others then and to that extent his = rights may be curtailed. But "protecting" people agai nst their will and only for their own good cannot be justified. - J.Z., = 18.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HEALTH, MENTAL HEALING, PSYCHOSOMATIC HEALING, = FAITH HEALING: There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A = man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he=20 finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health. - Francis Bacon, = Essays, Of Regimen of Health. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HEALTH, MIND, BODY, SANITY: Mens sana in corpore = sano is a foolish saying. The sound body is a product of a sound mind. - = George Bernard Shaw, Man and Supe rman, 1905. - There were many great men born with a flawed body or = suffering a disease or crippling accidents that they could not cure. = Some sane people are so much concerned with the health of their bodies = that they do keep themselves relatively healthy. =20 Others rather sacrifice the health of their bodies in the pursuit of = some creative activity or discovery. Some might consider them unsane but = in their ways these people are among the sanest in the world. - We all = make trade-off decisions in our lives, in=20 accordance with our highest values, not with the notions of sanity held = by others. - J.Z., 19.10.02.=20 \par HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH: There can be only individual health. - J.Z., = 22.11.90. \par HEALTH, SELF-CONTROL, OBESITY, OVER-WEIGHT, FOOD INTAKE, DIETING, = WEIGHT-LOSS , HUNGER, ABUNDANCE, INSTINCT: Leave with an appetite. - William = Bullein, The Government of Health, 1558. - Seeing how man proceeded from = frequent starvation to an abundance of food (where food production and = trade are somewhat freed), and that good enoug h conservation of most food is relatively new, for most of his = development he was probably conditioned to overeat, given the chance to = do so. By natural selection that practice, then quite sensible, may have = developed into an instinct that now plagues many people who are all the time confronted by an abundance of food in great = varieties. - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par HEALTH: \'85 just as the State has no right to meddle in the = "spiritual health" of the people, so it has no right to interfere in = their physical health throug h medical regulation, licensing, and so forth. - Herbert Spencer, quoted = in Letters from Charles Lane.=20 \par HEALTH: An apple a day could give you more pesticide than your body = can tolerate. - MAD, Oct. 1973. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HEART, FEELINGS, EMOTIONS, PASSIONS, = UNDERSTANDING,=20 COMPREHENSION, REASON, RATIONALITY: To understand via the heart is not = to understand. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne. - With our emotions we can = only understand the emotions of others, not their ideas or reasons. - = J.Z., 29.11.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HEART, THINKING WITH THE=20 HEART, EMOTIONS: Das Herzdenken kann das Kopfdenken nicht ersetzen = sondern nur helfen den ganzen Menschen zu leiten. - J.Z., 9/90. - = Thinking with the heart cannot replace thinking with the head. It can = merely help to guide a whole human being.=20 \par HEART, THINKING WITH THE HEART, MINDS, HEAD, REASON, RATIONALITY, = EMOTIONS, FEELINGS, BRAIN: Die schwache Seite des Kopfes wird das Herz = genannt. - FLIEGENDE BLAETTER. - The weak side of the head is called the = heart. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HEATED ARGUMENTS, ANGER, KEEP COOL, SELF-CONTROL: = A man\'85makes his inferiors his superiors by heat. - R. W. Emerson. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HEAVEN & HELL, SEX, CHRISTIANITY: Of the delights = of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it = out of his heaven. - Mark Twain. - It is in the heavenly paradis of = Islam, at least for the benefit of men. - J.Z.=20 \par HEAVEN & HELL: I believe in heaven and hell - on earth. - Abraham = L. Feinberg.=20 \par HEAVEN & HELL: Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. - Aldous = Huxley. - One man's idea of hell is to be forced to remain in another = man's idea of heaven. - Dr. Laurence J. Peter.=20 \par HEAVEN & HELL: The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. - = Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784. - In which case, the road to Heaven must be = paved with bad ones. - Dr. Laurence J. Peter.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HEAVEN & LAUGHTER: If you're not allowed to laugh = in heaven, I don't want to go there. - Martin Luther. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 HEAVEN, GOD, MYTHS: Men would sooner have the void for his purpose than = to be void of purpose. - Friedrich Nietzsche. - But there is no = compulsion to fill their empty brains merely with such immoral and = useless abstractions. - J.Z., 30.11.02. \par HEAVEN, HELL & CHRISTIANITY: On Columbus\rquote s second voyage to = the Americas, 1494: "The Spanish found Hatuey and his people, killed = most of them, enslaved the others, and condemned=20 their leader to be burned alive. Reportedly, as they were tying him to = the stake, a Franciscan friar urged him to take Jesus to his heart so = that his soul might go to heaven, rather than descend into hell. Hatuey = replied that if heaven was where the Chris tians went, he would rather go to hell.\rdblquote - David Stannard, = American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HEAVEN, LIFE AFTER DEATH, LIFE, = EARTH: The truly great men from Lao-tse to Spinoza never discussed life = after death, only before it. - D. Runes, A=20 Dictionary of Thought.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HEAVEN, PARADISE: Yes, there will be sex after death; we = just won't be able to feel it. - Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah? \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HEAVEN, RELIGION, CHRISTIANITY, = FAITH, BELIEF: Men do not go to Heaven laughing. - Dutch Proverb. \par HEAVEN: Den Himmel ueberlassen wir den Engeln und den Spatzen. - = Heinrich Heine, Deutschland, ein Wintermaerchen, Kap. 1. - Heaven we = leave to angels and sparrows. - Heinrich Heine, Germany, a fairy tale of = winter, chapter 1. \par HEAVEN: Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid. - H. = D. Thoreau, Excursions, 1863. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HEAVEN: Of the delights of this world man cares most for = sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven. }{\i\cf1 - = Mark Twain. - }{\cf1=20 Can it be heaven - without sex? - J.Z., 1.7.00. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HEAVEN: When has heaven been last = renovated? Who would want to move into an ancient slum? - J.Z., 12.8.89. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 HEDGING & INFLATION: The best one can do against inflation is to = privately hedge one's fortune or income against it, by e.g. going into a = partnership, buying land or shares instead of nominal and fixed income securities (payable in depreciated = legal tender paper money) or by buying gold or silver or other = non-perishable or long lasting goods and storing them safely. One might = also go into debt, preferably on long terms, so=20 t hat, in essence, one becomes enabled to cheat one's own creditors, = including the government, when the loans become due. - Popular opinion, = even the opinion of opinion makers like Harry Brown, Ralph Borsodi etc. = - Indeed, one can try to minimise the effect s of the inflation of a government's legal tender upon one's own affairs. = But one can still not escape many general consequences of inflation, = e.g. the difficulty to obtain credits on long terms, the high interest = rates one has to pay, the effects of price =20 controls and the rationing it ultimately brings. Moreover, in many = countries some or all hedging methods are outlawed or punitively taxed = if uncovered. Under German law, every wage settlement paid otherwise = than in governmental legal tender is ignored and =20 the already paid employee can demand payment again, in legal tender. = Gold transactions have often been penalised, sometimes with death, and = so have private foreign exchange transactions that were not government = licensed. One finds oneself in the same posi t ion as e.g. a deserter or conscientious objector in times of war. One is = not free but rather hunted or incarcerated and in some cases killed for = refusing to participate in governmentally organized mass slaughters. = Massive disobedience and desertion, armed and organized, with rightful aims and methods, is another matter. - J. = Z., 2. 4.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HEDONISM, SENSUALITY: Man is an = intelligence in servitude to his organs. - Aldous Huxley, Theme and = Variations, 1950. \par HEISENBERG'S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE: Difficulties impossibilities of = observation for human beings do not amount to uncertainty for those = without such handicaps, even if such "Gods" don't exist. - J.Z., = 23.9.02. \par HELL, BELIEVERS, CHRISTIANITY: Hell is reserved exclusively for = them that believe in it. - Principia Discordia. \par HELL, CHRIST, CHRISTIANITY, PUNISHMENT: Christ believed in hell. I = do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can = believe in everlasting punishment. - Bertrand Russell.=20 \par HELL, DEVIL, SATAN & CHRISTIANITY: It seems that many "Christians" = have to be threatened with hell in order to do any good in this life. - = J.Z., 1.3.95. \par HELL: A cosmic concentration camp for metaphysical criminals and = dissidents. - L. A. Rollins, Lucifer's Lexicon.=20 \par HELMETS, COMPULSORY BIKE & MOTORBIKE HELMETS, SELF-DETERMINATION, = SELF-OWNERSHIP, DECISION-MAKING, COMPULSION: Let those who ride decide. = - Slogan, N.Y. State.=20 \par HELP RATHER THAN HARM: The Dali Lama summed up the essentials of = all Buddhis teching in two sentences: "If you can, help others. If yo u cannot do that, at least do not harm them."- From Rich Fields, Chop = Wood, Carry Water, N.Y., Jeremy Tarcher, 1984, p. 56, quoted in: THE = VOLUNTARYIST, No. 90, 2/1998, p. 3. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 HELP VS. = SELF-HELP: Who helps a man against his will, does the same as murder = him. - Horace, Ars Poetica, I, 467. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 HELP YOURSELF, SELF-HELP, INDIVIDUALS: What you do not get for = yourselves you will never have. What you do not for yourselves, will = never be done. - Source? =20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HELP, ALTRUISM, CHARITY, WELFARE: = Thoreau once observed that i f he knew for certain a man was on his way to see him with the single = purpose of trying to help him, he would run for his life. - SANTA ANA, = CALIFORNIA, REGISTER.=20 \par HELP, HANDOUTS, FEEDING, POVERTY, NEEDS, GRATEFULNESS, = THANKFULNESS, WELFARE STATE: The prov erb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But = perhaps you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. - Thomas = Szasz, The Untamed Tongue, A Dissenting Dictionary. (May be, in it he = tried to do the same as I try to do with this SL OGANS FOR LIBERTY collection? I have not yet seen this title. - J.Z., = 18.10.02.) \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HELP, HELPFULNESS, TOO MUCH HELP, SELF-HELP, = WELFARE STATE, FOREIGN AID, CHARITY, SHARING: There is such a thing as = being too much of a help - and the most helpful thing a too- helpful entity can do is to stop helping! - Stanley Mullen, Guppy, 85 in = ASTOUNDING SF, 4/59 (Brit. ed.?) & Jan. 58. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HELP, NEEDS, LAW, CONSENT: Never give approval to = a law that "helps" anyone. - Leonard E. Read, NOTES FROM FEE, 9/71.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HELP, OFFICIAL ASSIS TANCE, SUBSIDIES, WELFARE STATE, PROTECTIONISM: 'Never give approval to = a law that 'helps' anyone! - Leonard E. Read, Notes from FEE, 9/71. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HELP, SELF-HELP, CHARITY, DUTY, = INSURANCE, CREDIT, MUTUAL AID, FRATERNAL ORGANISATIONS: Always let = people help thems elves. At most show them how they could do so. Otherwise promote = insurance, credit, mutual aid and fraternal organisations. To preserve a = life can be a duty but it is not a general duty to provide a living to = others. Charity is a duty only among those who believe in it. - J.Z., 17.10.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 HELP, SOCIAL SERVICES, POVERTY, WAR AGAINST POVERTY, SUBSIDISING POVERTY = & UNEMPLOYMENT, WHILE CAUSING THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE: Helping people to = become helpless is no act of kindness. - Leonard E. Read, Notes from = FEE, 9/71. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 HELP, WELFARE STATE, HANDOUTS: Leave aside the analysis which shows that = good intentions have often deplorable consequences. But take a firm = grasp on the distinciton between trying to help others with your own = time and money, and the moral fraud of pro mising to do good at other people's expense. - Ralph Harris, The End of = Government? 39. \par HELP: Help Ever, Hurt Never. - Sai Baba.=20 \par HELP: To try to do almost everything for others is no act of = kindness in the long run. Help should promote self-reliance, not = dependency. - J.Z., 23.6.91, 19.10.02.=20 \par HELPLESSNESS, RESPONSIBILITY, SUBORDINATION, STATISM, ABDICATION OF = RESPONSIBILITY, SLAVE MENTALITY, IRRESPONSIBILITY: \'85 the majority of = people I have met \'85 make themselves helpless \'85 in order to avoid = responsibili ty for what happens. - Nathaniel Branden, The Psychology of Self-Esteem = & Breaking Free. - According to Ron Kimberling, INDIVIDUALIST, 6/72. - = They do also avoid preparing themselves for decision-making and = responsibility & rather subscribe to territorial statism and the disasters it inevitably leads to. - Or they imagine = that their responsibilities begins and ends with territorial and = collectivistic voting. - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HEMP, MARIJUANA, DRUGS: Did You Know: One acre of Hemp = (industrial marijuana) in a nnual rotation over a 20 year period would produce as much paper pulp as = 4.1 acres of trees being cut down over the same 20 year period. Source: = (U.S.D.A. Bulletin #404). - Secrets of the Sentient. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 HERD MENTALITY, STATISM, = LEADERSHIP, PEOPLE, DECISION-MAKI NG: Peoples of Europe, throw off this herd mentality, the mentality of = sheep who would ask the shepherds and the sheep-dogs to tell them where = to feed. - Romain Rolland, 1866-1944, 1916, in The Forerunners, = Harcourt, 1920, 36. \par HERD MENTALITY, STATISM, LEA DERSHIP, PEOPLE, DECISION-MAKING: Peoples of Europe, throw off this herd = mentality, the mentality of sheep who would ask the shepherds and the = sheep-dogs to tell them where to feed. - Romain Rolland, 1866-1944, = 1916, in The Forerunners, Harcourt, 1920, 3 6. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HERESIES, TRUTH: It is the customary fate of new = truths to begin as heresies. - Thomas Huxley.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 HERESY = AND ANARCHISM: ... heresy takes the form of mild excursions into = anarchism. - Ernest Barker, Political Thought in England 1848 to 1914, = 23. - It would be more accurate to speak of limited excursions. -J.Z.. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HERESY: Heresy is only another word = for freedom of thought. - Graham Greene. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HERESY: If special honor is claimed = for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human = kind. - Charles Br adlaught, Speech in London, Sept., 25, 1881. \par HERETICALISM, HERESIES, HERETICS, HERETICISM, NONCONFORMISM, = DISSIDENTS, PANARCHISM: We possess appropriate terms to identify a = variety of moral beliefs and the social organizations which seek to = promote them - such as anarchism, communism, conservatism, liberalism, socialism, and = so forth. The one moral belief for which we have no appropriate term is = that which emphasizes the value of personal choice and the political = forms that would promote such choice-makin g. I propose that we call this ethics, and the politics which = articulates it, }{\b\fs24\lang1046 hereticalism }{\fs24\lang1046 (making = use of the Greek root }{\b\fs24\lang1046 harein}{\fs24\lang1046 , which = means "to choose". - Thomas Szasz, Heresies, 30. \par HERETICS, PANARCHISM, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY, TOLERANCE, = VOLUNTARISM, EXP ERIMENTAL FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF ACTION, FOOLS' LIBERTY: Neither suppress = nor burn heretics of any kind - rather let them act at their expense and = risk. That will teach them! - J.Z., 5/72. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HERETICS, THINKERS, INDIVIDUALISTS, = RADICALS: That is the whole troubl e with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for = oneself. - Aubrey Menan. - Most heretics could come to find other = heretics to share their views and company. But they do get only limited = freedom, so far, to practise their heresies among themselves, at their own expense and risk. - J.Z., 29.11.02.=20 \par HERETICS: Neither suppress nor burn heretics of any kind - rather = let them act at their own expense and risk. That will teach them! - J., = 72. - If anything can! - J.Z., 3.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HERITAGE, TRADIT ION, LIBERTY: The heritage we owe out children. Let us preserve and = bequeath to coming generations the foundations of liberty we inherited. = - L. E. Read, Comes the Dawn, III. - I do hope that we will bequeath to = them more then the limited liberties that w e inherited. - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par HERO WORSHIP, COURAGE, WISDOM: I would rather be a philosopher and = a coward than a hero and a fool. But sometimes wisdom and courage are = the best combination. - J.Z., 9.6.92. \par HERO WORSHIP, LEADERSHIP, PERSONALITY CULT, FREEDOM: Hero worship = is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. - Herbert = Spencer. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HEROES & WAR: One murder makes a villain, millions = a hero. - Bishop Beilby Porteus. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HEROES, LEADERSHIP: Hero worship has an uncanny = tendency to choose scoundrels as the object of adulation. - Dagobert D. = Runes, A Book of Contemplations, 61. \par HEROES, SOLDIERS, AIR RAIDS, VIRTUE, OBEDIENCE, LEADERSHIP, = TOTALITARIANISM: To virtually serve an immoral cause is all too = paradoxical. - Hans Habe, Leben fuer den Journalismu s, Bd. 4, S. 59. - Habe concludes this by judging about the virtues of = General Galland, who in the service of his concentration camp "Fuehrer" = shot down so and so many allied planes. - However, it was not only the = Nazis who classed most of these bombing r a ids as terror attacks against innocent civilians, thus held wrongly = responsible for the crimes of the Nazi regime, in which they had very = little if any say and if they disagreed with it in public they could = only do so by risking their lives and even those =20 of their family. - Even WW II was not conducted by angels against devils = only. - To shoot down terrorizing bombers was not wrong! These heroic = bomber pilots risked their lives but did not act heroically, i.e., = morally and reasonably. Most of the victims o f their bombs were quite defenceless. - I was one of them as a child. - = They could have achieved much more with chocolate bombs, combined with = just war aims and an alliance with rightful governments in exile and by = liberating deserters and prisoners of wa r . Arms production was reduced by the air raids of the allies only by = about 12%. Most of their victims were civilians. The main targets were = always the inner cities! They seemed to confirm the Nazi's propaganda = that the Allies intended to exterminate all=20 G ermans and destroy all of Germany. I witnessed the effect of such raids = upon soldiers who were on leave. They did not want to fight for the = ruling Nazis - but the enemies of the Hitler regime did not offer them a = rightful and reasonable choice! - Even now there is all too loose and thoughtless talk about attacking Iraq or = Bagdad rather than Saddam Hussein, as if the three were identical. - = J.Z., 19.6.92, 19.10.02. \par HEROES: Being a hero is "about the shortest-lived profession on = earth". - Will Rogers. \par HEROES : Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not = heroes. - Havelock Ellis, Quoted Evan Esar, Treasury of Humorous = Quotations. - Unfortunately, they kill many others in the process. As = Kant remarked, war is bad by making more bad peopl e than it eliminates. They would do much less harm e.g. as heroes on = sports fields or as fire fighters. With the wars resulting from = territorialism panarchism will also abolish the need for military heroes = in most cases. - J.Z., 19.10.02.=20 \par HEROISM, FEAR & INJUSTICE: The hero is not a man without fear, but = one who hates injustice more than he loves personal safety. - D. Runes, = A Dictionary of Thought.=20 \par HEROISM, INDIVIDUALISM: Authentic heroism is the will to be = oneself. - L. E. Read, Comes the Dawn, chapter XIII. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 HEROISM, KILLING & WAR, MURDER, OBEDIENCE, SOLDIERS:
He who = joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my = contempt.He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the = spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgra ce to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, = how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I = would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an = action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is no different than murder. - Albert Einstein. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HEROISM: How much has all the = warlike heroism saved or achieved so far, in balance? - J.Z., 8.4.87. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HERO-WORSHIP, PERSONALITY CULT, = FREEDOM, LEADERSHIP: Hero-worship is strongest where there is least = regard for human freedom. - Herbert Spencer. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 HERO-WORSHIP, PERSONALITY CULT, = LEADERSHIP & FREEDOM: Hero-worship is strongest where there is least = regard for human freedom. - Herbert Spencer. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 HIDDEN PERSUADERS, = ADVERTISING, WASTE MAKERS, INBUILT OBSOLESCENCE, CONSUMERS: In the von Mises-Rothbard view the consumer is = anything but passive, wooden, susceptible to the commands and wiles of = hidden persuaders and waste makers. In this view, the consumer is the = director of production, deciding what sh all be made and who shall make it, designating which corporations shall = survive and which shall perish... - William H. Peterson, Mises = bibliography, 201. \par HIERARCHIES AND THEIR INEFFICIENCIES, LEADERSHIP: But knowledge and = wisdom are not distributed in order of rank, and they are not one person's monopoly in any undertaking. = The fantastic inefficiency of any hierarchical organization - any = factory, office, university, warehouse or hospital - is the outcome of = two almost invariable characteristics. One is t h at the knowledge and wisdom of the people at the bottom of the pyramid = finds no place in the decision-making leadership hierarchy of the = institution. Frequently it is devoted to making the institution work in = spite of the formal leadership structure, or=20 a lternatively to sabotaging the ostensible function of the institution, = because it is none of their choosing. The other is that they would = rather not be there anyway: they are there through economic necessity = rather than through identification with a comm on task which throws up its own shifting and functional leadership. - = Colin Ward, ANARCHY IN ACTION, 41. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HIERARCHIES, AUTHORITY, ANARCHISM, = HUMAN POTENTIAL, SELF-MANAGEMENT, POWER: The basic tenet of anarchism is = that hierarchical authority - be it state, c hurch, patriarchy or economic elite - is not only unnecessary, = but is inherently detrimental to the maximization of human potential. = Anarchists generally believe that human beings are capable of managing = their own affairs on the basis of creativit y , cooperation, and mutual respect. It is believed that power is = inherently corrupting, and that authorities are inevitably more = concerned with self-perpetuation and increasing their own power than = they are with doing what is best for their constituents. - ZNET quotes, ascribed to Adolf Hitler. But I doubt that he ever said = anything as reasonable. - J.Z., 1.12.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 HIERARCHIES, CONTROLS, = AUTHORITARIANISM, POWER, STATES, LEADERSHIP, RULERS, POLITICIANS: = Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obe dient to the whim of any fool who takes their controls. . - Edward = Abbey, 1927-1989, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HIERARCHIES, DEPENDENCY: Hierarchies = make some people dependent on others, blame the dependent for their = dependency, and then use that de pendency as a justification for further exercise of authority - Source? \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 HIERARCHIES, INFALLIBILITY? The person at the peak of the corporate or = bureaucratic ladder is czar, and, as such, is automatically right. Those = below him either agree or are wrong. The re is virtually no internal criticism. This is the principle of = hierarchical infallibility, and a whistle-blower had better have an = independent income. - Richard Cummings, Proposition 14, p. 15. \par HIERARCHIES, PANARCHIES: The only sound foundation for any hi erarchy is individual consent - which will lead to conditions where = there are only voluntary victims. These will become rather rapidly more = enlightened by the false decisions they made for themselves, especially = when they are surrounded by successful expe riments among people who love and practise more liberties. - J.Z., = 26.7.87, 19.10.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HIGH AIMS & PURPOSES, SUCCESS: In the long run men = hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail = immediately, they had better aim at something high. - Henry David = Thoreau. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HIGHJACKING, TERRORISM, EXTORTION, BLACKMAIL, = KIDNAPPING, CRIME: Could small bills delivered to criminals be e.g. = microfilmed - for later replacement by the central bank - and otherwise = chemically treated so that they would fall apart or=20 would catch fire after a short time, or become significantly = discoloured, or over-printed by a warning, or begin to stink after a = time-delay? - J.Z., 18.11.88, 18.10.02. - Naturally, under full monetary = freedom their circulation area and period would be l imited and thus they would offer less attractions to robbers and = forgers. - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par HINDUISM: Cows before people! - J.Z., 26.7.92.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENTS & INFLATION: = The finance houses are a key factor in the level of sales in the = consumer durab le fields such as motor vehicles and household appliances. The growth of = hire purchase and spending on durables played a major part in the = previous inflationary booms in the 1950s. - THE AUSTRALIAN, 11.2.71. - = The spread of hire purchase agreements indica t e rather a low purchasing power among the consumers, who cannot afford = to pay cash. - On the one side it increases for them the total purchase = price by fees and interest charges. On the other hand, as debtors, they = benefit from any inflation that takes pl a ce during their repayment period, which makes the instalments easier for = them to pay. And during stagflations like the present, we have cases = where desperate sellers offer their goods at discount prices, on no = deposit, with the first instalments months aw a y and interest free for 6 - 12 months. So that in these cases even the = nominal purchase price is not increased but, rather undercut and zero = interest credits are offered. Thus, from the goods side, the prices are = not inflated but, through many forced sale s , even when paid for interest free and on instalments only, rather = deflated. - Like any other credit and debt arrangements, hire purchase = agreements rather suffer under inflation, deflation and stagflation than = benefit from them or cause or increase them. - Almost everyone and everything is blamed except the real culprits, = wrong institutions and wrong monetary policies. - J. Z., 2. 4. 97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HIRE PURCHASE: A judge has said = that all his experience had been spent on sorting out the difficulties = of people who, up on the recommendation of people they did not know, signed documents they = did not read, to buy goods they did not need, with money they had not = got. - Gilbert Harding on TV. - While there are some and perhaps too = many irresponsible & stupid hire purchase p e ople, the majority are not. Insufficient screening by the credit = providers makes the majority bear the high costs of the defaulting = debtors of this kind. - J.Z., 21.6.92. Under monetary and financial = despotism cheaper loans are often not available to the se debtors and their incomes then also very often not high enough to = allow them to purchase with cash. By now most hire purchases are = probably replaced by likewise expensive credit card purchases. - J.Z., = 21.6.92, 19.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HISTORIANS MORE POWERFUL THAN GOD: It has been said that = though god cannot alter the past, historians can. }{\i\cf1 - Samuel = Butler.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 HISTORIANS, HISTORY: Historians exercise great power and some of them = know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own = interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well. - Frank Herbert, = Heretics of Dune, 403. \par HISTORIANS: Medieval historian Johan Huizinga wrote of the waning = days of the Middle Ages, "The chroniclers of the = 15}{\fs24\lang1033\super th}{\fs24\lang1033 century have, nearly all, = been the dupes of an absolute misappreciation=20 of their times, of which the real moving forces escaped their = attention." - - James Dale Davidson & William Rees-MOGG, The Sovereign = Individual, MacMillan, & Simon & Schuster, 1997, 86. - That's true also = of most of today's historians and futurists, inclu ding these authors. - They expect everything from technology and nothing = from ideas like panarchism and monetary freedom. - J.Z., 23.4.00. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = HISTORIES: ... historical rubbish-records, lie as nearly as possible = dark and vacant for us. - Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell's Letters & = Speeches with Elucidations, vol. 2, 283. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 HISTORY & FREEDOM: Die Weltgeschichte ist der Fortschritt im = Bewusstsein der Freiheit. - Hegel, Vorlesungen ueber die Philosophie der = Gechichte, 2. - (J.Z.:History is the progress in the consci ousness of freedom.) - For history is nothing but the evolution of the = concept of freedom. - Hegel, quoted in Rocker, Nationalism & Culture, = 197.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HISTORY & GOD: God cannot alter the past, but = historians can. - Samuel Butler. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY & IDEAS: Die Geschichte ist im = wesentlichen eine Geschichte der Ideen. - Herbert George Wells. - = History is essentially a history of ideas.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HISTORY & NUCLEAR WAR THREAT: Human history = becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. = Wells, The Outline of History, vol. 2, chapter 41, p. 594 (1921). - The kind of statist = education and other statist activity he favoured did not remove us from = catastrophes but brought us closer to them. - J.Z., 25.11.02. \par HISTORY & POLITICAL WISDOM: The study of history is the beginning = of political wisdom. - Jean Bodin. - Does it teach human wisdom in = practice or human stupidities, repeated over and over again? - J.Z., = 25.11.02. \par HISTORY & POLITICS: Would you know politics? - read history. - = Mencius. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY & PRIVILEGES: The history of the world is = the history of a privileged few. - Henry Miller, Sunday after the War, = 1944. - I would replace "is" by: "was so far". - J.Z., n.d. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = HISTORY AND CRIMES: The history of the great events of this world is = scarcely more than the history of crimes. - Voltaire, Essai sur les = Moeurs, 1753. \par HISTORY AND FUTURISM: The future is only the past again, entered = through another gate. - Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, act iv. \par HISTORY AND LIBERTY:... history understood as progress conscious of = Liberty...- - Gottfried Salomon-Delatour, in: Franz Oppenheimer, = Erlebtes, Erstrebtes, Erreichtes, Lebenserinnerungen, 348: \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY, CONSPIRACY THEORY, SECRET MANIPULATORS: The = writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical = accounts distra ct attention from the secret influences behind great events. - Frank = Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, 80, The Basher Teg. - After "accounts" I = would rather say: "are more than semi-blind to the significant causal = influences behind the symptomatic 'great eve nts'." - J.Z., 11.6.92. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HISTORY, CRUELTIES, ATROCITIES, TERRITORIALISM, = GOVERNMENTALISM, RULE, UNIFORMITY: All history is little else than a = long succession of useless cruelties. - Voltaire. - And their victims = were not free to secede from them and do their own things to and for themselves. - J.Z., 11.2.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY, DEAD ENDS, MISTAKES: Those who are not = aware of the history of dead ends are doomed to replay them, hopes high, = again and again. - Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community, p. 288. \par HISTORY, ECONOMICS, GOVERNMENT POLICIES: ...economic history is a = long record of government policies that failed because they were = designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics. - Ludwig von = Mises. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HISTORY, ENLIGHTENMENT: But what = experience and history teach=20 is this -- that peoples and governments have never learned anything from = history, or acted on principles deduced from it. - Georg Hegel = (1770-1831), in 1807. - A full history of freedom ideas and experiences = has still to be written, as a primary textbook=20 for those able and willing to learn from history. - J.Z., 28.6.00. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\cgrid0 HISTORY, EXPERIENCE, OBSERVATION: As = sensible man judges of present by passed events. - Sophocles, Oedipus = Tyrannus, I, 916. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY, FOLLY, PREJUDICES, MYTHS, IGNORANCE: I've come = to believ e that for every crime and folly of the past some equivalent can be = found in our time. - J.Z., after reading Martineau's Illustrations of = Political Economy, n.d. \par HISTORY, FREEDOM & CHOICE: The history of free men is never really = written by chance but by ch oice - their choice. - Dwight D. Eisenhower, address, Pittsburg, Pa., = Oct. 9,m 1956. - A funny expression from a man who represented one of = the most wide-spread power systems that deny freedom of choice to = dissenting individuals and minority groups. All t o o often the denial of freedom is advocated as if it were its defence. - = At most they mean: You can have my kind of freedom on my terms or that = of the major opposition party, but not the freedom that you want for = yourself. - I will not tolerate secessions=20 and exterritorial autonomy for volunteers! - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par HISTORY, FUTURISM, RESPONSIBILITY: Wir werden nicht durch die = Erinnerung an unsere Vergangenheit weise, sondern durch die = Verantwortung fuer unsere Zukunft. - G. B. Shaw. (My translation: We = don' t become wise by remembering the past but through the responsibility for = our future. - J.Z.) - But how can one act responsibly for one's future = without enough sound knowledge and judgment about the past? - J.Z., = 18.10.02. \par HISTORY, GOD & HISTORIANS: God cannot alter the past, but = historians can. - Samuel Butler.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HISTORY, GOD, PAST, CHANGE: Even God cannot change = the past. - Agathon. \par HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, ANARCHISM: \'85 history's made a rabid = anarchist of him. - Poul Anderson, The Avatar, 190. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY, GOVERNMENTS, WAR & PEACE: During all its = history there's hardly been a year when there wasn't violence - = organised, official violence - somewhere on earth. - Clifford D. Simak, = Ring Around the Sun, 88. \par HISTORY, IGNORANCE, KNOWLEDGE: Everybody is inevitably largel y ignorant of history. It is insufficiently recorded - by biased = reporters and interpreters and no one has enough time to read all their = records and the original documents. As for remembering the few facts one = can learn from: Let's admit that it is hard t o impossible to remember all the events even of one's own life. Far less = is it possible to remember those of millions of other lives. - J.Z., = 30.6.86. - (Or do you remember all your medical details? - J.Z., = 18.10.02.) \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HISTORY, KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING: One is often = astonished to see how many there are who seem to know a vast lot of = history, but to understand hardly any of it. - Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs = of a Superfluous Man, Harper, 1943, 63.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HISTORY, KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE: If men could learn from = history,=20 what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, = and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which = shines only on the waves behind us! }{\i\cf1 - S. T. Coleridge.=20 \par }{\cf1 HISTORY, KNOWLEDGE, INDIFFERENCE TOWARDS HISTORY: If you can = cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily = persuaded. -}{\i\cf1 Karl Marx.}{\cf1=20 - They can easily be persuaded by demagogues like Marx - because they = have cut themselves off from historical knowledge. - J.Z., 28.6.00. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY, LEADERSHIP, TERRIT ORIALISM, POLITICS, POLITICIANS, PHILOSOPHER KINGS, WAR: On whatever = side we regard the history of Europe, we shall perceive it to be a = tissue of crimes, follies, and misfortunes, of politics without design, = and wars without consequence; in this long list =20 of human infirmity, a great character, or a shining virtue, may = sometimes happen to arise, as we often meet a cottage or a cultivated = spot in the most hideous wilderness. But for an Alfred, an Alphonso, a = Frederic, or an Alexander III we meet a thousand p rinces who have disgraced humanity. - Oliver Goldsmith: The Citizen of = the World, 118. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HISTORY, LEARNING FROM: If we're so stupid as to = not learn from history then we're certainly stupid enough to repeat it. = - John Laws, John Law's Book of Uncommon Sense, P an, 1995, 204. - Unfortunately, a complete history of the freedom = options has not yet been written. And most pro-freedom writings remain = either unpublished, out of print, untranslated, inaccessible or priced = out of reach of all too many. For this those fr eedom advocates are to be blamed who refused to make sufficient use of = the alternative and affordable media. - J.Z., 18.4.00. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HISTORY, LEARNING, EXPERIENCE: But = what experience and history teach is this -- that peoples and = governments have never learned any thing from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. - Georg = Hegel (1770-1831), in 1807. - Before libertarians become smug about such = insights, they should ponder whether they have as yet learned enough = e.g., about the history of monetary freedom, =20 monetary revolutions, tax strikes and of exterritorial autonomy, as well = as about the best experiences we have had so far with militias fighting = for rights and liberties. - All too often they are not even aware of the = large number of self-management schem e s that have been experimented with - and of the freedom of expression = and information options offered by various alternative media. Nor have = they bothered, so far, to compile all libertarian ideas, a libertarian = encyclopaedia, bibliography, abstracts and=20 r eview compilation a comprehensive index to all libertarian writings or = attempted, seriously, to put and keep all libertarian writings cheaply = and permanently in print, in all major languages. - Such attempts could = greatly abbreviate the history of libert arian struggles and movements. - They think they have learned enough = from history already. Far from it! - J.Z., 29.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY, LEARNING, LESSONS: "\'85 = the lessons of history aren't hard to learn. The trouble is that very = few people ever want to learn them . - Poul Anderson, ANALOG, July 96, p. 10. - The problem seems to be = not that the lessons of history are hard to learn, but that very few = people want to learn them. - Poul Anderson, Past Times, 196. Also on = 142?=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HISTORY, LIBERTY & RESISTANCE: The histor y of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a = history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. = - Woodrow Wilson, governor of New Jersey, address to the New York Press = Club, New York City, September 9, 1912. - =20 The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, ed. Arthur S. Link, vol. 25, p. 124 = (1978). - Organized peace-lover still do not consistently and = systematically oppose presidential, parliamentary or State power over = war and peace, armament and disarmament, international ne gotiations and treaties. And "liberty-lovers" have still made all too = many concessions to the territorial State, under delusions of "good = governments" or "limited governments" - J.Z., 26.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY, LIVING, MEANING, PURPOSE, = SELF-DETERMINATION: If afrter all, men cannot always make history have a = meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. - Albert = Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death, 1961. \par HISTORY, MAN, BESTIALITY, HUMANITY: History is a record of the = gradual negation of man's original bestiality by the evolution of his = humanity. - M. A. Bakunin, Dieu et l'\'e9tat, 1871. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HISTORY, MAN, WISDOM, RATIONALITY: History teaches us = that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all = alternatives. - Abba Eban. - That is one reason w hy man's fate should not be confined to collective decision-making. = Pioneers and self-thinkers, innovators, reformers, utopians etc. should = be free to opt out and engage in their own voluntary experiments and = communities. Thus the wrong roads would be exp lored fast, by a few only, and rapidly eliminated, while the successes = would be more and more copied. - PIOT, J.Z., 1.7.00. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY, MIGHT HAVE BEEN HISTORY, = PANARCHISM, TOLERANCE, DECISION-MAKING: The saddest things of tongue and = pen - to know the things t hat might have been. - J.Z., 15.3.88. - However, such knowledge, if = true knowledge, can be very valuable in determining our actions in the = future. If we systematically tried to learn from the past by exploring = how people could and should then have acted=20 o therwise, then we might learn how to cope much better with our own = future. To the extent that we cannot agree on common actions in the = future, we ought to leave each other alone, so that each can try his own = path, at the own expense and risk. Territorial decision-making for others is almost always more difficult, if not = impossible, and more likely to fail, for the greatest numbers, than = allowing all people to go their way way by their own methods. - J.Z., = 19.10.02. \par HISTORY, MINORITIES: Geschichte ist immer der ueberlieferte Bericht von der Macht der Minderheiten. - Emerson. - = History is always the remaining report on the power of minorities. - = Neither the suppressed minorities nor the suppressed majority leave much = of a historical record. - J.Z., 5.7.92. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HI STORY, PAST, CHANGE, GOD: One thing alone not even God can do, To make = undone whatever hath been done. - Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics of = Aristotle, trans. Robert Williams, book 6, chapter 2, p. 154 (1879). = Aristotle attributed these words to Agathon, =20 an Athenian tragic poet who lived in the latter half of the fifth = century B.C. In his column, "Today and Tomorrow," Walter Lippmann = attributed the same idea to George Santayana: "He might meditate on = Santayana's saying that not even God can change the pas t." \emdash New York Herald Tribune, June 11, 1951, p. 17. Unverified. \par HISTORY, PAST, GOD, ALMIGHTY: God has no power over the past except = to cover it with oblivion. - Pliny the Elder. \par HISTORY, PAST, GOD, ALMIGHTY: This only is denied to God: the power = to undo the past. - Agathon, From Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, VI, 2. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24\lang1033=20 HISTORY, STATE, MANKIND, EVILS, GOVERNMENT, LAWS: The worst evils which = mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The = state can be and has often been in the course of his tory the main source of mischief and disaster. - Ludwig von Mises. \par }\pard\plain = \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 HISTORY, TRADITION, EXPERIENCE, = KNOWLEDGE, IDEAS, FUTURISM: \'85 men have been prompted to look back to the folly of their ancestors, = rather than forward to the benefits derivable from the imp rovements of human knowledge. - Godwin, Political Justice, ii, chap i. - = Knowledge of follies in history should be distinguished from knowledge = of correct actions in history and knowledge of which correct actions = would have positively changed the cause of history. From the follies, all to often repeated, in ignorance of their = prior results, they could at least have learned what not to do. - J.Z., = 23.1.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY, TRUTHS, IDEAS: \'85 practically all of = history's problems started because somebody didn't understand a few = fundamental truths. \'85 - James P. Hogan, The Two Faces of Tomorrow, 381. \par HISTORY, WAR, CATASTROPHE: Human history becomes more and more a = race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells, Outline of = History, 1920. - The State education he ha d in mind was and is a catastrophe by itself and caused many other = catastrophes. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par HISTORY, WISDOM, IDEAS, JUDGEMENT, READING, BOOKS, GREATNESS, = POWER, VICE: Learn as much by writing as by reading; be not content with = the best book; seek si delights from the others; have no favourites; keep men and things apart; = guard against the prestige of great names, see that your judgments are = your own, and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without = testing; be more severe to ideas than to act i ons; do not overlook the strength of the bad cause or the weakness of = the good; never be surprised by the crumbling of a idol or the = disclosure of a skeleton; judge talent at its best and character at its = worst; suspect power more than vice, and study pro blems in preference to periods; for instance: the derivation of Luther, = the sciwentific influence of Bacon, the predecessors of Adam Smith, the = medieval masters of Rousseau, the consistency of burke, the identity of = the first Whig. \'85 Lord Action Lectures on Modern History.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HISTORY: A generation which ignores history has no = past--and no future.}{\i\cf1 - Lazarus Long.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 HISTORY: Accounts you need seldom = come from those who make (or write! - J.Z.) history. Diaries, memoirs = and autobiographies are subjective forms of s pecial pleading. Archives are crammed with such suspect stuff. - Compare = the history of panarchism, monetary freedom, sensible cooperative = production attempts, desertion, human rights drafts, all the false = reporting on laissez faire and the Industrial Rev olution, the wrong images supplied on anarchism and libertarianism. - = J.Z., 7.2.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY: All history is legend, more or less. - = Isaac Asimov, Foundation & Earth, 186. \par HISTORY: All history is only one long story to this efect: men have = struggled for powe r over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth = at the expense of others, and might shift the burdens of life from their = own shoulders upon those of others. - W. G. Sumner: The Forgotten Man, = 1883. \par HISTORY: An account mostly false, o f events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, = and soldiers mostly fools. - Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, = 1906. - Geschichte: eine meist falsche Darstellung von meist unwichtigen = Ereignissen, herbeigefuehrt von Herrschern , die meist Knechte, und durch Soldaten, die meist Narren waren. - = Bierce. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 HISTORY: But what experience and history teach is this - that peoples = and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on = principles deduced from it. - Georg Hegel=20 (1770-1831), in 1807. - Peoples and governments, may be unable to learn = from history but this does not mean that dissenting individuals and = minority groups could not learn from it. They should be allowed to = secede and to their own things to and for themse lves, thereby, gradually, enlightening themselves and the rest of the = population as well, perhaps even some governments. - J.Z., 23.8.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 HISTORY: Cicero was right in saying = that a person who grows up without knowing what went before him will = always remain=20 a child. - ALBERT JAY NOCK, A Journal of These Days, June 1932 - = December 1933, William Morrow, 1934, 144. - Nock made a good case for = classical education by saying that the Greek and the Roman civilization = formed 2 of the major and for us most important=20 e xperiences of mankind. He might have added that they are reasonably well = recorded as such. But he also held that this record ought to be read = mainly in the original languages. I would rather say that good = translations would make much more sense for this - and would not have turned so many young minds off classical studies and = off reading them beyond the school requirements. The classical languages = formed a barrier between us and this accumulated experience rather than = a key to it. - J.Z., 4.5.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY: Geschichte ist nur das, was in der = Entwicklung des Geistes eine wesentliche Epoche ausmacht. - Hegel. - = History is only that which makes a significant epoch in the development = of the mind.=20 \par HISTORY: Geschichtswissenschaft: Kritik der reinen Unvernunft. - Je annine Luczak. - Leider nicht! - J.Z., n.d. - The science of history is = the criticism of pure irrationality inaction. - Alas, what usually is = called history isn't that! - Any systematic criticism of pure and unpure = unreason could be very helpful. See e.g. , SOME of the works of SOME of the revisionists. - If it were criticism = of pure irrationality then this would be good. All too often it's merely = amounting to ignorance and prejudice criticising other kinds of = ignorance and prejudice and their results. - J. Z., 5.7.92.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1=20 HISTORY: Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry = than it is to mathematics, in that it involves selective breeding. The = principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that = the former breeds sheep or cows or such, and the latter breeds (assumed)facts. The husbandryman uses = his skills to enrich the future; the historian uses his to enrich the = past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit. - }{\i\cf1 - Tom = Robbins.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY: History doesn't repeat = itself; historians merely repeat each other. - Lee Correy, Manna, ANALOG = 7/83, p. 157. \par HISTORY: History has three sides to it: the wrong side, the right = side, and the way it really happened. - D. Runes, A Dictionary of = Thought, 55. - We should be most concerned with=20 the right side, the way it should have happened, and the way it should = be steered now. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par HISTORY: History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken. = - James Joyce. - But there are also a lot of good ideas & practices more = or less buried in history or ignored by most historians. - J.Z., 9.6.92. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HISTORY: History is a set of lies agreed upon. - = Napoleon Bonaparte. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY: History is a vast early warning system. - = Norman Cousins. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HISTORY: History is an account, mostly false, of = events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly = knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. - Ambrose Bierce. \par HISTORY: History is indeed little more than the register of the = crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon. - = }{\fs24\lang1046 History is little more than the register of the = crimes, follies, and mistakes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon.=20 \par HISTORY: History is more often than not just HIS story. - J.Z., = 20.11.97. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HISTORY: History is only a confused heap of facts. = - Earl of Chesterfield. \par HISTORY: History is something that never happened, written by a man = who wasn't there. - Anonymous. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY: History is too serious to be left to = historians. - Ian MacLeod, ANALOG 7/93, p. 12. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HISTORY: History never embraces more than a small = part of reality. - Duc Francois de la Rouchefoucauld. \par HISTORY: History, a distillation of rumour. - Carlyle, The French = Revolution. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY: I doubt there is a thing in the world as = wrong or unrealizable as history. History ain't what it is; it's what = some writer wanted it to be, and I just happened to think I remember ours is as cock-eyed as the = rest. - Will Rogers, Autobiography, 264. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 HISTORY: I know of = no way of judging the future but by the past. - Patrick Henry, speech, = March 1775. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY: More recently, the late John W. Cam pbell remarked that history doesn't always repeat herself. Sometimes she = screams, "Won't you ever listen to what I'm trying to tell you?" and = lets fly with a club. - Poul Anderson, Past Times, 196. \par HISTORY: Mostly a story of people who failed to leave each other = sufficiently alone. - J.Z., 20.11.97. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = HISTORY: n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which = brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. - = Ambrose Bierce. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 HISTORY: Not to know the events which happened before = one was born, that is to remain always a boy. - Marcus Tullius Cicero. - = }{\fs24\lang1046=20 Not to know what has transacted in former times is to continue always a = child. - Marcus Tullius Cicero. }{\fs24\lang1033 - Compare Goethe's = remark: If you can't account for 2,000 years of human histo ry then you cannot count on your head. (From my flawed memory. - J.Z.) \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY: Our chief interest in the pst is as a = guide to the future. - W. R. Inge (Dean of St. Pauls), Assessments and = Anticipations, 1929. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 HISTORY: Our = historians will one day be considered in his satirical writers. - = Chamfort, in: Franzoesische Moralisten, 226. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY: Sie moegen neunundneunzigmal dasselbe gelesen = oder gehoert haben, in einem aehnlichen Falle handeln sie genau so, als = wenn es nicht die hundertste, sondern die erste Erf ahrung waere. Die Gelehrten erforschen die Geschichte der Voelker, aber = Koenige, Minister und Volksvertreter lernen nichts daraus. Die Zeitungen = schreiben auf der einen Seite von den bedauerlichen Widerstaenden, die = eine endlich durchgedrungene Idee frueh er bei den kurzsichtigen Zeitgenossen gefunden hat, und bekaempfen auf = einer anderern Seite genau so kurzsichtig und toericht eine neue Idee. = \'85 Heinrich Nienkamp, Fuersten ohne Krone, 235. - They may have read or = heard it ninetynine times but in a similar c ase they will act exactly as if it were not the hundreds but the first = experience. Scholars explore the history of peoples but kings, ministers = and representatives learn nothing from it. The newspapers write on one = page about the regrettable resistances t h at a finally realized idea had formerly encountered among short-sighted = contemporaries and on another pages the fight exactly as short-sightedly = and foolishly against a new idea. - Heinrich Nienkamp, Princes without = Crowns. -- The same popular prejudices =20 are still with us and predetermine the actions of most people. = Territorialism does not give the dissenting minorities their chances to = do their things to or for themselves, thus breaking the usual pattern of = wide-spread ignorance and prejudice in action.=20 - Not even a comprehensive encyclopaedia has been compiled so far that = would offer the best refutations to popular errors, myths and prejudices = that are obstacles to progress. - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = HISTORY: Study the past, if you would divine the future. - Confucius, = Analects. \par HISTORY: That men do not learn very much from the lessons of = history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to = teach. - Aldous Huxley. =20 \par HISTORY: The best prophet of the future is the past. - Byron, = Letter, 28 January, 1821. \par HISTORY: The best way to suppose what may come is to remember what = is past. - Lord Halifax, Works, 249. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY: The further backward you look, the farther = forward you are likely to see. - Winston Churchill. - Was he really = famous for outstanding foresight? - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par HISTORY: The historical sense involves a perception, not only of = the pastness of the past, but of its presence. - T. S. Eliot, Tradition = and the Individual Talent, 1919. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HISTORY: The study of history is a = powerful antidote to conte mporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib = assumptions, which seem to Us novel and plausible, have been tested = before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and = discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false. - Pa ul Johnson. \par HISTORY: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat = it. - George Santayana (1863-1952), in 1906. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HISTORY: We learn from history that we do not learn from = history. }{\i\cf1 - Hegel.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY: We want to live in the = present and the only his tory that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. - Henry = Ford, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 25 May 1916. - As if we were not largely the = product of the traditions of the development of the human race, the = human languages, the human institutions, huma n thoughts and ideas. However, we are not their helpless victims and = automatons, either. To that extent Henry Ford was right. New freedom = traditions could come to start with us. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = HISTORY: What is history by a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 HISTORY: When experience is not retained \'85 infancy is = perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat = it. - George Santayana. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 HITLER AND = TERRITORIAL STATISM: ... Hitler was only a good specimen of an = ever-present danger. T he belief that Germans everywhere owed their main loyalty to the German = State lead beyond control over German minorities in other States. ... - = J. D. Mabbott, THE STATE AND THE CITIZEN, 166. - I doubt that the = Hitler phenomenon could have happened, sprea d and persisted for several years under Panarchism and that it would have = taken a prolonged and bloody world war to subdue or isolate the first = beginnings of such an intolerant and aggressive, ignorant and prejudiced = movement. Probably monetary freedom alo n e, if it had been practised during the Weimar Republic, would have = prevented the rise of Hitler, since it would have prevented the Great = Inflation and the Great Depression in Germany, as well as the rise of = anti-Semitism. Individual secessionism and exte rritorial autonomy for volunteer communities could also have prevented = his rise to power. So could have volunteer militias for the protection = of individual rights and liberties. - John Zube, 22.3. 99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = HITLER: This is the story of a man who loved architectu re, music and animals. He was courteous and well-mannered, a vegetarian = and non-smoker. And he was responsible for the death of 20 million = people. -- On: Colin Cross, Adolf Hitler. - Given territorialism, = monetary despotism leading to the Great Inflati on and Great Depression, under the "democracy" that followed, for a few = years, also the senseless WW I and its unjust peace, select and numerous = popular prejudices, his appearance was almost inevitable.- J.Z., = 24.2.1999. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 HITLERISM, NAZISM, NATIONAL SOCIALI STS, RIGHT WING, TOTALITARIANISM: How many features of Hitler's system = have not been recommended to us for imitation from the most unexpected = quarters, unaware that they are an integral part of that system and = incompatible with the free society we hope to =20 preserve. - F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom. - Preserve or achieve? = Monopoly in broadcasting and decision-making on war and peace, = inflation, heavy taxation, confiscation of property, withholding tax, = conscription, total warfare methods and weapons, ter r itorial decision-making, wrongful treatment of prisoners and deserters, = territorial war aims, interventionist economies (anti-economies), = nationalism, immigration barriers, suppression of individual = secessionism and exterritorial autonomy, enforced "unity ". - J.Z., 5.40.89, 19.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HOARDING OF MONEY AS A LOAN: Hoarding = of money tokens for goods\- or services that are ready for sale does also provide a corresponding = but rather generalised loan to the local economy (the local issuers) = since \-these tokens are not being redeemed during their hoarding\- period. They issuers received some values for them but had not\- yet to = give their counter values in exchange. All they had to\- offer so far = are paper tokens. As owners of perishable goods or as people hoping for = a more regular turnover they might,\- naturally, not be too happy about this kind of anonymously \-granted = loan by a multitude of their note holders and hoarders.\- To ensure a = more regular turnover, a clause in such private\- exchange media could = give them a limited period of validity only, \- to speed up their reflux and prevent their excess hoarding for\- long = periods. Cheques are likewise, at least in some countries, already under = a time limit for their presentation. But with them \-it is not expressed = on the ch eque forms. Tickets have often only\- a daily value - unless they are = weekly, monthly or yearly \-subscription tickets. People are already = accustomed to "use \-by...." inscriptions on many of their consumer = goods. - It would \- not be a tax or stamp imposed like on Silvio Gesell's money = \-alternative. Whenever notes are permanently hoarded, e.g. by coin\- = and note collectors, the issuers could simply issue\- correspondingly = more of them. Trade would not depend on these \- notes. The distinction between turnover exchange media and = value-\-preserving and interest-bearing capital securities would thereby = \-be made clearer than it is at present. Gold and silver coins did \- not help to make this distinction, nor did legal tender that\- lasted = for years or decades. - This time limitation was\- recommended by Prof. = E. Milhaud and Ulrich von Beckerath made it\- part and parcel of his very detailed monetary freedom system. - J. Z., = 17.9.91,\-28.4.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 HOLY BIBLE: "\'85 half barbarian = history, half fairy tales. \'85 there were two different=20 and mutually contradictory stories about Creation in the first two = chapters of Genesis. \'85 - \'85 how \'85 could be light and days = before the Sun was made\'85. trouble figuring out exactly who it was = that Can had married\'85 " - Carl Sagan, Contact, a novel, Arrow Books, 1985/86, 27. \par HOLY BOOKS, SCRIPTURES, BIBLE, KORAN ETC., RELIGIONS: Reading the = scriptures is an uplifting experience. - Author Unknown. - To me it is a = depressive one. So many contradictions, so many atrocities and = injustices, for so long considered t o be the expressions of a loving and just God! - J.Z., 13.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HOLY COWS, RELIGION, HINDUS, AHIMSA, KILLING, = ANIMALS: Ahimsa: This, the Hindu principle of non-killing of cows and = other animals, has led to the killing of hundreds of thousands of Indian = Mo slems who ignored it. How often a relgious tenet so drifts away from the = original spirit that it leads to its opposite. - D. Runes, A Dictionary = of Thought.=20 \par HOLY MEN, PROPHETS, SAVIOURS, LEADERS, RELIGION: Ein Prophet, sagte = ich zu mir selbst, steht nirge nds weniger in gutem Ruf als in seinem Heimatsorte. Das ist even der = Grund, warum die Katholiken niemanden heilig sprechen, bevor die = Genossen seiner Ausschweifungen, seine Maitressen, seine Diener und = seine Betbrueder tot und wohl begraben sind. - Friedr i ch der Grosse, and den Prinzen von Preussen, 15.7.1746. - A prophet, I = said to myself, has the least reputation where he lived. That is the = reason why the Catholics will declare no one to have been a saint before = the companions of his vices, his girlfrien ds, his servants and his praying brothers are dead and well buried.=20 \par HOLY WAR: A war, for God's sake. - L. A. Rollins, Lucifer's = Lexicon.=20 \par HOLY WRIT, BIBLE, KORAN: Sacred Bullshit. - L. A. Rollins, = Lucifer's Lexicon.=20 \par HOME RULE & PANARCHISM: Home Rule in na tional and territorial terms is not home rule, i.e., self-rule among = volunteers only, but rule over the homes of thousands to millions of = dissenting others. - J.Z., 21.8.92. As such it ought to be condemned in = favour of genuine home rule by individuals fr eely living in accordance with their own ideals and respecting the same = freedom to act in others. - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par HOME RULE, SELF-GOVERNMENT, INDEPENDENCE, NATIONALISM, = TERRITORIALISM, PANARCHISM: Home rule or self-government in a statist, = nationalist an d territorial sense are misnomers but in a non-territorial and = individual and personal law sense they are correct terms. - J.Z., = 26.5.86.=20 \par HOME RULE: Home rule should mean: My home is my castle, not = collective and territorial rule over the homes of others and their = lives. - J.Z., 20.1.93, 18.10.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HOME, MAN, PRIVACY: For a man's house is his = castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium. - Sir Edward Coke, = Third Institute. \par HOME, PRIVACY, THE HOME IS A MAN'S CASTLE: The poorest man may in = his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be = frail\emdash its roof may shake\emdash the wind may blow through = it\emdash the storm may enter\emdash the rain may enter \emdash but the King of England cannot enter\emdash all his force dares = not cross the threshold of the rained tenement! - William Pitt, the = elder Earl of Chatham, speech in the House of Lords.\emdash=20 Henry Peter Brougham, Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in = the Time of George III, vol. 1, p. 52 (1839). Lord Brougham notes, = "There are other celebrated passages of his speeches in all men's = mouths\'85 . Perhaps the finest of them all is his allusion to the maxim of English = law, that every man's home is his castle," given above. - According to = Francis Thackeray, A History of the Right Honorable William Pitt, vol. = 2, p. 29 (1827),=20 the speech was delivered in 1763 in opposition to an excise tax on perry = and cider. - (Perry is wine from pears. - First time I noticed this term = and looked up its meaning. - J.Z.) \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HOMELAND, WHITE HOMELAND IN SOUTH AFRICA? FREE = MIGRATION, PANARCHISM, PERSO NAL LAW, COUNTRY: The homeland of every human being is Earth. The home = country of everybody should be that which he or she have individually = chosen. - J.Z., 13.10.93. - Voluntary segregation is a matter of private = property contracts and personal laws, not for territorial laws.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1=20 HOMELESS PEOPLE, LIES & STATISTICS: 45 homeless people die every minute. = - Mitch Snyder. - For that to be true, some 23 million homeless people = would die in America each year. - Rush Limbaugh.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HOMOSEXUALITY: Bob Hope\'85 when = he visited Britain \'85 commented that he was not worried about homosexuality being legalised = so long as it was not made compulsory. - NEWS DIGEST INTERNATIONAL, Sep. = 82. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HONEST MONEY BY PRIVATE & COMPETING = ISSUERS VS. DISHONEST MONEY\- BY GOVERNMENTS: There ought to be full = freedom to provide honest\- money, i.e. money that is soundly covered by wanted goods and\- = services, in daily demand, soundly valued by a freely chosen \-value = standard, optional, that is without monopoly or exclusive\- currency = status, without legal tender, that may be freely\- refused or market rated or accepted at par and which only the\- issuers = themselves - and by contract their debtors - would have \-to accept at = any time from anyone at par in all payments due to \-them. Publicity, = note exchanges, clearing, local \- circulation areas, limited time periods for their validity, voluntary = acceptance, the possibility of a discount and a \-sound distrust towards = all suspicious and unknown and not easily\- evaluated or certified means = of exchange and value stand ards, would contribute to keep these issues limited and uninflated. = At\- the same time, freedom of issue and clearing would keep exchange = \-media well enough supplied to serve to bring about all desired\- and possible exchanges of goods, services and labour. - The\- = dishonest, monopolised, paper money of the government, with a \-mere = paper value "standard" and nevertheless the power of \-compulsory = acceptance and compulsory value for every\- creditor, ought to be done completely away with, for all\- remaining = terr itorial States. Likewise the legal or juridical "right" of creditors to = demand e.g. gold coins or legal tender in the settlement of debts, = rather than any honest and full settlement by acceptable forms of = clearing. Only within the panarchistic or\- merely exterritorially autonomous communities of volunteers, when\- = they are true believers in monetary, financial and other\- despotism, = should such abuses be allowed to be continued, at the \- risk and expense of their adherents only. They still have to learn their = lessons from these despotic and dishonest practices. \-- J. Z., 3.7.93, = 25.4.97.=20 \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\f0\fs24 = HONEST MONEY: "... an honest money system; i.e. one where the \-currency = is backed by something of true value (usually gold or\- silver)." - = David F. Nolan, LIBERTARIAN PARTY NE WS, March 95. -\-If it were backed ONLY by gold or silver but not by = consumer \-goods and services - then how acceptable would it be to most = \-people? Imagine a city that is blockaded or a lifeboat situation. \-- = J. Z., 16.3.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HONESTY & DIGNITY: Where is there = dignity unless there is honesty? - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 HONESTY IN BUSINESS: A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the = church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the = furniture business. - Ben Rogge.=20 \par HONESTY VS. HYPOCRISY: It's amazing how much panic one honest man = can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. - Thomas Sowell. \par HONESTY VS. HYPOCRISY: It's amazing how much panic one honest man = can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. - Thomas Sowell. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 HONESTY, DIS HONESTY & PARTIES: Party honesty is party expediency. - (Stephen) Grover = Cleveland (1837-1908). Quoted in New York Commercial Advertiser, = September 19, 1889. \par HONESTY, DISHONESTY, LIES, SECRECY: Honesty is the best policy, = although sometimes keeping your mouth shut is even better. - United = Features Syndicate. \par HONESTY, FRANKNESS, OPENNESS, SELF-KNOWLEDGE: Being entirely honest = with oneself is a good exercise. - Sigmund Freud. \par HONESTY, INDIVIDUALISM: To thine own self be true. And it must = follow as the night the day, thou canst }{\i\fs24\lang1033 = then}{\fs24\lang1033 be false to any man. - Shakespeare, Hamlet, - = Thomas M. Disch, The Prisoner, 46. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HONESTY, POLITENESS, FRANKNESS, RUDENESS: = Ehrlichkeit ist oft nur in Verbindung mit anderen Tugenden ertraeglich. = - Werner Mitsch. - Honesty is often only bearable if in connection with = other virtues.=20 \par HONESTY: Take note, take note, O world, To be direct and honest is = not safe. - Shakespeare: Othello, III, 1604. \par HONESTY: Even in NYC over all 80% of all lost wallets are returned. = - Bob Wilson.=20 \par HONESTY: Honesty is the best policy with those who are honest and = the worst and stupidest policy with those who are dishonest. - Thomas = Szasz, Heresies, 33. \par HONESTY: Honesty is the best policy, but it helps to have brains, = too. - Spider Robinson, When No Man Pursueth, motto in ANALOG Nov. 74. \par HONESTY: Honesty is the best policy. - English proverb, traced by = Apperson to 1599. \par HONESTY: I don't ask you to be honest with me. \'85 Be honest with = yourself. - Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, 126. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HONESTY: Let us raise up a=20 standard to which the wise and honest can repair. - George Washington. - = Can many, if any, territorial politicians honestly make such a proposal? = - J.Z., 17.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HONESTY: When man appears before = the Throne of Judgement, the first question he is asked is=20 not: 'have you believed in God?' or 'Have you dealt honourably and = faithfully in all your dealings with your fellowman?' - Sabbath, 312. \par HONESTY: Why honesty on correcting under-charging in a bill = received or when too much change is given. Why does one act like that? I have to live with myself and I like myself more as an = honest person. - J.Z., 25.2.87. - However, if the tax department were = ever to under-charge me then I would not feel compelled to tell it the = truth on the matter. Nor would I tell it to a=20 robber, from whom I was able to hide some asset. Only family, friends, = contractors etc. deserve honesty, not criminal enemies. - J.Z., = 18.10.02.=20 \par HONESTY: You know things are getting bad when simple honesty is a = threat to your survival. - Diogenes of Panarchia, TC116p5. \par HONG KONG: If it was right to hand over a relatively free and large = city, all its people, to the largest dictatorship in the world, then why = not hand over all the other small to large nations in the neighbourhood = likewise, including India, In donesia, Malaysia, Japan and Australia? - J.Z., 23.6.97. \par HONG KONG: The Hong Kong population should have been free to decide = its fate, individually or by its voluntary groupings, i.e., whether to = stay with Great Britain, join Mainland China under communis t rule, or to become independent. Short of that self-management = solution, any decent country should have opened its borders to refugees = from Hong Kong and and wise country would have allowed those refugees, = who preferred it, to set up another Free Trade & =20 Free Enterprise Hong Kong in its borders, under personal laws and full = exterritorial autonomy, not just for a period of 99 years. To = collectively decide the fate of millions of people and deliver them to a = dictatorship was a major crime. - J.Z., 26.11.93, 18.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HONOR & SELF-IMPROVEMENT, SELF-RESPECT: Everything = that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in = thyself. - Cicero. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HONOR, WAR, VICTORY, SOLDIERS. WAR-DEAD, ANZAC = DAY: Only those war dead are to be honoured who fought for a re ally worthy cause. How many did? Do fools, who let themselves be killed = for nothing or for unjust aims, deserve to be honoured? Rather than = honouring them, we ought to ponder how to avoid similar man-made = disasters. - J.Z., 25.4.96, 17.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HONORS & DIGNITY: Dignity does not consist in = possessing honors, but in deserving them. - Aristotle, Honor. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HONOUR, MEN & WOMEN, SELF-ESTEEM VS. THE OPINION = OF OTHERS, SELF-RESPECT, SELF-RELIANCE : Die Ehre des Mannes besteht in = der Schaetzung seiner selbst, die des We ibes in dem Urteile anderer. - Kant. - The honour of man consists in = his self-esteem, that of a woman in the opinions of others.=20 \par HONOUR, RESPECT, MERIT, SUCCESS, FAILURE: Es ist besser, Ehrungen = zu verdienen und nicht geehrt zu sein, als geehrt zusein un d es nicht zu verdienen. - Twain. (Retranslated: It is better to deserve = honours but not to be honoured than to be honoured and not to deserve = this. ) \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HONOUR: A system of monetary = despotism, that establishes a legalised issue monopoly for the central = bank=20 and legal tender for its notes, i.e., compulsory acceptance and a fiat = or command value for the notes, regardless of their market value or = depreciation in internal and external markets, can hardly be called an = honourable one. - J. Z., 11.5.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HOOLIGANISM, MOBS, TOTALITARIANISM, OPPRESSION, DICTATORSHIPS, AUTHORITARIANISM: He = says in effect: Organised hooliganism can solve nothing. - Isaiah = Berlin, Russian Thinkers, page 206, on Alexander Herzen.=20 \par HOOLIGANISM, VANDALISM, JUVENILE DELINQUENCY, COMPULSORY SCH OOLING, UNEMPLOYMENT: Hooliganism: The spectator sport of = "sociologists". If your country is without this diverting pastime, here = is a simple recipe for its production. Deny male youths the = time-consuming responsibility and satsifaction of paid employme nt until they are sixteen, then pay them not to work, all the while = ensuring that State police detection is feeble and State legal = prenalties against violent destruction are derisory. - J.C. Lester. \par HOPE & SELF-REALIZATION: Man sollte nicht auf Selbstverwir klichung hoffen, sondern Hoffnung selbst verwirklichen. - Gerhard = Uhlenbruck. - One should not merely hope for self-realization but = realize one's hopes oneself. - If you really want something done then, = mostly, you have to do it yourself. - Proverbial wis dom.=20 \par HOUSEHOLDS, ORDER CLEANLINESS, HOSTS, GUESTS: Wenn man in einem = Haushalt lebt dann muss man auch etwas Haus halten. - J.Z., 10.10.90. - = If one lives in a house hold then one has to abide by some house rules = and has do do some household chores, one's s hare of the household jobs. - J.Z., 10.10.90.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 HOUSING & MARCHING, DEMONSTRATIONS: As I was leaving for the Housing = Now! demonstration my wife said, "Will there be lots of people from = South Carolina at the housing march? Where Hurricane Hugo just destroye d everybody's house?" I had to explain that there wouldn't be any = people from South Carolina in the march demanding houses from the = government because the people from South Carolina were too busy building = houses for themselves. - P. J. O'Rourke, in Parli a ment of Whores. - To optimise the supply of housing requires many = significant freedom steps which are generally ignored or even ridiculed. = At the same time, "marching" for housing gets top publicity. I have = never seen a protest march against Legal Tender=20 and the Central Bank's note issue monopoly but I may live long enough to = see marches for admission to heaven and paradise! - J.Z., 28.6.00. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HOUSING & POLITICIANS, GOVERNMENT, = BUILDING: \'85 it is evident that if the politicians had left housing = alone there wou ld now be no housing problem. - Ernest Benn, Modern Government, 201.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 HOUSING & SELF-HELP: As I was leaving for the Housing Now! demonstration = my wife said, "Will there be lots of people from South Carolina at the = housing march? Where Hurricane Hugo just=20 destroyed everybody's house?" I had to explain that there wouldn't be = any people from South Carolina in the march demanding houses from the = government because the people from South Carolina were too busy building = houses for themselves. --- P. J. O 'Rourke, in "Parliament of Whores". \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 HOUSING INDUSTRY: Housing is an over-legislated, over-regulated, = over-taxed industry, burdened by privileges and monopolies, suffering = under all kinds of restraints of free enterprise and free trade, = including especially=20 monetary and financial despotism. Under complete laissez faire, laissez = passer in this field and for all technical developments, housing could = be as easy and cheap to achieve as are cars, with major components = automatically prefabricated and mass produced and assembly becoming cheap, easy and fast, in thousands of possible = combinations, freely preselected, like many different computer systems = can now be freely chosen by individual consumers . - J.Z., 7.6.89, = 18.10.02. \par HOUSING, GOVERNMENT POLICIES: Government is better at housing rich = politicians and bureaucrats than in housing the poor. - J.Z., 22.6.91. \par HOUSING: Freedom for people to live in pre-fabricated kit homes or = sheds or even tents or in the open air, on their own or hired grounds - = provided they do also provide or hire sewage, water, garbage and power = services. - J.Z., 7.6.89.=20 \par HOUSING: Government is only good in housing its politicians and = bureaucrats. These building costs us much more than the palaces of kings = and emperors formerly did. - J.Z., 22.6.91. \par HOUSING: Governments make housing expensive or hard to obtain. - = J.Z., 22.6.91. - Except for their favourites. I was once one of them, = getting a government house rented for thirteen shillings and sixpence a = week, in the countryside, near my work place , while in Sydney I had to pay six pounds a week for a single room. - To = get finally permission to build my prefabricated house, under imposed = conditions, I had to battle government bureaucrats for 6 months. - J.Z., = 19.10.02. \par HOUSING: Governments reduce th e housing stock, let it run down or make it more expensive and slower = growing than it otherwise would. - J.Z., 22.6.91. - Patrick Brooks, an = Australian libertarian architect, once shown a chart indicating 50 = building restrictions, asserted that he had onc e supplemented that chart out of his own experience and arrived at ca. = 150 building restrictions. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par HOUSING: Housing is neither an economic nor a political problem. = Housing shortage is a problem created by political intervention with = economics. - J.Z., 29.6.89. \par HOUSING: We could soon have flexible and very economical because = mass produced housing options - if only international trade barriers, = building zones and restrictions, as well as taxation upon housing and = building trades and materials=20 were removed and stable value clauses could be used for building loans, = and under general conditions resulting from full monetary and financial = freedom. - J.Z., 29.5.92, 19.10.02. \par HUBRIS, POWER, POWER ADDICTION: "Hubris" is the word the Greeks = gave to the=20 urge to rule the lives of others. It is hubris which has motivated the = Stalins and the intellectual planners of the West to play with people's = lives and fortunes as though they were pawns on a chess board. This = arrogance deludes those with political power into believing that they can mold a city more effectively than can the = economic forces of the market place. - Harry Lee Smith, THE FREEMAN, = 9/76.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HUMAN & INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Be = human, not just a sacrificial lamb for governments. Live for your own = sake , not to be fleeced and eaten by others. (Consider how much of your = working life is eaten up by direct and indirect taxes & compliance with = imposed regulations, how much of your savings disappears through = inflation and how you have to sell your services a t emergency sales prices during government caused deflations. - J.Z., = 15.11.02) - After all the bad experiences you had with them, the last = ones you ought to feed and clothe would have to be the politicians and = bureaucrats. But if you want to continue pla ying your sacrificial role, to your end, panarchism would give you the = chance to do so - without committing, at the same time, a crime against = dissenters. - J.Z., 2/5/84}{\fs24 . \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 HUMAN AND HUMANE: What good is it to be human without = being humane? -- Christopher L. Bennett, Aggravated Vehicular Genocide, = ANALOG 11/98, page 130. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 HUMAN BEINGS, FATE, FREEDOM, ANTS, DESTINY, PANARCHISM: The higher on = the evolutionary scale, the more freedom to reorganize. An ant lives out = a destiny; a human being shapes one. - M. Ferguso n, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 184. - States have reduced us to ants, in = their coercively assembled and maintained heaps. Panarchism can humanize = us again in our thinking, actions and development. - J.Z., 6.4.89, = 3.7.89. \par HUMAN BEINGS, INDIVIDUALS, MAN: He's just a human being. - There's = no such thing as 'just a human being.' - Lee Correy, Manna, ANALOG, June = 83, 124. \par HUMAN BEINGS, MAN, HUMAN RIGHTS, RIGHTS, DOMINATION, RULE, = AUTHORITARIANISM, TOLERANCE: I am a human being. Do not fold, spindle or = mutilate. - Hippy button slogan. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HUMAN BEINGS, MAN, MANKIND, CHARACTER, FREEDOM, = LIBERTY, INSTITUTIONS, CHOICE, LAISSEZ FAIRE, CONTRACTS, CONSENT, = INDIVIDUALISM, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, INDIVIDUAL SECESSIONISM: Mankind = is at its best when it is most free. This will be=20 clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the = basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their = lips but few in their mind. - Dante (or Durante) Alighieri (1265-1321), = Monarchy (1309), Book I. - All such sayings o ught to be expanded to the utmost, to their rightful and rational = consequences and natural limits. - J.Z., 26.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HUMAN BEINGS, MAN, MANKIND: Let's not be too quick = to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals = became extinct before man ever appeared on Earth. - Will Cuppy, 1941.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 HUMAN BEINGS, MAN, OBLIGATIONS, DUTY, SELF-DEVELOPMENT, RATIONAL BEINGS: = Your primary duty is to yourself as a rational being, to grow and = develop as a full human being, exhausting your potential in liv ing your own life, alone or with like-minded people only. And this = implies that you leave everyone else alone to do the same, alone or with = his associates. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HUMAN BEINGS: We are human beings. = - Arafat. - He is one of the leaders of territorial terrorists.=20 Thus one should reply: Then act like them! Human beings are only those = who treat others, who disagree with them, as human beings, i.e., by = respecting their individual rights and liberties. Alas, by that standard = the world is still very severely under-pop ulated. - J.Z., n.d. & 18.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0=20 HUMAN BEINGS: Human beings do not yet exist. -- J. Zube, 13 August 98, = upon reading Rousseau, Phantasien eines einsamen Wanderers, 79. -- In = the sense of another saying:" It will be a long, long time before we can = rightly=20 say: vast was choose long time ago that we have been barbarians." -- I = do admit that there are exceptions. Both of the above statements are = exaggerations. They apply to most, not to all. I do class only those as = sufficiently human, who know and appreciate most of their individual rights. Most people cannot even be bothered to = find out what they are. -- J. Zube, 24 February 99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 HUMAN BEINGS: The Walking Wounded. Under the present = brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet = should b e regarded as one of the walking wounded. We have never seen a man or = woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. We have never = seen a totally sane human being. - Robert Anton Wilson, Right Where You = Are Sitting Now.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HUMAN NATURE & WAR: War wi ll never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger = cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. - H. L. Mencken. - Dozens of = primitive human tribes managed to live without wars, possibly for = thousands, if not ten-thousands of years. It is not=20 o ur human nature but our "civilized" institutions and ideas that made us = more warlike. If we reorganised into personal law associations for all = kinds of different volunteer groups most motives, means, targets, aims = and resources for warfare would disappear . Free Trade & Free Enterprise make all resources and willing talents and = labour and capital on Earth available to everybody, much more cheaply = than fighting for them could. Look at all your possessions: How many of = them did you conquer and how many of the m did you peacefully trade for? - J.Z., 29.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 HUMAN NATURE VS. STATE: If the State acts in ways abhorrent to human = nature, it is the lesser evil to destroy it. - Baruch Spinoza. - With = its coercive, hierarchical, centralistic and monopolistic nature, in one word, with its territorialism, it always acts contrary to human = nature. In other words, its rulers still act as if a whole country and = all its population were their private property to use and abuse as they = please, i.e., to act as if all the other pe ople in a country did not really count. - And this territorial and = monarchical absolutism is still largely continued by the territorialism = of our democracies, republics and "people's democracies". - J.Z., = 25.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HUMAN NATURE, DESPAIR, MAN, PESSIMISM, OPT IMISM, SIGNS OF THE TIME: Why despair of human nature when it takes such = a great effort to destroy it? - G. B. Shaw, in a remark retranslated = from the German version. - Authoritarianism and tyrannies need violence = for their support. Censorship, borders, t a riffs, conscription, taxation, legal tender and monopolies are unnatural = impositions lupon numan nature. - J.Z., 22.6.93. - Free individual = secessionism would reveal human nature much more accurately, in its = whole spectrum, than does territorial and colle ctivist voting. - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par HUMAN NATURE, MAN, INHUMANITY, HUMANITY: Inhumanity is so far still = all too human. - J.Z., 28.3.87. - However not just human nature, false = education and social conditioning is involved but flawed institutions, = like territ orial States, and the central banking of monetary despotism, = conscription, military discipline, laws against treason and espionage = and sabotage (even towards the war machines of tyrants), flawed = principles, like "collective responsibility", numerous flawe d ideas and popular prejudices, not yet sufficiently countered by most = suitable institutions & processes to speed up and ensure the progress of = enlightenment. Even merely compulsory voting leads to still more = wrongful and harmful political decision-making . - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HUMAN NATURE, MAN, NATURAL MAN, HUMANITY, MANKIND, = VICIOUSNESS: Human nature is not of itself vicious. - Thomas Pain. - But = vicious institutions, like territorial States, with their coercion, = monopolies and powers can make many people vi cious, the victimisers as well as many of their victims. - J.Z., 1.5.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HUMAN NATURE, OPTIMISM, PESSIMISM, PRESS, NEWS, = MASS MEDIA, CRIME: One can become optimistic about human nature when = contemplating how many people, during total fire bans, do not ligh t fires in the open, how many do not commit murder, rape and robbery. - = J.Z., 25.1.94. - Alas, most news concentrate on the negative aspects = only. - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HUMAN NATURE, WAR & STATE: The higher animals = engage in individual fights, but never in or ganized masses. Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of = atrocities, War. - Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910), The = Damned Human Race. - Some ants seem to conduct wars against each other. = - J.Z.., 25.9.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HUMAN NATURE, WHIMS, REASON , EDUCATION, ENLIGHTENMENT: The biggest mischief in the past century has = been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human = nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a = Golden Age which would arrive without f a il once the noble human race could act according to its whims. - Jakob = Burckhardt. - While R. was certainly wrong on many of the "noble = savages", over 50 primitive tribes are on record as not engaging in war, = others of being very skilled in bringing up th eir young etc. Man is certainly characterized by more than mere whims = and to degree to which man might grow under full liberties and rights as = well as all the advantages of an advanced civilization, we simply do not = know as yet. - J.Z., 29.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 HUMAN NATU RE: Human nature is the same all over the world. - Philip Dormer = Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to his Son, October 2, = 1747. - But ideas, customs, traditions, laws & institutions distort = their ideas and actions and seemingly change their v ery nature for all too long - J.Z., 25.11.02. \par HUMAN NATURE: MAN, MANKIND, HABITS, CUSTOMS, TRADITIONS, = PREJUDICES, MYTHS, IDEAS: Men's natures are alike; it is their habits = that carry them apart. - Confucius (551-479 B.C.), Analects (various = translations). \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0=20 HUMAN POTENTIAL AND DEVELOPMENT, STATES, DECISION-MAKING, THE PERPETUAL = KINDERGARTEN:... concerned with "the way in which individual human = beings are prevented from developing" and that "at the same time there = is a vision of the unfulfilled potentialities =20 of every human being". - Richard Boston, in PEACE NEWS, 23 February = 1962. - People go from womb to tomb without ever realising they human = potential, precisely because the power to initiate, to participate in = innovating, choosing, judging, and deciding is reserved for the top men. - Colin Ward, ANARCHY IN ACTION, 42. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 HUMAN RIGHTS & ANARCHY: The Declaration of the Rights of Man is to E. = Burke "a sort of institute and digest of anarchy." - From an advocate = of human rights and a natural society, he turned int o its enemy. Perhaps largely because he wrongly ascribed the atrocities = of the French Revolution to respect for human rights rather than to = their suppression. - J.Z., 18.10.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HUMAN RIGHTS & ARMS CONTROL: We are interested in = human rights because we are=20 involved with mankind. Beyond that there is the pragmatic argument. = Human rights are a precondition to effective arms control. - William F. = Buckley, Jr., The Governor Listeth, Putnams, 1975-78, 40. - Governments = are the worst kind of arms controllers for=20 the arms of other governments. Free people, free individuals, are the = best kinds of holders of rightful arms and can form the best kinds of = organizations to control or destroy arms in the hands of territorial = governments. - J.Z., 29.4.00. \par HUMAN RIGHTS & ARM S CONTROL: We are interested in human rights because we are involved = with mankind. Beyond that there is the pragmatic argument. Human rights = are a precondition to effective arms control. - William F. Buckley, Jr., = The Governor Listeth, Putnams, 1975-78, 4 0 . - Governments are the worst kind of arms controllers for the arms of = other governments. Free people, free individuals, are the best kinds of = holders of rightful arms and can form the best kinds of organizations to = control or destroy arms in the hands of territorial governments. - J.Z., 29.4.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HUMAN RIGHTS & FREEDOM: Human rights start with = freedom. - Alex Carey. \par HUMAN RIGHTS & GOVERNMENTS: Fancy expecting worthwhile declarations = of human rights only from governments, i.e., from the main offenders = against them! - J.Z., 12.1.85. \par HUMAN RIGHTS & GOVERNMENTS: Human rights are a sensitive topic for = any government. - Morris West, Proteus, 54. \par HUMAN RIGHTS & GOVERNMENTS: The human rights record of ALL = governments is bad. Of some it is even worse. - J.Z., 17.12.97. \par HUMAN RIGHTS & GOVERNMENTS: Who has still kept his faith that = governments will fully respect or realize or even define human rights = for us? - J.Z., 30.1.86. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HUMAN RIGHTS & HUMAN NATURE: The sacred rights of = mankind are not to be rummaged for among old p archments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the = whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and = can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. - Alexander Hamilton, = "The Farmer Refuted," The Works of Alexand er Hamilton, ed. John C. Hamilton, vol. 2, p. 80 (1850). \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HUMAN RIGHTS & PROPERTY RIGHTS: \'85 Take, for = example, the "human right" of free speech. Freedom of speech is suppose = to mean the right of everyone to say whatever he likes. But the = neglected question i s: Where? Where does a man have this right? He certainly does not have = it on property on which he is trespassing. In short, he has this right = only either on his }{\b\fs24\lang1046 own}{\fs24\lang1046=20 property or on the property of someone who has agreed, as a gift or in = a rental contract, to allow him on the premises. In fact, then, there is = no such thing as a separate "right to free speech"; there is only a = man's }{\b\fs24\lang1046 property}{ \fs24\lang1046 right: the right to do as he wills with his own or to = make voluntary agreements with other property owners. - Murray N. = Rothbard, Power & Market, 238/39. \par HUMAN RIGHTS & PROPERTY RIGHTS: Human Rights As Property Rights. = Liberals generally wish to preserve the concept of "rights? for such = "human" rights as freedom of speech, while denying the concept to = private property. And yet, on the contrary, the concept of "rights" }{\b\fs24\lang1046 = only}{\fs24\lang1046=20 makes sense as property rights. For not only are there no human rights = which are not also property rights, but the former rights lose their = absoluteness and clarity and become fuzzy and vulnerable when pr operty rights are not used as the standard. - Murray N. Rothbard, The = Ethics of Liberty, 113. \par HUMAN RIGHTS & PROPERTY RIGHTS: Human rights through property = rights - and other economic rights as well. - J.Z., 7.12.91. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HUMAN RIGHTS & RATIONAL BEINGS, = EQUALIT Y, INEQUALITY: Full human rights do apply only to rational beings. The = others do not know or appreciate them. - J.Z., 25.6.84. - Compare the = human rights draft in PEACE PLANS No. 4. \par HUMAN RIGHTS & VOLUNTARISM: Volenti non fit iniuria. - Ulpian, + = 220 (Dem, der es so haben will, geschieht keinUnrecht. - The one who = consents is not wronged.)}{\fs24=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 HUMAN RIGHTS AND PROPERTY RIGHTS: What are property = rights, if not human rights? Animal rights? Vegetable rights? - Wm. = F. Buckley Jr., Quotations from Chairman Bill, 246. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATIONS, BILLS OF RIGHTS: Human Rights Declarations = are to be interpreted by ordinary human beings, not by lawyers and = judges, who are mostly their vested interest enemies, if they are aware = of them at all. - J.Z., 15.9.91, 19.10.02. \par HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATIONS, COMMON LAW & COMMON PEOPLE VS = SPECIALISTS, LAWYERS, LEGISLATORS, JUDGES, JURIES, LAWS, HUMAN RIGHTS: = Let the Common Law & Human Rights be judged by common people and their = juries, not by self-interested and miseducated specialis ts like lawyers and judges. If such specialists want "positive laws" = for themselves, let them have them - but do not force their choice upon = others. - J.Z., 19.10.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATIONS: [If] a positive declaration = of some essential rights could n ot be obtained in the requisite latitude, [the] answer [is], Half a loaf = is better than no bread. If we cannot secure all our rights, let us = secure what we can. }{\i\cf1 - Thomas Jefferson to J. Madison, 1789.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATIONS: There = are few surviving com mentators, let alone historians, who are inclined to defend the = proposition that the articulation of a human right leads to its = realization. - William F. Buckley, Jr., Right Reason, ed. by Richard = Brookhiser, Little Brown & Co, 1985, 159. - As if past dec l arations were already complete and perfect enough for this. - J.Z., = 29.4.99. - What percentage of the population has so far become = articulate on human rights, all human rights, especially all individual = human rights and, among these, especially the econom i c rights and the no-government and free society rights? - Compare my = anthology of about 100 private human rights drafts, as opposed to = governmental ones, on the road to the compilation of an ideal one, in = PEACE PLANS 589/590. Contrary to what one should h a ve expected of them on this, very few anarchists and libertarians have = shown any interest in this anthology. And if they neglect to formulate = and understand all their rights, what can one expect of others? Under = such conditions even a perfect human rights =20 declaration might, for al long time, be nothing but ineffective sheets = of paper. The so-called freedom lovers have not even reached an = agreement upon whether rights do exist at all and if so, how they could = be best defined and proven. Under such condition s it is a very cheap shot to declare human rights declarations to be = inherently and always ineffective. The first bills of rights, = governmental ones, are only a few hundred years old, and the "Universal" = one of the governments represented in the U.N., of 1 948, is one of the most incomplete and defective ones. - J.Z., 25.4.00.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HUMAN RIGHTS VS. CLAIMS & CIVIL RIGHTS, PRIVATE = HUMAN RIGHTS DRAFTS: The right of the laborer to wages, the right of = every innocent man to his own person, the right of all to equity be fore the laws - these are no longer abstractions of speculative = visionaries, no longer innovations, but the established rights of = humanity. - W.E. Channing: Letter to Jonathan Phillips, 1839. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HUMAN RIGHTS, BILL OF RIGHTS, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: The = whole of th e Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large = or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the = individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a = right to deprive them of. - ALBERT GALLATIN of th e NY Historical Society, Oct. 7,1789.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 HUMAN RIGHTS, BILL OF RIGHTS: A Bill of Rights is what the people are = entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; = and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences. - = Thomas Jef ferson: Letter to James Madison, Dec. 1787. - The Bill of Rights = declarations of governments are as far away from complete individual = rights declarations as their laws, jurisdiction and policies are. - = J.Z., 18.10.02. - Compare my compilation of private h uman rights drafts in PEACE PLANS 589/590. - J.Z. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HUMAN RIGHTS, BILL OF RIGHTS: Can any of you seriously = say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't = even get out of committee. }{\i\cf1=20 - F. Lee Bailey. - }{\cf1 I once saw a survey that indicated a=20 number of laws for each of the bill of rights clauses, infringing it. = Perhaps hundreds of such criminal laws, passed by Congress, could be = cited for each clause. - On that basis Congress, as a whole, should be = impeached! - J.Z., 1.7.00. \par HUMAN RIGHTS, BILL OF RIGHTS: It can never be too often repeated, = that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while = our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. }{\i\cf1 - Thomas = Jefferson: Notes on Va., 1782. }{\cf1=20 - Some governments managed to postpone declaring a=20 bill of rights for decades to centuries. They do not want to tie their = own hands and unarmed, unorganised, untrained and government-miseducated = citizens can't force a bill of rights upon them. - J.Z., 30.6.00. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HUMAN RIGHTS, BILL OF RIGHTS: The = enumeration=20 in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or = disparage others retained by the people. - Constitution of the US, = Amendmend IX, Dec. 1791. - Why hasn't this clause led to many more and = well publicized attempts to enumerate all the rights retained by individuals, during the last over centuries? Why = leave this very important job to lawyers pretending they could and would = represent the people? Compare PEACE PLANS 589/590 for private human = rights drafts. - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par HUMAN RIGHTS,=20 CONSTITUTIONALISM: Not only every existing law and proposed law but = every existing constitutional clause and every constitutional amendment = proposed should become easily challengeable on the grounds that it = infringes individual rights and liberties of inv oluntary members and subjects. - J.Z., 16.8.96. \par HUMAN RIGHTS, CRIME, PROTECTION, GOVERNMENTS, LAWS, CONSTITUTIONS, = COURTS, POLICE, PARLIAMENTS, POLITICIANS, LAWYERS: Almost all experience = teaches that one cannot safely entrust the protection of human rights to constitutions, courts, parliaments, laws, politicians, bureaucrats, = lawyers, policement, the UN, the mass media. What remains? Volunteer = militias, their international federation, free juries, referendum, = improved private human rights declarations, alt ernative publicity & enlightenment options, private enterprise = education, panarchism (individual secessionism & exterritorial autonomy = for volunteer communities under personal laws), a genuinely cultural = revolution. - J.Z., 11.5.93, 18.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HUMAN RIGHTS,=20 EQUAL RIGHTS, MAN, FREEDOM, EMANCIPATION, SOLIDARITY, LIBERTY FOR ALL: = The human race, like all the other animal races, has inherent principles = which are peculiar to it, and all these principles are summed up in or = reducible to a single principle which we =20 call Solidarity. This principle may be formulated thus: no human = individual can recognize his own humanity, or, consequently, realize it = in life, except by recognizing it in others and by co-operating in its = realization for others. No man can emancipate h i mself save by emancipating with him all the men about him. My liberty is = the liberty of everybody, for I am really free, free not only in idea, = but in fact, only when my liberty and my right find their confirmation, = their sanction, in the liberty and righ t of all men, my equals. - Mikhail A. Bakunin, Address, Working People's = International Ass'n, 1867. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HUMAN RIGHTS, GOVERNMENTS & TERRITORIALISM: At = last some basic human rights are ignored or suppressed by all present = governments and all territorial governments inevitably repress many = human rights of many minorities. - J.Z., 30.6.92.=20 \par HUMAN RIGHTS, GOVERNMENTS, PARLIAMENTS, LAWS, SUPREME COURT: Has = any government or any parliament left any natural, human and individual = right and liberty untouched and unspoilt? - J.Z., 26.8.91. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HUMAN RIGHTS, LIBERTY, RIGHTS, EQUAL RIGHTS, LAW, = INJURIES, HARM, WRONG: Liberty consists in the power to do anything that = does not injure others; accordingly, the exercise of the rights of man = has no limits except those that secure to t he other members of society the enjoyment of these same rights. These = limits may be determined only by law. - France (Official and = semi-official), Declarations of the Rights of Man and Citizen, National = Assembly (1789), Art. 4. \par HUMAN RIGHTS, LIBERTY: Liber ty to every man to speak, write, print, and publish his opinions without = having his writings subject to any censorship or inspection before their = publication, and to worship as he pleases. - France (Official and = semi-official). Constitution (1791). \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HUMAN R IGHTS, MAGNA CHARTA: Magna Charta is the law, and let the king look out. = - Inscription on a monument in Tewkesbury Abbey, ca. 1250. - Rulers are = not afraid of documented rights but of citizens armed, organized and = trained to uphold their rights. - J.Z.,=20 18.10.02. \par HUMAN RIGHTS, MORALITY, ETHICS: It is the privilege of man's moral = genius, impersonated by inspired individuals, to advance ethical axioms = which are so comprehensive and so well founded that men will accept them = as grounded in the vast mass of th eir individual emotional experience. Ethical axioms are found and tested = not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands = the text of experience. - Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years, = ANALOG, Aug. 84, p. 155. - This did not preven t this moralizing scientist to recommend a totalitarian and total war = weapon like the Atomic Bomb, supposedly as a means to fight = totalitarianism. Did he ever come out instead, for e.g., tyrannicide and = the duty to engage in military insurrections against =20 tyrants? Did he favour one or several governments in exile, as volunteer = communities, for those Germans who were not Nazis but spread, as usual, = over the whole ideological spectrum? Wisdom in physics does not = necessarily lead to wisdom in the social scien ces. And quite a few scientists and myself as a non-scientists, have = also their doubts on his wisdom in physics. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par HUMAN RIGHTS, MUTUALISM, PROUDHON: We want the unlimited liberty of = man and of the citizen, except for the respect of the libe rty of others: liberty of association, liberty of assembly, liberty of = religion, liberty of the press, liberty of thought and speech, liberty = of work, commerce and industry, liberty of education, in a word, = absolute liberty. - Proudhon, in JOURNAL DU PEOP LE, Nov. 1848, quoted in Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible, 243. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HUMAN RIGHTS, NATURAL LAW, RIGHT VS. WRONG: Among = the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; = secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the rig ht to support and defend them in the best manner they can. Those are = evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of = self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. - Samuel = Adams, The Rights of the Colonists, 1772. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HUMAN RIGHTS,=20 NATURAL RIGHTS, RIGHTS: "Natural rights" are rights defined as such by = virtue of the observation that man's "nature" (his specific type of = biological nature) makes non-aggression necessary to (for? - J.Z.) the = continuation of his life. - P. We. Hermeneuti cs, TC 141p71. \par HUMAN RIGHTS, PEACE: Respect for human rights creates peace. How to = achieve this respect? Largely by replacing standing armies with ideal = militias of volunteers for the protection of human rights, organized, = armed and trained in accordance wi th their rights and liberties, sworn to fight for nothing else and to do = so in association with all people whose rights have been suppressed and = against their common enemies. By realizing freedom for exterritorially = autonomous actions for all volunteer co m munities, thus teaching respect for human rights by realizing them = oneself. Ending barriers to refugees and deserters. Allowing them to = live under self-chosen laws wherever they please, as long as they = respect the property and personal rights of others. B y realizing full monetary and financial freedom and thus an end to most = economic crises, to mass unemployment and depressions, to inflations and = stagflations. By fully freed Free Trade and free enterprise for all = those who have come to appreciate them. By=20 l etting enemies of human rights do their things to themselves, in their = own volunteer communities. By finally compiling and sufficiently = publicizing much improved private codes of individual rights, to replace = the incomplete, flawed and self-contradictory=20 b ill of rights declarations of governments. By systematically recording = and refuting, encyclopaedically, all errors, myths and prejudices on = individual rights and liberties. - Just peruse my two books on the = subject. - The connection between a genuine peac e in freedom and justice and individual human rights could not be closer = - and yet ir remains all too widely overlooked. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par HUMAN RIGHTS, PRINCIPLES: Ohne Grundsaetze ist der Mensch wie ein = Schiff ohne Steuer und Kompass, das von jedem Winde=20 hin- und hergetrieben wird. - Smiles, Der Character, 1. Kap. = (Retranslated: Without principles man is like a ship without steering = and compass, so that it is driven hither and thither by the wind. - = J.Z.) \par HUMAN RIGHTS, PRIVATE HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATIONS: De r Zweck jeder politischen Vereinigung is die Erhaltung der natuerlichen = und ewigen Menschenrechte. Diese sind: Freiheit, Eigentum, Sicherheit = und Widerstand gegen Unterdrueckung. - Lafayette, Erklaerung der = Menschenrechte. (The purpose of every political=20 a ssociation is the preservation of the natural and eternal human rights. = These are: Freedom, property, security and resistance against = oppression.) - I would concede that for panarchies, by the intentions of = their volunteers, not necessarily for their inte r nal policies, while for their external policies they would have to abide = by them, but not to territorial States! Most territorial constitutions = do not even contain an individual rights declaration. If they do contain = a Bill of Rights then it is usually ve ry limited and flawed. - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HUMAN RIGHTS, PRIVATE JUDGEMENT, FREEDOM OF = CONSCIENCE & RELIGION, TOLERANCE: Driven from every corner of the earth, = freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of = conscience direct their course=20 to this happy country as their last asylum. - Samuel Adams, Speech, = Philadelphia, August 1, 1776. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HUMAN RIGHTS, RIGHTS, FREEDOM, ARBITRARY ACTIONS VS. = EQUAL FREEDOM AND EQUAL RIGHTS: There is only one basic human right, the = right to do as you damn well ple ase. - P. J. O'Rourke, Speech at the Cato Institute. - Within your own = sphere or rights and liberties only! - J.Z.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 HUMAN RIGHTS, RIGHTS, NATURAL = RIGHTS, LIBERTY, PROPERTY, LIFE: Each of us has a natural right\emdash = from God to defend his person, his liberty, an d his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the = preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the = preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the = extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties? - Bastiat. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HUMAN RIGHTS, RIGHTS, UTILITARIANISM: Es ist = leichter sich ueber die Einhaltung der Menschenrechte zu einigen als = uber ihre Unterdrueckung. - J.Z., 20.10.86. - It is easier to achieve = agreement on abiding by h uman rights than on suppressing them. - Alas, so far there is only an = all too wide-spread agreement on simply ignoring most of them. - J.Z., = 18.10.02. \par HUMAN RIGHTS, RIGHTS: Rechte, fuehrt Rothbard aus, die nur in der = modernen Industriegesellschaft erfuell t werden koennen, seien keine Menschenrechte. - Ulrike Heider, Narren = der Freiheit, 157. - (Rights that can be fulfilled only in the modern = industrial society are no human rights, says Rothbard.) - However, e.g. = the right to publish and read on microfiche =20 is just an application of the general human right to enjoy freedom of = expression and information. Just because high technology is involved, it = does not become wrongful. However, everyone is only entitled to publish = and read microfiche at the own expense.=20 N aturally, they are much more affordable than printed books and thus give = many more people freedom of expression and information opportunities, = whether they make use of them or not. - J.Z., n.d. - So far most people, = even most libertarians, have ignored th e se freedom opportunities e.g. for libertarian writings, as they have = ignored floppy disks for this purpose, which are similarly affordable = and even CD-ROMs, whose microeconomics are much greater still. - That = was certainly one of the weakest arguments of=20 R othbard. The mass production of printed matter does also require a = modern industrial society and, obviously, it already helped to provide = freedom of expression and information opportunities to many more people = than those who could only communicate verball y or by writing with sticks in the sand. What means fulfillment of = rights? Would we have no freedom of information right once all human = knowledge becomes accumulated and accessible, in any desired fragment, = through high technology? - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: \'85 Menschenrechte, d.h., solche Rechte, die dem Einzelnen auch durch eine = Majoritaet nicht genommen werden koennen. - U. v. Beckerath, an J.Z., = 10.6.56. - Human rights, i.e., such rights that even a majority cannot = take away from an individual.=20 \par HUM AN RIGHTS: How can one make most people think about their individual = rights and how to get them recognized, protected and optimally applied? = - J.Z., 20.6.92. - Obviously, the survival instinct on its own is not = enough, nor is it sufficiently aided by gov e rnment-run "education" or that provided by the mass media and = conventional publishing. Even the Internet has so far offered more = flawed observations, ideas and opinions than truthful ones. The whole = enlightenment process has to be re-considered, changed a n d supplemented to become much more effective than it has been so far. = See under Cultural Revolution. Obviously, we need also better and more = complete declarations of individual rights and competitive education = systems, as well as full experimental freedom =20 in the political, economic and social sphere for volunteer communities = of dissenters and the hierarchical miltary machines of territorial = governments must be replaced by self-managed militia volunteers = motivated, trained and armed to uphold nothing but in d ividual rights and liberties. If the whole development is left to = politicians, bureaucrats, priests, psychologists, lawyers, judges, and = government subsidized teachers and professors, we might never reach that = target. - J.Z., 20.6.92, 19.10.02. - Compare: Libertarian Microfiche Publishing, the CD-ROM Project, Ideas Archive, = Encyclopaedia of Definitions, Slogans for Liberty, Encyclopaedia of the = Best Refutations, Flow Chart Discussions.=20 \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Rights deserved by all humans, but not by beasts in = human form such as myself. - L.A. Rollins, Lucifer's Lexicon.=20 \par HUMAN RIGHTS: The chances for the realization of individual rights = and liberties are only poor while the vast majority and most minorities = are a) ignorant of them, b) disinterested in them or c) prejudiced = against them. - J.Z., 7.9.88. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 HUMAN RIGHTS: "Sovereign States - with their age-old and inevitable = tendencies to repress rights and liberties of their citizens - cannot be = entrusted to preserve and protect human rights. - David Hawk, the = executive director of Amnesty International, USA, "MATCHBOX", Fall 1977. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: ... the CONCEPT of human rights is no more than a = logical statement derived from the observable fact of individual = self-control. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: ... the right to manage one's own life in the realm = of sex as in the realm of work. - M. Brinton, The Irrational in = Politics, p. 62. - I would add: in trade and in politics, not only in = culture and religion. - J.Z., 8.3.85. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HUMAN RIGHTS: A Bill of Rights is what the people are = entitled to a gainst every government on Earth... and what no just government should = refuse. - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, Paris, Dec. 20, = 1787. - Without an ideal militia to uphold individual rights governments = mostly do not even uphold their own Bill o f Rights declarations. The English Bill of Rights is still legally a = valid law in Australia, yet almost all Australian politicians, mostly = lawyers, habitually ignore it in their laws. - J.Z., 30.6.00. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HUMAN RIGHTS: All human rights are = interpretations of the value idea of freedom. - Agnes Heller in Teaching = Human Rights, an Australian Symposium, p. 119. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: All human rights rest upon the ability of the = individual to control his own energy. - Robert LeFevre, LEFEVRE'S = JOURNAL, 8. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: All rights are human rights. Therefore, one cannot = distinguish property rights from human rights, because property rights = are a kind of human right. Can one distinguish roses from flowers? - = Paul Lepanto, Return to Reason, 118. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: All too many would=20 raise their personal human values above all human rights. Which human = values and which human rights? Mine would be individual liberty, the = right of individuals to secede, from armies, unions and even States, = like from churches or spouses or employers, the =20 right to issue own money tokens, to accept, refuse to accept or freely = value those of others, the right to choose a standard of value, the = right to supply oneself with work and to take all rightful and necessary = steps for this purpose, the right to form a n d join militias for the protection of human rights, and to train in them = with rightful weapons against all warmongers, the right to resist and = rebel against oppression, the right to kill tyrants, the right to = produce and exchange freely. If you don't mean all these - then what do you mean by that phrase? - J.Z., 28.8.1983. - = Needless to say, perhaps, hardly anyone of these 60 or so approved of = many or any of these. - J.Z., 8.1.1986. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: = first, a right to LIFE; secondly, to LIBERTY; thirdly, to PROPERTY; together = with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. = Those are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of = self-preservation, commonly called the firs t law of nature. - Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists, 1772. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Any group, any gang, any nation that attempts to = negate man's rights, is w r o n g, which means: is evil, which means: = is anti-life. - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 986. \par HUMAN R IGHTS: At best the phrase "Human Rights" is redundant. In fact, it is = worse than redundant, for it implies the existence of some non-human = rights (in which the enemies of property rights inevitably place such = trivial matters as production, ownership, and=20 trade). - Paul Lepanto, Return to Reason, 117/8. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Die Befugnis eines jeden Buergers die Rechte eines = jeden Mitbuergers auch ohne dessen Einverstaendnis vor Gerichten und = Behoerden zu vertreten, ferner das Recht, autonomen Rechtsgemeinschaften = a nzugehoeren,..."- Ulrich von Beckerath, Anmerkung zu Theodor Hertzka, = Das Soziale Problem, and reproduced in Peace Plans No. 551. - (The = authority for every citizen to represent the rights of a fellow citizen, = even without that citizen's consent, before c ourts and government departments, moreover, the right to belong to = autonomous communities for the protection of rights ....) Note by U. von = Beckerath to Th. Hertzka's "The Social Problem", towards the end. This = book is reproduced in PEACE PLANS No. 551.) \par HU MAN RIGHTS: Each human being has an inalienable and inherent right to = live his life in accordance with his own choices and values. Implicit in = this statement is the recognition that since this is my right, it is = also the right of every other individual an d thus I have no right to coerce or harm another, regardless of the = circumstances. - Motto of Ruth Dazey, long time collaborator of Robert = LeFevre.}{\fs24=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HUMAN RIGHTS: Even those verbally = attacking human rights must use them to attack them. (Freedom of speech, = pr ess, association and assembly are all involved, also property rights.) = If they do not only verbally but physically attack them, then they will = end up, at least in somewhat civilized societies, either dead or in = prison. - J.Z., 19.7.87. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Every day is Human Rights Day. Button offered by John = T. Harlee, who for many years published THE SOUTHERN LIBERTARIAN = MESSENGER, which included much humour. It was partly microfiched by LMP. = \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HUMAN RIGHTS: God grant, that not only = the love of liberty, but a th orough knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of = the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its = Surface, and say, "This is my Country!" - Benjamin Franklin. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: How many of your rights are now unknown to you or = suppressed, you will find out only through a complete human rights = declaration. - J.Z. 5.12.1983. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Human rights are distinct from legal privileges. - = Robert LeFevre, LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, Spring 1978, p. 8. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Human rights are freedom spheres which you may claim = fully or in parts, always or temporarily but only without infringing the = equal freedom spheres of others. - J.Z., 8.7.84 & 8.1.1986. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Human rights are more important than law and order. A = great degree of law and order can be established by general suppression. = Disorders resulting from aspiration for justice are only temporary. - = Weltanschauung, 213/4. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Human rights are those rights which you may not = restrict in others, which everybody may limit only for himself - as long = as he can stand it. - J.Z., 30.6. 84. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Human rights identify social conditions that are good = for people because they are people. Their human nature requires them. In = this human rights are standards of conduct derived fro m the nature of man - only they pertain to a social context. - Tibor R. = Machan, "REASON", May 73. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Human rights will not be protected if left solely to = the governments of this world. - Dr. Mumtaz Soysal, "MATCHBOX", Winter = 1978. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Human rights, then, exist in the conjunctive. Like = the multiplication table, they do not exist independently of our = subjective abilities to see them and understand them. - Robert LeFevre, = LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, Spring 1978, p. 8. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Human values and human rights above all. - A member = of the Southern Highlands Peace Movement, 29.5.1983. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: I hereby proclaim a new human right, namely the right = to reproduce, by any means, any human rights declaration, without having = to pay attention to so-cal led copyrights - until most human rights are sufficiently known, = clarified and realized. Any action that restricts the reproduction of = such declarations, does make the restrictionists accessories to the = suppression of human rights. - J.Z., 30.12.1985. \par HUMA N RIGHTS: I would like to see a new era in church activity, when the = ministers and priests cease their lip service to the phantom word 'love' = and become standard-bearers in the fight for justice and the rights of = man. - D. R. Runes, Treasury of Thought, 1 18. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: If citizens maintain a universal respect for human = rights, rather than for law, the society can change fast enough to meet = the swift-moving expectations of people in this century. It is g o o d = for citizens to learn that laws, when they seriously encroach on human rights, should be violated, ... - Howard = Zinn: Disobedience and Democracy, 18. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: If one wishes to fight for capitalism, one must fight = for man's rights. - Paul Stevens, THE FREEMAN, 4/73. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: In all the qu estionable rhetoric about human rights, we have forgotten something = crucial - that without property rights it is impossible to preserve and = protect other human rights. - Tibor R. Machan, introducing his article: = "Human Rights Hypocrisy" in "Reason", 10/78 . \par HUMAN RIGHTS: In the cause of freedom we have to battle for the = rights of people with whom we do not agree; and whom, in many cases, we = may not like. ... If we do not defend their rights, we endanger our own. = - Harry S. Truman. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people = are entitled to against every government on earth, general or = particular, and what no just government should refuse or rest on = inference. - Thomas Jefferson, to James Madison, 1787. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Let us make the human rights declaration our prayer, its commentary, our bible, our knowledge = of its principles and their application our religion. This religion = alone would have a chance to unify and pacify mankind - to the degree = required. - J.Z., 1965,66? \par HUMAN RIGHTS: My p roposition, then, is, that there is not a single n a t u r a l, human = right, that the government of the United States recognises as = inviolable; that there is not a single n a t u r a l, human right, that = it hesitates to trample under foot. whenever it=20 thinks it can promote its own interests by doing so. - Lysander Spooner, = to Cleveland, Works I, 31. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Only those take human rights serious enough who = attempt to codify them, attempt to improve them further or at least to = study the existing human rights codes. - J.Z., 25.6.84. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Rather than attempting historical, contemporary and = futuristic generalisations on almost every aspect of human society, I = try to concentrate on which general principles could so convincingly set = the extent and=20 limits of free individual actions (as practice of individual rights) = that individuals can, with their aid, freely determine their own fate in = the future, limited only by the laws of nature and no longer by the = arbitrary laws of man. - J.Z., 2.10.85. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Right is the agreement of everybody's arbitrary = actions with the arbitrary actions of everybody else according to a = general principle of freedom. It is accompanied by the authority to = enforce it. - J.Z., free after Immanuel Kant. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Sir, these natural, inherent, inalienable, i n d i v i d u a l rights are = sacred things. T h e y a r e t h e o n l y h u m a n r i g h t = s. They are the only rights by which any man can protect his own = property, liberty, or life against anyone w h o may be disposed to take it away. Consequently, they are not things = that any set of either blockheads or villains, calling themselves a = government, can rightfully take into their own hands, and dispose of at = their pleasure, as they have been accustomed t o do in this, and in nearly or quite all other countries. - Lysander = Spooner, to Cleveland, 7. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Stressing the independence of man underscores the = fact that human rights begin and end with the individual; that they are = not permissions, privilege s, or conditions granted to men by social institutions, by the law, or = by one's neighbors; that institutions should only protect and preserve = them, and one's neighbors should only respect them. - Anne Wortham, THE = FREEMAN, 7/75.}{\fs24=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HUMAN RIGHTS: The ability t o think - a faculty only possessed by humans (but not by ALL humans! - = J.Z.) - became the basis of all HUMAN rights in law. - INFORMATION PAPER = No. 18, TC140p74. - I dislike all legal qualifications of individual = human rights and liberties and consider th e m to be wrong. However, if the writer meant that only people rational = enough to know, appreciate and respect individual rights are rational = enough to be able to claim all of them, then I would agree. The others = have reduced themselves to a status somewher e between mental defectives and infants, babies or even animals. That is, = they have the right not to be cruelly treated, not to be unnecessarily = killed, even when they acted criminally and, as humans, to have their = right to life protected, as far as possib le, when they are innocent. Liberty of press and the right to bear arms = are not meant e.g. for babies. - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HUMAN RIGHTS: The concept of human = rights is as old as man. In essence it is simple. Rights are principles = of proper human action concer ning man's relationship with other men. - Duncan Yuille in WP Human = Rights leaflet. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights = shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the = people. - Art. IX of Bill of Rights Amendmends of US Constitution. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: The essence of the concept is that there are certain = possessions of the individual, such as his own body and mind, which no = other individual (or group) can justly control without his consent. - = Duncan Yuille, in WP Human Rights leaflet. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: The free exercise of natural human rights creates = this New World. Stop this exercise of human rights, shed individual = responsibility and individual freedom, submit to 'control' of ordinary = human affairs, and this whol e new world of economic abundance, this unprecedented wealth of good, = shelter, health, knowledge, comforts, luxuries, pleasures, this young = world of swift transportation, swift communication, this dynamic complex = of productive human energies encircling th e whole planet, can no longer be improved, then no longer be created, = then no longer exist. - Rose Wilder Lane: The Discovery of Freedom, = 225. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: The government restricts numerous basic rights by = laws and regulations and no wonder, there is not=20 even a paper bill of rights on the statute books to prevent this. - Let = us settle, for the time being, what basic rights no government, be it = Labour, Liberal or otherwise, may interfere with and let us work all the = time at extending this bill. - I have pa r ticularly in mind the rights to issue private money, to trade freely, to = invest undisturbed, to resist, to bear arms, to secede, to price freely, = to engage in any profession (even prostitution), to refuse paying taxes, = to refuse to join any organization,=20 to organise autonomously and exterritorially, to travel and migrate = anywhere, freely. - J.Z., ca. 1970. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: The opportunity to exercise human rights released a = terrific human energy. - Rose Wilder Lane: The Discovery of Freedom, p. = 218. \par HUMAN RIGH TS: The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old = parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the = whole volume of human nature, b the hand of Divinity itself, and can = never be erased or obscured by mortal power . - Alexander Hamilton , The Farmer Refuted, 5. Feb., 1775, a pamphlet = defending American liberty, written while Hamilton, aged 19, was still = in college. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: The true character of government assumes that all = human rights of the people are thrown i nto one large hotch potch, and this heap is then thrown to the lawmakers = and members of congress, for each to carry off as large a portion as = possible. - Carl Watner, on Spooner, REASON, 3/73. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 has = given Human Rights a bad name among many somewhat enlightened people. - = J.Z., 3.5.85. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: We each owe to the other to guarantee mutually the = chance to earn, to possess, to learn, to marry, etc., etc., against any = interference which would pre vent the exercise of those rights by a person who wishes to... - W. G. = Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 141. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: What the concept of human rights does not say is that = all human beings have equal ability. Or that they are equally des erving. What it acknowledges is a manifest inequality. But despite this = manifest inequality, the charge is made that all men are equal in their = abilities to control their own energies. - Robert LeFevre, LEFEVRE'S = JOURNAL, Spring 1978, p. 7. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: When a claimed human right does not directly or = indirectly promote peace and prosperity and liberty for all rational = beings, then I come to doubt that it is a genuine human right. - J.Z., = June 1984. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: When you deny human rights to others, who wo uld be entitled to claim them, then you logically deny them to yourself, = too. Human rights are meant only for people able and willing to respect = them in others, i.e. for human beings who are rational and reasonable at = least to that extent. - J.Z., 26.7.19 85. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Where human rights are not recognized one attempts to = realize them without waiting for permission from anyone. - J.Z., 4/2/77. \par HUMAN RIGHTS: Without an understanding of human rights, cooperative = survival becomes impossible. - LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, Fall 1975.}{\fs24=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HUMAN RIGHTS: You can't even = criticize human rights without using them. - J.Z., 17.9.87. \par HUMAN SACRIFICES, RELIGIOUS FANATICISM, ATTACKS, MURDERS, = TERRORISM, SACRIFICES: "Religious" people still go on making human = sacrifices - of innocent=20 people, to the "Gods" of these true believers, considering such actions = to be their right and even their duty! I know of no Church or sect that = clearly stands against collective responsibility and for individual = sovereignty and secessionism. How many of t he remaining civil wars and terrorist actions are at least partly = religiously motivated, although not necessarily by the dominant schools = of religious "thought"? - J.Z., 12. & 22.11.02. \par HUMAN, HUMANITY, MAN: Only human. That's the trouble with them. = Being h uman in this day isn't quite enough. I ask you, my friend, what is the = history of conference? - Clifford D. Simak, Ring Around the Sun, 195. - = As if we had already fully explored and utilized the full potential of = human beings, e.g., via an Ideas Archive, Panarchies, Monetary Freedom & all forms of Self-management. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 HUMANE: By what = strange and distorted definition could one be regarded as humane who = would restrict and control the decision-making of other human beings = over their own lives, or impose external=20 direction upon others and does deny them the opportunity to create for = themselves the diversity of experiences upon which personal development = and self-actualization depend? - Butler D. Shaffer, Calculated Chaos, = 227. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = HUMANENESS: ... consists in never sacr ificing a human being to a purpose. - Albert Schweitzer, The Philosophy = of Civilization, New York, McMillan Company, 1957, 292. - Are tyrants = human beings? - J.Z., 5.3.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 HUMANISM & WAR: Simak's humanists, human and alien = alike, do not want wars. They con sider war the ultimate evil; which it is. - Harry Harrison, 1977, in = introducing Clifford D. Simak, Ring Around the Sun, 7. \par HUMANISM, HUMANITARIANISM, TERRITORIALISM, DOGMATISM, FANATICISM, = TRUE BELIEVERS, COMMUNISM, NAZIS, CHRISTIANITY, PEOPLE, NATIONALI SM, RELIGIOUS & IDEOLOGICAL INTELERANCE, MYTH OF THE CHOSEN PEOPLE, = RACE, FAITH: Ein System, das die Humanitaet vergoettert, wird sie in der = Praxis verteufeln. - Ernst R. Hauschka. (A system that worships humanity = will in practice lead to hell.) - Even hu m anists are, naturally, not infallible. But as long as they tun only = their own lives into misery or hell, they have the right to do so. They = become inhuman if they want to enforce their theories over a whole = territory and all its dissenters. They share tha t wrongful ambition with most other true believers, also with most = "democrats" and most "republicans". - J.Z., 5.7.92. \par HUMANITIES: Most of what has been misnamed the Humanities does not = show much respect for the rights and liberties of individual humans or = for minorities that would rather rule themselves than be ruled by = others. - J.Z., 6.9.98, 17.10.02. \par HUMANITY & ETHNICITY: Ethnicity is the small picture. Humanity is = the big picture. - Jewish wise man quoted on radio. - 14.10.93. - But no = one should be bou nd to either picture but have his own choice. If any ethnic or = world-wide community refused membership to particular individuals then = they should remain free to establish their own for themselves, country- = or world-wide, under full exterritorial autonomy. =20 Integration should be voluntary, too, i.e., should come by individual = choice, not by law, with integrated communities gradually taking over a = larger and larger part of the world population. There has been and will = be a strong biological pressure in this d irection. - J.Z., 28.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 HUMANITY, DUTY, = IDEALS: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. = - Horace Mann, 1859. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HUMANITY, MOBS, MASSES, INDIVIDUALS: = The humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their = numbers. - Aldous Huxley. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 HUMANITY, SACRIFICES & SELF-SACRIFICES: Humanitaet besteht darin, dass = nie ein Mensch einem Zweck geopfert wird. - Albert Schweitzer. - = Humanity consists in that never any person is intentionally sacrificed. = - Es sei den von sich selbst. Und auch=20 da gibt es Pflichten gegen sich selbst. (Nach Kant.) - Unless a person = freely sacrifices himself. And even then duties against oneself (Kant) = are to be taken into consideration. -- Self-sacrifice may be moral, = serving some larger value, or it may be irrat ional. Sacrificing others, without their consent, is almost always = immoral. - J.Z., 5.7.92. \par HUMANIZATION, HUMANITY, INTEGRATION, CANNIBALIZATION, MAN, = INDIVIDUALISM, COLLECTIVISM, MAN, TERRITORIALISM, ORGANIZATION, = INTEGRATION, LEADERSHIP, UNITY, DIVERSITY: Die zunehmende "Vermenschlichung" besteht darin, dass immer feiner = empfunden wird, wie schwer der andere einzuverleiben ist. - Nietzsche. - = The increasing humanization consists in this that we feel more and more = how difficult it is to digest (integrate)=20 other individuals.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HUMANKIND, HUMANS, HUMAN NATURE, WAR, AGGRESSION, = INBORN AGGRESSIVENESS, MAN MANKIND, WAR, PEACE: The condition of man = \'85 is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. - Thomas Hobbes, = Leviathan, I, 4 - Yes, under territorialism. No under exterritorialism. = - J.Z., 12.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HUMANS, ALIENS, STRANGERS, FOREIGNERS, = EXTRATERRESTRIALS: Humans are the real aliens to each other. They do not = know each other, not even themselves, They do not know their rights and = their liberties, their potent ials, their options - most of them do not - and most of them do not even = bother to seek them out or are interested in them when confronted by = them. They are rather prejudiced against them. - J.Z., 6.7.99. - Most = humans are aliens and enemies towards the h ighest potentials in human beings. - J.Z., 17.10.02.=20 \par HUMANS, HUMAN RIGHTS, TYRANNICIDE: Human rights for all who are = human. Hitler, e.g., wasn't human. - J.Z., 15.11.75. - Tyrants are = intolerable aliens. They must be exterminated if they cannot be put in = circus cages. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par HUMANS, MAN, SURVIVAL, GRADUALISM, PANARCHISM: \'85 the pattern of = human life upon the planet Earth. A solid pattern, linked and = double-linked, made strong through many years. Nothing can threaten it, = nothing can shake it. With=20 certain slow and gradual changes, it will prevail against any threat = which may be brought against it. - Clifford Simak, Skirmish, in: = Strangers in the Universe, 143. - The territorial pattern, although = becoming stronger in recent centuries, has not made m a n more free and secure but more unfree and insecure. Slow and gradual = all-over changes are not permitted by this framework. It leads to sudden = and over-whelming disasters, especially when combined with notions of = "collective responsibility" and the ABC m a ss murder "weapons" which makes its realization easy. Only individual = secessionism and exterritorial autonomoy for volunteer communities would = permit slow and gradual changes away from it, for individuals and = minorities - and these changes might soon come fast and for many and lead to ruther sudden and radical changes - but = all only for volunteers. - J.Z., 18.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HUMANS: Human rights for all who are = human. Hitler, e.g., wasn't. - J., 75. - No tyrant is human enough to = deserve all human rights. Neverthele ss, he should be granted the liberty to lord it over volunteers. We may = need their deterrent examples to appreciate our liberties. - J.Z., = 3.11.02. - Whoever believes that Saddam Hussein was freely and willingly = elected by 100% of his voters - will believ e anything. - Alas, the communist regimes got away with such pretences = for all too long. - J.Z., 3.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HUMILITY, PRIDE: The virtue of = pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that = fount of all ugliness, Christian humility. - Max Er nst, Quoted John Russell, Max Ernst. - For all too long men were = ignorant, prejudiced, religious fanatics, unwashed, badly nourished, = illiterate and the playthings for princes. Were they the beauty of = mankind, with reasons to be proud? They had neither s u fficient self-respect nor respect for the rights and liberties of = others. Christianity certainly did not enlighten, liberate and civilize = them sufficiently but rather supported their oppression for many = centuries. That was one of the reasons for it becomi ng a State religion. - Not that the pride of barbaric invaders was much = better founded. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HUMILITY: In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates. = - Franklin. - Was Jesus humble in claiming a God as his father? I hold = the advice only to be useful i n not unnecessarily provoking others but, rather pacifying them. But = should one be humble towards aggressors or proudly stand up for = individual rights and liberties? - J.Z., 30.4.00. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HUMOUR, JOKES, LAUGHTER, MAN: Man is = the only animal that laughs and weep s; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between = what things are and what they might have been. - William Hazlitt. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HUMOUR, LAUGHTER, WIT, SATIRE, = RIDICULE, JOKES: What I want to do is make people laugh so that they'll = see things seriously. - William K. Zinsser. \par HUMOUR, WIT, JOKES, JESTS: Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas = which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. - = Author unidentified. \par HUMOUR: Humor ist Erkenntniks der Anomalien. - Hebbel. - Humour is = recognition of anomalies. \par HUMOUR: Just possibly the Achilles Heel of the State is its funny = bone. There is, after all, nothing more anarchic than humour. It sounds = preposterous, but maybe all libertarians need to do to win liberty is = laught the State to death. - Mic hael Grossberg, NEW LIBERTARIAN, 5/6, 78-80, p. 22.=20 \par HUMOUR: Perhaps one can use humour as a weapon for liberty once one = fully understands its nature and can, consequently, attempt to = synthesize it. - J.Z., 5.7.86. - In the meantime we ought to systematica lly and persistently collect and spread all jokes that do promote = liberty, ideally, in an encyclopaedia of libertarian humour. - J.Z., = 18.10.02. \par HUMOUR: Wit consists in discerning the resemblance between things = that differ, and the difference between things that are alike. - Anna = Louise de Sta\'ebl, De l'Allemagne, III, 1810. \par HUMOUR: Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the = meeting of extremes round a corner. - Leigh Hunt, Table-Talk, 1851. \par HUMOUR: Wit may be considered a combination of dissimilar images, = or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. - = Source? (Accidentally cut away. Only the Ibid - remained. - J.Z.) \par HUNGER & SERVILITY, STATISM: Hunger is the father of servility. - = D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought. - Only the ignorant hungry would seek still more oppression and exploitation, = camouflaged as "security" and "protection", which would cause still more = hunger, as many serfs experienced under the serfdom of feudalism. The = rulers, lords and masters can usually only=20 s hift hunger around, to others, unless they really manage to somewhat = protect free production and exchange. - J.Z., 26.7.92, 19.10.02. - = Hunger, in the case of the downfall of the Roman Empire and the rise of = feudalism, might have been caused largely by ex cessive taxation, combined with a deflationary condition, due to the = fact that rare metals were considered to be the only monetary exchange = options. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par HUNGER, FREEDOM: It has been well said that a hungry man is more = interested in four sandwi ches than four freedoms. - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. - "Freedom from = hunger" was one of Roosevelt's "The four freedoms". - The less freedom = to produce and exchange is left, the more people go hungry. - J.Z., = 3.4.89. - Seeing the restrictions and penalties =20 governments impose upon economic actions, shall we therefore conclude = that governments want people to suffer, remain poor or even go hungry? = Those who talk and legislate most about poverty and the poor seem to do = the most they can do to preserve or even i ncrease poverty by their "wars against poverty, which are in effect wars = against the poor. - J.Z., 3.4.89, 19.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HUNGER, MINIMUM DIETARY REQUIREMENTS & SOCIAL = SERVICES: "\'85 in 1969, an economist, Dr. Ruth Logue, retired now from = the Federal Reserve Board, published a fascinating essay in the = }{\i\fs24\lang1033 Washington Post}{\fs24\lang1033=20 . Dr. Logue had had training in agricultural economics on the basis of = which she was able, with authority, to single out four basic foods that = could satisfy 99 % of our biological requirements. They are bulgur wheat, dried skimmed milk, dried beans and lard. (Later she = withdrew the recommendation that lard be included, on the grounds that = it was only marginally necessary.) Dr. Logue had a modest proposal to = make. It was this: that unlimited supplies of=20 t hese foods should be made available to anyone who wanted them. There = would be, in other words, no eligibility requirements. She used the term = 'lifeline foods'. Under her plan, every grocery store in the U.S. would = have been furnished with as much of the f o ur foods as there was any call for. Anyone short of sustenance could, by = use of these foods, maintain perfect health, however uninteresting the = diet. She reminded us that in fact most people in the world cling = naturally to a narrow diet, for instance the=20 C hinese and their rice. Mexicans and their beans, even Americans and = their hamburgers. - What about the factor of cost? Extremely = interesting. Dr. Logue estimated that the cost of implementing her = program would be about $ 1 billion. Translated into the inf lated dollars of 1983, that figure would rise to about $ 3 billion. \'85 As things now stand, we are spending $312 billion in social welfare. In = 1968 we were spending (I am using constant dollars) just over $ 100 = billion. The cost of our food stamp program is not $ 3 billion, but over = three times that sum, $ 11.2 billion\'85 To spend $ 300 billion a year while hunger, abatable at $ 3 billion, = survives, is an example of the muddled mind at work, spending, spending, = spending and accomplishing very little. - Dr. Logu e was not making an argument against welfare unrelated to hunger. Nor is = this such an argument. There are still schools that are needed, shelter, = medical care. But the first of these is, acknowledgedly, hunger. And = given that we have a huge agricultural s urplus, the existence of hunger in a country groaning with excess food = makes keener the paradox\'85 - William F. Buckley, Jr., Right Reason, = ed. by Richard Brookhiser, Little Brown & Co, 1985, 154-56, ch. 8, = Hunger and the Feds, dated August 20, 1983. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HUNGER, STARVATION & LIBERTY: Where there is full = liberty there is no involuntary hunger. - J.Z., 12.11.75. \par HUNGER, STARVATION & LIBERTY: Where there is hunger there is no = liberty. - Blanqui. - Ignorance, stupidity, prejudice, wrongful and = senseless wars, revolut ions and monetary and financial despotism can also lead to it but they = are likewise based upon lack of rights and liberty. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 HUNGER, STARVATION, POVERTY, UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES: = All you have to do is leave people alone. - L. Neil Smith, T he Probability Broach, 120. - That does not quite apply to natural = catastrophes. But voluntary and private catastrophe insurance is also = possible and in certain forms, using monetary freedom and loan or levy = arrangements, affordable. - When they are subje c t to despotic rulers some outside help against them, consisting mainly = of the provision of a libertarian resistance, liberation, revolution and = military insurrection program, advanced by an international militia = federation, would also be justified interve ntionism. - J.Z., 24.1.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 HUNGER, STATISM, SERFDOM, SERVILITY, SLAVERY, SUBORDINATION, LACK OF = INITIATIVE, KNOWLEDGE & IDEAS: Those without sufficient knowledge of = freedom and its potential expects their salvation to come from a God, = King, Lord or the Stat e. - They fail to consider the consequences of "the release of all = creative energies" (Leonard E. Read). - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 HUNTING AS A SPORT: When a man wants to murder a = tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it = ferocity. -=20 G. B. Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionaries. - Most victims of hunters are = much less dangerous than tigers are - and none can shoot back. - J.Z., = 23.5.99. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 HUNTING MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN, WAR, INDISCRIMINATE = WARFARE, DECISION, WAR AIMS: The systematic hunting and killing of non-ranking and mostly conscripted soldiers, also of women, = children, sick and old people (collateral damage, indiscriminate air = raids & artillery fire, ABC mass murder devices), by the military slaves = of another "nation", using supposedly sci e ntific and modern "weapons" for such slaughters, is what upsets me most. = Beyond the skill in hunting and killing no quite rightful and rational = aim and purpose is pursued by the decision-makers on either side. They = just seem to delight in their power. And =20 all too many are still prepared to grant them that power. The number of = civilian victims, of non-combatants, keeps going up rather than down, as = a result of applied military "science", thus indicating how unscientific = and indiscriminate its methods still=20 are. It is up to libertarians to develop and apply real defence, = liberation and revolutionary warfare methods. Those of territorial = nationalists, totalitarians and terrorists, quite obviously, cannot be = relied upon. - J.Z., 26.7.87, 19.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 HUNTING, FISHING & SPORTS: A sportsman is a man who, = every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something. - }{\i\cf1 = Stephen Leacock. - }{\cf1=20 As if all sportsmen were hunters or fishermen! - J.Z., 29.6.00.}{\i\cf1 = =20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 HUNTING: Do those who hunt, mostly = relatively defenceless animals, fo r pleasure, have a higher than normal rate, too, for violent crimes = against innocent humans? - J.Z., 14.10.92. \par HUNTING: Hunters should declare open season upon themselves. - = J.Z., 14.10.92. \par HUNTING: I wish hunters would go after mosquitoes, flies, lice, mi ce, rates, microbes, i.e. after real pests instead of animals that are = just doing their things without harming human beings. They are = throwbacks to times when we depended upon hunting for our survival. - = J.Z., 18.10.02. \par HYPOCRICY & GOVERNMENTS: Rule by hypocrites, the only form of = government there is. - L. A. Rollins, Lucifer's Lexicon.=20 \par HYPOCRISY & TERROR: Where terror reigns, hypocrisy will raise its = changing faces. - Dagobert Runes, A Dictionary of Thought, 58. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 HYPOTHESES, FACTS: The great tragedy = of sci ence, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. - Thomas Henry = Huxley. - Unfortunately, and especially in the social "sciences" the = facts have not yet managed to slay enough hypotheses, speculations, = assertions, dogmas, beliefs, false generalisat i ons and whole schools of thought. - A libertarian encyclopaedia and one = of the best refutations of popular errors, myths and prejudices, would = be helpful, as well as an Ideas Archive and comprehensive, permanent and = cheap libertarian publishing on media l ike microfiche, floppy disks and}{\fs24 }{\f0\fs24 CD-ROMs. - J.Z., = 29.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 I CHING: Easier than "reading the augurs" but with nothing else to = recommend it. Chinese fortune cookies are just as accurate - and you get = to eat the cookie. Nevertheless, this bit of oriental non sense is treated with solemn seriousness by many "educated" people. \'85 = Robert Heinlein, Expanded Universe. \par I, INDIVIDUALS, EGO: I seem to be a verb. - Bucky Fuller, quoted by = R. A. Wilson in: Right Where You Are Sitting Now, 150. \par I: Das Ich ist das Fenster, durch welches jeder Mensch, der geboren wurde, auf die Szene des = Daseins blickt, an diesem Fenster, das bei der Geburt geoeffnet und beim = Tode geschlossen wird, durch das niemand anderer jemals blicken kann, = sitzt jeder von uns sein Leben lang. - Dixon.=20 - (The I is that window through which every human being born looks at the = scenery of existence. It is opened for him with his birth and closed = with his death. No one else can look through it. Each of us sits at it = for his whole life.) - Some do more than s it behind a window - watching others do something. It makes more sense = to day: Only you can see through your own eyes. - J.Z., 5.7.92. - We = should be more than mere observers, namely, reasonable thinkers and = activists. - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par I: Das Ich ist der Mittelpunkt des Universums. - Author unknown. - = (The I is the central point of the universe.) \par I: Das Ich ist die Spitze eines Kegels, dessen Boden das All ist. - = Morgenstern. - (The I is the top of a truncated cone, whose bottom is = the universe.) \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAL MONEY SYSTEM OR MONETARY = FREEDOM? The discussion on a \-supposedly ideal money system for all, if = such a thing were really \- possible, is likely to be almost endless. Alternatively,\- discussion on = monetary freedom for all does appear to be finite, \-since it would = confine itself to elaborating the rights,\- liberties, tolerance and opportunities existing or to be established in = this sphere, in order for individuals or their \-voluntary associations = to use them as they please, at least among \-themselves. - J. Z., free = after MFNL&MF 3/4, Feb. 89. \par IDEALISM & FANATICISM, TRUE BELIEVERS, ZEALOTS, INTOLERANCE: From = the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a = step. F. A. Hayek. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IDEALISM & IRRATIONALITY, = DOGMATISM, FANATICISM, IMMORALITY, WRONGS, RI OTS, AGGRESSION: Idealism is no excuse for irrational behaviour. - = SUNDAY TELEGRAPH on the anti-apartheid riots in New Zealand, 26. 7. = 1981. - I would have rather said: "wrongful" behaviour. - J.Z. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 IDEALISM & POLITICS, BOTH ARE ENEMIES OF THOUGHT: = Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of = will. }{\i\cf1 - Mikhail Bakunin.}{\cf1=20 - However, that applies only to territorialist idealism and politics. = - J.Z., 30.6.00. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IDEALISM & POLITICS: Idealist - A = man who, if he enters politics, can be likened t o the virgin who took lodgings in a brothel in order to convert its = inmates and patrons to the ways of virtue. - Max Nomad, A Skeptic's = Political Dictionary, 1953, 53. \par IDEALISM & POLITICS: Idealist - A man who, if he enters politics, = can be likened to the virgin who took lodgings in a brothel in order to = convert its inmates and patrons to the ways of virtue. - Max Nomad, A = Skeptic's Political Dictionary, 1953, 53. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEALISM & REALISM: Idealism without = realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral . - Richard Nixon. - Somebody else said in essence: Before you try to = build a castle in the air do provide a sound foundation for it. - J.Z., = 21.8.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IDEALISM VS. MATERIALISM: Was = waeren die Idealisten ohne den Materialismus, den sie haben, und was = waere n die Materialisten ohne den Idealismus, der sie hat? - Lohberger. - = (What would the idealists be without the materialism which they possess = and what would the materialists be without the idealism that has hold of = them?) - So many verbal opposites are not real opposites at all. - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par IDEALISM, EXPERIENCE, INTELLECTUALS, INTOLERANCE, TERRITORIALISM, = EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: \'85 that peculiar disease = of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of = experience that compels experience to conform to bookish preconceptions. - Archibald = MacLeish. - Alas, they are not yet infatuated with ideas on individual = rights and liberties, e.g., with individual sovereignty, individual = secessionism, exterritorial autonomy, voluntee r communities, monetary freedom, self-management and voluntary taxation = options, libertarian revolution, liberation and defence options, ideal = militias, etc. - One should distinguish infatuation with wrongful, false = and flawed ideas from addiction to right ful and truthful as well as profitable ideas. - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par IDEALISM, EXTREMISM & REALITY: Extreme Idealisten sind immer = Feiglinge; sie nehmen vor der Wirklichkeit Reissaus. - Bosshart. - = (Extreme realists are always cowards - they run away from reality.) \par IDEALISM, IDEALS, IDEAS: Ideale sind sie Sterne; ihr koennt sie mit = den Haenden nicht beruehren. Aber wie Seefahrer in den Wasserwuesten = waehlt ihr sie als eure Fuehrer. - Schurz. - (Ideals are like stars. You = cannot touch them with your hands. But, lik e navigators on the marine deserts, you select them as your guides.) \par IDEALISM, IDEOLOGIES, ALTRUISM, TRUE BELIEVERS, FANATICISM: Never = trust an altruist. He'll sell you down the river for the sake of a = Higher Purpose. - Michael F. Flynn, A Rose by Other Name, ANALOG, 5/90, = 155. \par IDEALISM, POLITICIANS, POWER: Idealism is a precious Toga which = politicians wrap around their will to power. - Aldous Leonard Haxley. - = Retranslated from the German version: Idealismus ist eine praechtige = Toga, wleche die Politiker u m ihren Willen zur Mach drapieren. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IDEALISM, REALISM, UTOPIANISM, REFORMS, EXPERIMENTS: If you have built = castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they = should be. Now put the foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau. \par IDEALISM, UT OPISM, REFORMISM, REVOLUTIONS, EXPERIENCE AND EXPERIMENTS, PANARCHISM: = "I find Kierkegaard's almost fanatical concern for the individual and = keen psychological insights much more appealing than the grandiose = schemes and concern for humanity-in-the-abstrac t of Hegel or Marx. Respect for groups that doesn't include respect for = individuals of those groups isn't respect at all. . . . . In history, = some of the worst disasters have been caused by idealists trying to = force people into ``doing what is good for=20 t hem''. Such idealism not only leads to suffering among its innocent = victims, but also to delusion and corruption of the idealists applying = the force. I also find idealists prone to ignore experience and = experiment that inconveniently clashes with dogma o r theory." - Bjarne Stroustrup, "The Design and Evolution of C++", p23. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 IDEALISM: An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better = than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing. - H. L. = Mencken, A Little Book in C Major p. 19 (1916). He later altered this to = read "\'85 concludes that it will also make better soup." - A Book of Burlesques, = p. 205 (1924) and A Mencken Chrestomathy, p. 617 (1949). \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEALISTS, DISHONESTY, LIES: The first = thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. - Joseph A. Schumpeter, \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 IDEALISTS, FANATICS, RADICALS, REVOLUTIONARIES, VIOLENCE, INTOLERANCE, = TOLERANCE: O ihr verwuenschten Idealisten! An euren Theorien ist nichts = reell als das Blut, das ihr dafuer vergiesst! - Hamerling, Danton und = Robespierre. - (O you coursed i dealists. Of your theories (hypotheses) nothing is real than the blood = that you spill for them.) - One should distinguish between tolerant = idealists - striving for autonomoy for themselves as well as for all = others - and intolerant idealists fighting to e stablish or maintain empires. - J.Z., 22.7.86, 25.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IDEALISTS, FANATICS: The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is = ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a = holy cause. . . . So it is better to be bossed by men of little fa ith, who set their hearts on toys, than by men animated by lofty ideals = who are ready to sacrifice themselves and others for a cause. - Eric = Hoffer. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IDEALISTS, IDEAS, ANARCHISM, = AUTHORITARIANISM, LIBERATION, PERSONALITY CULT, EMANCIPATION: I shall = die and=20 the worms will eat me, but I want our idea to triumph. I want the masses = of humanity to be truly emancipated from all authorities and from all = heroes, present and to come. - Mikhail A. Bakunin. Quoted by Eugene = Pyziur, The Doctrine of Anarchism of Michael A. Bakunin, 1955, p.6. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IDEALISTS, REFORMERS, TRUE BELIEVERS, FANATICS: Men never do evil so = completely and cheerfully as when they do it from mistaken conviction. - = Patrick Pearse. - Thus we need full experimental freedom, not only for = them but for their v ictims. - J.Z., 1.12.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEALS & LIES, SACRIFICES AND GIVING ME ONES LIFE: It's = hard enough to die for an ideal, but to give up your life for a lie... - = Frank Herbert, The Priests of PSI, 41. \par IDEALS & PANARCHISM: No doubt we will never quite attain anybod y's political ideal, but only when we have something inspiring to aim at = do we make any real progress.- Geoffrey Sampson, AN END TO ALLEGIANCE, = 16. - We, all of us, will never agree upon any single ideal. We do = have different ones, often very different=20 ones. But this does not mean that those who do agree, among themselves, = could not or should not realize their ideals among themselves, as far as = this is possible for human beings, but always only at the own expense = and risk. - John Zube, 24.3.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IDEALS & SELFS: Ideale sind unsere besseren Ichs. - = Alcott. - (Ideals are our better selves.) \par IDEALS & TRUTH: Das Ideal ist nichts als die Wahreit von weitem. - = Lamartine. (The ideal is nothing but truth from a distance.) \par IDEALS & TRUTH: Ein Ideal ist oft nichts als eine flammende Vision = der Wahrheit. - Conrad. - (An ideal is often nothing but a flaming = vision of truth.) \par IDEALS, DREAMS & FACTS: Ideals are facts of which one dreams. - = Wiggins. (Ideals are those realities which so far one sees only in one's = dreams.) \par IDEALS, IDEAS, IDEAS ARCHIVE: Ideals are no common good or commonly = accepted good. Ideals can only be broadcast or otherwise spread to and = picked up and applied by people who are already receptive for them. - = J.Z., 10.12.93. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEALS, INTEREST, LEARNING, KNOWLEDGE, = MOTIVATION, ENTHUSIASM: The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire = to be kindled. - Plutarch. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEALS, LOYALTY AND ALLEGIANCE, CONTRACTS VS. TRADITIONS: = Our ultimate allegiance is always to the ideal. - Laski, AUTHORITY IN = THE MODERN STATE, 53 . - It should be our own ideal, or one that we voluntarily adopted, not = one that others have chosen and imposed upon us. - John Zube, 19.3.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IDEALS, PANARCHIES, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY, VOLUNTEER = COMMUNITIES: Der Mensch kann mit dem Menschen nur durch das gleiche = Ideal Verbindung halten. - Saint-Exup\'e9 ry. - (Man can remain connected with men only through the same ideal.) - = Trade, free pricing, contracts, can also hold men together, even those = who are ideologically opposed to free trade, free pricing and free = contracts. - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par IDEALS, POLITICS, TERRITORIALISM, EXTERRITORIALITY, EXPERIMENTAL = FREEDOM, VOTING, FANATICISM, TOTALIRARIANISM, TERRORISM: An ideal cannot = wait for its realization to prove its validity. - George Santayana: The = Life of Reason, I, 1905. -- What is true for the unjustified delays for reforms, under = exclusive territorial politics, which thus lead to terrorism, = revolutions, dictatorships and wars, is not true for the exterritorial = and voluntaristic alternatives. - Panarchism offer s opportunities to all kinds of idealists, immediately, once its = experimental freedom is generally realized, to do their things for and = to themselves, quite independently of the prejudices, widom and = practices of other volunteer communities and their leade rs. - J.Z., 17.10.85, 10.76.86, 24.10.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEALS, PURPOSE, REFORMS, VALUES: Apply your mind = in at least one problem which has never been solved, which in general is = considered impossible of solution, but which, being solved, would help = humanity. Do with y our life something that has never been done, but which you feel needs = doing. - Harvey H. Nininger, ANALOG, Mid-Dec. 90, 10. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEALS, REALITY, FUTURISM & HISTORY: Ideale sind = nur dann Ideale, wenn sie eine Reflexion der Wirklichkeit sind. Indem = wir vorwaerts denken, muessen wir zurueckdenken. - Hans Habe, Leben fuer den = Journalismus, Bd 4, S. 63. - (Ideals are ideals only when they reflect = reality. While we think ahead, we must reflect upon the experience of = the past.) \par IDEALS: Das Ideal ist \'85 das Wirkliche in seiner hoechsten = Wahrheit. - Hegel. (The ideal is - the reality in its highest truth.) \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS = & ARGUMENTS: Perhaps philosophers need arguments so powerful they set up = reverberations in the brain: if the person refuses to accept the = conclusion, he dies. How 's that for a powerful argument? - Robert Nozick, Philosophical = Explanations. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS & BOOKS: If only each book contained at least one = worthwhile idea. That would already amount to a treasure of over 400 = million worthwhile ideas. - J.Z., 21.1.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS = & CIRCUMSTANCES: It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men to = put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. - Emerson, Miscellanies: = war. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 IDEAS & COPYRIGHTS: If nature has made any one thing = less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual = may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself, but the = moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, = and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of =20 it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, = because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea = from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who = lights his taper at mine, receives light wit h out darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another = over the globe, for moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement = of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently = designed by nature, whom she made them, like fi r e, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any = point, and like the air in which we breath, move, and have our physical = being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions = then cannot, in nature, be a subject of pro perty. - Thomas Jefferson.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 IDEAS & COURAGE: The thing that gives people courage is ideas. - George = Clemenceau. - Courage to fight for the wrong kind of ideas is one of our = major problems. Rightful ideas often do not only need courage but also = organization, training, arms and quite a number of supporters to succeed and get = their optimum chance only under experimental freedom for volunteers. - = J.Z., 5.7.00. \par IDEAS & FORUMS OR PLATFORMS: It is impossible for ideas to compete = in the marketplace if no forum for t heir presentation is provided or available. - Thomas Mann. - Just one = forum, or even many of them, is by far not enough to launch good ideas = properly. Books and speeches etc. are often largely ignored for decades. = A proper free market especially for ideas =20 and talents is needed. A few forums are not good enough substitutes. - = Free marketeers, especially, should be aware of that. - We have free = markets even e.g. for pork belly futures - but not for our most precious = possession, our freedom ideas! - J.Z., 2.7 .00. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS = & HISTORY: Ideas determine world history. - Jean-Pierre Hamilius, Mises, = bibliography, 277. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS = & HISTORY: Ideas shape the course of history. - John Maynard Keynes. - = His, unfortunately, did so and still do. Just ponder what the central = banks a re doing to you with their coercive & monopolized paper currency, in = execution of Keynes' ideas, even decades after he had been = scientifically refuted, e.g. by Prof. Hutt. - J.Z., 2.7.00. - They can = do so only if their supporters are quite free to expres s them and spread them in a way that they can afford and, moreover, if = they are free to practise them among themselves. - Ideas that are wrong = and that are imposed upon dissenters are among our worst problems. - = Even correct and provable ideas should not b e imposed upon dissenters because that would provoke resistance. They = could do pretty well for themselves under freedom of expression, = affordable publicity for them and full freedom to experiment with them = among volunteers. - J.Z., 5.7.00.=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS & HISTORY : The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, = theories and doctrines that determine human action, determine the = ultimate ends men aim at and the choice of the means employed for the = attainment of these ends. - Ludwig von Mises, Plann ed Chaos, 62. \par IDEAS & IDEAS ARCHIVE: The greatest positive force lies in positive = ideas, provided they can be freely expressed and practically = demonstrated, there is proper market for them that brings the supply of = and the demand for ideas together, the sam e is done for all talents, and, moreover, opportunities exists for the = free experimentation with all such ideas among volunteers. - A market = for ideas and for their experimental realization! - John Zube, 7.12. = 84, 26.3.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS = & IDEAS ARCHIVE: The great est positive force lies in positive ideas, provided they can be freely = expressed and practically demonstrated, there is proper market for them = that brings the supply of and the demand for ideas together, the same is = done for all talents, and, moreover, op portunities exists for the free experimentation with all such ideas = among volunteers. - A market for ideas and for their experimental = realization! - J.Z., 7.12. 84, 26.3.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS & IDEAS CARRIERS & ORIGINATORS: A good idea does = not mind who has it. - Heard on radio, SA, 23.8.94, in a talk show by a = lady. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0=20 IDEAS & IDEOLOGUES: Mella came to the same conclusion, through his = conviction that every idea had an equal right to manifest itself. - Max = Nettlau, A SHORT HISTORY OF ANARCHISM, 201. - Every ideologue has . Ideas, as mere abstractions, have no rights. - J.Z..=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IDEAS & INDIVIDUALS, PUBLIC OPINION: Collective judgement of new ideas = is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on = individuals being free to back their own judgement despite collective = disapproval. - W.A. Lewis. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0=20 IDEAS & LANGUAGE, TWO-VALUED LOGIC, POLARIZED THINKING: Korzybski holds = that our moment-to-moment behavior, as well as our mental health, is = determined by prescientific assumptions embedded in the language we = learned as chil dren. Scientists, for instance, fight shy of two-valued logic; but our = language structure practically forces us to choose between black and = white with little allowance for shades of gray.- Stuart Chase, THE = PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND..., 252. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS & NEWSPAPERS, PRESS, MASS MEDIA: = The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas. - Pierre Joseph Proudhon. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 IDEAS & OPINIONS: New opinions are always suspected, and = usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not = already common. }{\i\cf1 - John Locke.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS & OPINIONS: Opinions are stronger than armies. Opinions, if they are = founded in truth and justice, will in the end prevail against the = bayonets of infantry, the fire of artillery, and the charges of cavalry. = \'85 Palmerston, quoted in C. Bingham, Men & Affairs. \par IDEAS & PASSIONS: \'85 so few could be passionate about ideas. - Ethel Mannin, Crescendo, = 1928-1937, 196. - So few people get in touch with many ideas that are = really worth getting passionate about. The best ideas can only rarely, = if at all, be encountered in the mass media and are more or less buried in hundreds of millions = of books and periodicals. If some of them should fleetingly appear in = the mass media, then they are usually buried by masses of false ones. = The educational establishments are also not=20 g eared to uncover and promote sound ideas. On the contrary. The existence = of an Ideas Archive would make it much easier and certain that one = encounters worthwhile ideas, if one wants to. How many are now more or = less buried in SF and futuristic writings? - J.Z., 19.4.00. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS & PEOPLE:... = people are only interesting because of the ideas they have. - Charles = Sheffield, The Web Between The Worlds, 65. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS = & PERSONALITIES: Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the = power of personality. A union of=20 the two always makes history. - Henry James, Charles W. Eliot, I, 235. - = "Always" is an exaggeration. To come close to that ideal a number of = precondition have to be fulfilled. Among them is the establishment of an = ideas archive and talent central regist ry, as well as full freedom of action and experimentation. We shouldn't = expect too much when a fully free market for ideas, talents and = experiments is still missing. - J.Z., 1.4.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS & PERSONALITY, HISTORY: Ideas are, in truth, = forces. Infinite, too,=20 is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. - = Henry James, Charles W. Eliot, I, 235. \par IDEAS & POWER: Never underestimate the power of an idea. - Frank = Herbert, Heretics of Dune, 475. - Especially if it is offered well = enough and in a really free and suitable market for ideas. - J.Z., = 7.2.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS & PROGRESS, PANARCHISM: = Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. = - Alfred North Whitehead.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS & SUCCESS: Success is often = just an idea away. - Frank Tyger-Ferbes. \par }{\fs24\lang1046=20 IDEAS & TALENTS: With ideas and talents as well, any rubbish and = inferior ones always outnumber the best and superior ones. - J.Z., = 2.7.98, 21.10.02. - But unless all are sufficiently recorded and offered = not sufficent selection among them will take place. - J.Z., 21.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS = & THE FATE OF THE WORLD: Mises understood very well that the fate of the = world depends on the ideas men hold. - Bettina Bien Greaves, Mises = bibliography, 363. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS & THE LACK OF AN IDEAS ARCHIVE: During his last = months on the }{\i\fs24\lang1033 Freeman}{\fs24\lang1033=20 his belief in the efficacy of ideas was severely shaken. - - Michael = Wreszin, The Superfluous Anarchist Albert Jay Nock, Brown U.P., = Providence, 1972, 73. - He should not have assumed that one additional = small magazine for liberty would be=20 enough to launch all worthwhile freedom ideas successfully upon the = world. None of the presses of the past and present are, between them, a = good substitute for a proper market for ideas, an Ideas Archive, that = would systematically bring demand and supply=20 in this sphere together. Some do even try to achieve this with the few = pages of a small newsletter! Nor are a few books or whole small = libraries enough. - J.Z., 3.5.00.=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS & THE = UNKNOWN: Most people simply aren't unhappy enough with the known to = trade i t for the unknown. - Joan D. Vinge, The Snowqueen, 194. - What is, is = known to most people almost as little as what could be. Therefore, the = few thinkers and pioneers need not only freedom of information and = expression but also freedom to experiment among volunteers. - John Zube, 6.3.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS & THEIR RECEPTION, PANARCHISM, MONETARY FREEDOM = ETC.: \'85 an irruption of new ideas does not necessarily flood the whole mind, = but may have a very limited reception and application. - Theo P. = Perkins, in Tucker's LIBERTY, 1892. \par IDEAS & THOUGHTS, MAN, REFORMS, CHANGES: The key to every man is = his thought\'85. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which = commands his own. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Circles," Essays: First = Series, p. 303 (1903). - Any comprehensive id eas archive would contain many such ideas. Would each man find them by = himself or would his friends or opponents have to dig them out for him? = - J.Z., 25.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS & THOUGHTS: How can one get many or enough = people to cheer good thoughts and ideas as muc h as they do cheer athletes and popstars? How can one get them to spend = as much time and money on ideas and thoughts as they do on sports and = entertainment? Can one make ideas and thoughts as attractive? How much = support must rightful ideas and thoughts g a in to become effective? How much marketing and publicity must be = provided for them and how much free experimentation? Even the survival = instinct has so far not been strong enough to push most or enough mind = in the right direction. - J.Z., 23.4.97, 21.10.0 2. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS & THOUGHTS: Thoughts rule the world. - Ralph = Waldo Emerson. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS = & TRUTH:... face calumny, injustice and loneliness for the truth which = makes men free... - H. L. Mencken, 1908. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS & WEALTH: Wealth increase where ideas are free. - = Robert Anton W ilson, The Earth Will Shake, 277. Ideas can't be free or unfree, only = people can be free or unfree regarding ideas. Rather: When rightful = ideas may be freely uttered, recorded, listened to and applied. - J.Z., = 22.1.02.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS & WORDS: Perhaps ideas had to become forgotten in = order to become real again; \'85 Upton Sinclair, Dragon's Teeth, 186. - The words expressing some = important ideas have become, to all too many people, just words or = background noise, without meaning. Often they have to rediscover their = mea ning under new terms in order to understand it. In other words, the more = often some words are seen, heard of spoken, the less they are = understood. The mind becomes numbed by them. What makes the situation = worse is that so many terms are also misunderstood in many ways or given multiple wrong meanings. Thus the true meaning is = largely covered up by false ones. - J.Z., 22.4.00. \par IDEAS & WORDS: We should have a great many fewer disputes in the = world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas = only, and not for things themselves. - John Locke. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS & WORDS: We = should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken = for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things = themselves. - John Locke, Essay on the Human U nderstanding, iii, Chapter 10. - Compare: The map is not the territory! \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 IDEAS ARCHIVE & INTERNET: Can intelligence and the best ideas and = talents come to the forefront through the Internet? So far it seems that = unusual ideas are as much buried in there as they are in large libraries. Most of the Internet information caters to = mass tastes and interests, just like the mass media do. A special ideas = archive and talent registry on the Internet might do some good but the = Internet does not automatical act as a=20 m arket for ideas and talents. May be it will one day but that day has not = yet arrived. To judge its relative ineffectiveness: Consider how = incomplete its directories, book offers, abstracts, bibliographies and = review compilations still are. It does not yet =20 offer a comprehensive anarchist or libertarian encyclopaedia.. It has = not yet scanned in numerous freedom texts. It is an interesting = beginning and has much to offer but cannot yet fulfill every dream for a = comprehensive information revolution. - J.Z., 14 .2.98, 20.10.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IDEAS ARCHIVE & TALENT & GENIUS CENTRE: Arrogance in persons of merit = affronts us more than arrogance in those without merit: merit itself is = an affront. - Friedrich Nietzsche. - Thus the men of talent and genius = should not be merely expos ed to the general market, with its public opinions and prejudices, but = registered in a special market, where the supply of them can meet all = the demand for them. They require special employment agencies, at least = as good as those for writers, sportsmen an d actors. The same applies to their innovative ideas. - J.Z., 21.8.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 IDEAS ARCHIVE & TALENT CENTRE: Es ist traurig anzusehen, wie ein = ausserordentlicher Mensch sich gar oft mit sich selbst, seinen = Umstaenden, seiner Zeit herumwuergt, ohne auf einen gruene n Zweig zu kommen. Trauriges Beispiel: Buerger. - Goethe. -- (It is a = sorry sight to see how an extraordinary man so often struggles with = himself, his conditions, his time, without getting out of his trouble. A = tragic example: Buerger. - Goethe.)\tab=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS ARCHIVE & TALENT CENTRE: Great = spirits have always encountered violent opposition=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 IDEAS ARCHIVE & TALENT CENTRE: Wenn mancher Mann wuesste, wer mancher = Mann waer, taet mancher Mann manchem Mann manchmal mehr Ehr. - (If some = men know who some men are then some men would honour some men more.) - = Source? -=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS ARCHIVE & = TALENT REGISTRY: Young man, behold the fate of reformer. - Voltaire, to = a young humanitarian, pointing to a crucifix.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS ARCHIVE, AUDIO- & VIDEO-TAPE ARCHIVE, LECTURES: = \'85 every lecture wa s put on tape as a matter of course, even those which were not either = broadcast or syndicated. - Frederik Pohl, Drunkard's Walk, 14. - Now = they could be put more cheaply on CDs - and much more cheaply on text = only CDs that are also zipped. - - However, c o mplete publishing of all presentations, in all formats, is not enough. = The ideas contents must also become sufficiently extracted and = displayed, together with the related ideas contents of all other = complete presentations. Most books, for instance, contai n only one or a few new ideas, if any, and if these are not extracted = and accessibly displayed then these ideas get more or less and for all = too long buried in these books. J.Z., 20.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, BOOKS, ENCYCLOPAEDIAS: Books can only embrace the = mor e or less narrow knowledge, ideas and visions of their authors. For that = reason an ideas archive, comprehensive special libraries and information = services and "open" and growing encyclopaedias are needed, that would = much more comprehensively represent th e whole spectrum of ideas, opinions and facts. Quite cheaply and with a = low risk these could only be produced, kept in print and frequently = updated in some of the so far neglected alternative media for book = publishing, like microfiche, floppy disks and CD- R OMs. Neither print on paper nor Internet publishing have led so far to = complete, permanent and cheap book publishing. Editors have improved = many texts - but have also prevented many others from being published in = the conventional ways. - J.Z., 9.10.02, 31 .10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IDEAS ARCHIVE, CD-ROM PROJECT, LMP, PEACE PLANS: To create a new culture = does not only mean to make original discoveries on an individual basis. = It also and especially means to critically popularize already discovered = truths, make them, so to speak, social, therefore give them the consistency of basis for vital actions, = make them coordinating elements of intellectual and social = relevance. - Antonio Gramsci. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS ARCHIVE, CHILDREN, EDUCATION: = Children, delivered to the State's educational ins titutions, upon their mercy or lack of it, will have the tendence to = become all the same, while the few, who cannot adapt to the official = scheme, are exposed to prosecution not only by their fellows but also by = the intstitution. (There are very positive a n d also very negative elements among them.) That means, that especially = those, with the greatest mential faculties, will be hunted and tortured = until their spirit is broken. Furthermore, it means that the = overwhelming majority, which manages to adapt, beco mes very self-confident, ready to prosecute and completely incapable to = lend their ears patiently to a new idea. - Bertrand Russell, = re-translated from "Ehe und Moral", the German version of Marriage & = Morality. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, COPYRIGHTS, PATENTS: Don't wor ry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll = have to ram them down people's throats. - Howard Aiken. - Even that way = it is impossible to convey new ideas successfully. The will rather tend = to vomit them up or excrete them undige s ted. Ideas as well as details on talents must be conveyed and accessible = in special markets, archives, clearing houses and centres where the = supply of and demand for them will be brought together, from the whole = world, permanently, easily and systematical l y. My favourite image of the effectiveness of such a centre is: A = postcard describing an offer should be able to reach almost all those = who would presently or in the future be interested in it. Likewise, a = postcard indicating the demand for a new idea or=20 talent should there be able to to find all those who presently or in the = future can supply the wanted idea or talent. - These are our greatest = treasures, essential even for our very survival. Let us finally treat = them as such. - J.Z., 1.11.97, 2120.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDE AS ARCHIVE, COPYRIGHTS: The best ideas are common property. - Lucius = Annaeus Seneca, Epistles, 12, 11. - If only that were always the case. = It is not the case for the best libertarian and anarchist ideas, not = even among libertarians and anarchists. - What is true about this remark is merely that the best ideas could and = should not be monopolized. They are hard enough to spread if they are = freely offered. - J.Z., 25.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS ARCHIVE, CRITICAL MASS OF IDEAS & TALENTS, = INFORMATION EXPLOSION: What is the "c ritical mass" for freedom ideas and talents. The Ideas Archive and LMP, = as well as the CD-ROM project could help us to find out - and could lead = us to the essential information explosion. - J.Z., 10.3.95, 19.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, DISCOVERERS, INVENTORS, INNOVATORS, REFORMERS: = Niemand bezweifelt, dass Stuart Mill Recht hatte, als er beklagte, dass = all Entdeckungen und Erfindungen bisher nicht vermochten, die Plage und = Not auch nur }{\b\fs24\lang1046 eines}{ \fs24\lang1046 arbeitenden Menschen zu lindern, welch schrecklicher = Wahnsinn jedoch, zu glauben, dass gerade }{\b\fs24\lang1046 = das}{\fs24\lang1046=20 notwendig sei, damit fernerhin entdeckt und erfunden werde. - Theodor = Hertzka, 1890. -- (Nobody doubts that John Stuart Mill was right when he = complained that all discoveries and inventions had so far not sufficied = to mitigate the plagues and sufferings even of a single working man, thus what a = terrible madness it is to believe that precisely this would be necessary = to achieve fruther discoveries and inventions.) -- An argument against = the popular view that necessity and need woul d be the mother of invention. - As for the supposed uselessness of = inventions: Try to hammer in a nail without a hammer or secure a screw = without a screwdriver - or to join two parts without either nails, = screws or glue. All inventions, discoveries and pos i tive inventions and reforms tend to become, given their chance, the = common heritage of mankind, increasing everyone's prosperity - and = saving labour. Thus they could be encouraged and facilitated as much as = possible. That would require, among other things , an Ideas Archive and freedom to experiment. - J.Z., 22.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IDEAS ARCHIVE, FREE MARKET FOR IDEAS: The most serious threat to the = free market of ideas, as would be constituted by an Ideas Archive, is = the notion that it has already been achieved. - J.Z.,=20 1.12.02. - (My version of the same remark, author unknown, about = democracy.) \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 IDEAS ARCHIVE, FREE MARKET: A truly free and effective free market for = free market information of all kinds will only come into existence when = a comprehensive market for all kind=20 of oral and written or otherwise recorded information has been = established and made sufficiently known. Free marketeers have the = greatest interest in establishing such a market or would benefit most = from it, since it would best market all freedom informat ion. - J.Z., 11.9.98. - Nevertheless, they have so far shown to me very = little interest in such a market but merely presumed that it does = already exist or is provided by their periodicals and their websites. - = J.Z., 21.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, HATE, ENVY, JEALOUSY: It is noteworthy that hatred = can be caused as well by good deeds as by evil ones. - Machiavelli, The = Prince, page 98 of a German edition.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS ARCHIVE, IDEAS, COMMUNICATION: An idea is = futile if it can't be communicated from the originator to the man who = can apply it. \'85 Whose job is it to maintain communication with the intelligent and = understanding amateur? - John W. Campbell, Jr., in ASTOUNDING SF, = British edition, Nov. 1954 editorial, pages 5 & 6. - If it ISN'T = communicated from the originator to the man who is able AND WILLING to apply it. To achieve that a proper = market for the supply of new ideas and for the demand for new ideas has = to be established, one where both will meet as soon as possible. - J.Z., = 3.2.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS ARCHIVE, IDEAS, LIBERTARIA NISM, MURPHY'S LAW, PANARCHISM: The probability of something happening = is inversely proportional to its desirability. - Quoted by John Pearce, = 4.7.93. - The undesirable is much more likely to happen than the = desirable, unless full freedom of expression a nd information is introduced together an Ideas Archive and Talent = Registry and also full freedom for tolerant experiments among the = believers. - J.Z., 22.10.02.=20 \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, INNOVATION & POVERTY, NEEDS, LACK OF OPPORTUNITIES: = Der Kulturmensch, der hoehere Beduerfnisse (als die Stilling von Hunger, = Durst und Geschlechtstrieb) einmal kennen gelernt, wird desto emsiger = }{\b\fs24\lang1046 deren}{\fs24\lang1046=20 Befriedigung anstreben, je weniger ihm entwuerdigende Not die = Spannkraft des Geistes und Koerpers gebrochen hat und je zweifelloser de r Erfolg seines Strebens ist. - Theodor Hertzka. -- (The man of culture, = once he has come to know higher needs than those of merely quieting = hunger, thirst and sex drive, will all the more endevour to satisfy = these higher ambitions the less a dehumanizing poverty has broken the strength of his mind and body and the more = certain the success of his striving is.) - The most poverty-stricken = and desperate people are rarely the most inventive and innovative ones. = - J.Z., 22.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, INNOVATORS, INV ENTORS, DISCOVERERS, CREATIVITY, EXPERTS, SCIENTISTS, PROFESSIONALS, = LAYMEN, ORIGINALITY: You would be surprised to find what a poor inventor = the average scientist makes. - C. S. Forester: Randall and the River of = Time. - More people readily listen to rec ognized experts scholars and scientists than to genuine and radical = innovators that are unknown and not officially sanctioned. Thus these = innovators need a special ideas and talent market even more than the = recognized experts. - J.Z., 22.10.02.=20 \par IDEAS ARCH IVE, INNOVATORS, PIONEERS, PROBLEMS, PUBLIC OPINION, CLOSED MINDS: Ein = jedes Problem durchlaeuft bis zu seiner Anerkennung drei Stufen: In der = ersten erscheint es laecherlich, in der zweiten wird es bekaempft und in = der dritten gilt es als selbstverstaend l ich. - Schopenhauer. -- ( Every solution, until it is recognized, goes = through three stages: In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is = fought, and in the third it is considered to be self-evident.) - I would = insert a fourth one, before his No. 3:=20 i n the third it will be defended as the idea of someone else and in the = fourth it will be considered to be self-evident. - J.Z., 23.10.02. -- = Schopenhauer: Eristische Dialektik, Kniff 30: Indeed, there exists no = opinion, no matter how absurd, which people=20 c ould not easily turn into one of their own if only one succeeds in = persuading them that such an opinion would already be generally = accepted. - - It is more easy for them to die than to think. (Ja, es = gibt keine noch so absurde Meinung, die die Menschen n icht leicht zu der ihrigen machten, sobald man es dahin gebracht hat, = sie zu ueberreden, dass solche allgemein angenommen sei. \'85 Es ist ihnen leichter, zu sterben, als zu denken.) - I collected many = such remarks as proofs for the need of an Ideas Archive.=20 But offhand I can't remember even a single person, apart from my = youngest son, whom I have succeeded in persuading, at least temporarily, = to become a fan of an Ideas Archive. And he got his mind now stuffed = with many other ideas, most of which I consider=20 a ll too flawed. - There is still no Ideas Archive and Talent centre to = bring these treasures and the demand for them together in a special free = market, precisely because they are or will be appreciated, at least = initially, only by a few and and they are in sufficiently publicized and the already existing demand is thus not = concentrated on them. - J.Z., 23.10.02.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS ARCHIVE, INNOVATORS, REFORMERS, INVENTORS, = LIBERATORS: \'85 you are about to learn that in the Country of the Blind = the one-eyed man is in for a=20 hell of a rough ride. - Robert Heinlein, The Puppet Masters, 31.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033=20 IDEAS ARCHIVE, INNOVATORS, REFORMERS, PANARCHISM: Nobody does good to = men with impunity. - Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917. - Alas, the situation is = otherwise for the supposed public servants, pro tectors and defenders: They are often rewarded and honored for their = wrongful and mistaken actions. - Panarchism and an Ideas Archive, = combined with an ideal militia for the protection of individual rights = and liberties could remedy both situations. - J. Z., 2.2.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046=20 IDEAS ARCHIVE, INNOVATORS, REFORMERS, SCHOLARS, MARKETING OF IDEAS = TALENTS: "Great truths do not interest the multitudes, and now that the = world is in such confusion, even though I know the Path, how can I = guide? I know I cannot succeed and tha t in trying to force results I shall merely add to the confusion. Isn't = it better to give up and stop striving? But then, if I do not strive, = who will? - Chuang-Tzu, 300 B.C. \par }{\fs24 IDEAS ARCHIVE, INNOVATORS, THINKERS: Great innovators and = original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as = lightning rods draw the flashes. - Theodor Reik. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS ARCHIVE, ISOLATION OF TALENTS & INNOVATORS, = MICROFILM, CD-ROM PROJECT, NETWORKING, INTERNET: There was so much to = say - and no one to say it to. - Clifford Simak, Worlds of Wonder, = story: Full Cycle, p. 99. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, ITG, TALENT CENTRE: Almost all great talents need = publicity and sales managers - but are not always aware of this and act = upon it, particularly when their talents are not easy to sell to man y people and for much. Boxers, politicians, musicians and actors have = usually a large and well organized as well as lucrative market for their = great talents and thus for them, as well as in business enterprises, = catering to wide-spread and frequent wants=20 a nd tastes, their requirments are catered to. The rest ought to be helped = by an Ideas Archive and Talent Centre that establishes a special market = for them. Otherwise they might perish or might not be fully developed or = will be utilized all too late and the y will not lead to many more ideas and much more creative use of a = talent. - J.Z., Dec. 88 & 25.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, JUDGMENT, VISION, SEEING, UNDERSTANDING, = COMPREHENSION: The brutal ability to aadmit that something's wrong and = needs remedying - you've no idea how rare it is in this world of easy = optimism. - C. S. Forester: Randall and the River of Time. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, KNOWLEDGE: Knowledge can be enormously costly, and = is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be = individually usable in d ecision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered = fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems - perhaps "the" = basic problem - of any society. - Thomas Sowell.=20 \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, LIBERATION: Answers, solutions, ideas for the libera tion of everyone - to the extent that they deserve it, i.e., have a = right to be free and want to be free (not having infringed the rights = and liberties of others), together with full employment and prosperity = as a result of their own thinking and efforts. - J.Z., 18.7.95. - A comprehensive Ideas Archive could supply these = options fast to all who are interested. Many of them are already offered = in my own microfiched PEACE PLANS series. 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We still crouch within our cave, staring out beyond = the smoky fire that guards the entranc e of our cave against the illimitable darkness upon the world. - = Clifford D. Simak, Ring Around the Sun, 152. - How many ideas, how much = knowledge, how many books, are welcomed by most people who are not = living in natural caves but artificial ones, in pre tty houses, furniture and gardens? - J.Z., 30.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, MARKETING, SALESMANSHIP, MANAGEMENT: I have been = repeatedly told that I should not just offer but properly market ideas = with salesmanship and clever psychology, training as a speaker, write r and marketing man or public relations expert. But I rather rely upon = division of labour in the production, collection, development and sale = of ideas and talents, upon specialized skills and training of others - = and, most importantly of all, upon the est a blishment of a proper market for new ideas and talents. It could bring = almost automatically demand and supply in this sphere together. However, = neither of these approaches are sufficiently grasped as possible and = desirable in this sphere, enough to lead t o the establishment of an effective and world-wide Ideas Archive and = Talent Centre & their various services. Alas, big ideas don't fit easily = into small minds and small thoughts. - J.Z., 26.6.89, 25.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS ARCHIVE, MONETARY = FREEDOM, INFLATION, DEFLATI ON, DEPRESSIONS, MONETARY DESPOTISM, MARKET, FREE MARKET, = LIBERTARIANISM: The "free" market is not free market without full = monetary and financial freedom. Nor is it a free market without an Ideas = Archive and Talent Centre and without free competition for =20 exterritorially autonomous governmental and societal services, i.e., = while there is compulsory consumption for territorially and = monopolistically supplied governmental disservices. In a free market all = forms of self-management would also be freely practis e d among volunteers, towards ending the organized antagonism & industrial = warfare of the employer-employee relationship and achieving productive = capital for all. As freedom lovers and people who have long and largely = in vain tried to sell freedom ideas, fr e edom institutions, freedom principles, practices and talents, = libertarians should be aware of this much more than others are - but = they still aren't, they still do not fully envision a free market that = is quite free and under the rule of "laissez-faire, l a issez passer" in every creative sphere. Most do still have their = hang-ups with e.g., "limited governments", with monopolies for defence, = protection and jurisdiction, with "owning" embryos like slaves and they = still believe that the "free market for ideas=20 a nd talents" does already exist and that, e.g., printing and Internet = services are cheap and powerful enough for all purposes, so they closed = their minds to alternative, powerful and lasting media like microfiche, = floppy disks, CD-ROMs and DVDs, especially =20 for the permanent, complete and cheap publishing of all their own = literature. As all too flawed marketeers for their literature they have = still not supplied libertarian large encyclopaedias, abstracts, = bibliographies, review collections and alphabetical i ndexes and comprehensive library and information services and are still = pottering around only with a fraction of all freedom ideas and = opportunities. - J.Z., 28.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS ARCHIVE, MOUSETRAP QUOTE: "If = a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon , or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his = house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. - = Emerson. - This has not been the general experience of inventors, = innovators and thinkers who were much ahead of thei r times. - It would mostly happen only once the new "mousetrap" has been = properly marketed, especially by being announced in an Ideas Archive. - = J.Z., 22.1.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS ARCHIVE, NEED, POVERTY, HUNGER, STARVATION, = EMERGENCY REQUIRED FOR IDEAS? Die grossen Denke r, Erfinder und Entdecker aller Zeiten und Nationen, sie wurden nicht = durch Hunger angespornt, ja man kann in der Mehrzahl der Faelle = behaupten, dass sie sannen und dachten und forchten und fanden, nicht = weil, sondern trotzdem sie hungerten. - Theodor Her t zka. -- ( The great thinkers, inventors and discoverers of all times and = nations were not spurred by hunger. One can indeed assert, for the = majority of cases, that they thought and pondered, searched and found = not because of but in spite of being hungry.) \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, PARLIAMENTS, PETITIONS, INFORMATION REVOLUTION: = Ideally, a mere postcard, shortly describing some important new fact, = idea, solution or talent and sent to a perfected marketing institution, = should set that idea etc. on the fast and certain=20 t rack towards its realization in the whole world, if it is the best, the = most truthful idea or the top talent in the field. Unfortunately, such a = perfect market institution does not yet exist. Parliaments, MPs, and = recognized experts, the mass media as wel l as specialized periodicals, universities and research institutes and = think tanks are still far from realizing this ideal or even perceiving = it as being desirable. - J.Z., 13.2.97. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, PERSUASION, PROPAGANDA, CONVERSION: Turn the testing = and rea lization of your ideas, as far as possible, from your problem into their = self-interested problem. - Suggested by Ralph Williams in his story The = Test, in ASTOUNDING SF, 10/53, p. 99. - In a general, not a specific = way, this is done by a special market for =20 ideas, which would bring the supply and demand for ideas, as well as = talents, systematically together. Public bets and prize competitions for = ideas and talents would also help, not only venture capital companies. = Each of the alternatively ruling two large s t parties should also be supplied with optimal ideas for themselves and = optimal refutations of the remaining errors of their opponents. The = leading opinion makers in each country should also be systematically = approached with positive ideas that could pro m ote their careers and with effective criticism for their remaining = errors, which weaken their effectiveness. Turn ideas into appealing and = satisfying drugs or curing fevers, as far as this is humanly possible. = Special Olympics for ideas and ideas carriers =20 might also help. So would comprehensive, cheap and permanent publishing, = combined with bibliographies, abstracts, reviews and indexes guiding to = the best ideas. - Make your problem their problem, your incentive their = incentive, to the fullest extent that=20 this can be rightfully and tolerantly done. - Individual secessionism = and panarchies would be large steps in this direction, so would the = monetary freedom revolution and voluntary taxation that would follow = from this basic reform. - J.Z., 20.10.02. \par IDEAS AR CHIVE, PRICING, MARKET: The pricing system has so far failed especially = for the best of the old and new ideas in the social sciences. But then = it has always depended on proper general and special markets being = established for everything. The self-publishi n g options for innovators were limited and expensive. So was the demand = in the mass media for what they had to offer. A special market and = publicity effort for them was absent, though it was presumed to exist in = the popular remark about "the free market fo r ideas & talents". Especially for social reform ideas and talents = special markets and sufficient publicity have still to be established. = Otherwise they get drowned or buried among masses of other information = and news. Even the patent offices were of littl e help to most inventors. And their monopolizing approach was basically = flawed. - J.Z., 28.4.95, 19.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, PROSECUTION, GREAT PEOPLE, INNOVATORS, REFORMERS: Es = ist jedes Volkes trauriges Privilegium, er Henker seiner Edelsten zu = sein. - Theodor Hertzka. (It is every people's sorry privilege to become = the henchmen of its most noble members.)=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS ARCHIVE, PUBLISHING, BOOKS, MAGAZINES, PUBLICITY, = MARKETING OF IDEAS: Print is nothing but a painful sensation on the = iris. Print convinces nobody o f anything. If you want to influence nobody have your words published in = memo, magazine or book form." - A. E. Van Vogt, The Proxy Intelligence = and Other Mind Benders, chap. IV, page 95. - It greatly depends WHERE = you publish and WHOM you address, what me d ium you use, HOW you express yourself, also, upon what occasion, and = whether your information is asked for or is unasked for advice, and = whether experimental freedom exists for your suggestion or does not. = Compare propaganda for monetary freedom, panarchi sm, microfilm, CD-ROM publishing. - J.Z., 22.1.01 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS ARCHIVE, TALENT AND GENIUS = CENTRE: Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. - = Robert Lynd. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, TALENT CENTRE, PERSECUTION: Alas, how many have been = persecuted for the wrong of having been right? - Jean-Baptiste Say. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 IDEAS ARCHIVE, TALENT CENTRE, TALENTS, SUCCESS & FAILURE: Konnexionen = und Privatinformationen fuehren am leichtesten zum Erfolge; daneben ist = persoenliche Faehigkeit gerade kein Hindernis, solange sie sich in ver nuenftigen Grenzen haelt und die Eitelkeit der Mitmenschen nicht zu sehr = verletzt. - Otto Leibecke, Das raetselhafte Ich. -- ( Connections and = private information lead most easily to success. Aside them personal = abilities are not really a hindrance, as lo ng as they keep within reasonable limits and thus the vanity of fellow = human beings is not too much hurt.) \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, TALENT CENTRE, THE MASSES, MOBS, MAJORITY, PEOPLE: = "Sie werden schon sehen, was Sie davon haben!" ("You will see where that = gets your!) - A thinly veiled threat by opponents to innovators, common, probably, = in many languages. Oldest recorded instance was perhaps Socrates: "Seid = mir aber nicht gram, wenn ich euch die Wahrheit sage. Kein Mensch ist = seines Lebens sicher, der euch oder einer =20 anderen Volksmenge offen und ehrlich entgegentritt und allerlei Unrecht = und Gesetzwidrigkeit im Staate zu verhindern sucht, sondern wer wirklich = ein Vorkaempfer des Rechts sein will, der muss, um auch nur kurze Zeit = sein Leben zu fristen, schlechterdings=20 s ich auf den Einzelverkehr beschraenken und auf die Beteiligung an den = oeffentlichen Angelegenheiten verzichten. - Sokrates. -- (Don't be angry = with me if I tell you the truth. No man's life is secure who opposes = you, or another large assembly of people, o p enly and honestly, in the attempt to prevent some wrongs and lawlessness = in the State and wants to be a pioneer for what is right. If he wants to = preserve his life even if only for a short time then he must confine his = efforts to dealing with individuals=20 only and must avoid any participation in public affairs.)=20 \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, TALENT CENTRE: Wenn ich in meiner Jugend ermutigt = statt gedemuetigt worden waere, so taugte ich mehr als jetzt. - = Friedrich der Grosse. - - (If in my youth I had been encouraged instead = of humbled, then I would be worth more able now.) \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS ARCHIVE, TALENT REGISTRY: You can make a = better living in the world as a soothsayer than as a truthsayer. - G. C. = Lichtenberg. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, TALENTS, TRUTHS, LIES: As scarce as truth is, the = supply has always been in excess of the demand. - Henry Wheeler Shaw. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, THINKING, INNOVATORS, TALENTS: Ours is an age which = is proud of machines that think, and suspicious of any man who tries to. = - Howard Mumford Jones. - The products of most thin kers do deserve suspicion and distrust. Following them as leaders or = gurus has led to many large and small failures. - J.Z. 25.11.02. - See: = Doubt. - Almost all ideas should be made easily available, together with = all doubts, suspicion and more or less we ll founded criticism. - J.Z., 25.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS ARCHIVE, TRUTH TELLING: A man about to speak = the truth should keep one foot in the stirrup. - Old Mongolian saying, = quoted in ANALOG, 3/87, P. 125. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, TRUTH, ANIMOSITIES, INTOLERANCE, FAITH, TRUE = BELIEVERS, DOGMATISM: Tell the truth and run. - - Whoever tells the = truth is chased out of nine villages. - Turkish proverbs. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS ARCHIVE, TRUTH: Superstition, idolatry, and = hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. - Martin Luther. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE, TRUTH: The dictum that truth always triumphs over = persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after = one another till they pass into commonplace, but which all experience = refutes. - John Stuart Mill. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS ARCHIVE, WILLFUL DEAFNESS, CLOSED MINDS: Es = hoert doch jeder nur was er versteht. - Goethe, zu Eckermann, 1831. -- = (Everyone hears only that what he understands.) \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS ARCHIVE, WISDOM, IDEAS, ADVICE: We give = advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. - Duc de la = Rochefoucauld. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: \'85 they would have to be studied with \'85 = thoroughness; and any and all worthwhile ideas and devices and other = artifacts should be and would be incorporated into the \'85 way of life. = - E. E. SMITH, Skylark DuQuesne, IF SF, June 65, 38. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS ARCHIVE: \'85 und ofter der, so an Kenntnissen ueberaus reich its, im Gebrauch = derselben am wenigstens aufgeklaert ist. - Kant, Sich im Denken = orientieren. (Often the one very rich in knowledge is least enlightened = on the utilization of it.) That is w hy great talents often need a manager or marketing agency and all could = use an Ideas Archive and Talent Centre. - Compare: "Knowledge is power." = - That is often true but more so for those who not only know but already = possess considerable power. Knowledge is not a direct and easy road to power, not even to power over oneself. = - J.Z., 22.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: Ferner entdecken wir in us ein Gefuehl der = unechtesten Art, naemlich ein Beduerfnis der Unterwuerfigkeit und des = Staunens, ein Verlangen, uns an einem fuer gross gehaltenen Eindruck zu berauschen und darueber zu = phantasieren. Dies gilt freilich nur von dem Eindruck der politisch und = militaerisch Maechtigen, denn den intellektuell Grossen (Dichtern, = Kuenstlern, Philosophen) macht man die Anerkennung by=20 L ebzeiten oft beharrlich streitig. - Jacob Burckhard, Weltgeschichtliche = Betrachtungen, 209. -- ( Moreover, we discover a feeling of very low = kind, namely, a need for subordination and astonishment, a need to get = high and to fantasize about an impression o f imagined greatness. This applies only to the impression gained from the = politically and militarily powerful, for the intellectually great = people, poets, artists and philosophers are persistently denied = recognition during their lifetime.) - That might be widely the case but is not always the case. What percentage is = sufficiently recognized fast or during their life span? - J.Z., = 22.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: Just the complete publishing of largely unread and = misunderstood print (or material in other media) is=20 not enough. The essential ideas, facts, discoveries and inventions, = methods, programs, platforms, plans etc. must be extracted, ordered, = indexed and made easily and fast accessible. Likewise the essential = addresses and contacts, projects, organizations, i ndividuals, co-workers and researchers, and the demand for ideas and = talents. - J.Z., 10.3.95, 19.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: $ 21,000 were paid for a single bottle of 1951 wine. = Not even $ 1 is offered, to my knowledge, for an idea that could abolish = unemploymen t or inflation or war. This is a significant sign for our times - and of = the absence of a proper market for ideas. - J.Z., 6.7.99. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: \'85 an inclination towards absolute rule, a = thorough dislilke against talented personalities, which could have i ts hidden source in a jealousy against any mental and even against any = physical superiority. Indeed, one says, this brave young man would even = be jealous of those who are larger than he is. He distinguishes himself = through this hostile stand against indiv idualism. - Heinrich Heine, Briefe aus Paris, ueber Louis Blanc, French = Edition, 6.11.40. - Compare: Meysenbug: Memoiren einer Idealistin. ( = \'85 eine Vorliebe fuer absouite Herrscherei, eine gruendliche Abneigung = gegen genialen Personalismus, welche wohl ihre verborgene Quelle in einer Eifersucht wider jede geistige und selbst = wider jegliche leibliche Superioritaet haben koennte, ja man sagt, der = brave kleine Mann sei sogar eifersuechtig auf diejenigen, die ihn an = Statur uebertreffen: Durch diese feindseelige =20 Stimmung gegen den Individualismus unterscheidet er sich von einigen. ) = - This stance towards the talents of others is rather typical than a = mere exception and character flaw in Louis Blanc. Appreciation of = worthwhile talents and ideas of others, especial l y in the social sciences, is rare rather than the rule. Already = Sokrates, in his talks, complained how anyone imagines himself to be an = expert in these sciences, no matter how ignorant and uneducated and = prejudiced he still is. Thus the real innovators an d talents do have a hard stand against them. By now they ought to have = learned their lesson and established an Ideas Archive and Talent Centre = for themselves, whose combined resources could greatly help each of = them. - J.Z., 23.10.02.=20 \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: \'85 in communion with the finest and fairest in the = souls of all men everywhere." - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk = Away from Omelas, SF story in NEW DIRECTIONS, III. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: A free market, mainly for non-copyrighted ideas in = the social sciences, that=20 their originators and developers and followers rather want to see = publicized and realized as widely as possible, and at the same time a = search or demand centre for good ideas and talents, and registry of = people who do seek such ideas and talents, so that=20 demand for and supply of ideas and talents are finally and = systematically brought together, as far as is humanly possible. - J.Z., = 1.4.96, 19.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: Alle Reformer, die Erfinder und Schwaermer hatten = niemals etwas erreicht, wenn nicht die Mass en eine, wenn auch sehr langsame, unsichere und zoegernde Bereitschaft = erwiesen haetten, auf die Stimmer der Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit zu = hoeren, wenn sie einmal laut geworden ist. - Michael Roberts: Die = Erneuerung des Westens, 75. -- (All the reformers, =20 inventors and idealists would never have achieved anything if the masses = would not have show a readiness, however slow, uncertain and hesitant, = to listen to the voice of truth and justice, once it has become loud = enough. - Michael Roberts: The Renewal of=20 the West.) \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS ARCHIVE: An Ideas Archive could = solve the problem of collecting and accessing all available constructive = ideas and talents. - J., 78. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS ARCHIVE: And so civilizations = crumbled, battles were lost, and ships destroyed because the man or gr oup with the saving ideas would not go through the long-drawn-out ritual = of convincing others. - A. E. van Vogt, The Voyage of the Space Beagle, = 133. - With an Ideas Archive realized, it need no longer be a = long-drawn-out ritual. And today e.g. e-mail and broadcasting could spread a positive idea - and the proofs for it - = very fast. - J.Z., 22.1.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS ARCHIVE: Basically, it should be a = self-regulating free market for ideas and talents. The libertarian = section of it could also be self-regulating. That do es not exclude guides, anthologies, revews, abstracts and index = compilation produced by some who are interested in providing them from = the collected material, or individuals and groups engaged in follow-up = activities, financing, promotion, management, com pany formation etc. - J.Z., 25.2.00. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: Curtains by Cresta, great ideas that come to you." - = An advertisement from a booklet for Cresta curtains. That is the kind of = ideas that are relatively easily and widely marketed now. - J.Z., = 26.4.95. - At the same time some of the most important ideas for mankind are hardly = marketed at all and visible and accessible to most people because no = special market does as yet exist for them. Not even on the Internet, = where only some of them are represented but, a las, widely dispersed over thousands of libertarian and anarchist = websites. - J.Z., 20.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS ARCHIVE: Daring ideas are like = chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning = game. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS ARCHIVE: De m grossen Lehrsatz des Pythagoras // galt einst der Griechenochsten = bittrer Hass, // denn freudig opferte der grosse Finder, // so wird = erzaehlt, den Goettern 100 Rinder. // Drum wird das Rindvieh heut noch = aufgeschreckt, // wird eine Wahrheit irgendwo en t deckt // und jeder Weise, der sie laut verkuendet // sieht alle Ochsen = gegen sich verbuendet. - Ascribed to Lichtenberg. (The great law of = Pythagoras once earned bitter hatred from all Greek cattle, for its = great discoverer, so one said, sacrificed 100 ca ttle to the gods. Thus the cattle are still afraid when any truth is = anywhere discovered and each wise man, who loudly proclaims it, will = have all the cattle united against him. =20 \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: Die Deutschen wissen nicht leicht, wie sie etwas = Ungewohntes z u nehmen haben, und das Hoehere geht oft an ihnen vorueber, ohne dass = sie es gewahr werden. - Goethe, zu Eckermann, 1831. --- (The Germans do = not really know how to respond to something unusual. The higher things = often pass them by without them becoming a ware of them.) - That is not only a characteristic for most Germans. - = J.Z., 22.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: Es wird dafuer gesorgt, dass die Baeme nicht in den = Himmel wachsen. - Goethe, Wahrheit und Dichtung. -- (One sees to it that = trees do not grow sky high.) =20 \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: Fuer mich begehre ich nicht viel, wenn ich aber = Talente sehe, die ein grosses Volk in seiner Unwissenheit, = Gleichgueltigkeit und Kleinlichkeit verkuemmern laesst, dann steigt mir = der Zorn auf. - "Zeitkritisches", 1907. By Christian Morgens tern? -- For myself I do not want much. But when I see talents which a = great people, in its ignorance, indifference and small-mindedness allows = to wither away, then I do become angry.) \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: I have learned how to abolish unemployment, = inflation an d war but our "civilization" is so prejudiced and limited that it = employed me only as a cleark, unskilled labourer and a prison officer = and gave me insufficient opportunities to spread that knowledge. - I = could place it on microfiche - but on these it rem ains largely buried for the time being. To the extent that it is already = digitized and available either online or at least via floppy disks or = e-mail, it remains largely ignored as well. J.Z., 8.6.97, 21.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS ARCHIVE: If all pro-freedom = ideas were c ombined in one spot, this could become the most powerful weapon in the = struggle for liberty - and also one which could easily be multiplied. - = J., 78. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS ARCHIVE: If we have to have = real improvement in human society, we must create an environment that=20 is hospitable to new ideas. - Chapman Cohen, What Is Freethought? 15. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: If you have an idea that seems to have some merit, = do not let it escape. Write it down & send it to an ideas archive or = start such an archive, even if initially only as a=20 private journal of ideas. It might help, one day, to liberate mankind, = if it should get into the right hands, as soon as possible, which would = require a world-wide Ideas Archive. - J.Z., 7.2.95, 19.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: If you love yoru ideas, set them free. Make yourself = heard. - Ericson advertisement, seen Sydney, 20.11.98. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: In the absence of an ideas archive the most = important ideas for our times have been kept out of the limelight - for = decades to centuries! - J.Z., 10.3.95, 19.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: It is needed as a launch pad for great ideas and = talents. - J.Z., 23.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS ARCHIVE: Let all good ideas of = mankind be concentrated under one roof (or in one databank network) and = let everybody know about it. - J., 20.5.76. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS ARCHIVE:=20 Limited, flawed and quite wrong ideas have still a much greater = influence upon our contemporaries than than the best pro-freedom ideas = have. Obviously, we have not yet properly marketed freedom ideas and = created special institutions for this purpose. - J. Z., 13.1.00, 20.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: Making easy, certain, fast and cheap contact with = all worthwhile human ideas and talents is, for the time being, probably = much more important and easier, cheaper and faster to achieve than = contact with extraterrestrial=20 civilizations and their ideas. - J.Z., 28.11.99. - If the best ideas = and talents may only appeal to the general market, which makes the = lowest common denominator most profitable, then they do not, obviously, = get their best chance. We need special and wor l d-wide markets for them, not just for luxury goods and services. To = achieve them we have to recognize them for the gold mines or treasure = chests that they are and bring them systematically to light. That would = also make contact with extraterrestrials easi er and faster to achieve and more fruitful in its results. - J.Z., = 20.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: Mancher denkt, er koenne die Menschen durch ganz = neue Ideen begluecken. Aber weit gefehlt! Die Menschen werden von ihren = Trieben hin und her gerissen und haben somit gar keine Zeit, ihre Messiasse zu beachten, die sich in Verkennung der = menschlichen Natur opfern. Die klugen Menschn lachen uber diese = "Phantasten". Gleichwohl schreien sie nach Erloesung. - Otto Leibecke. - = - (Some think they could make others happy thr o ugh quite new ideas. Far from it! Human beings are driven hither and = thither by their urges and have thus no time left to pay attention to = their saviors, who, ignoring human nature, sacrifice themselves. Clever = people laugh about these dreamers. Neverthel ess, they cry for saviors.) \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: Mere unassisted merit advances slowly, if - what is = not very common - it advances at all. - Samuel Johnson.=20 \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: Most people would rather tear down talents and ideas = than build them up and set them free to do their things for everybody = who like them. - J.Z., 23.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: Most people's minds are open only to a few ideas, = which they conceive or receive, develop or pass on. All the more = important it is to make sure that they receive all the best=20 ideas of those they are receptive to and also the best chance to pass on = their own. Such a service could and should be provided by an ideas = archive, i.e., a free market especially for ideas and talents. - J.Z., = 24.2.94. - Astonishingly, most free marketee r s have so far shown little interest for such an archive, although all = their experience shows them how hard it is to spread libertarian ideas = in the absence of such a special market. Alas, they act under the = delusion that their efforts do already provide s u ch a market for libertarian ideas. This in spite of the fact that they = have not even achieved as yet complete and permanent as well as cheap = libertarian publishing, libertarian libraries, bibliographies, abstracts = and review collections, far less an alpha b etical index to all libertarian writings and not even an ever growing = and yet cheap libertarian encyclopaedia. In their fragmented, = unsystematic and incomplete approaches they have been their own worst = enemies and have left some of their most important to ols, media and resources largely unused. - J.Z., 19.10.02.=20 \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: Not every genuius or talent is his own best manager = or salesman nor can all of them be sufficiently trained in these = specialties. Division of labour and free markets are needed for t hem especially, as sources for all further progress. - J.Z., 23.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033=20 IDEAS ARCHIVE: Our grandfathers thought the horse could never be = replaced by the auto. Four years after the Wright brothers first flew, = they were still trying to get the War Department=20 to come out to look at the airplane. And when one Major General did take = a look at an airplane flying, he remarked that it was a very interesting = scientific toy, but, of cause, it had no possible military application! = - Robert Heinlein, Requiem, 208. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS ARCHIVE: So much earnest enthusiasm, time, energy, money and labour are = wasted upon so many flawed and false ideas. - J.Z., 18.9.99. - It is = high time that these are finally confronted with their best refutations = and also by the competition from the best ideas and talents, suitably assembled and publicized or made = accessible. Most of the remaining problems of our times could rapidly = become solved once the energies of the best ideas and talents become = effectively combined and freed. - J.Z., 20.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: Start a systematic hunt for better ideas and = talents, for a better future, a peaceful, just, free and prosperous one, = with intelligence expansion and life }{\fs24 extension}{\fs24\lang1046=20 and access to other planets. Establish a special market, register and = archive for=20 all ideas and talents that can lead us in this direction. They are the = greatest "resource" and hope for mankind. This resource should be fully = mobilized by all ideas carriers and all those who appreciate good ideas = and talents. Without their informal lead ership we only go from one catastrophe to another. - J.Z., 21.1.00, = 20.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: The best ideas and solutions for the problems of our = times are not systematically collected and published, discussed and = optimally realized among voluntary experime nters. Instead, they mostly do not realch the public arena at all or = even the few who would already be interested in them now or in the near = future. - J.Z., 8.8.94. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: The best ideas, the best writings, remain largely = unknown or neglected or ev en attacked, whether offered in print on paper or on microfilm, floppy = disks, CD-ROMs or online. There is as yet no museum, archive, zoo, = exhibition or library for all of them. - J.Z., 30.10.02.=20 \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: The collection, publication and defence of th ose ideas which would achieve peace, freedom, justice, prosperity, = progress, longevity, intelligence expansion, space exploration, a real = knowledge explosion, is not made easy and efficient enough today. - = J.Z., 1.11.99. - We have still not developed a pr oper market for them, i.e., one that would bring supply and demand in = this sphere automatically together, fast and cheaply and with the = greatest degree of certainty. - J.Z., 20.10.02.=20 \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: The complete supply of ideas and talents will only = become effective when it is finally combined with the complete demand = for them - in a special market. - J.Z., 6.9.98, 21.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: The idea of Ideas Archive itself might need an ideas = archive to realize it easily. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: The individual can have an "influence" upon the = ideas of the world only when he has an entry option to its ideas market, = i.e., when such a market has been effectively established for all. - = J.Z., 20.11.96, 20.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: The successful marketing of=20 new truths, ideas and talents presupposes the existence of cheap and = comprehensive recording and duplication options and practices, i.e., of = one or a few special market for them. Otherwise the supply of them and = the demand for them will not be brought suf ficiently together. - J.Z., 13.9.88, 22.10.02. \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: There's nothing new under the sun, but there are = lots of old things we don't know. - Ambrose Bierce.=20 \par IDEAS ARCHIVE: Und dies ist's, was mich zu Falle bringen wird, wenn = ich nun einmal fallen sol l, nicht Meletos oder Anytos, sondern der boese Leumund bei der Menge = und deren Gehaessigkeit. Dies hat schon viele treffliche Maenner zu Fall = gebracht, und das wird, denke ich, auch in Zukunft so sein, und es hat = keine Gefahr, dass es bei mir halt mache. =20 - Sokrates. - - (And that is what will bring me down, if I have to fall: = Not Meletos or Anytos, but spiteful malignment with the masses and its = hatred. That has already brought down many outstanding men and that will = also happen in future. There is no ris k that it will end with me.) \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS = ARCHIVE: What cn be more palpably absurd thant he prospect held out of = locomotives traveling twice as fast as stage coaches? - THE QUARTERLY = REVIEW, England, March 1825. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS ARCHIVE: While technically the = collection and=20 expression of all ideas and knowledge is possible, we presently = concentrate rather on collecting, expressing and enacting all prejudices = and ignorance - by means of the political process. - J., 76. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS ARCHIVE: Without an Ideas = Archive and a Registry for all Talents mankind remains largely unaware of and without the benefits = of its greatest treasures and resources. - J.Z., 1.12.94. \par IDEAS ARCHIVES, TALENT CENTRE, INDIVIDUALS, TIMES, CONDITIONS, THE = AGE OR PERIOD: Zu allen Zeiten sind es nur die Individuen, welche fuer die Wissenschaft gewirkt, nicht das Zeitalter. Das = Zeitalter wars, das den Sokrates hinrichtete, das Zeitalter, das Hussen = verbrannte: Die Zeitalter sind sich immer gleich geblieben. - Goethe. -- = ( In all times it was individuals who actively promoted science, not the times. It was his times that executed = Sokrates, the times that burned Hussen. The times have always remained = the same.)=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS AS SPARKS: One spark can consume a hundred = miles of prairies. - Proverb cited by Maoists after Chiang K ai-shek had mounted against them the Fifth Extermination Campaign in the = thirties. - William F. Buckley, Jr., Inveighing We Will Go, Putnams, = 1969-72, 91. - Violence breeds violence. Would the Red Chinese have = become the murderers of dozens of millions if =20 they hadn't been confronted by such campaigns but, instead, by an offer = of exterritorial autonomy for themselves, anywhere, under personal laws? = Violence breeds violence, especially among those with a strong faith, = not yet refuted by their own practical e xperiences with it. - A Russian old proverb says the same more = positively: A single candle can be used to light a million others." - = J.Z., 28.4.00. \par IDEAS AS WEAPONS, CENSORSHIP, GUN CONTROL: Ideas are more powerful = than guns. We would not let our enemies ha ve guns, why should we let them have ideas? - Joseph Stalin. - Mobilize = all freedom ideas via an Ideas Archive and CD-ROM publishing! - J.Z., = 13.5.01, 29.1.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS CENTERS: A generation from now, every local = country club and neighborhood recreation cente r should have an idea center as well as a tennis center. - Newt = Gingrich, Window of Opportunity, A Blueprint for the Future, 175. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS = MADE ALMOST IRREFUTABLE: Good new ideas could be made almost irrefutable = if all the popular prejudices against new ideas were collected and confronted with their best refutations in a new kind = of encyclopedia. - J.Z., 6.3.99.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS OLYMPICS, SPORTS: I'd love to see the same = enthusiasm for the contest between different ideas as we can see in = stadiums during football and soc cer games. - J.Z., 13.4.95. - Then the world would certainly be a better = place, soon. - J.Z., 20.10.02. \par IDEAS VS. COERCION, VIOLENCE & FORCE: Whoever does not not want to = drive out the devil with Satan will have to counter the idea of power = with the power=20 of the idea. - Hans Habe. - (Wer nicht den Teufel mit dem Beelzebub = austreiben will, der muss der Idee der Gewalt die Gewalt der Idee = entgegensetzen.) \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS VS. POLITICIANS, PROGRESS: And, he gave it = for his Opinion; that whoever could make two ears of cor n, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one = grew before; would deserve better of Mankind, and do more essential = service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. = - Jonathan Swift, "A Voyage to Brobdingnag, " Gulliver's travels, part 2, pp. 119-20, in The Prose Works of Jonathan = Swift, ed. Herbert Davis, vol. 11 (1941). \par IDEAS, ACTION, EXPERIENCE, FREEDOM OF ACTION AND EXPERIMENTATION, = PANARCHISM: People tend to act out their ideas - however flawed their = ideas=20 still are. - J.Z., 4.5.01. - That would not be so bad if they were to do = so tolerantly, at their own expense and risk, while granting the same = freedom of action to all others. Thus the opportunity to learn from the = own experience - and that of others - wo uld be maximized for all. - J.Z., 30.1.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, ACTIONS, INDIVIDUALISM PANARCHISM, = EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF ACTION: Ideas and actions are = individually approved or disapproved. Thus our connections to them = should not be collectively decided but als o individually. Exterritorial autonomy under personal laws makes that = and all kinds of ideal societies (ideal for their voluntary members) = possible and practicable. This freedom would correspond to the = experimental freedom adopted for scientists and techn icians, in our personal lives and for our religious and artistic and = crafts involvements. - J.Z., 27.4.95, 20.10.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, ALTERNATIVES, IDEAS ARCHIVE, = MULTI-HYPOTHESIS, RED: Consider not only the most obvious symptoms of = problems but also the multiple ex planations that have been advanced as their causes as well as all the = diverse "cures" or preventatives that have so far been proposed. Mere = knee-jerk reactions, bi-polar thinking or false alternatives or = misleading generalizations and over-simplifications do not cover the realities and our options and thus cannot lead to = rightful and rational solutions. - J.Z., 24.5.02, 20.8.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, ANSWERS, SOLUTIONS: I have answers, not = ideas. - Cordwainer Smith, Norstrilia, p. 66. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, ARMIES: More powerful than all armies is an idea whose time has come. - Napoleon I. - Often ascribed = only to Victor Hugo: "more powerful than armies is an idea whose time = has come." - in: The History of a Crime. Also quoted as: There is one = thing stronger than all the armies of the wo rld and that is an idea whose time has come. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IDEAS, BEGINNINGS, TRIES, START-UPS, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM: Daring ideas = are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start = a winning game. - -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, BELIEF, DOUB T & TRUTH, SCEPTICISM: It is always better to have no ideas than false = ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what it wrong. - Jefferson, = in: A .J. Nock, Jefferson, Harcourt, 1926, 143.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, BELIEFS, PREJUDICES: It is beliefs and not = realities that motivate. - Riegel, The Yellow Book, 131. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS, BRAIN STORMING, WRITING: What = if no ideas come? Then I sit down and start writing anyway. - READER'S = DIGEST, Jan. 65. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, BRAINSTORMING, CREATIVITY, = CRITICISM: It hinders the creative work of the mind if=20 the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. - = Friedrich Schiller. - Too early criticism should not interrupt the = thinking process but timed properly for later, to separate the wheat = from the straw. - J.Z., 25.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, BROADCASTING,=20 PRESS, MASS MEDIA, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION & INFORMATION, RADIO, TV, = INTERNET, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA, MICROFILM, FLOPPY DISKS, CD-ROM, COMPLETE, = PERMANENT & CHEAP PUBLISHING UPON DEMAND, NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, = BOOKS: The most rightful and helpful ideas are u s ually kept out of the mass media. The most wrongful and useless ideas, = on the contrary, are welcomed there and repeated over and over again, = without being sufficiently criticized. - J.Z., 8.9.97. - Contemplation = of this can be very depressing. I find it e v en more depressing that no large-scale effort is made by freedom, peace = and justice lovers to get all their blueprints together, permanently and = cheaply in print upon demand, at least on very affordable microfiche, = floppy disks and CD-ROMs. - The Internet has not yet become a sufficient substitute for such alternative media. = - J.Z., 21.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, CENSORSHIP, DICTATORSHIP, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: = \'85 no dictatorship can last without the help of censorship - because, = in a free marketplace of ideas, truth and=20 reason will always win. - Ayn Rand, An Open Letter To My Readers, LA = Times, August 26, 1962. - Do they always win when censorship is = abolished or almost absent? Over the last few decades, libertarians and = anarchists have enjoyed much freedom of expression =20 and information - but have they won their cases, at least for = themselves? The mere absence of censorship does not yet establish a free = market for ideas, in the same way as the absence of a legal prohibition = of a stock exchange in many under-developed coun tries does not yet establish a functioning stock exchange in them. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033=20 IDEAS, CENSORSHIP, EDUCATION. Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. = Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the = inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weap on against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is = wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. - A. Whitney = Griswold, president of Yale, "A Little Learning," The Atlantic Monthly, = November 1952, p. 52. Address to students at Phillips Academy, Andover, New Hampshire, Spring 1952. - The education = provided by modern liberalism is certainly not the road to sufficient = enlightenment. On the contrary. - J.Z., 23.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS, CHANGE, INNOVATIONS, PROGRESS: = You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" - = George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. The = Serpent, in "Back to Methuselah, "In the Beginning," act 1. Often = associated with Robert Kennedy: this was quoted by =20 him in an address to the Irish Parliament in Dublin, June 1963; also = attributed to him by Edward Kennedy at RFK's funeral service in 1968. - = Alas, Shaw and Kennedy pursued only territorial dreams and did not = subscribe to the principle: To each the govern ment or non-governmental society of his or her dreams. - J.Z., 29.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, CHANGE, REFORMS, ENEMIES: If = you want to make enemies, try to change something. - Woodrow Wilson.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, CHOICE, MEN, PANARCHISM, MICROFILM, = CD-ROMs, MONETARY FREEDOM, IDEAL MI LIAS, ANARCHISM, SELF-MANAGEMENT, COOPS, IDEAS ARCHIVE, MINORITY = AUTONOMY, INDIVIDUAL SECESSIONISM, MAN, PROGRESS: Just because something = is better for individuals, or races, doesn't mean they'll automatically = go for it. - Gordon R. Dickson, One Ounce of=20 Emotion, IF SF, Oct. 65, 110. - Just let enlightened individuals be free = to go for, at their own risk and expense, setting an example for others = to follow, if and when they want to. - J.Z., 9.2.02.=20 \par IDEAS, COMMUNICATION: Half the world's troubles come from not being = able to tell the other fellow just what you're thinking. - John Rackham, = 107 of ASTOUNDING SF, Brit. ed., 8/58. \par IDEAS, CONSERVATION, HISTORY, FATE, MAN: Our fate depends much more = on the history, preservation and use of good ideas than upon that of = bricks and mortar. - J.Z., 12.4.01. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, CONSERVATION, PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS, = BUILDINGS: The numerous books on and visits to old and new buildings = are not solving any major problems of our times. Better old and new = ideas could. So why are more people i nterested in viewing "bricks and mortar" rather than reviewing old and = new ideas? Probably much less thought is required in the kind of tourism = & spectator "sport", by those merely looking e.g., for beauty in = buildings and assuming that they possess suffi c ient competence to judge them properly or that their feelings would be = good enough indications. Social problems, those of war and peace, = justice and freedom, cannot be so superficially and thoughtlessly = judged. Thus many less people even try to do so. - J .Z., 25.6.99, 21.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, CONSERVATISM: The ideas gained by men = before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall = have in their lives. - William James. - And they gained them mostly from = people over 25 who have also ceased to be ope n-minded towards new ideas. - J.Z., 25.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, COPYRIGHTS, PATENTS, PROPERTY: Ideas are no = more property than people are, the air and the oceans or the wide spaces = of the universe. - J.Z., 4.1.97, 20.10.02. \par }{\fs24 IDEAS, CREATIVITY, INNOVATION, UTOPIAS, IDEALS: If you have = built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they = should be. Now put the foundations under them. - Henry David = Thoreau.\line \line }{\fs24\lang1033=20 IDEAS, CREATIVITY, THINKING, WRITING: It is often wonderful how putting = down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see not perhaps = the way out but the way in. - A. C. Benson. \par IDEAS, CREATIVITY: Over the years I have discovered that ideas come = through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind = becomes a watch-tower on the=20 look-out for incidents that may excite the imagination - music, a = sunset, may give image to an idea. Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography, = 209. - Ibid, 210: How does one get idea? By sheer perseverance to the = point of madness. One must have a capacity to suf fer anguish and sustain enthusiasm over a long period of time. Perhaps = it's easier for some people, but I doubt it. \par IDEAS, CREATIVITY: What if no ideas come? Then I sit down and start = writing anyway. - THE READER'S DIGEST, Jan. 65. - "The human brain can = be an amazing instrument when it is }{\fs24\ul\lang1033 = forced}{\fs24\lang1033 to function. - Source unknown. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IDEAS, DISCOVERIES, INVENTIONS: Discovery consists of seeing what = everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert = Szent-Gyorgyi. - Probably all libertarians in devel oped countries have seen CDs - but have they seen their potential to = provide whole special libertarian libraries very cheaply? - J.Z., = 21.8.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, DREAMING, IMAGINATION: You = see things and say: Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say: = Why no t? - Jack Schwartzman, FRAGMENTS, Jan.-Dec. 00, p. 5. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS, EDUCATION, = STUDIES, INTERESTS: I study only what pleases me. I dedicate myself = only to ideas which interest me, whether they appear to others as = useless or senseless. A time may come and circum stances may arise in which I can utilise these possessions, or not. In = any case, I have the immense advantage of not having acted contrary to = myself and to my thinking, and to have remained true to my character. - = Chamfort, in on: Franzoesische Moralisten , 269. - That could almost serve as a motto for my PEACE PLANS and my = LIBERTARIAN MICROFICHE PUBLISHING. - JOHN ZUBE, 11.3.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, MICROFICHE, CD-ROM PROJECT: = Wrong ideas or theories or models in our minds do misdirect us, not the = o bservable and recorded facts of reality. - J.Z., 6.9.95. - Thus an Ideas = Archive and panarchistic freedom to experiment could become = all-important for our future. - J.Z., 20.10.02. \par IDEAS, EXTRATERRESTRIALS, ALIEN CIVILIZATIONS: It would be nice to = get acce ss to the knowledge and wisdom of alien civilizations - but nicer still = to get, first of all, full access to all our own knowledge and best = ideas. That is so far not achieved through conventional book publishing = and libraries, nor through the mass media,=20 nor, through the Internet. - J.Z., 1.2.96. - A special free market is = needed for ideas and talents, not just one for patents and actors. - = J.Z., 20.10.02. \par IDEAS, FACTS VS. BELIEFS, PREJUDICES, MEMES, MEMORY, FORGETFULNESS = MAN, RED: \'85 men tend to remember fa cts that support their beliefs they already hold. They forget facts that = contradict those beliefs. - Marc Stiegler, The Third Alternative, = ANALOG, Nov. 87, p. 85. \par IDEAS, FALSE: The most dangerous, even mass-murderous, invasive, = aggressive, oppressive enemi es are - false ideas. - J.Z., 3.9.97. - And yet they are the kind of = enemies that could be most easily and cheaply as well as fast defeated, = if only enough systematic attempts were made to do so, using also all = the affordable, efficient and powerful alter n ative media for this purpose. No single truth need remain unpublished = and inaccessble any more. All could become optimally assembled and = marketed to defeat prejudices errors and myths that stand in their way. = - However, a large number of intelligent and i n terested people would have to collaborate in these efforts. Can one gain = sufficient support for them? My efforts to popularize e.g., the use of = microfiche, floppy disks and CD-ROMs for this purpose have not been = encouraging. These and many other projects=20 c ould provide us with Archimedean Leverage - but so far not enough people = have shown interest for such tools and machinery for enlightenment and = liberation. Most seem to expect salvation merely from talks, = conferences, audio tapes, printed matter, and webs ites, i.e. ignore a whole spectrum of alternatives that could very = powerfully supplement the old and conventional as well as the popular = new methods. - J.Z., 21.10.02. \par IDEAS, FANATICS: Like all fanatics, he really believed that once = someone had been told th e truth, they would see the light. - Paul J. McAuley, Eternal Light, = 227. - Truths must not only be stated once but numerous times and in = optimal forms and must systematically and continuously confront all the = remaining errors, lies, myths and prejudices. Moreover, we need full experimental freedom for the minorities that = have already been convinced by them. - J.Z., 21.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, FREEDOM LOVERS, LIBERTARIANS, ANARCHISTS, = TERRITORIALISM, PREJUDICES, MYTHS, FALSE PREMISES, RED: It is hard to = fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. - Sally Kempton. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IDEAS, FREEDOM OF ACTION, FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT, INDIVIDUAL = SECESSIONISM, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY, PANARCHISM, PUBLIC OPINION, EXPERT = OPINION, IDEAS ARCHIVE: Collective judgement of new ideas is so often = wron g that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to = back their own judgement despite collective disapproval. - W.A. Lewis. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, GENIUS, TALENT: Everyone is = a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas = closer together. - G. C. Lichtenberg. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\lang1033=20 IDEAS, GOVERNMENT, STATISM, FORCE, COERCION, COMPULSION & = TERRITORIALISM: The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and = enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. - = H. L. Mencken.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, HISTO RY & CONSERVATION: It isn't bricks and mortar that make history, or even = heroes, but ideas do, alas, false or flawed ones, so far, more so than = truthful ones. - J.Z., 13.11.02. \par IDEAS, IDEAS ARCHIVE, ENLIGHTENMENT, THOUGHTS, CUSTOMS, TRADITIONS: = Let the cak e of custom be broken once and a host of new ideas shower down upon the = land like a monsoon rain as each novel thought creates a thousand added = new thoughts in a psychological chain reaction. - Michael F. Flynn, A = Rose by Other Name, ANALOG, 5/90, 114. -=20 If only that were the case. In the absence of a proper market for ideas = and talents all too many of them remain wasted for all too long. Even if = they are, somewhere, on record, these records remain largely ignored. - = J.Z., 22.11.02. \par IDEAS, IDEAS ARCHIVE, IDEAS MARKETS: Ideas without vehicles are = hands without tools. - Captain Don X. Quixote, p. 95. (Sometimes my = cryptic notes, some time later, are too cryptic even for me! - J.Z.) \par IDEAS, IDEAS ARCHIVE, PEACE PLANS, LIBERTARIAN MICROFICHE = PUBLISHING, CD-ROM PR OJECT: Correct ideas are objectively the most valuable resource. = Nevertheless, they are not yet propertly collected, displayed and = marketed. Neither are all great talents. Extremely valuable ideas remain = largely unknown and unutilized. My PEACE PLANS seri es contains thousands of them and aims at the collection and cheap = duplication of all creative ideas. - J.Z., 17.6.92, 27.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, IDEAS ARCHIVE, TALENT REGISTRY, GENIUS, = DUNCES, FOOLS: When a true genius appears in this world you may know him = by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - = Jonathan Swift. \par IDEAS, IDEAS ARCHIVE, TALENTS: The man with a new idea is a = crank\emdash until the idea succeeds. - Mark Twain. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS, IDEAS ARCHIVE, TRUTH, CD-ROM = PROJECT: Men occasionally stumble over=20 the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if = nothing had happened. - Winston Churchill. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, IDEAS ARCHIVE: \'85 = cultures strive with free movement of people, goods and capital. - LFB = review of Thomas Sowell: Race & Culture. - Add: i deas, behind capital. Their free movement requires firstly their = collection in a special market and then sufficient publicity for this = special market. Otherwise only a fraction of them will be exchanged and = realized fast enough. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par IDEAS, IDEAS ARCHIVE: It is either rare or difficult to impossible = for people to easily understand and appreciate other people's ideas. - = J.Z., 8.7.96. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, IDEOLOGY, IDEALS, UTOPIAS, REFORMERS, = HISTORY: The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and adva nces are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of = the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to = repeat it. - Henry Hazlitt. \par IDEAS, IGNORANCE, JUDGEMENT: Ignorant men // Don't know what good = they hold in their ha nds until // They've flung it away. Sophocles, "Ajax," trans. John = Moore, The Complete Greek Tragedies, ed. David Grene and Richmond = Lattimore, vol. 2, p. 250 (1959). Since there have been numerous = translations of this play by Sophocles, these words - spo ken by Tecmessa - vary. The translation by George Young, The Dramas of = Sophocles, p. 102 (1888) reads, "Men of perverse opinion do not know / = The excellence of what is in their hands, / Till some one dash it from = them." \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, IMAGES, PREJUDICES, MISCONCEPT IONS, WRONG PREMISES: It is not the things themselves that control us = but the images we have of them. - In love and friendship as well as in = public policies. - J.Z., 6.9.95. - Once can have too much faith in = computers, the Internet, technology in general and too little faith in the market, in man, in freedom and rights, = natural order and harmony and too much faith in external controls = provided by laws, politicians, bureaucrats and policemen. - J.Z., = 19.10.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, IMAGINATION, APPEALS, DREAMS, FUTURISM, REFORMS, PLANS, PLATFORMS, PROGRAMS: Make no little plans, they have = not the power to stir men's souls. - Voltaire. - Alas, the big plans = stir only some of the big minds and the big minds are rare and so one = reaches only a very few. However, with a prope r ideas market and talent registry one could reach all those on Earth = who would be somewhat interested. - The big plans deter small minds or = leave them entirely disinterested. "Only small things occupy small = minds." - J.Z., 13.10.02. \par IDEAS, IMAGINATION, A PPEALS, DREAMS, FUTURISM, REFORMS, PLANS, PLATFORMS, PROGRAMS: Make no = little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably = themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and = work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram=20 o nce recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living = thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our = sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let = your watchword be order and your beacon b e auty. - Attributed to Daniel H. Burnham. While Burnham expressed these = thoughts in a paper he read before the Town Planning Conference, London, = 1910, the exact words were reconstructed by Willis Polk, Burnham's San = Francisco partner. Polk used the paragra p h on Christmas cards in 1912 after Burnham's death in June of that year. = - Henry H. Saylor, "Make No Little Plans," Journal of the American = Institute of Architects, March 1957, pp. 95-99. - Only big ideas that = correspond to or express popular prejudices=20 have a chance to become rapidly popular. - J.Z., 13.10.02. \par IDEAS, IMAGINATION: Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon = Bonaparte. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE, COPYRIGHTS, = SHARING: A stronge thing about pure joy, \'85 one wants to share it. - = Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years, 146. - Just replace "pure = joy" with ideas and information. - J.Z., 26.12.90. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE, PROPAGANDA: \'85 = radically new (or widely unknown - J.Z.) information has to be = assimilated (and spread - J.Z.) slowly; too much at once would only confuse. Poul Anderson, A Circus of Hells, = 124. - It would not only confuse but provoke into antagonism! - J.Z., = 23.1.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, INNOVATION, ORIGINALITY, INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES: = All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. - John Stuart = Mill. \par IDEAS, INNOVATION, PROPAGANDA: The most difficult of enterprises is = to secure the co-operation of others in enterprises those others did not = think of first. - Murray Leinster, The Grandfathers' War, 42, in = ASTOUNDING SF, 10/57.=20 \par IDEAS, INNOVATION, STARTING SOMETHING NEW, REFORM, NEW ORDER, = PANARCHISM, IDEAS ARCHIVE, MICROFILM PUBLISHING, CD-ROM PUBLISHING: = There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to = conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. - Machiavelli. - = Especially when there is as yet no Ideas Archive and Experimental = Freedom or Panarchism. - J.Z., 22.1.02. \par IDEAS, INNOVATION, WISDOM, IDEAS ARCHIVE: That which seems the = height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom = in the next. - Attributed to John Stuart Mill. - Adlai E. Stevenson, = Call to Greatness, p. 102 (1954). Unverified. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS, INNOVATIONS, PUBLIC OPINION & = PROGRESS: Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals = being free to back their own judgement despite collective disapproval. - = W. A. Lewis. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS, INNOVATIONS, REFORMS, NEW = ORDERS: There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more peril ous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead = in the introduction of a new order of things. - - Frank Herbert, Eye, = 99. - Especially when the alternative and affordable media for them are = not sufficiently used, and there is no pr oper market for ideas and no experimental freedom for their practice = among the first volunteers. - J.Z., 17.3. 99. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, = INNOVATIONS: The average length of time, I think, for any great = discovery in the realm of ideas to pass into general currency or to rec eive any practical effectuation is a 1,000 years. - Alfred North = Whitehead. - That just indicates the difficulties ideas and innovators = do run into - without the services of a proper market for ideas and = talents: an Ideas Archive & Talent & Genius Centre. - J.Z., 5.7.00. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033=20 IDEAS, INNOVATORS, IGNORANCE, PREJUDICES: In theory it is easy to = convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to = offering themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced = them. - Epictetus. - They hate th e ones who deprived them of their comfortable prejudices and threw them = into the fast river of new thoughts and painful new learning = experiences. Maybe they are reminded of the educational slavery of their = youth, to which they were exposed as helpless vic tims and all new lessons are considered as new and hateful school = lessons. - J.Z., 25.11.02. \par IDEAS, INNOVATORS, ORIGINATORS, VALUE, VICE, SCOUNDRELS: The value = of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man = who expresses it. - Oscar Wilde. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri55\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 IDEAS, INNOVATORS: Our wretched species is so made that = those who walk on the well-trodden pathway always throw stones on those = who are showing a new road. }{\i\cf1 - Voltaire.=20 }{\cf1 - So we need e.g. nurseries for new ideas, archives for ideas, = registries of tale nts and innovators and development coops for them, as well as venture = capital. Only the one aspect, that of venture capital, has been well = developed in recent years, at least for electronic innovations. There = has even been an excessive and speculative rus h of capital into such innovations, comparable to the South Sea Bubble, = the tulip speculation and the Australian Nickel Boom a few years back. - = J.Z., 1.7.00. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS, KNOWLEDGE, ENLIGHTENMENT, = EDUCATION: Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. - Desiderius Erasmus. - Russian proverbs: 1) All the darkness in the = world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. 1) One candle can = be used to light a million others. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, KNOWLEDGE, IDEAS ARCHIVE, = SPACE: I'm suggesting that the knowledge is th ere and waiting, waiting for us to go out there and get it. - Clifford = D. Simak, Ring Around the Sun, 44. - Let's start by assembling and = making accessible all the ideas, knowledge and talents on Earth. That = would make also access to the knowledge of extr aterrestrial civilizations much easier - and we would have more to offer = in exchange. - J.Z., 30.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, ENEMIES: We can learn = even from our enemies. - Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso], Metamorphoses, IV, = 428. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, LIBERTARIAN MOVEME NT: We could make our ideas count, at least for some of the dissidents = and minorities, if not for all of them, and finally the overwhelming = majority, if only we bothered to compile them all and to make them = readily, cheaply, permanently and fast enough ac c essible in an affordable and easily penetrating medium or several ones. = - J.Z., 5.4.95. Naturall, an ideas archive, libertarian bibliography, = abstracts, index, review compilation and panarchistic and other = experiments, under exterritorial autonomy for the ir volunteers, a libertarian defence, liberation and revolution = programme would greatly help. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, MAN, GREATNESS, MIND, THOUGHT: Man's = greatness lies in his power of thought. - Mortimer Adler. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, MAN: A man isn't a collection of chemical = reactions; he is a collection of ideas. - Robert Heinlein, Rocketship = Galileo, 116. \par IDEAS, MEDIA, INTERNET, PUBLIC INTEREST, NEWSWORTHINESS, SPORTS, = TOURISM, EXHIBITIONS, MUSEUMS, DISPLAYS, IDEAS ARCHIVE: Can one make = ideas sufficiently newsworthy fo r the mass media? Can one arouse for them as much curiosity and = spectator-sports interest as tourist options and sports events provide. = Can one make them as interesting as visits to strange places and = observations of rapid & forceful actions of athletes.=20 C an one make them as appealing as new fashions or good goods? Obviously, = our mass education system has failed to arouse such an interest. New = ideas may never appeal to the masses - but only to a few. So at least = one should try to so organize and display ne w ideas and talents in a way that they will reach all or almost all those = of the minorities in the world who, already now, or in the future, = would be interested in them. Demand and supply in this sphere must be = brought sufficiently together. It is wrong t o assume that this is already the case and that each outstanding idea and = talent does already attract sufficient interest, in family or friendship = or business circles, country or world-wide or that each innovator is = also his own best salesman or sales orga n ization or can be. Mass media, politics and even the Internet cater = mostly still to the interests and tastes of the masses and unless they = are sufficiently sorted out from avalanches of trivia and flawed = information, new ideas and talents are largely buri e d even there, in spite of hundreds to thousands of automated search = engines. That may come to change in the near to distant future but the = best ideas and talents have not yet been automatically selected in = Internet searches or assembled on any particular=20 web pages or sets of web pages. - J.Z., 27.3.97, 21.10.02. \par IDEAS, MEMES, PREJUDICES, SLOGANS FOR LIBERTY, ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE = BEST REFUTATIONS, DIS: They encourage any meme that downplays thoughtful = analysis or encourages docility or self-indulgence or uni formmity. In what other society do people use 'smart' and 'wise' as = insults. \'85 - Michael F. Flynn, In the Country of the Blind, = conclusion, ANALOG, 11/87, 174. - Ibid, 175: That's why we have to stop = Them. We have to start spreading anti-memes. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, MIND , MAN, IDEAS ARCHIVE: Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back = to its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes. - But how can one = get him to stretch it in this way? - But with all too many an idea goes = on one ear and out the other, with neve r a stop in-between. - J.Z., 27.11.02. \par IDEAS, MISSILES, IBMS, STRENGTH, IDEAS ARCHIVE, ENLIGHTENMENT, = EDUCATION: The collection and launching of constructive ideas is more = valuable and important than the collection and launching of destructive = missiles.=20 \par ID EAS, NARROW-MINDEDNESS, LIMITED HORIZONS, RED, IDEAS ARCHIVE, SIGN = DEBATES, FLOW CHART DISCUSSIONS, REFUTATIONS ENCYCLOPAEDIA, LIBERTARIAN = ENCYCLOPAEDIA, LIBERTARIAN LIBRARY, COMPLETE LIBERTARIAN PUBLISHING, = MICROFICHE, CD-ROM PUBLISHING, BIBLIOGRAPHIES,=20 ABSTRACTS, REVIEWS, INDEXES: Most people, "think" only within a narrow = circle of ideas, most of them still flawed. - J.Z., 13.6.01. - Most = libertarians and anarchists are no exceptions. - J.Z., 30.1.02. \par IDEAS, NEW IDEAS, TIME & PATIENCE: "There is a snail-paced gait for = the advance of new ideas on the general mind," he observed to Joel = Barlow, "under which we must acquiesce. \'85 If too hard pushed, they balk." - A proper market for all ideas would = soon reach all those interested in them. And full experimental=20 freedom for volunteer communities would eliminate unjustified and = unnecessary delays at least for them and would not threaten those who = fear new ideas and experiments in their own lives. Handbooks like = Refutation Encyclopedias, Handbooks of Optimal Reply=20 W ordings, of Definitions, of Slogans for Liberty, Complete Alphabetized = Indexes to Relevant Literature, Complete Abstracts & Review = Compilations, Complete Libraries and Publishing Services, cheap and = permanent, for all freedom writings, could greatly speed up the process of enlightenment. Even 200 years later we still have not = provided these and other basic aids for ourselves - and most do not even = see the need for them! - J.Z., 2.5.00.=20 \par IDEAS, NEW PARADIGMS, DOGMAS, MODELS, NEW SYSTEMS OR WAYS OF = THINKING,=20 RED: Max Planck, writing of the reluctance of his colleagues to accept = his quantum theory, said: "new scientific truth does not triumph by = convincing its opponents and making them see the light but rather = because its opponents eventually die." This is not wholly true\'85 But there is truth in it. \'85 The trouble seems to be that when a man has identified himself with a = particular opinion or school of thought, any attack on that opinion = becomes an attack on the man's own ego. When this happens, his glands = take ov er from his cerebrum, and the man becomes "human". The human ego is such = a sensitive thing that its owner will go to any lengths to protect it, = and its first line of defense is an unshakable conviction of rightness = and righteousness. - L. Sprague De Camp , Orthodoxy in Science, ASTOUNDING SF, British ed., Oct. 1954, p 100, = 102. \par IDEAS, NEWS, IDEAS ARCHIVE, LIBERTARIAN PUBLISHING, ALTERNATIVE = MEDIA: Libertarians, too, need "ideas hounds" much more than news hounds = - but are they aware of this? - J.Z., 13.6.01 . - They have managed to flood each other with news and various = information. But are they flooding each other with sound and alternative = libertarian ideas, programs, platforms, principles, definitions, = refutations, directories, indexes, abstracts and bibl iographies as yet, or with the wealth of all libertarian writings, = published on affordable alternative media, permanently and cheaply? - = J.Z., 30.1.02. \par IDEAS, OPINIONS, EXPERTS, DOCTORS: There are as many opinions as = there are experts. - President Franklin=20 D. Roosevelt, radio appeal on the scrap rubber campaign, June 12, 1942. = - The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1942, p. 272 = (1950). The speech was reprinted in the Congressional Record, June 15, = 1942, vol. 88, Appendix, p. A2228. - So , let each choose his own expert, doctor, quack or medicine man for his = own affairs. It's his life, after all. Let him reject and withdraw from = all contrary advice and experts - even if it would kill him. - J.Z., = 26.11.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, OPINIONS, NEWS, RED: New opinions are always = suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because = they are not already common. - John Locke. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, OPINIONS, VARIETY, DIVERSITY, DISAGREEMENT, = TOLERANCE: So many men, so many opinions; every one his own way. - = Terence=20 [Publius Terentius Afer] - Tot hominem tot senses? - So, let everyone = follow his own opinion by his own actions, consistent with his opinions = and ideas, to the extent that he can and will do so at the own risk and = expense. - J.Z., 13.10.02. \par IDEAS, PEOPLE, LIMITED HORIZONS, POINT OF VIEW, WORLD VIEW: Most = people tend to settle for a few and simple or over-simplified ideas or = generalizations, most of them severely flawed, instead of looking for = more and better ones. - J.Z., 13.6.01, 30.1.02. \par IDEAS, PREJUDICE S, ERRORS, MYTHS, INTOLERANCE, TOLERANCE, TERRITORIALISM, UNITY, = CONSENT, IDEOLOGIES, IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS, PROTECTIONISM, MONETARY = DESPOTISM: False ideas set us against each other - or, unnecessarily = and wrongly, keep us more apart or more together=20 than is required for each to mind his own business and peacefully = exchange his goods and services with others. - J.Z., 16.7.02., 29.1.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS, PREJUDICES, KNOWLEDGE: Ideas = are everywhere, but knowledge is rare. - Thomas Sowell. - False and = incomplete ide as are everywhere and they certainly do not constitute knowledge, = insight, understanding and wisdom. Good & the best ideas are so far = nowhere brought together, in a special market, and thus not available = anywhere to anyone. - See: Ideas Archive. - J.Z., 2 9.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 IDEAS, PREJUDICES, SOCIAL CONDITIONING, TRAINING, ENVIRONMENT, = TRADITIONS, CUSTOMS, UNCHECKED PREMISES, DOGMAS, MEMES: Memes circulate = in a culture the way genes do in a biological population; and they cause = learned (learnt, not learned or wise! Th us it would be better to speak of conditioned behaviour. - J.Z., = 30.10.02.) behaviours the way genes cause instinctive behaviors. - = Michael F. Flynn, In the Country of the Blind, conclusion, ANALOG, = 11/87, 157. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, PRINCIPLES, ARMIES, FORCE, STRENGTH: A n army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. = Neither the channel nor the Rhine will arrest its progress. It will = march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer. - Thomas Paine. - = On the gravestone of Rose Wilder Lane, 1901- 1979. - It seems that Paine preceded with this remark the one ascribed = to Napoleon I and later to Victor Hugo: An idea whose time has come is = stronger than any army in the world.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, PROGRAMS, MEASURES OF GOVERNMENTS: We suffer most = when the White House busts with ideas. - H.L. Mencken. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\fs24 IDEAS, = PROGRESS: Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of = basic ideas. - Alfred North Whitehead.\line=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS, PUBLIC OPINION, COLLECTIVE = RESPONSIBILITY, VIOLENCE, GOVERNMENTS: To commit violent and unjust ac ts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the = power; the habits, ideas, and passions of the time must lend themselves = to their committal. - Alexis de Tocqueville. \par }\pard\plain = \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, RATIONAL, LIBERATING = ACTIONS, LAWS OF NATURE AND NATURAL DEVELOP MENT: I for one put more trust in correct ideas and rightful actions, in = accordance with them and also with the laws of nature, than in waiting = for mere chance developments arising out of natural laws and spontaneous = happenings or actions of unfocused, un informed and prejudiced men. - J.Z., 29.7.00 & 23. 1.02, in comment to: = \'85 - Seneca, Letters, 48, page 98. It is not merely our job to bear = passively and stoically with society but to work towards a free, = peaceful and just one. - J.Z., 23.1.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, RED, R EFUTATIONS ENCYCLOPAEDIA: For one of mankind's less endearing traits is = that they will pay fortunes to be gulled, humbugged, and chicaned, but = very little to be debunked and undeceived. . - L. Sprague De Camp, = Orthodoxy in Science, ASTOUNDING SF, British=20 e d., Oct. 1954, p 104. - The easy and plausible errors, myths and = prejudices are offered as truth and require little to no effort to = accept, thus they are widely preferred to truths, which require = considerable thought efforts to comprehend and also the ove rcoming of numerous other prejudices previously accepted. - J.Z., = 3.2.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, = REPRESSION, CENSORSHIP: If the idea is wrong, is there any better way to = demonstrate it than to really expose it? Is there any better way to make = it more dangerous than to repr ess it? - John Stuart Mill, quoted in: William F. Buckley, Jr., Cruising = Speed, Putnams, 1971, 123. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, REVOLUTION, WEAPONS, STRENGTH, FORCE: Revolution = is an idea which has found bayonets. - Napoleon I. (Seldes) \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS, SLOGANS, WORDS, DEFINITIONS: Do = not underestimate the power of words, ideas, slogans. Use then wherever = and whenever you can - and concentrate this power by collecting and = ordering them property and handily - a work which far exceeds the time = and abilities of one man and demands extensi ve division of labour. - J.Z., 4/72. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 IDEAS, SOCIAL REFORM IDEAS, LIBERTARIANS, ANARCHISTS, PANARCHISM: Most = people are receptive only for a few social reform ideas - and these are = mostly false. - J.Z., 7.3.97. - Nevertheless, they should become fully = libera ted to practise these ideas among themselves, at their own expense and = risk. - J.Z., 20.10.02. \par IDEAS, STRENGTH, ARMIES; Staerker als alle Armeen ist eine Idee, = deren Zeit gekommen ist. - Napoleon I. - Mostly ascribed to Victor Hugo. = (Stronger than all armies is an idea whose time has come.)=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, STRENGTH, DEFENCE, AGGRESSION, AIR RAIDS? = BOMBING? DESTRUCTION? TYRANNICIDE, LIBERTARIAN REVOLUTION PROGRAM: \'85 = strike back \'85 with ideas. - L. Neil Smith, The Probability Broach, 256.=20 \par IDEAS, STUDY, DEVELOPMENT,=20 UNDERSTANDING, KNOWLEDGE, COMPLEXITY, IMPORTANCE: There are some ideas = so complex and so important that they both require and repay time spent = in developing and understanding them. - . - Newt Gingrich, Window of = Opportunity, A Blueprint for the Future, 11 6 . - Sometimes even 2,000 years, with present methods, do not seem to = have been sufficient to clarify, refute or strengthen them sufficiently. = Compare e.g. the various notions on love, free will, self-government, = legitimacy, democracy, republicanism, exter ritoriality, monetary freedom. free trade, secessionism, consent, = voluntarism, abortion, euthanasia. - J.Z., 23.1.02. \par IDEAS, STUPIDITY & FREEDOM: It's a free world: you can't shoot = people for havin' stupid ideas. Otherwise we'd all go to the wall, one = time or another! - L. Neil Smith, The Probability Broach, 137. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IDEAS, SUPERIORITY, COMPETITION, ENVY, EGALITARIANISM, HATE, INFERIORITY = COMPLEX: The best is the enemy of the good. - Voltaire. - Only from the = point of view of the inferiors, with little chance to be the final winners. At least like the fox in the legend, who cannot = reach top grapes, they declare them to be sour or rotten. - J.Z., = 29.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, TALENTS & SPORTS: A = permanent Olympics "game" or prize competition in search of the best = ideas and inn ovators would be much more helpful than are the muscle and sinew = Olympics every 4 years. Strain your brain rather than your body. Chess = competitions are not a sufficient substitute. They do not increase = peace, freedom, security, justice and progress in th e world but keep us, like territorialism, confined into all too narrow a = field and its limited options. - J.Z., 14.4.99, 20.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, THEORIES, FACTS & REVOLUTIONS, TERROR: It = is the beauty and the terror of a revolutionary age such as ours that = theorie s and ideas are probably the most important "facts" altogether. - Prof. = Carl J. Friedrich, The New Belief in the Common Man, 49. \par IDEAS, THEORIES, SCIENTIFIC MODELS & HYPOTHESES: Newton overthrew = Aristotle, Einstein overthrew Newton. Tomorrow someone else'll overthrow = Einstein \'85 Remember, the scientists don't always get it right. - Carl Sagan, = Contact, a novel, Arrow Books, 1985/86, 136. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, THINGS, PEOPLE, CONDITIONS, PROBLEMS: It = is not so much the things themselves that plague people but the false = ideas they have of them. - J.Z., 8.10.96. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, THOUGHT, MAN, GREATNESS: No man can ever be = greater than his loftiest thoughts. - Author Unknown. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS, THOUGHTS, = FEVER, COFFEE: All our best thoughts were brought about and a kind of = feverish intoxication, in the fever of coffee. - Lichtenberg, = Aphorismen, 228. \par IDEAS, THOUGHTS, LIVES: Own life is what our thoughts make it. - = Marcus Aurelius. =20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS, THOUGHTS, OPINIONS, DIS: The = revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not = disseminat ed through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination = by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied forms = of contact, or simply by breathing the common air. - Arthur Koestler. = If freedom ideas would really effecti v ely spread like this, why are they then, today, still as largely unknown = or unappreciated? Should we burn all our libraries and give up = publishing in any affordable format, betting on Koestler having been = right on this? - What he says applies much more to popular prejudices, myths and erros than to any truths. - J.Z., = 22.8.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 IDEAS, THOUGHTS, TRADITIONS, DOGMATISM, SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT, CUSTOMS, = CONDITIONING, EDUCATION, CHANNELED THOUGHTS, MEMES, PREJUDICES, = RELIGIONS, IDEOLOGIES, CONDITIONING: \'85 made so ma ny errors because the thinking has been so inbred. - Michael F. Flynn, = In the Country of the Blind, conclusion, ANALOG, 11/87, 182. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, THOUGHTS: Good thoughts bear good fruit, = bad thoughts bear bad fruits and man is his own gardener. - James Allen. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDE AS, TOURISM: Most people rather want to multiply their tourist trips and = views than their worthwhile thoughts and ideas. - J.Z. 11.9.97. - Their = trips and the fund they derive from them won't save mankind but are just = some more of the many activities by=20 w hich people avoid trying to save their own lives and the lives of all = others. - I live in a tourist centre, a historical village that might = get 5,000 visitors over a weekend. Not one of them has ever shown an = interest in the radical ideas I represent, nor =20 any of the ca. 800 people of its population. They are more interested in = bricks and mortar than in positive ideas. I do not even find many more = listeners and readers in a large city like Sydney - or in the whole of = Australia! I remain a voice in the wild erness, largely even on the Internet. - J.Z., 21.10.02. \par IDEAS, TRADE, CIVILIZATION: \'85 it was not trade, but ideas, that = truly advanced civilization. - Richard Adams, Shadrik, 508. - Even the = Australian Aborigines had, for thousands, if not tenthousands of y ears, a continent-wide trade in small and portable items. That trade did = not advance them sufficiently. - Even the Hansa trade network in Europe = was conveying more the notions and practices of trading monopolies than = the ideas and insights of Free Trade.=20 Even in our times a Free Trade in or Free Market for ideas and the = services of talents has still to be established. - So far special = markets for other raw materials to finished products are much better = developed. - J.Z., 21.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS, TRADITIONS, = PROGRAM S, WELFARE STATE, CONSERVATISM, PUBLIC OPINION: In the main, ... the = less reliably an idea works, the more tenaciously you cling to it. = Welfare payments drain you moral and economic vitality, so you approve = more welfare. Criminal laws create crime where none existed previously, so you pass more laws. You defend yourselves = from a tyranny you fear some foreign power may impose, by imposing it on = yourselves, then wonder why your freedom has evaporated. - L. Neil = Smith, Converse and Conflict, 51. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS, TRUTH S, LIES: The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are = thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told = well is immortal. - Mark Twain. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS, TRUTHS, MARXISM END "MATERIAL PRODUCTIVE FORCES". = The course of human e vents is not determined by mythical material productive forces, but by = truth and ideas. - Mises, bibliography, 166. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS, TRUTHS, Men occasionally = stumble over truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as = if nothing had happened." - Sir Win ston Churchill. \par IDEAS, TRUTHS: The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly = insolence, the most yahooist brutality, is patently endured, = countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in = collision with the dogma of a sect, though c apable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed = a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly = into your face and eyes. - John Adams. - Not only maximum freedom of = expression and information are needed but al s o freedom to experiment among volunteers, regardless what the multitude = or the experts "think" about them. - This morning, on the radio, the = Australian Prime Minister was reported as rejecting opposition to his = further federal gun control attempts as "chi ldish"! He may have more armed men protecting him than anyone else in = Australia. Should we insist that all his bodyguards are to be armed only = with peashooters or toothpicks? - J.Z., 29.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, UNDERSTANDING, = COMPREHENSION, IDEAS ARCHIVE, SEARCHING, T RUTH: It is one of the most elementary rules of scientific inquiry that, = if you don't know exactly what you are looking for, you may not know = when you have found it. - Francis A. Cartier, The Signals, 38 in ANALOG, = 7/66. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, VALUES, PURPOSE, MAN, LIFE,=20 DESTINY, PROGRAMME, AIMS: But men want to merge themselvs in things = grater than their individual lives. Destiny is the word I use, for those = supernal (supernatural - J.Z.) living forces that exalt and give purpose = to the lives of myriads. - Jack Williams, =20 People Machines, story: Breakdown, p. 178. - There's more to life than = pleasing oneself and a few relatives and friends. - J.Z., 18.10.99. - = The daily chores and pleasures are hardly enough to make life worth = living. We want to impart a greater meaning an d purpose to our lives. Whatever aims and ideals or ideals and = institutions we choose for this is largely subjective. However, when it = comes to basic rights and liberties then there are also some objective = values involved, even if all too many people are n ot yet sufficiently aware and appreciative of them. - J.Z., 20.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, VISIONS, PEOPLE, PROGRAMS: Where there is = no vision, the people perish. - The Bible, Proverbs 29:18. - By now they = should be able to add to the vision and practice of religious li berty and tolerance, the panarchistic liberty and tolerance in the = political, economic and social spheres. Without that vision being widely = enough spread and applied, we might, indeed, still perish. - J.Z., = 13.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, VISIONS: They have no vision and when there = is no vision the people perish. - Pres. D. Rossevelt, in many addresses. = - They can also perish, and do so much more often, from false visions, = like his own. - J.Z., 15.3.97. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, WISDOM, LEARNING EVEN FROM THE ENEMY: The = wise learn many things from their enemies. - Aristophanes, Birds, 375. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS, WORDS, PRINCIPLES & EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM: = Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your = word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are. - Tom = Clancy, Clear an d Present Danger, 610. - - Not only the clear and present dangers ought = to be clearly described, but also all the solutions to them that have so = far been advanced. Politicians and their advisors will not catch or = comprehend them, far less apply them. They must be permanently and together exhibited and made accessible to all = and all must become free not only to discuss them but to try to apply = them in their circles of volunteers, if they come to believe that any = particular ones might be the best ones.=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS, WORDS, = SLOGANS FOR LIBERTY: Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever.... = Given me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. = - Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record: preface. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS, WRONG IDEAS, STATE SOCIALISM, HUNGER, STARVATION, = SHORTAGES, FOREIGN AID, CHARITY: Wrong ideas cause food shortages \'85 and that leads to hunger and death. Do we let the little Oriental girl = die because her mother believes that Buddha will provide? \'85 I guess = not, \'85 not if you really care about her. - It wouldn't do as much good, would it, to send the mother a pamphlet explaining = that Buddha }{\i\fs24\lang1033 won't }{\fs24\lang1033 provide? \'85 In the long run, it might do more good to send the pamphlet. - Fine. = You work on the pamphlets and leave the food problem to me. - David = Houston, Substance X, 130/131. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 IDEAS: Our minds have been invaded and our actions have been misguidd = by numerous wrong ideas. - J.Z., 3.9.97. - Nevertheless, we have not yet = made enough systematic efforts to support and spread the correct ideas = and defeat the wrong ones. - J. Z., 21.10.02. \par IDEAS: Unfortunately, most people's minds are not yet sufficiently = prepared and supported by information aids to accept and retain many = important, rightful and truthful ideas, far less to act upon them. Name = your own examples. - J.Z., 9.2.95 . - They find it much easier to subscribe uncritically to popular = prejudices, errors and myths. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS: "Ideas are far more powerful = than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow = them to have ideas?" - Josef Stalin. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS: \'85 Ideas govern the world = or throw it into chaos; \'85 - Auguste Compte, The Positive Philosophy, = Seldes, 491. \par IDEAS: \'85 the old ideas are killing people. - Poul Anderson, The = Avatar, 51. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS: Although there is nothing as powerful as an = idea whose time has come, there is nothing as feble as an idea whose = time has passed. - G. Harry Stine, ANALOG Mid Dec. 94. - Or as an idea = whose time has not yet come! - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par IDEAS: Among the multiple daily facts, observations, impressions, = opinions, offe red to us daily the really important and truthful ones do usually get = swamped, neglected and ignored. "Panem and circenses" (Bread & circus = performances) are still the rule as well as miseducation instead of = genuine education. Propaganda and lies outdo a ll enlightenment efforts so far. But then all truths have never as yet = been efficiently assembled and placed to confront, permanently, cheaply = and almost effortlessly, all errors, myths, lies and prejudices. - J.Z., = 16.9.97, 21.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS: An idea that is not considered = "dangerous" is not worthy of being considered and "idea." - Source = unknown. \par IDEAS: An invasion of ideas cannot be resisted - said Victor Hugo. = Unfortunately, he was right largely only for wrong and prejudicial ideas = which, presently, overru n attempts to resist them with right ones. A defence or an invasion with = rightful ideas will be irresistible only once they are organized by an = ideal market for ideas, in a super-computer scheme. That could. indeed, = be the best organized, most successful=20 and most rightful invasion ever. - J.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 IDEAS: Arthur C. Clarke's four stages of an idea, revised by Harry Stine = in ANALOG, Nov. (95?): 1. I never heard of such a crazy idea! 2.) You = may be right - so what? 3.) I said it was a good idea all along! 4.) I = thought of it first! \par IDEAS: Astonish me! - Quoted by Arthur C. Clarke, in: A Meeting = with Medusa, p. 65. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IDEAS: Bad ideas rule the world - is a correct statement. However, if = the good ideas were not so badly marketed then they would rule the world = - is also correct. - J., 76. \par IDEAS: Create a free market for ideas - to turn them instantly into = history-making forces, if they are worthwhile. But don't imagine that = today's press and other institutions constitute already such a market. - = J. \par IDEAS: Creative ideas, i n their totality, are the greatest capital asset. Yet, strangely, those = calling themselves capitalists have not yet "mined", "refined", = accumulated, traded and utilised all of them in a capitalistic way. = Obviously, all material capital now in existence is lastly built upon ideas and knowledge - and it could be quickly = replaced by means of them if it were lost. - J., n.d. & 3.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS: Die Ideen habe ihre eigene = Kraft, eine abstrakte, unpersoenliche, von den Individuen voellig = unabhaengige Kraft. - Prof. Edgard Milhaud. (Ideas have their own power, an abstract and impersonal = one, completely independent from individuals.) \par IDEAS: Don't blow your top, expand your mind and your liberties - = with sound freedom ideas and programs. - J.Z., 18.1.95. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS: Don't i mprison or outlaw or perpetuate ideas and ideals by laws. Let them live = or die - by free and tolerant practice - on a free market place i.e., = among volunteers and at their expense and risk - and for their benefit. = No sacrificial victims to any ideal,, not even a legalized one. - J., 73. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS: Everybody's first idea isn't = necessarily right. Also, people are capable of self--deception. = Scientists, too. \'85 everybody makes mistakes. It's part of being human. - Carl Sagan, = Contact, a novel, Arrow Books, 1985/86, 164. - Alas, he merely recommends scientific skepticism rather than an = ideas archive, which, with its abundance of diverse ideas on the same = subject would make the sufficient exploration, refutation or proof for = all of them much more likely and rapid. Th e most important market for ideas now is one for all ideas on liberty and = rights, bringing supply and demand for them automatically together, = leading all false ideas to the best refutations available and all good = ideas to their best supports - and making t hem readily accessible upon demand. So far, to my knowledge, there = exists not even a comprehensive encyclopaedia of the ideas in SF. I saw = a short and superficial one, once. - J.Z., 19.4.00. \par IDEAS: For the material world is just the dream world frozen hard. = - William F. Temple, The Legend of Ernie Deacon, 76 of ANALOG, 3/65. \par IDEAS: Fuller could turn any topic into something worth looking at = again, as if ideas were sculpture to be turned and seen in a different = light. Sol Stein, The Touch of Treason, Charter Books, N.Y., 1985, 75. - That should not be surprising, since they are = expressed in words with xyz different meanings and shades of meanings. = To assume that only one version or interpretation is correct keeps us = from many truthful aspects. A consistent a nd close to complete libertarian re-interpretation of many to most terms = in the humanities remains still to be undertaken. - 21.4.00. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS: Good ideas need a lot more than = making sense before they can be realised. Most of all they need a proper = market. - J ., 77. - And experimental freedom for them. - J.Z., 3.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS: Great men have ideas, lesser men implement them - = and the least men gain control of their use. - Charles Sheffield, The = Web Between The Worlds, 181. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS: Have you got any idea how much = ideas could help you? - J. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0=20 IDEAS: I believe the age of bullets is over. I believe the age of ideas = is come... - Wendell Phillips. - At least a proper market for ideas, an = ideas archive and talent registry, as well as experimental freedom are = required to he lp good ideas and talents to victory. - John Zube, 23.3.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS: I live for them, i collect them and try to spread = them - by the only means i can afford. - J.Z., 20.8.95. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS: I would say \'85 that it's a matter of = setting up correct ideas. - A. E. van Vogt, The Pawns of Null-A, 142. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\lang1033=20 IDEAS: Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of = talent. - Riverol. - Without an Ideas Archive, an Encyclopedia of the = Best Refutations & one of the optimal wordings for replies, as well as = one of all the va rious definitions of every term, a complete bibiliography, abstracts, = reviews and an alphabetical index to all references even the greatest = talent will often encounter difficulties in replying convincingly to = masses of objectors spouting each an abundance of popular objections. - J.Z., 5.7.00.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033=20 IDEAS: Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle = them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck. - Alas, most = people satisfy themselves with all too few ideas, mostly false ones, and = put up barriers against the entry of more and better ones. - All the = more important it is that those who really love ideas and who continue = to morally and rationally judge them, gain freedom to try them out in = practices, without permission from any legisl ator, politician or bureaucrat, but only at their own risk and expense. = - J.Z., 25.11.02. \par IDEAS: Ideas are more powerful than physical strength. - Sophocles, = fragments, 853 bei K. Heinemann. - Yes, provided they are given their = chance to be uttered, publicized, accessed and applied. - J.Z., 22.7.86. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IDEAS: Ideas are our most precious and most neglected possessions. We = have museums and exhibitions for all kinds of old and new "rubbish"- but = none for ideas and talents. - J. \par IDEAS: Ideas are powerful - if people are free or dare to act on = them. - J., 72. \par IDEAS: Ideas are weapons, said Max Lerner. - Let's use them more = effectively - by fully mobilising them. - J., 78. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS: Ideas won't keep. Something = must be done about them. - Alfred North Whitehead. - Ideas d o not deteriorate over time. At worst, they are by-passed by still = better ones. But if they are any good then they should be spread and put = into operation as soon as possible. This requires a special market for = ideas and talents, an Ideas Archive and a Ta lent Registry. That covers the persuasion side. On the practical side, = all innovators and supporters of innovations should have full = experimental freedom, at their own cost and risk, to try to demonstrate = the validity of their ideas. - J.Z., 5.7.00. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS: Instant acceptance of an idea is as = self-defeating as instant rejection. - Mark Clifton and Frank Riley, = They'd Rather Be Right, ASTOUNDING SF, Nov. 1954, p. 113. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS: Isn't it curious that false large ideas, = e.g., like State socialism, can be easily sol d, even to small minds, but not truthful large ideas, like e.g. the = Ideas Archive, the expropriation of the bureaucracy, monetary freedom, = Libertarian Microfiche Publishing or the CD-ROM Project, an ideal = militia for the protection of individual rights? - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par IDEAS: It is not so much big power or big money that we have to = fight but the unseen and unfelt lack of better ideas and the all too = wide-spread addiction to flawed ones. - J.Z., 29.8.99. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS: It is one of those discoveries which are in = t he air at certain periods, and are made by several persons at once - = many of them not fully aware of what they really are, and unable to = follow out their implications. - Letters From Albert Jay Nock, 1924-45, = to Mr. & Mrs. Edmund C. Evans & Ellen Windsor, =20 Caxton, 1949, 89. - That is still true of many important libertarian = ideas, only partly grasped, if at all, among most libertarians. Some = libertarian ideas have now waited for recognition among libertarians for = decades, if not centuries. Waiting for the t ime to become ripe is not good enough. A proper market should be = provided for all of them. - J.Z., 4.5.00. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS: Life is worthwhile, apart from = mere vegetating, only by our rational day-dreams. - J., 77. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS: Man sagt: Eitles Eigenlob = stinkt. Das mag sei n, was aber ein fremder und ungerechter Tadel fuer einen Geruch habe, = dafuer hat das Publikum keine Nase. - Goethe. -- (One says that the = self-praise of vanity stinks. That may be but what a stench is = associated with an unjustified accusation by a strange r - for that the public has no nose at all.) All new ideas encounter = such stinking attacks. - J.Z., 23.10.02. \par IDEAS: Millions would rather die for flawed ideas than thoroughly = criticize them and consider the sound alternative ones. - J.Z., = 26.11.90. - This=20 makes it all the more important to open avenue for freedom for = volunteers to experiment, at their expense and risk, with the ideas they = prefer for themselves, so that they have no longer to fight for their = realization, mostly in vain, with bullets or vote s . By such free experimentation they will prove or disprove their ideas = for themselves and for others and they could do so quite peacefully and = soon. Enlightenment would spread as it has from free experiments in the = sciences and in technology. - J.Z., 20.1 0.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IDEAS: Most people think that ideas are unimportant. And yet, at least = today's ruling ideas are the most important factors in all, human = affairs. It is also true that even under the present bad marketing = system for ideas some of the now unpopular idea s will or can become the ruling ones - a few decades hence. - J.=20 \par IDEAS: No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered = with a searching but at the same time with a steady eye. - Winston = Churchill. \par IDEAS: No idea is so outlandish that it should=20 not be considered with a searching but at the same time with a steady = eye. - Winston Churchill. - Alas, he did not examine his collective = responsibility notions and thus change his air raid policy. Nor did he = bother to consider what rightful war aims woul d require. - J.Z., 30.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 IDEAS: No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a = searching but at the same time with a steady eye. - Winston S. = Churchill. - But if it is an idea that has been advanced thousands of = times over centuries an d already refuted thousands of times then an Encyclopedia of the Best = Refutations should be on hand, one of Optimal Wordings and one of = Alternative Definitions. For positive ideas as well as for the = refutations of false ones, an Ideas Archive and its info rmation service should be handy. - J.Z., 5.7.00. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033=20 IDEAS: One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new = idea. - George F. Baer, Physics and Politics. - In ANALOG, 1/91, P. 249, = the same saying is ascribed to Walter Baghot. - For a new idea to enter our minds, the large barriers of prejudices, myths, errors, wrong = assumption, notions of superiority, etc., have to be penetrated and this = is so painful a process that it is usually soon stopped. The mind = remains impregnable to the new idea and all too self-satisfied. Let innovators do their things for and to = themselves and let others isolate themselves from them as much as they = like. - J.Z., 25.11.02.=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS: One of the = greatest pains to human nature is the pain of the new idea. - Walter = Bagehot, Physics and Politics, 163. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IDEAS: Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and = only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them. - Lin = Yutang. - One can also treat important ideas too lightly and can get rid = of certain remainin g forms of enslavement and collectivist mass murders only by taking some = valuable ideas quite serious. - J.Z., 22.8.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS: Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of = mankind are possessed by them. - S. T. Coleridge, Miscellanies, 154. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS: = Popu larly held ideas are far more important than guns, bombs, material = wealth or temporary political power in determining the shape of things = to come. - Percy L. Greaves, Jr., Mises bibliography, 171. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS: Render ideas and talents = effective - by making them=20 available to all who are already interested - through a central archive = and information service. - J. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS: Some of the most important = issues, alternatives & ideas are rarely if ever discussed - and may not = be freely practised. - J.Z., 19.7.94. - Because they are outlawed. See: Panarchism, monetary freedom, decision on war = and peace, armament and disarmament and international treaties by the = people themselves, militias for the protection of individual rights and = liberties, expropriation of the bureaucrac y for the benefit of its victims (PEACE PLANS 19C). - J.Z., 20.10.02. \par IDEAS: Tell me a new idea I haven't heard or read of for a long = time, or not at all! - J.Z., 20.8.95, 20.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS: The bad ideas need no = marketing. They do already flood every market=20 and most people's minds. But good ideas need the best kind of marketing = that can be provided for them. - J., 77 & 3.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS: The biggest job, with the = highest stakes anybody ever dreamed of. How can you turn it down? - = From: Raise the Titanic. - Even=20 the imagination of most writers is all too limited. - How important is = it to raise a wreck in which "merely" ca, 1,200 people died? There were = many much larger man-made catastrophes and mass murders since. However, = the problem remains of how to interest=20 p eople in really large or significant ideas, like that of the Ideas = Archive, of LMP, Free Banking, the CD-ROM project, Panarchism, = Unilateral Peace Declarations, Rightful War Aims, Individual = Secessionism, businesslike productive coops, ideal militia force s, improved human rights declarations, a plan for the comprehensive = expropriation of the bureaucracy, a libertarian revolution, library, = encyclopaedia, etc. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS: The composition of this book has been for = the author a long struggle of esc ape, and so must the reading of it be for most readers if the author's = assault upon them is to be successful, a struggle of escape from = habitual modes of thought and expression. The ideas which are here = expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and sh o uld be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in = escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most = of us have been, into every corner of our minds. - John Maynard Keynes, = The General Theory of Employment, Interest and =20 Money, Preface, p. viii (1936). - Alas, he offered nothing but a = reiteration of popular prejudices in fashionable terms. - He was one of = the many high priests of monetary despotism and never considered the = monetary freedom alternatives to it. - J.Z., 25. 11.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS: The road to heaven (on Earth) = is plastered with - good ideas. - J., 77, 3.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IDEAS: The ultimate determiners of = the conditions of human existence are human ideas. - Ernestine Perkins, = in: Liberty in our Time: Is it possible?=20 \par IDEAS: The world may be only an idea of mine, but my idea is not = this kind of world. - Dagobert Runes, A Dictionary of Thought, 58. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IDEAS: The worst and most critical = unemployment is that of good ideas & talents. - J. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS: There is an old cliche that great men of ideas = seldom live to enjoy the fruits of their fame and influence... - Don = Lavoie, quoted in Mises bibliography, 366. \endash=20 This is one of the consequences of the absence of an ideas archive, = talent registry and of full experimental freedom. Compare how fast = computer technology progresses under freedom. \endash J.Z., 13.4.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS: = There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an = idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow. - = Christopher Morley, Religio Journalistici. \par IDEAS: Time urges and forces us to be brief; we must inform = ourselves not only about the facts of the present but, likewise, about = the mysterious mothers of the future, the IDEAS. - Georg Herwegh, = Gedichte und Prosa, 122, Reclam edition. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\lang1033 IDEAS: = To someone who ha s thought much, every new idea he hears or reads, immediately appears as = a chain. - Friedrich Nietzsche. - Ulrich von Beckerath remarked to me = that every truth is interconnected and so are all errors and prejudices. = - The implication is that any truth utt e red will tend to encounter an endless chain of prejudices, errors and = myths, readily spouted by almost anyone and any further truth uttered = will encounter the same fate. So the maximum verbiage tends to be on the = side of untruths. That situation will tend =20 to prevail until a new encyclopedia for conversations is fully = developed, one that offers the best refutations of all popular errors, = myths and prejudices, and another handbook of the optimal wordings for = every put-down of errors, myths and prejudices, e v ery type of character and situation. - With their aid even ordinary = people will be able to confront machine gun mouths like e.g. Goebbel's = and come out victorious, especially if they tape an exchange and then go = through it, point by point, after looking u p some suitable references. In a public meeting several persons will tend = to be so equipped & alternate in their counter-attacks. - Many ideas are = so involved that the time and space available and ordinary sequential = sequence far exceed the attention span=20 o f most people. In these cases the discussion should be rather a written = one, in flow-chart discussion form, so that not a single point becomes = overlooked and any line of reasoning can easily be followed to its ends. = - Only a comprehensive Ideas Archive w ill have accumulated all the pro and con on any idea - and could make = them easily accessible. - J.Z., 5.7.00.=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEAS: With many = ideas one is not yet a great man, in the same way as a general with many = soldiers is not yet a good commander. - Chamfort, in: F ranzoesische Moralisten, 287. - Ideas have to be properly marketed as = well and so far a comprehensive market for all ideas and talents has not = yet been developed. - Without it neither good ideas nor great talents to = be properly managed, developed and made effective. - John Zube, 11.3.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 IDEAS: Your own brain-children or favourite ideas are first immigrants = and settlers in your brain and they tend to set up immigration barriers = against further ideas from others. Do not become possessed or obsessed = by your i deas. Become prepared not only to share them with others who are = interested but also to share their ideas. - J.Z., 19.11.96, 20.10.02. \par IDENTITY CARD: The ID card should be as voluntary as any credit = card. Whoever wants it, orders it and pays for it gets wh atever advantages and disadvantages he has from it. Not one else should = be obliged to accept and use this tool. I for one distrust any "benefit" = that someone attempts to force upon me. And if he is a public servant = then I should be free to dismiss him - o r to opt out of his system. - J.Z., 15.9.87, 26.10.02. \par IDENTITY CARDS: ID cards, at their expense, for all those who want = their supposed benefits - but they should not be imposed upon any = dissenters. - J.Z., 9.9.87. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDENTITY, = INDIVIDUALISM, PERSONALITY: Suppression of identity is murder... - = Richard S. McEnroe, THE SHATTERED STARS, 76. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IDEOLGUES, EXPERIENCE & PREJUDICES: Ideologen sammeln = keine Erfahrungen, sondern Vorurteile. - Ron Kritzfeld. - (Ideologues = collect not experiences but prejudices.) \par IDEOLOGIES & PANARCHISM: Long live freedom and damn the ideologies. - Robinson = Jeffers, quoted by Poul Anderson in Past Times, 141. - No, let them have = their kind of freedom, too. Let each ideologue suffer under the own = ideology. Don't allow any ideologue to make o thers suffer under his personal ideology - unless they happen to share = his faith in it. - J.Z., 18.8.85.=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IDEOLOGIES, = DICTATORSHIPS, TOLERANCE AND PANARCHISM: ... in the future, when = INTELLECTUAL DICTATORSHIPS as well as material dictatorships has been = abol ished.- Max Nettlau, A SHORT HISTORY OF ANARCHISM, 201. - Intellectual = as well as material dictatorships do dominate the wills of dissenters = only when they are territorially, that is, uniformly, imposed upon all = people living in a territory. Most anarchis t s try that as well as do the archists. Peaceful coexistence is not = possible on the territorial model but only to the extent that people = leave each other exterritorially alone, with each remaining free to do = his things for to himself only. - John Zube, 19 .3.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IDEOLOGIES, FORCE, WARS, CIVIL WARS & REVOLUTIONS: "\'85 in quarrel over philosophies whose very defence by force indicated = their weakness, we succeeded eventually in destroying both our race and = the living richness of our planetary home.."- - Edmund Co oper, Jupiter Laughs, Coronet Books, 1981, 186. - The territorial model = leaves us no alternative but force, including votes as bayonet = substitutes, to achieve the realization of our own dreams. = Exterritorially, all could peacefully pursue their own dreams , without disturbing dissenters. - J.Z., 21.4.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEOLOGIES, IDEAS ARCHIVE, TOLERANCE: Ideologien = sind Ideen in Waffen. - Source unknown. - (Ideologies are ideas in = arms.) - Often they are merely the faiths of fools and fanatics, driven = by all too limited, primitive, false or contradictory notions, by a lack rather than an = abundance of ideas. If they were made aware of the whole range of ideas = that are offered, then they would tend to become, sooner or later, = tolerant towards tolerant actions of others. -=20 J.Z., 5.7.92. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033=20 IDEOLOGIES, INTOLERANCE, TOLERANCE, SELF-INTEREST, SELF-RELIANCE, = PANARCHISM: Ideologists, all of you. All of the world's troubles have = been caused by noble and righteous (ignoble and wrongful! - J.Z.) ideas = of how other people ought to live.=20 I look after my own interests, and I allow the world to look after its = in whatever way it chooses. That's my only ideology, and it serves me = well. . - James P. Hogan, The Code of the Lifemaker, 150. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IDEOLOGIES, RELIGION, FAITH, BELIEF, PARTIES: \'85 an = infall ible party was good theology but poor engineering. - Alexis A. = Gilliland, The Man Who Funded the Moon, ANALOG, 10/89, p.163. \par IDEOLOGIES, TERRORISM, POLICIES, TERRITORIALISM, PANARCHISM: The = Terrors of Ideological Policies. - Book title by Marian J. Morton, 1972. = - It is rather the terror of ideologies that are territorially applied! = - J.Z., 22.11.90, 23.10.02. \par IDEOLOGIES: \'85 the effrontery to attempt to impose the ideology = on everyone within their power. - Clarence B. Carson, THE FREEMAN, Aug. = 77, p. 479. \par ID EOLOGIES: I have no interest in political ideologies. (I would say: = territorial ideologies. - J.Z.) They are nothing but medieval religion = and superstition, hiding behind different slogans. Their purpose is the = same: to control the minds of people through dogmatism and manipulation. Neither system respects truth, freedom, or = any form of independent thinking, or tolerates opposing opinions. - = James P. Hogan, Endgame Enigma, 212. \par IDEOLOGIES: The fact that political ideologies are tangible = realities is not a p roof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an = extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded = it as vitally necessary. - Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of = Fascism. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 IDEOLOGUES, TRUE BELIEVERS, FANATICS: The greatest horrors of life are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons = or the vengeance of the Agamemmnons, but to the doctrinaire = philosophers... The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the = judicial and business-like operations of the Checka. - }{\i\cf1 Aleister Crowley.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 IDEOLOGY & RELIGION, INTELLECTUALS: Ideology - the opium of the more = intelligent. - J.Z., 28.6.88. - But not of the quite intelligent people. = - J.Z., 26.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IDEOLOGY: \'85 the trouble was \'85 frozen = ideology. - William F. Buckley, The Unma king of Mayor, Viking Press, 1966, 50. - Under territorialism it harms = everybody. Under the voluntarism of exterritorial autonomy only those = who choose it for themselves. - J.Z., 27.4.00.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IDEOLOGY: Impfstoff, der gegen das Denken = immunisiert. - Ron Kritzfeld. - (Ideology, a vaccination that immunizes = against thinking.) \par IDOLS, IDEOLOGIES, BELIEFS, FAITH, RELIGION, FANATICISM, DOGMATISM, = IDEAS, PREJUDICES: More people have died for false idols than true = ideas. - Dagobert D. Runes, A Book fo Contemplation, 68. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IGNORANCE & FEAR: We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. = - Livy. - Often the fear is quite justified and based on ignorance of = causes and solutions, e.g., regarding war, inflation, mass unemployment = and poverty, but combined with culpab le disinterest in exploring causes and solutions. - J.Z., 30.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE & KNOWLEDGE: \'85 as the = diameter of our knowledge increases so does the circumference of our = ignorance increase; \'85 S. Hutchinson Harris, The Doctrine of Personal Right, 327. \par IGNORANCE & KNOWLEDGE: A man doesn't know what he knows until he = knows what he doesn't know. - Dr. Laurence J. Peter.=20 \par IGNORANCE & KNOWLEDGE: Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, = is the death of knowledge. - Alfred North Whitehead. - Knowledge does = not simply die because most people quite intentionally remain ignorant = of it. - J.Z., 25.10.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IGNORANCE & KNOWLEDGE: One part of knowledge = consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known. = - Crates. - To arrive at true knowledge we have=20 first to discard much of what falsely passes as knowledge. - J.Z., = 25.11.02. \par IGNORANCE & KNOWLEDGE: That there should one man die ignorant who = had capacity for knowledge, this I call tragedy, were it to happen more = than twenty times in the minute, as by so me computations it does. The miserable fraction of science which our = united mankind, in a wide universe of nescience, has acquired, why is = not this, with all diligence, imparted to all? - Thomas Carlyle, Sartor = Resartus, III. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE & KNOWLEDGE: The little I know I owe to = my ignorance. - Sacha Guitry. \par IGNORANCE & KNOWLEDGE: To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the = malady of the ignorant. - A. B. Alcott, 1788-1888. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IGNORANCE & KNOWLEDGE: To the small part of = ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name knowledge. - = Ambrose Bierce. \par IGNORANCE & LEARNING: I have never met a man so ignorant that I = couldn't learn something from him. - Galileo Galilei. - Sometimes one = can learn as much or more from having to contradict than from having to = concede a point. - J.Z., 25.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE & PANARCHISM: Die Menschen irren = deswegen sooft, weil sie unwissend sind; und ueberhaupt besteht ihre = unheilbare Narrheit darin, dass sie sich weise duenken. - Helv\'e9tius, = De l\'e9 sprit, 2, 21. - (Men err as often because they=20 are ignorant. Generally, their incurable foolishness consists that they = deem themselves wise.) - Allow even those deemed ignorant to try to set = good examples to those deemed wise. - No one has the right to rule = others (in their affairs) without the conse nt of the others. - J.Z., 22.7.86. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IGNORANCE & PREJUDICE: Ignorance is less remote = from truth than prejudice. - Denis Diderot. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IGNORANCE & SUPERSTITION: Ignorance = and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each = other. - James Fenimore=20 Cooper. - Close, yes but mathematical relationship? No! He was careful = enough not to try to state it! - J.Z., 22.8.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 IGNORANCE AND CRITICISM: I have never found, in a long = experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. - = Harold Macmillan. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = IGNORANCE AND PREJUDICE: Ignorance is the mother of prejudice. \endash=20 Quoted in THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Col. 8, 20.3.99. - But prejudice = has also an incestuous relationship with ignorance. - J.Z., 13.4.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE IN ACTION: Nothing is more terri ble to behold than activity without insight. - Thomas Carlyle. Compare = Goethe's remark: Nothing is more terrible to behold than ignorance in = action.=20 \par IGNORANCE OF & INDIFFERENCE TO PEACE & ITS REQUIREMENTS, PEACE, = LOVE OF PEACE, IDEAS, PEACE PLANS, IDEAS A RCHIVE, CONFERENCES, PEACE MOVEMENT, PEACE CONFERENCES, SUMMIT = CONFERENCE: Men have shouted peace and preached the brotherhood of man = and there has been no peace and only lip service to brotherhood. You = would have us hold conferences? I ask you, my friend , what is the history of conference? - Clifford D. Simak, Ring Around the = Sun, 163. - I would expect more from tolerance towards tolerant = dissenters (doing their things to and for themselves) than from love or = brotherly feelings towards them or conferences with them. - J.Z., 30.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IGNORANCE SHORTENS = LIVES: Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. - Herbert = Spencer, Principles of Biology, Pt. VI, ch. 12, sec. 372. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE VS. KNOWLEDGE, INDIFFERENCE, ENLIGHTENMENT, = LEARNING, EDUCATION, WISD OM: Ignoranz ist nicht Nichtwissen, sondern Nichtwissenwollen. - Werner = Mitsch. - (Ignorance is not lack of knowledge but the will not to = learn.) - Compare Kant: Was ist Aufklaerung? (What Is Enlightenment) on = self-caused immaturity.=20 \par IGNORANCE VS. KNOWLE DGE, OMNISCIENCE: The most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance = which fancies it knows everything. - Albert Camus, The Plague, 1947. - = If the hypothetical God is omniscient and omnipotent then he is either = indifferent to to his children, whom he i s supposed to love, or malevolent and vicious, in all too many cass. Or = are we merely his laboratory rats? Then he would not be omniscient, = either. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par IGNORANCE VS. KNOWLEDGE: It is the tragedy of the world that no one = knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the sure he is = that he knows everything. - Joyce Cary, Art and Reality. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IGNORANCE VS. KNOWLEDGE: Not = ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. - = Alfred North Whitehead. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE VS. KNOWLEDGE: On the whole, though, men seem to suffer much more through ignorance than = through knowledge. - L. Sprague de Camp. The Breeds of Man, ANALOG, = 4/76, p. 36. \par IGNORANCE, APATHY, INDIFFERENCE, RESISTANCE: Wer heute den Kopf in = den Sand steckt, knirscht morgen mit den Zaehnen. - Graffito - (Who today hides his head in the sand will = tomorrow have to gnash his teeth.) - Ignoring problems enlarges them. - = J.Z., n.d. - "Principies obstat: Resist the beginnings." \par IGNORANCE, BONDAGE, CHAINS, INDEPENDENCE, AMERICANISM, = TERRITORIALISM, SELF-GOVERNMENT, SELF-RULE, INDIVIDUALISM: America will = be to the world a signal for arousing men to burst the chains under = which \'85 ignorance and superstition has persuaded them to bind themselves and to = assume the blessings and security of self -government. - Thomas Jefferson. - Territorial government, of whatever = form, makes exactly that impossible. At most it allows territorial = majorities to rule themselves and, alas, also all the dissenters in = "their" territories. - J.Z., 22.10.02.=20 \par IGNORANCE , CAUSES, CURES, PROGRAMS, GOVERNMENTS, POLITICIANS, PLATFORMS, PARTIES: = Governments are so ignorant of real causes and cures that they are only = able to tinker around with appearances and symptoms, like establishing = new committees and offices, titles, dec orations and uniforms, or robbing Peter to pay Paul, instead of tackling = the freedom and justice reforms required: the abolition of wrongful and = self-defeating but legalized interventionist measures. - J.Z., 27.8.02.=20 \par IGNORANCE, DIS: Ignorance never settles a question. - Benjamin = Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons, May 14, 1866. \par IGNORANCE, DIS: Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune. - Nicholas = Ling, Politeuphuia, 1597. \par IGNORANCE, DIS: Our lives are universally shortened by our = ignorance. - Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biolgoy, VI, 1867. \par IGNORANCE, DIS: There is no darkness but ignorance. - Shakespeare, = Twelfth Night, iv, c. 1601. \par IGNORANCE, DOGMATISM, KNOWLEDGE: It is a trusty rule of human = conduct that. the less a man knows about a controversial subje ct, the more emotional, dogmatic and violent he becomes when it is = brought up. - L. Sprague de Camp, The Breeds of Man, ANALOG, 4/76.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 IGNORANCE, ERRORS, PREJUDICES, MYTHS: There are two = things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-minded ness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary = qualities. They will not bear discussion. }{\i\cf1 - Lord Acton. -}{\cf1 = They could be smashed by an encyclopaedia of the best refutations, with = whose help they could be easily and publicly refuted b y almost anyone in possession of it. It could and should be portable = e.g. on microfiche, floppy disk or CD-ROM, with a portable reading = machine. - J.Z., 30.6.00.}{\i\cf1 =20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE, FREEDOM & CHOICE: = Ignorance deprives men of freedom because they do not know what=20 alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has = never "heard of". - Ralph Barton Perry, quoted in L. E. Read: How Do We = Know? page 97. \par IGNORANCE, IDEAS, ENLIGHTENMENT, PREJUDICE: Most spheres of human = activisties - as far as mass medi a and mass consciousness are concerned, are intellectual deserts: rulers = rule in ingorance and prejudice and are submitted to and approved in = ignorance and prejudice. Protectionism, unionism, monetary despotism, = militarism, territorial laws, drug laws, ar e infamous instances. Even religious wars and censorship are still = occurring in many parts of the world. - J.Z., 17.9.82. - Nowhere has man = as yet been set quite free. - J.Z., 24.10.02.=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IGNORANCE, = Ignorance is not innocence, but sin. - Robert Browning, The Inn Album, = canto v. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033=20 IGNORANCE, KNOWLEDGE, FOOLISHNESS, WISDOM, HALF-KNOWLEDGE: The fool and = the wise man are equally harmless; it is the half-wise and the = half-foolish who are most to be feared. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe = (1749-1832), Spr\'fcche in Prosa. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE, KNOWLEDGE, FOOLISHNESS: Most ignorance = is vincible ignorance: we don't know because we don't want to know. - = Aldous Huxley. =20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IGNORANCE, KNOWLEDGE, HALF-KNOWLEDGE: Better be = ignorant of a matter than half know it. - Publilius Syrus, Maxim 865. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE, KNOWLEDGE, INDIFFERENCE, IDEAS: Much of = ignorance and indifference to knowledge and ideas is also mass produced = in government schools. - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IGNORANCE, KNOWLEDGE, INDIVIDUAL = FREEDOM, RIGHTS & LIBERTIES: ...the case for individual free dom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal = ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which = the achievements of our ends and welfare depend. - F. A. Hayek. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE, KNOWLEDGE, JUMPING TO = CONCLUSIONS: Knowledge includes qualifiers. Ignorance jumps to = unqualified conclusions. - J.Z., 4/5.92. \par IGNORANCE, KNOWLEDGE, LEADERSHIP, PREJUDICES, INCOMPETENCE, = EVERYWHERE: Teachers can't teach, journalists can't report, lecturers = can't lecture, politicians and economists can't advise and lead, bureaucrats can't administer, planners can't = plan, policemen can't protect, judges can't judge, generals can't defend = - all because neither knows enough. - J.Z., 4.9.91. \par IGNORANCE, KNOWLEDGE, SPECIALIZATION: Everybody is ignorant, only = on different subjects. - Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IGNORANCE, KNOWLEDGE: Not ignorance, = but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. - Alfred North = Whitehead. \par IGNORANCE, KNOWLEDGE: The larger the island of knowledge, the = longer the shoreline of wonder. - Ralph W. Sockman. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 IGNORANCE, KNOWLEDGE: The real human problem is that the ignorant do not = know they are ignorant. - Christopher Hills, The Golden Egg, VIII. - = Lack of this awareness holds back also many anarchists and libertarians = and makes many of their writings insufficiently appealing. The half-blind = cannot lead the blind well enough. - Much worse is the fact that those = who are not ignorant are firstly not sufficiently in touch with each = other and secondly not making sufficient use of affordable and powerful alternative media and thirdly not free to = apply their knowledge in tolerant experiments among themselves. - J.Z., = 21.10.02. \par IGNORANCE, LEARNING, EDUCATION, TEACHING, KNOWLEDGE, ENLIGHTENMENT, = INFORMATION REVOLUTION: One cannot te ach a thing to people who imagine that they already know all or enough = about a subject and who are thus unwilling to learn more. However, to = the others all worthwhile knowledge should be made accessible = everywhere, cheaply, fast and convenient enough, not only with the old and fashionable media but with alternative, cheap and = powerful media in their particular strengths. See Microfilm & CD-ROM and = various encyclopaedia projects, e.g., PEACE PLANS 16-17. - J.Z., 4.9.91, = 27.10.02 \par IGNORANCE, LEARNING, SCHOLARS HIP, EDUCATION, INTELLECTUALS, ACADEMICS, EXPERTS, SPECIALISTS: There is = an alphabetical ignorance, which precedes learning; but there is also = another kind of ignorance, which we might call doctoral, that is created = by learning and replaces the alphabetic al ignorance which has been destroyed. - Michel de Montaigne, Essais. \par IGNORANCE, PANARCHISM, INTOLERANCE, MINDS, BARRIERS, FRONTIERS, = UNDERSTANDING: "\'85 understanding comes first, mountains, rivers, seas = are no longer the barriers that separate mankind, just the minds of mankind itself. The intolerance of ignorance not WANTING = to know - that is the last real frontier left on earth. - Alistair = MacLean, The Last Frontier, 203. - Not all have to become thought = leaders and public opinion makers. But however many or few of them there are, their strengths and interests ought to be = come fully mobilized. Then public opinion will merely follow them and = the first experiments undertaken with the new thoughts and ideas. - = J.Z., 21.10.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IGNORANCE, PEOPLE, MASSES, WISDOM , JUDGMENT, DEMOCRACY: In the common people there is no wisdom, no = penetration, no power of judgment. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro = Planchio. - Thus full freedom to act, tolerantly, is much more important = for the few thinkers and innovators than it is for=20 the masses of the people. Not that these masses do not need or have no = right to freedom as well. It's just that they are likely to make much = less positive use of it. - J.Z., 25.11.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IGNORANCE, PEOPLE, REPORTERS, JOURNALISTS, POLITICIANS, = PUBLIC OPINION, P RESS, MEDIA: People are not in general stupid, but they are often = ignorant. In their ignorance they often tolerate ignorant news = reporters, who in turn tolerate ignorant politicians. The result is an = ignorant politician making an ignorant speech to be cov ered by an ignorant reporter and shown in a forty-second clip on = television to an ignorant audience. - Newt Gingrich, Window of = Opportunity, A Blueprint for the Future, 263. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE, PREJUDICE & GOVERNMENT: Ignorance and = prejudice are largely, but not exclusively, government produced and = maintained. - J.Z., 5.4.95, 19.10.02.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033=20 IGNORANCE, PREJUDICE, INSANITY, MYTHOLOGY, IRRATIONALITY, IMMORALITY: I = believe we are in a period in which large portions of the human race = will be in a condition of, if not insanity, at least un-sanity. - Robert = Heinlein, Requiem, 211. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IGNORANCE, PREJUDICE, KNOWLEDGE, REASON, UNDERSTANDING, = FOOLISHNESS: Ignorance is the mother of prejudice. - Quoted in Column 8, = SMH, 20.30.99. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE, PREJUDICE, LIES, TRUTH: Ignorance is = less remote from truth than prejudice. - Denis Diderot, 1713-1784. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IGNORANCE, PREJUDICE: We are accustomed to see men = deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful = because it lies beyond their sympathies. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe = (1749-1832), Faust, (1806). \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE, PREJUDICES, CRITICISM: Irrational = criticism of truths and uncritical acceptance of prejudices, errors and = myths are our major problems. - J.Z., 11.7.95. - This evil could be = greatly reduced by an encyclopaedia of the best refutations of popular errors, myths and prejudices which are obstacles = to progress, in combination with panarchistic freedom for voluntary = experiments in the political, economic and social spheres. - J.Z., = 20.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IGNORANCE, PREJUDICES, LIBERTY: In eve ry age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies: = by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, = by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for = food. - Lord Acton (John E. E. Dalberg), T he History of Freedom in Antiquity, 1877. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE, PREJUDICES, STATISM & EDUCATION: ...far = from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact = succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people = thoughtless enough to=20 go on supporting the system. - Richard Mitchell. \par IGNORANCE, PROFESSIONALS, EXPERTS: No man can be a pure specialist = without being in the strict sense an idiot. - George Bernard Shaw. \par IGNORANCE, RED: His ignorance was an Empire State Building of = ignorance. You had to admire it for its size. - Dorothy Parker, of = Harold Ross. \par IGNORANCE, RED: When ignorance gets started, it knows no bounds. - = Will Rogers. \par IGNORANCE, RULERS, EDUCATION, TYRANNY, SCHOOLS: Es ist durchaus in = der Ordnung, dass ein Land, welches ein en Kopernikus hervorgebracht hat (Kopernikus ist zu Thorn, am 19.2.1473 = geboren), nicht laenger in jeglicher Art von Barbarei stecken verbleibt, = in welcher die Tyrannie der Machthaber es gestuerzt hatte. Diese = Tyrannie ging so weit, dass die Grossen, um b e sser ihren Launen zu froenen, all Schulen zerstoert hatten, da sie = Unwissende leichter unterdruecken zu koennen glaubten als ein = unterrichtetes Volk. - Friedrich der Grosse, an Voltaire, 10.12.1773. (A = passage marked by U.v.Bth.) -- (It is quite in order=20 t hat a land, which produced a Kopernikus (he was born at Thorn, on = 19.2.1473) no longer remains in every kind of barbarism into which it = was forced by the tyranny of those in power. This tyranny went so far = that the aristrocrats, to more easily follow thei r whims, had destroyed all schools, since they believed that it would be = more easily for them to suppress ignorant people than educated people.)=20 \par IGNORANCE, SPECIALISATION, KNOWLEDGE: Have the courage to be = ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of = being ignorant of everything. - Sydney Smith. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IGNORANCE, = STUPIDITY, FAITH AND DEMOCRACY: The more ignorant and stupid the man, = the more firm he is an all his faiths... he votes, pays taxes and reads = his newspaper - - and still believe s in democracy. He looks in the mirror - - and still believes that man = is made in the image of God. - H. L. Mencken. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY: Poverty, since the beginning of = the Industrial Revolution is only the consequence of a collective = Stupidity. - Bertr and Russell, retranslated from an essay: Erziehung, vornehmlich in = fruehester Jugend. (Education, especially in earliest youth.) U. v. Bth. = noted on this remark, 1.9.53: War sie schon vorher! (That was the case = already before!) \par IGNORANCE, SUBJECTS, STATES, STRENGTH, POWER, PANARCHISM: Ignorance among the subjects is the = strength of the State. - J.Z., 4.1.85, 27.9.89. - That is much more true = for the territorial State than for exterritorially autonomous = communities and societies of volunteers. They do, by t heir very nature, as free experiments, provide internal and external = enlightenment pressures. - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par IGNORANCE, SUPERSTITION, RELIGION: Ignorance and superstition ever = bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. - James Fenimore = Cooper \par IGNORANCE, WORSHIP, DEVOTION, RELIGION, FAITH: Ignorance is the = mother of devotion. - Bishop Jeremy Taylor, to a person newly converted = to the Church of England. - Sometimes, involuntarily, they give their = game away. - J.Z., 23.10.02.=20 \par IGNORANCE: Unwissenheit ist das, was uns ein ewiges Verbundensein = mit Vorurteilen verschafft und bestaendigem Irrtum. - Hall. (Ignorance = is what eternally connects us with prejudices and continous errors.) \par IGNORANCE: \'85 attack ignorance, not individuals. - Craig = Hamilton, Camarillo, CA, in ANALOG 5/83, 170. - Compare: Personal = thinking vs. causal thinking.=20 \par IGNORANCE: A good deal of our ignorance is not inevitable (seeing = the total accumulated knowledge of man and our limited life spans and = learning periods as well as limited=20 memories) but self-chosen, a self-inflicted wound or infection that = keeps us far below our potential. Those who come to choose as much = knowledge as possible for themselves will not ant to rule the world but = would get a chance to rule themselves. Microfich e, floppy disk and CD-ROM publishing and reading is one handy and = economical way to achieve this. - J.Z., 25.2.86, 24.10.02. \par IGNORANCE: Die Unwissenheit ist eine Situation die den Menschen = ebenso hermetisch abschliesst wie ein Gefaengnis. - de Beauvoir. - = (Ignorance is a situation which hermetically seals man in like a = prison.)=20 \par IGNORANCE: Es gehoert doch immer ein gewisser Grad von Einsicht = dazu, wahrzunehmen, dass man nichts wisse. - Montaigne. - (A = considerable amount of insight is required to realize that one does not = know anything.) \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IGNORANCE: Everybody is ignorant only on different = subjects. - Will Rogers. - Paula McSpadden Love, The Will Rogers Book, = p. 119 (1972). \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE: If a nation expects to be ignorant and = free \'85 it expects what never was and never will be. - Thomas = Jefferson, 1816, in letter to Colonel Charles Yancy. \par IGNORANCE: Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion. - Philip Wylie, = Generation of Vipers, 1942. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IGNORANCE: Ignorance never settles a question. - = Disreaeli. - And it will not be sufficiently easily defeated until = freedom lovers get all their blueprints together and make them cheaply = accessible. - J.Z., 30.4.00. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = IGNORANCE: Ignorance only is true wisdom's foe. - George Wither, 1613. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IGNORANCE: It is worse still to be ignorant of your = ignorance. - St. Jerome. \par IGNORANCE: Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. - = Abraham Lincoln. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE: Nothing is so ignorant as the ignorance = of certainty. - Dr. Laurence J. Peter. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IGNORANCE: Nothing is worse than active ignorance. = (Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine t\'e4 tige Unwissenheit.) Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Goethe's World View = Presented in His Reflections and Maxims, ed. Frederick Ungar, pp. 58-59 = (1963). \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE: Our ignorance deserves our utmost = respect. - William Tedford, Time Quest, Book II: Hydrabyss Red, p. 155. - If we respect it then we will = not carelessly act as if we were omniscient, neither in our own affairs = nor in those of others. - J.Z., 22.6.93, 23.10.02. \par IGNORANCE: That there should one man die ignorant who had the = capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. - Thomas Carlyle, = 1795-1881.=20 \par IGNORANCE: The full area of ignorance is not yet mapped. We are at = present only exploring its fringes. - J.D. Bernal, The Perpetual = Pessimist. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IGNORANCE: There = is no slavery but ignorance. - R. G. Ingersoll, Liberty of Man, and = Child. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IGNORANCE: Unwissenheit ist die Amme des Vorurteils. - = Billings. - (Ignorance is the nurse of prejudices.) \par IGNORANCE: Unwissenheit ist die Mutter der Bewunderung. - Chapman. = - Ignorance is the mother of admiration. \par IGNORANCE: Unwissenheit ist die Nacht des Geistes, eine Nacht ohne = Mond und Sterne. - Konfuzius. - (Ignorance is the night of the mind, a = night without moon and stars.) \par IGNORANCE: Unwissenheit ist freiwilliges Unglueck. - Ling. - = (Ignorance is voluntary misfortune.) \par IGNORANCE: Unwissenheit naehrt Illusionen, die - seien sie positiv = oder negativ - politisch eine toedliche Gefahr sind. - Koestler. - = Ignorance nourishes illusions which, be their positive or negative, = constitute a deadly danger in politics. \par IGNORANCE: Wer weiss schon, wieviel er wissen muss, um zu wissen, = dass er noch zu wenig weiss? - Lothar Schmidt. - (Who is aware how much = he has to know in order to realize that he still knows to little?) \par IGNORING LAWS & GOVERNMENTS, PANARCHIS M: Ignoring laws and governments may not become a wide-spread practice = due to theoretical studies of the rights and wrongs of it but, rather, = because of the practical impossibilities to know and apply the = avalanches of laws that have been let loose upon u s . Even merely reading them, once only, would take up already all too = much of our lifetime. - J.Z., 10.7.86. - Thus in practice, politicians = and bureaucrats themselves, not only their victims, do already = habitually ignore many laws and regulations. Otherwi se little positive would get done at all. Compare the work-to-rule = "strikes" of workers, which demonstrate that only by ignoring many of = the imposed rules can high productivity be maintained. - J.Z., = 25.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IGNORING LAWS AND = REPEALING LAWS: The American method, from the beginning of things, has been to ignore the obnoxious = law, not to repeal it. Our statute books are cluttered with enactments = which prove the truth of this assertion.... the appeals require action = by legislatures, and legislatures are no toriously timid, particularly when they are beset by fanatics. There = are many men in legislatures and elsewhere who will see a law ignored = with a wholly clear conscience but wouldn't have the courage to vote for = its repeal. - H. L. Mencken, 1925. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IGNORING=20 THE STATE, LAWS, CONSTITUTIONS, JURISDICTIONS, THE WISHES OF MAJORITIES, = RULERS, GOVERNMENTS, PANARCHISM, SECESSION: Ignoring the State is what = most North Americans already do now - by not voting or running for = office. If they were given the vote to opt o u t of taxes and regulations and oppressive laws, they would, most likely, = soon go the whole way. It could start with the secessions of a few = dissidents and their cutting of a few chains and and of connections with = a few territorial monopoly institutions. T h en they would soon expand their secessionism towards most of them and = more and more would join them or do their own things for and to = themselves. To each his own ideal or utopia! No more victims to the = dreams and powers of others. - J.Z., 29.11.92, 23.10. 02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033=20 IGNORING THE STATE, LEADERSHIP, RULERS, KNOWLEDGE, IGNORANCE, = PANARCHISM, POLITICIANS: Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have = the slightest idea what's really going on. - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's = Cradle, 66. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 ILLEGAL: Illegal is purely a matter of geography. - From = film: Dear Brigitte. \par IMAGES VS. REALITY, IDEAS & DELUSIONS, ERRORS, MYTHS, PREJUDICES, = ENGRAMS: The mental images in our heads determine our actions more, in = many spheres, than the facts of reality. - J.Z., 6.9.95. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IMAGINARY DEPOSITS: They exist only in = the imagination of those \-who imagine that they do exist because they = cannot imagine the\- clearing and short term credit transactions that are involved. - \-J. = Z., 8.10.92, 16.3.97. See: SOCIAL CREDIT, CREDIT CREATION, \-DEPOSIT = CREATION, MONEY CREATION. - J. Z., 3/97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 IMAGINATION & KNOWLEDGE: Imagination is more important than knowledge, = for knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while = imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to = know and understand. - Albert Einstein. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IMAGINATION VS. FACT: It is the spirit of the age = to believe that any fact, however suspect, is superior to any = imaginative exercise, no matter how true. - Gore Vidal, ENCOUNTER, Dec. = 1967. \par IMAGINATION VS. FACTS, RED: To treat your facts with imagination is = one thing, to imagine your facts is another. - John Burroughs, The Heart = of Bourrough's Journals.=20 \par IMAGINATION VS. KNOWLEDGE: Imagination is more important than = knowledge. - Albert Einstein, On Science. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IMAGINATION, CREATIVITY, IDEAS, IN VENTIONS: The greatest asset any living creature can possess is a brain = capable of imagination. That is its strong point, its power center. - = Eric Frank Russell, Legwork, 49, in ASTOUNDING SF, Br. ed., 9/56. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IMAGINATION, CREATIVITY, INNOVATION, = BRAIN-STORMING: Let "your imagination run away with you" - as often as = you can and record your findings. There is always time, later, to = examine them, critically, along with others. - J.Z., 7.5.92. \par IMAGINATION, CREDULITY, PREJUDICES, RED: The most imaginative = people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible. - = Alexander Chase, Perspectives, 1966.=20 \par IMAGINATION, DREAMS, IDEAS: \'85 be daring in your dreams, because = your wildest dreams will fall far short of what will really occur. - = Harry Stine, The Future of Engineers, in ANALOG, April 86, p. 141. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IMAGINATION, FANTASY, THOUGHT, LEARNING, KNOWLEDGE & CREATIVITY: When I = examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that = the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing = positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IMAGINATION, INNOVATION, PROGRESS, = IDEAS: Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of = imagination. - John Dewey/ \par IMAGINATION, MAN & ANIMALS, IDEAS: Always remember what separates = man from animal - imagination. Make the most of it. - John Laws, John Law's Book of = Uncommon Sense, Pan, 1995, 55. - To make the most of creativity and = ideas we should establish a proper market for them, in form of an Ideas = Archive and Talent Registry. They could assure that the supply of and the demand for them come always together, as = soon as possible. - J.Z., 18.4.00.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IMAGINATION: A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile = the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of = a cathedral. - Antoine de Saint-Exup\'e9ry, Flight to Arras, 1942. \par IMAGINATION: Einbildungskraft ist die einzige Waffe im Krieg gegen = die Wirklichkeit. - de Gaultier. - (Imagination is the only weapon in = the war against reality.) - Imagination and better ideas are the best = weapons agains t imposed, wrongful and harmful conditions. We must realize that we do = not have to put up with the present realities, which are merely the = output of ignorance, prejudice and stupid or self-interested = interventionsm. Let us secede from these "realities" an d set up really free, competitive, volunteristic and exterritorially = autonomous communities, whose competition would soon diminish the power = and spread of the present territorial "realities". - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IMAGINATION: Imagination is as good as many = voyages\emdash and how much cheaper. - George William Curtis. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IMAGINATION: = Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those who do harm to their = kind. - Mrs. Margarete Oliphant, Innocent. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IMAGINATION: Probably the difference = between man and the monkeys is that the=20 monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. - Lin = Yutang. - Alas, most men remain rather bored or entertain themselves = than use their imagination, even when their lives, liberty, health and = property are at stake. - J.Z., 30.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IM AGINATION: Reality - what a poor substitute for imagination. - D. Runes, = A Dictionary of Thought. - Reality should not be ignored but present = conditions do not form all possible and desirable realities. We are not = inevitably and quite helplessly stuck in=20 them. Thus we should think beyond present conditions towards future = realities and ponder the realistic ways, tools and conditions for = getting there. - J.Z., 26.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IMAGINATION: The human race is governed by its = imagination. - Napoleon}{\fs24\cgrid0 Bonaparte}{\fs24\lang1033 . - If = we make use only of the imagination of public opinion, political leaders = and opinion makers, government teachers, statists intellectuals, = territorial voting campaigns, discussions in parliaments, or among = bureaucrats and diplomats, instead of gathering all =20 the best thoughts, ideas and talents of the world in special markets, = encyclopedias and registries - that bring all this demand and supply = together, we will be governed by imaginary goods & services, will feel = threatened by real ones, misled and misruled, exploited and deceived, deprived of our rights and liberties to the = advantage of a few powerful monopolists. - J.Z., 30.4.00. \par IMMIGRANTS: The bosom of America is open to receive not only the = Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecute d of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a = participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and = propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment. - General = George Washington, letter to the members of the Volunteer Asso ciation and other Inhabitants of the Kingdom of Ireland who have lately = arrived in the City of New York, December 2, 1783. - The Writings of = George Washington, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, vol. 27, p. 254 (1938). \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IMMIGRATION BARRIERS, UNEMPLOYMENT & INFLATION,=20 MONETARY & FINANCIAL FREEDOM, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY FOR VOLUNTEER = COMMUNITIES: Just because governments do not know how to end = unemployment, depressions, stagflations and inflation, they think that = they ought to set up immigration barriers and concentrat i on camps for illegal immigrants and deport them when they think that = they are "only" refugees from still worse economic policies of other = governments rather than politically persecuted refugees seeking asylum. = And even then they are expected to wait their =20 term - and all are expected to pay for their imprisonment in idleness, = often in remote areas. It is really a bankruptcy declaration of = governments and for their policies. Instead, they ought to allow these = immigrants to opt out of all the laws and institu t ions that cause unemployment and other economic difficulties, so that = they could help themselves via their own monetary and financial = arrangements and organizations. They should be granted full = exterritorial autonomy for this purpose and then at least som e of their experiments would be successful and set a shiny example to the = natives and previous immigrants. The problems which governments with = their ignorance, prejudices and coercive and wrongful measures cannot = solve could be easily solved by free men -=20 but not by wrongfully imprisoned ones "and measures" like the usual = governmental ones. - J.Z., 19.8.02, 14.9.02. \par IMMIGRATION BARRIERS, WAR, PEACE, LOVE: Immigration barriers make = war not love. - J.Z., 9.12.74. - Thus they are especially absurd between = State s with supposedly predominantly Christian populations. And even these = are under their religious commandment to love their neighbours and even = their enemies. - At least they should be just and tolerant enough = towards them to let them come, work and settle=20 a s peaceful immigrants. - However, as long as they believe that there can = be only a limited number of jobs they will come to fear for their own, = especially in times of high unemployment, whose real causes they do not = bother to examine. So they turn illegal immigrants into their scapegoats. - J.Z., 26.10.02.=20 \par IMMIGRATION BARRIERS: Immigration barriers do possibly lead to the = killing of even more people than do emigration barriers. - J.Z., = 30.10.93, 21.10.02. - That guilt aspect of "the" Holocaust and of many=20 other mass murders, has so far been insufficiently examined. Likewise, = the all too general subscription to the wrongfulness of territorial rule = and of "collective responsibility". - Presently, these "chickens came = home to roost" in form of acts of terror i sm. - However, compared with the scale of government conducted wars and = civil wars, terrorism by terror gangs, and individual psychopaths with = guns, the number of deadly car accidents and abortion killings, all = private terrorist acts lead only to a relati v ely small numbers of victimes. Governments and abortionists as well as = car drivers are much more "productive" mass murderers. Official and = unofficial mass murders and the collective responsibility mentality = would be greatly reduced through individual sece ssionism and exterritorial autonomy for volunteer communities. - J.Z., = 21.10.02. \par IMMIGRATION BARRIERS: News on Capital TV, 19.2.97: 20 Chinese are = arrested by Japanese for trying to escape from China. - Since when is it = a crime to try to escape from a dicta torship? Such actions turn the police, navies, armies and air forces of = "democracies" into branches of the remaining dictatorships. With such = friends and allies, who needs enemies? - J.Z., 19.2.97, 21.10.02. - But = we should not expect "open arms" policie s towards refugees and deserters from our governments, since they do not = even know how to achieve full and free employment for all of their = present subjects and thus fear the influx of more people. Moreover, the = present governments are not prepared to get=20 out of the way and let people try to solve their own problems in their = own ways, without government aid, regulations and burdens, which are the = main cause of the remaining problems. - J.Z., 21.10.02. \par IMMIGRATION BARRIERS: We should either abolish immigration = restrictions - or deport ourselves. - J.Z., 24.11.92. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IMMIGRATION CAUSES INFLATION: So, if the white man would not have come = to Australia then the Aborigines would have had a stable currency? - = Does every deportation of illegal immigrants, regardless of=20 how productive they had been employed or could be employed, increase the = value of the Australian dollar? Does every illegal or illegal immigrant = decrease it? - The mere assertion of a causal connection cannot cause or = substitute for a causal connection. U n der monetary freedom we could multiply the number of immigrants and = employed - and still enjoy stable competing currencies. Under monetary = despotism, no matter what is tried otherwise, we have stable and also = insufficient currencies only for short periods ; never full employment, boom economies and stable currencies for long. = The cause is otherwise and so is the cure. - J. Z., 2.4.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENTS: I have = only this to say in their favour: They do not kill or deport all the = illegal immigrants that=20 they capture and they do not capture all of them. - J.Z., 31.1.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IMMIGRATION POLICY: The immigration policy is = sexually imbalanced and thus, probably, indirectly and partly = responsible for many of the sex crimes committed in Australia and also, = partly, for the low birth rate. - J.Z., 23.5.89. \par IMMIGRATION RESTRICITONS: \'85 all legislation dealing with = labor-employer relations - are concessions to the communist concept of = wages. - Our immigration restriction laws pay homage to this idea, for = these laws, trans lated into economics, simply say that there are just so many jobs that = capitalists have at their disposal, that any increase in the working = population will lower the wage level by simple divisioin; the idea that = the immigrant makes his own wage is rejecte d off-hand. Birth control is likewise advocated as a means of raising = wage level, and Malthusianism borrows all its economics from communism. = \'85 - Frank Chodorov, Let's Teach Communism, in: One Is A Crowd, 79.=20 \par IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS & DEPORTATIONS: Deport the immigration = minister and his whole department. - J.Z., 24.11.94. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS & = UNEMPLOYMENT OR FEARS OF UNEMPLOYMENT\- : We do not have 800,000 unemployed in Australia because we have ca. = 100,000 or even less immigrants to Australia p.a. Nor do we \-have a = vast youth unemployment, from 20 to 40% in some areas,\- due to = immigration. Most immigrants are adults. Nor do their \- young children throw ours out of jobs. All such notion are based \-on = primitive and false nations, e.g. that there is only a limited\- number = of jobs available at any one time, which ought to be\- "fairly shared" - first of all among the locally born or \-already = naturalized citizens. At the same time, the really limiting \-factor: = Prohibitions, regulations, red tape and, most of all, a \-monopoly means = of exchange, especially for wage and salary=20 \-payments and the suppression of monetary freedom and of freedom to = \-clear all one's debts, is ignored, although it is the major factor in = preventing all desired and possible exchanges from\- taking place, which = would require the labour of all our \- unemployed and that of all the immigrants we could manage to get. - J. = Z.,\-20.3.97. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\f0\fs24 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS, ALIEN ACTS, RACISM, NATIONALISM, = XENOPHOBIA & LIBERTARIANISM, BORDERS, FRONTIERS, TERRI TORIALISM: Xenophobia is diametrically opposed to libertarianism. - Josh = Gordon (josh@well.com) \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS, BOAT PEOPLE, DEPORTATIONS: I would rather put = all our politicians and bureaucrats on leaking boats to Asia than refuse = any boatpeople asylum and the freedom they want for themselves in = Australia. - J.Z., 8.4.95, 20.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS, BOAT PEOPLE, REFUGEES, ILLEGAL = IMMIGRANTS: I came by boat, too, and so did most of you - or your = ancestors. - J.Z., 11.11.01. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS, BOAT PEOPLE, REFUGEES: This = country was built by boat people. Lest we forget. - Steve Harrison, = Balmain, Nov. 5, in letter column: SMH, Nov. 6, 01. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS, BOAT PEOPLE: We're a nation of = boat people, and we have been ever since=20 1788. - Diane Armstrong, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Oct. 27-28, 2001. - = My favorite quote on this subject is a bumper sticker I once had = attached to my car: "Nice people come in all colors!" - Somebody should = produce it again. - J.Z., 26.1.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS, DEPORTATION: Deport or = imprison the immigration minister rather than any immigrant! - 6.7.01. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS, DEPORTATIONS: Deport = governments rather than peaceful migrants, settlers and workers. And if = you fear them and their ideas and customs or traditions as voters, who might outvote you, then = confine them to their own and only exterritorially autonomous volunteer = communities, with no membership and voting rights in your own. - J.Z., = 19.11.93, 21.10.02. \par IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS, DEPORTATIONS: I would rather have alll = immigration officials imprisoned or deported than any "illegal" = immigrant. - J.Z., 31.10.93.}{\fs24\lang1033 =20 \par IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: In immigration law, = you are guilty by reason of your place of birth. - Wolf De Voon, De Facto Anarchy. - People should at least be free to escape from = one national concentration camp into another one which they do prefer. = But they have no right to be maintained by other inmates. They have only = the right to do everything to become s elf-supporting, without infringing the rights of others. - J.Z., = 30.1.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IMMIGRATION = RESTRICTIONS, ILLEGALS, FREE MIGRATION: Illegal Immigrant, n. As = commonly conceived, a lazy person who comes to the United States to live = off welfare and is so desperate t o find a job that he will perform odious physical labor for $ 2.50 an = hour. - Chaz Bufe, THE AMERICAN HERETIC'S DICTIONARY, 32. =20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\fs24 = IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS, OPEN BORDERS, FRONTIERS: "We propose a = five\_word constitutional amendment: There shall be open borde rs. People are the great resource, and so long as we keep our economy = free, more people means more growth, the more the merrier. Study after = study shows that even the most recent immigrants give more than they = take." \_ Wall Street Journal. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS, POOR LAWS: Present = immigration restrictions are the equivalent of the infamous Poor Laws of = England - on the international level. They are just as wrong and harmful = - but on a much wider scale. - J.Z., 13.12.87. \par IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: A nation of immigrants restricting = immigration - is an absurdity and it commits a great wrong. - J.Z., = 31.7.93, 23.10.02. \par IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: Hong Kong will deport all the boat = people under an agreement achieved by both sides last months. - ABC = Radio news, 27.3.95. - As if these people were cattle or other property, not = representing any side of the problem! - J.Z., 27.3.95. - Governments and = their laws, treaties and agreements, are the main problem and not the = solution to any "problem". Without government interventionism free migration would not be a problem for immigrants or = the "natives" or earlier immigrants. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: Repeal all immigration restrictions but = also all automatic welfare claim rights for immigrants. Rather free them from all taxes towards the welfare of the "natives" or prior = immigrants, while permitting them to establish the own welfare, = insurance, credit and banking organizations and conceding them their own = personal laws in exterritorially autonomous co mmunities of volunteers. Then they will soon no longer be considered as = a burden and a threat but will become enabled to set worthy examples to = be followed - and also some deterrent examples at their own expense and = risk. - J.Z., 7.9.94, 19.10.02. \par IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: Almost all of us are immigrants or = related to immigrants, whether the immigration took place thousands of = years ago or yesterday. - J.Z., n.d. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: Are freedom of movement, = free migration (free emigration and free immigration) only right and = beneficial when you get a government permit for them? - J.Z., 3.12.00, = 2.2.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: Deport all opponents to = free migration as enemies of liberty and prosperity. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: Deport ministers of = immigration and Prime Ministers rather than any illegal immigrants. - = J.Z., 14.1.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: Even the ancestors of most of = the present natives were immigrants in the distant past. When and where = immigrants arrived should not matter at all. What matters is that they should have the freedom to = become self-supporting and to rule themselves, rather than others. All = associations with them should be voluntary and contractual. We have no = right to legislatively determine their fate=20 n or do they have the right to vote upon our fate. As traders, = contractors, proprietors, co-workers and co-professionals all should be = welcomed - at least by all who do like them enough to want to deal with = them. All people should be free to voluntarily int egrate or voluntarily segretate themselves as much as they like, but = without setting up territorial borders. Barriers and exclusion rules for = private or cooperative or partnership property is quite another matter. = - J.Z., 23.10.02.=20 \par IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: Freedom to make a decent living anywhere. = - J.Z., 31.7.93. - On the man smuggling Mexicans into the US, = characterised by the remark: "He sells freedom", in the cover note for = the film: On The Line.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: How do you think man = survived for millions of years without the services of immigration = officials? - J.Z., 26.9.01. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: Immigrants help nations = prosper. - Jim Powell, reviewing: Thomas Sowell: Migration and Cultures. \par IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: Immigration restrict ions are expressing the mentality of primitive cave men, who know that = there are only so many natural caves in a country. - J.Z., 5.4.95. - = Civilized people create the resources they want and need, the tools and = machines and facilites. The more there are =20 of them and the more free they are, the more prosperous they do become. = To a large extent large cities do prove this. But so far they were = always still under government controls rather than only the = self-controls of free market relationships. Thus numerou s shortages developed, mismanagement and corruption. But, obviously and = essentially, they provide an abundance of comfortable artificial caves. = If we include all space around us, there is not limit to these. - J.Z., = 19.12.01. \par IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: Neith er restrictions upon immigration nor subsidies for immigrants. But full = liberty for their mutual and voluntary support groups and those of their = friends. We could benefit from freely trading with them in Australia, = even more so than we could when trading=20 with them while they still were overseas and under even less economic = liberties than we enjoy here so far. - JZ., 14.12.92, 23.10.02. \par IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: Neither the earliest nor the early nor = the present legal immigrants do have the right to own any country or = continent exclusively and to exclude, restrict or deport later "illegal" = immigrants. - J.Z., 6.3.97, 21.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: Some productive class = Americans blame it all on immigrants, forgetting that we're a nation of = immigrants - a nd immigrants' children - many of whom fled the same tyranny and = corruption we face today. Sooner or later they'll learn not to blame = people with funny names, funny clothes, or funny customs, but to look = upon their own "representatives" as the foreign des pots they've really become. - L. Neil Smith.=20 \par }\pard\plain = \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: The only "crime" of "illegal immigrants" is = that they are so much in favour of Australia that they are risking their = lives or their family's life-savings in trying to get here. - J.Z.,=20 13.12.01. - Their second "crime" is that they happen to have been born = somewhere else. - J.Z., 26.1.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS: The outlawry and restriction = of immigration will, in the long run, promote invasions, occupations and = dictatorships. the means predetermine the end. - J.Z. 14.4.99. - It is absurd to thus = compartmentalize spaceship Earth. The wrongfulness and absurdity of = national frontiers was perhaps best demonstrated by their extreme case, = the Berlin Wall. - J.Z., 24.4.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IMMIGRATION RESTRICT IONS: We are in deadly-fear that the love for our neighbours might = spread too far and erect barriers against them, the nationalities. - = Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. (Wir sind in Todesangst, dass die = Naechstenliebe sich zu weit ausbreiten koennte, und richt en Schranken gegen sie auf - die Nationalitaeten.) \par IMMIGRATION, DEPORTATION, ENEMIES OF LIBERTY: Deport all those who = oppose free migration - as intolerable enemies of liberty! - J.Z., = 19.3.95. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\fs24 IMMIGRATION, = FREE MIGRATION, OPEN BORDERS: "We propose a five-w ord constitutional amendment: There shall be open borders. People are = the great resource, and so long as we keep our economy free, more people = means more growth, the more the merrier. Study after study shows that = even the most recent immigrants give more=20 than they take." - }{\cs18\i\fs24 Wall Street Journal.}{\fs24 =20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 IMMIGRATION, FREE: Immigrants have rights, too, e.g. the right to flee = and seek asylum anywhere. The right to live by their own work, skills, = knowledge and investments and the right to live autonomously and = exterrit orially, under their own personal laws in any country on any continent = of their chosing. It is wrong to monopolise segments of "spaceship = Earth" to people of certain ideologies, religions, skin colours, = cultures, ideologies or constitutions and bodies of=20 l aw. Territorial monopoly claims are attacks and usurpations against the = rights of man. Unless we can still find descendants of the first man = wherever man first developed on Earth, we are all immigrants at best and = merely conquerors at worst. - J.Z., 9.1. 87, 24.10.02. \par IMMIGRATION, PANARCHISM, INVESTMENTS, SELF-HELP, PROGRESS, = EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM: Free migration would still be rightful but less = necessary - if all people were freed to make a decent living anywhere by = their own efforts (quite independent from any territorial rule), to the extent that this is physically & = economically possible, anywhere. To achieve this we should promote = individual secessionism and exterritorial autonomy for volunteer = communities anywhere. Then, and, naturally, under full free d om of expression and information & full realization of their alternative = media options, we would see rapid progress towards prosperity almost = everywhere. Under these conditions not foreign aid but foreign = investments would also be plentiful and not monopo l istic and exploitative. - The least resources seem to exist in empty = space, at first glance. However, there space is practically unlimited = and so is energy and, once out of the gravity well, access to all forms = of material resources becomes also almost un limited. - Compared with conditions in "empty" space, almost any place = on Earth has great and largely unused resources. Only freedom, = imagination and ingenuity are needed to turn them into riches. - J.Z., = 31.7.93, 22.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IMMIGRATION: "Release all creati ve energies!" - L. E. Read. Not forgetting those of legal and illegal = immigrants, as well as those of natives and former immigrants. - J.Z., = 13. & 15.9.01. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\f0\fs24 IMMIGRATION: A country that knows how to mobilise the = resources not only of its millions of unemploy ed but also of millions of immigrant refugees, displaced persons and = economic migrants, could soon become the most influential country in the = world. Obviously, our politicians and bureaucrats do not know how to = achieve this. So they should do the next bes t thing and get out of the way of all those who believe that they have = the answers and who are willing to try them out at their own risk and = expense. Under such experimental freedom, in the political, economic and = social sphere either new answers would be=20 developed or old and truthful answers would be proven and publicised. - = J.Z., 15. & 16. 9. 01. \par IMMIGRATION: A freed immigrant would be an asset to us. An = incarcerated or deported one is a definite loss to us. - J.Z., 13. & = 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: A nation of immigrants setting up immigration = barriers. How wrongful, irrational and absurd! - J.Z., 13.9.01.=20 \par IMMIGRATION: A planet is a habitat for all its people, wherever and = as long as they can support themselves. Frontiers are a wrongful and = irrational imposition by power junkies and their all too ready serfs. - = J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Abolition of immigration barriers would obviously make = trading with foreigners easier and cheaper for us, for then many of them = might come to live almost next door. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: All borders should be dissolved by individual = secessionism and by voluntary associations with full exterritorial = autonomy, as they were for religious borders wherever religious liberty = was introduced. - J.Z., 15. & 16. 9.01. \par IMMIG RATION: All the frontiers on Earth are artificial, coercively = established and maintained by power maniacs and in their interests, not = ours. We have no reasons to respect them or to be grateful for them or = to go on maintaining them. On the contrary. We wou ld all be better off by ignoring all frontiers and all power mongers and = by breaking and resisting them if we must. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Allow all those who want to fraternise with immigrants = to help them establish themselves. Bureaucrats and polit icians are less rightful and useful than are immigrants. So, if anyone = is to be deported at all, then let us start with the former. - J.Z., = 13. & 14. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Allow the ready for sale goods and services to be = competitively monetised by their own ers and providers or their free banking associations. Then, between = them, they could exert enough monetary demand for much more productive = labour while assuring the sale of their goods and services, serving as = natural "redemption funds" for their competin g private currencies. Actually, under full monetary freedom, including = fully developed clearing, the ready-for-sale labour could and should = also be turned into money tokens and clearing certificates that would = represent an advance payment of wages and sala ries, provide a demand for their labour and would be deducted once they = are employed and their wages and salaries are due, or, rather, these = IOUs are returned to them in their pay packet. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: As many migrants as want to come=20 and as are individually welcomed, or by independent voluntary = communities, and contracted with. But we should realize that they = usually come from countries so badly misgoverned that these people often = risk their lives and their limited possessions, to pay =20 "people smugglers" to get them here, in spite of all the artificial = barriers set up against them, and that they would arrive here, i.e., in = still another country that is also so badly governed and with so little = freedom that commonly most and more people=20 a re considered to be burdens rather than assets to the economy. Since one = cannot suddenly change the views of masses, either of the new or of the = old immigrants or that of the natives, the solution would lie in = allowing all of them to form exterritorially=20 a utonomous volunteer communities within which, at their own expense and = risk, they could freely practise all the self-help measures they can = think of or that others may successfully suggest to them. In this way = real solutions would either be rapidly develo p ed or proven. - J.Z., 15.9.01. - They would have the right to be = exclusive and discriminating as they like - within their own volunteer = communities. Only compulsory discrimination and compulsory integration = in whole territories are wrong. - J.Z., 3.12.02. \par IMMIGRATION: At most migrants, by coming here, diminish somewhat = our exports, namely to the extent that they imported them before and are = now no longer being foreign buyers for us. But they would increase our = internal trade, as a rule, by at least as much and are also likely to help increase our exports as well. - J.Z., 15. & = 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Australia is extremely under-populated, over-all. Thus = we should welcome honest and hard-working immigrants with open arms. At = least all Australians willing to do so should be allowed to do so. - = J.Z., 13. & 14. 9.01. \par }\pard \s15\qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\f0\fs24=20 IMMIGRATION: Australian politicians and bureaucrats have already reduced = our standard of living from No. 1, about 100 years ago, to about No. 20. = Maybe in another 100 years or even less they will have reduced it so much that no one will any longer want to migrate to = Australia and most Australians will want to flee from it. - J.Z., 15. & = 16.9.01. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\f0\fs24 IMMIGRATION: Bastiat said, in defence of Free Trade: "When = goods do not cross frontiers, armies will." That=20 remark can be extended with regard to the densely populated and = obviously under-populated areas of this world: When people are not free = to cross frontiers, to become peaceful settlers, then conscript armies = of them will, sooner or later, as did almost hap pen to Australia during WW II, which was largely caused by = protectionism, immigration barriers and monetary despotism - and their = consequences. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Beware of politicians and bureaucrats rather than of = immigrants. - J.Z., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Borders are acts of aggression against individual = rights and liberties and as such quite indefensible. They are acts of = aggression against the majority of mankind and they can lead to = invasions and military occupations and dictatorships.=20 - J.Z., 15.9.01, 3.12.02. - All national, ethnical, racial or religious = territorial land monopoly claims are wrong, an assault on the individual = rights and liberties of most of the people on Earth. - J.Z., 3.12.02. \par IMMIGRATION: Borders are among the many wrongs and evils that make = for wars, civil wars, revolutions, oppression, exploitation and = terrorism. Maintaining them is part and parcel of all major crimes on = the national and international scale. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Borders are maintained by nothing than popular errors, = myths and prejudices - and the violence they do lead to. - J.Z., 15. & = 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Borders have two sides, like any leash has two ends. = They coercively restrict not only the outsiders but also the insiders. = They create nation-wide prisons, mostly for innocents. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Borders make only sense around houses, business = enterprises and gardens. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Break down all barriers to peaceful immigration but = set up great barriers for th e entry of still more politicians and bureaucrats and private criminals = & deport the existing ones, granting all those, formerly classed as = "public servants" (rather than providers of public disservices, = non-services or monopoly services), free exist visa s and even golden hand-shakes. - J.Z., 13. & 14. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Bureaucratically "managed" immigration is economically = no better than are price-, wage- and rent controls. - J.Z., 15. & = 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: By all means, deny immigrants citizenship or m embership or subject status in YOUR OWN VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY. But you = have no right to deny them their own voluntary community anywhere on = earth, under full exterritorial autonomy, while you claim this right for = yourself. No one can rightly claim any exclu sive territory for his own favourite political, economic or social = system. - J.Z., 15. & 16. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: By rights no country belongs exclusively to its = present inhabitants. Earlier immigrants have no greater claims to rights = and liberties than have=20 later ones. All have only the right to their own individual liberties = and to the private or cooperative properties that they rightfully = acquired. No one has the right to deny rights to other peaceful or = non-criminal others. Those who do are criminals, whe ther they do so privately and illegally or officially and legally. - = J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Can Canberra and export it - rather than any refugees! = - J.Z., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Can you trade more profitably with politicians and = bureaucrats than with immigrants? - J.Z., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Central Banking: How do you like our communist = institution, the Reserve Bank of Australia? Has it created enough = inflation, unemployment, stagflation for you and wrongful misery for = refugees, and for native and other unemployed nationals, whom the Reserve Bank is unable to = integrate in the process of production and exchange? - J.Z., 13 & 15. 9. = 01. \par }\pard \s15\qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\f0\fs24 = IMMIGRATION: Deport politicians and bureaucrats rather than refugees. = Refugees, given freedom, would certainly be m ore productive and not counterproductive at all, as are politicians and = bureaucrats with the greatest powers and bags of extorted "revenues". - = J.Z., 5. & 15. 9.01. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\f0\fs24 IMMIGRATION: Deport rulers, politicians and bureaucrats rather = than immigrants - or set them free to engage in productive work. - J.Z., = 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Deport ruling and aspiring "fat cats" rather than any = refugees. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Do Australian farmers, graziers, orchardists and = market gardeners complain that there are too many mouths to be filled by = them? Do all Australian goods and service suppliers have enough = customers? - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Do immigrants tax you or do politicians and = bureaucrats? - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Do plants and animals have immigration restrictions = that go beyond their private spheres? - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Do politicians and bureaucrats work better for you = than would immigrants? Are they better customers and suppliers? - J.Z., = 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Do you believe that our bur eaucrats and politicians love your freedom more than do refugees from = the bureaucrats and politicians in other countries? I count economic = migrants to be refugees as well - from other statists rulers. If we rid = ourselves of the rule by territorial politic i ans and bureaucrats and their systems, i.e., introduced e.g. all = economic liberties, then migrants would soon be welcomed even by those = who now see only unwelcome competitors in them. - J.Z., 13. & 15. 9.01. = - Let the first who do appreciate economic libe rties practise them freely among themselves. From such successful = experiments economic liberties would rapidly spread by voluntary = adoption or growth of the economically free volunteer communities. - = J.Z., 3.12.02. \par IMMIGRATION: Does a free market have to be confined to natives & = official immigrants? Should free exchange and property rights be = confined to them? - J.Z., 13.9.01. - The very idea is absurd. - J.Z., = 3.12.02. \par IMMIGRATION: Does even one of the government-run and = government-financed universities run a course teaching all about free migration, free trade, monetary = freedom and competing governments, or competing societies, i.e. such as = permit individual secessions and represent only exterritorially = autonomous volunteer communities? - J.Z., 15. & 16.=20 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Does society require interference by politicians and = bureaucrats to achieve spontaneous order? - - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Earth is just a tiny speck of matter in the universe = and we are the still much tinier microbes living on it.=20 We have still not even learned yet that most animals, plants, insects = and microbes, although not intelligent, manage to get by without = artificial borders. Only we do still stick to this ancient, costly, = wrongful, uneconomic and traditional ritual, one tha t holds us back and endangers us in many ways. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Expel your prejudices rather than deport any = immigrant. - J.Z., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Exports are supposedly good for us. Well, when we = trade with the same people, once they=20 moved over here, as immigrants, we would save obviously in transport = costs whenever we buy from them and they from us. So where is the harm = and wrong they are supposed to do to us? Neither the number of jobs nor = of sales are inherently limited, although,=20 a dmittedly, many laws and regulations reduce or prevent free exchanges of = labour, goods and services. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. - Repeal or ignore = these laws rather than put illegal immigrants into concentration camps = and finally deport many of them. - J.Z., 3.12.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 IMMIGRATION: For all but criminals with victims free migration (free = immigration and free emigration) is a right, not a government-granted = privilege. - J.Z., 4.9.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IMMIGRATION: Free immigration. Rather = incarcerate and restrict politicians and bureaucrats than immigrants. - = J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Free migration does not mean a "right" of any people = who are parasites to be supported anywhere that it pleases them to go, = at the expense of e.g. involuntary taxpayers. But it does mean the ri ght of free and honest people to support themselves anywhere on earth = except on the private or cooperative property of others who have made no = contracts with them. - J.Z., 14. & 15. 9. 01. \par IMMIGRATION: Free migration does not mean an official licence to = live at other people's expense, like politicians and bureaucrats usually = do, without getting the consent of their individual victims to be so = used and abused. - J.Z., 14. & 15.9.01, 2.12.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IMMIGRATION: Free migration for = alll - except those convicted of violent crimes. - J.Z., 13.12.87. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IMMIGRATION: Free migration is one = path towards full liberty for all. - J.Z., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Free migration means freedom for immigrants to deal = with us as individuals and freedom for us to deal with them as = individuals. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Free migration to a country indicates a free people. = Immigration barriers indicate people who have let themselves become = incarcerated with bureaucrats and politicians as their warders. - J.Z., = 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Freed human beings would be the greatest investment = and development opportunity for Australia. - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Freedom for friendship, business partnerships, = employing and being employed, cooperation, mutual aid, self-help, = credit, insurance a nd charity, for and with all immigrants, especially full monetary and = financial freedom for them and us, and the replacement of all coercive = and territorial communities by volunteer communities that are only = exterritorially autonomous. Then all could be a s free or as restricted as they want to be and the supposed "problem" of = legal or illegal immigrants would have disappeared. It would no more = exist than would exist a "problem" in their and our choice of religion, = art, amusements, literature, travel, cloth ing, foods, drinks, sports, interior decoration, plants for one's = gardens, etc. - J.Z., 13. & 15. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Freedom for individuals, in order to be realized, = ultimately, everywhere, requires not only freedom of religion, = expression and information, assembly and association, freedom in production and exchange, but also = freedom to emigrate and immigrate, freedom to revolt against oppression, = freedom in foreign trade and for foreign investments and an unlimited = right to asylum for innocents. It does n o t require hand-outs at the expense of tax payers but freedom to = negotiate e.g. residence and jobs anywhere under mutually agreeable = conditions. Also freedom to join or set up communities of one's own = choice and to secede from them if they do no longer sat isfy. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Freedom of movement, locally, nationally and = internationally, for all people except violent criminals with victims. = However, I would exclude freedom of movement for many politicians and = bureaucrats. - J.Z., 13. & 1 5.9.01. - They are criminals and victimisers (towards all dissenters) = rather than innocents and victims. - J.Z., 3.12.02. \par IMMIGRATION: Freedom should have not legally set limits, neither = for immigrants nor for natives. A politicised, bureaucratised, collec tivised, territorialised, centralised and nationalised freedom is no = longer FREEDOM, but, rather, licence for the few at the expense of the = many. - J.Z., 13. & 15. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Freedom to run, not only for sportsmen of the world = but also for refugees . - J.Z., 15.9.01.- Let migrants practise their skills anywhere in the = world, like sportsmen do. They would not only entertain us but, by free = exchange with them, and greater division of labour, make us richer. - = J.Z., 3.12.02. \par IMMIGRATION: From the perspective of space political borders are = invisible. They have carved their bloody markers only in our minds and = in our most wrongful and stupid actions. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Frontiers are manifestations of racial, religious, = ethnic, political and econ omic hatreds based on ignorance and prejudices. They reduce all of us to = the status of domesticated, exploited and fenced-in domesticated & = exploited animals, i.e., turn us into the property and victims of our = politicians and bureaucrats. - J.Z., 15. & 16 . 9.01, 3.12.02. \par IMMIGRATION: Full freedom for all immigrants as well as for all = natives - at least to the degree that individuals of either group desire = it for themselves. Then, who would continue to feel threatened by = immigrants or other parties - seeing=20 that he could have the government or non-governmental society of his = dreams for himself and all like-minded people? - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Governments can't cope with unemployment, population = growth and migration, either. So why continue to ex pect them to solve such "problems" rather than making them worse? They = have turned them into problems in the first place. - J.Z., 15. & 16. = 9.01. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IMMIGRATION: Historically we are = all immigrants. How can older immigrants - or their offspring - dare to = keep out new immigrants? - J.Z., 8.4.75, 26.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IMMIGRATION: How many Germans, Japanese and Italians are among the = illegal immigrants now? Probably almost none. Probably by now they have = passed our standard of living in their countries. In the past we have=20 let in hundred-thousands of them, although we had been bitterly fighting = their governments during WW II. Now they have become close to favoured = immigrants, should they apply for immigration. Most of those, whom we do = now coercively exclude come from despo t ically ruled countries with whose governments we were not at war. Yet we = exclude refugees from these governments more than we exclude people from = countries with which we were at war. And if we were now at war with = these countries then we should all the m ore be prepared to accept refugees and deserters from these countries, = either as neutrals or as our allies. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: How many of the numerous economists are good enough = economists to protest against any immigration restrictions? Not many, = because most were trained in government-run universities. - J.Z., 15. & = 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: How much of the fear of immigration is still = instinctual and inherited fear of the primitive cave dwellers of = competitors for their scarce natural caves=20 and for their all too limited hunting and food gathering options, and = this in spite of the relatively easy and cheap production that is = possible for "artificial caves" and of the present abundance of = attractive food stuffs, now produced in most countries, which leads to over-eating and consequent obesity in all too many = cases? - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: I find it easier to trade with a foreigner who has = moved in next door than it would be if he still lived at the other side = of the world. But in bot h cases no more than peaceful and mutually profitable trade is involved. = Why should we only be eager to trade with foreigners while they live far = away and not when they come to live close to us? - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: I have yet to find one valid argument for restricting = migration. Popular errors, myths and prejudices are poor substitutes for = such arguments. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: I would rather have another 25 million free and = productive immigrants in Australia than a single counter-productive, = exploitative, despotic and expensive bureaucrat or politician, far less = millions of them. - J.Z., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: I would rather have immigrants as fellow citizens who = fled from despotic governments than Australians who all too complacently = put up with the despotic acts of Australian governments. - J.Z., 15. & = 16. 9. 01. \par IMMIGRATION: I'd rather have millions of productive immigrants than = millions of counter-productive bureaucrats. - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: If anyone is denied the right to migrate freely then = this is also an attack on MY right to migrate freely wherever I might = want to go, work and live. - J.Z., 14. & 15. 9. 01. \par IMMIGRATION: If governments could solve problems rather than merely = create them, then there would be no re fugees and no illegal immigrants. To entrust the solution to this = problem, created by governments, to any government which cannot even = cope with its existing unemployment problem, is absurd. All governments = are failures in this respect and thus should all o w any kind of self-responsible self-help experiments, even if they = infringed dozens of territorial laws and regulations, as they inevitably = would have to, to do the economically right things for themselves and = their trading partners. For their remaining v o lunteers governments could retain all these restrictions. But they = should no longer territorially impose them upon dissidents. Under full = freedom for self-help measures - unemployment would rapidly disappear = and more immigrants would be welcomed rather th an hated, kept out or incarcerated as innocent people, whose only = "crime" was that their migration was not authorised by our politicians = and bureaucrats. - J.Z., 15. & 16. 9.01, 3.12.02. \par IMMIGRATION: If it were right to exclude present migrants, whether = the y are refugees, illegal immigrants or economic migrants, then it would = have been also right to exclude you or your ancestors from migrating to = and settling in this country. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: If you consider and treat immigrants as parasi tes then you do have a problem. If you consider and treat them as free = producers and exchangers then you have got another natural solution to a = man-made and law-made "problem". - J.Z., 15. & 16. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: If you favour immigration barriers then you are an = enemy of individual liberties rather than a friend or ally. - J.Z., 13. = & 15. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: If you support immigration restrictions against others = then you must also support them against yourself, i.e., must be willing = to see that most of th is planet remains closed to you, for all but trade and tourism, by the = same kind of immigration restrictions imposed by other territorial = regimes. Are you really in favour of such restrictions upon your rights = and liberties? - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Illegal and legal immigrants are not enemies but = allies and trading partners. They help increase our living standard = through greater division of labour - if only we unfetter them and us. - = J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Illegal immigrants are our natural and courageous = allies, while the legal politicians and bureaucrats, who try to keep = them out, are our natural enemies. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IMMIGRATION: Illegal immigrants as = well do have the right to live in the country of their choice. The = natives are merely born into it. They have no right to legally restrict the basic = rights of other people. - J.Z., 8.9.93.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IMMIGRATION: Immigrants are basically = more freedom loving than are most of the natives or earlier immigrants. = Thus, as freedom lovers, we should rather favour than incarcerate new immigrants and deport rather the = natives and earlier immigrants than the new immigrants. - J.Z., 13. & = 15. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigrants are not the problem. Bureaucrats and = politicians - and their laws and regulations a nd institutions are. Allow all people everywhere to secede and flee from = the bureaucrats and politicians, not only externally, in and from other = countries, but also internally, within "our own", by seceding from them = and serving themselves, in their own v o lunteer communities, according to their own beliefs and systems, better = than territorial politicians and bureaucrats ever could or would. They = are bound to make mistakes, too. But they would learn from them, rather = fast, because all their mistakes would b e at the own expense and risk. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigrants are our greatest assets. Politicians and = bureaucrats are our greatest burdens. Welcome the former and rather = deport, incarcerate or otherwise restrict the latter. Allow them only=20 to become self-supporting. No more tax subsidies to any of them, or to = any native, of whatever colour, or degree of "whiteness" or to any of = the previous immigrants. No more taxes. Period. But freedom to exchange = wanted goods and services. - J.Z., 13. &=20 14. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigrants are people who have chosen a country for = themselves rather than being merely born in it. Thus they are more = likely to appreciate its existing liberties and to try to expand them to = the full range than are the natives. - J.Z ., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigrants are perceived as burdens only under the = rule of politicians and bureaucrats and their laws, regulations and = institutions. Thus let us rather get rid of all politicians and = bureaucrats and of their whole "great machine" t han of a single peaceful immigrant able and willing to work and exchange = with us. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigrants can and will help us to become wealthy and = secure, while becoming so themselves. Politicians and bureaucrats can't. = They can and will only make themselves rich and secure - at our expense = and risk. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigrants can be better helpers and allies than = politicians and bureaucrats could ever be. - J.Z., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigrants come here to buy and produce Australian = goods and services and we won't let them do this or let in only a few of = those who want to come and stay. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigrants do not wrong or harm us. Politicians and = bureaucrats do. - J.Z., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigrants have much more to offer to us than have any = bureaucrats and politicians. - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigrants have much to offer to us; bureaucrats and = politicians - nothing! - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigrants need guidance, teachers and contracts, not obstructions like warships, bureaucracies and = politicians. They are entitled to the same individual rights and = liberties that we already enjoy (and more, like ourselves!) and we are = not entitled to put them into fetters or deport them. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigrants tend to be freedom lovers, at least to some = extent and as such should be welcomed rather than incarcerated for all = too long and then either deported or licensed as citizens. - J.Z., 13. & = 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigrants will no longer be considered as problems once we stop = regarding them merely as mouths to be fed, at our expense, but as arms = and minds that are ready and willing to support themselves by their own = labours - if only they are freed to do so. We=20 need only to break down all internal and external barriers against free = production and free exchange. - J.Z., 15. & 16. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigrants, under full freedom, especially economic = liberties, are additional customers for our goods, services and la bours. Thus the more we can get of them, the better. All we would have = to "sacrifice" are our wrongful and anti-economic restrictions upon them = and us. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigrants, when free enough, would advance themselves = and us economically while politicians and bureaucrats can only hold us = back and exploit us. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigration and trade barriers are the wrongful, = irrational and official equivalent to the wrongful, irrational and = unofficial protestors against "globalisation". - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigration barriers are based on nothing but popular = errors, myths, prejudices and false premises and as such they do not = deserve any respect. However, exterritorially autonomous volunteer = communities should b e free to close their membership lists at least for the kind of people = that they dislike. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigration barriers make war, not love. - J., 74. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigration controls are a governmental denial of = human rights. In the case of Australia, the supposed representatives of = about 20 million people deny the right to migrate to ca. 6,000 million = people. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigration controls or barriers are class warfare at = its worst. All illegal immigrants are treated as second-class human beings, even as criminals, without all of = the individual rights and liberties of first class citizens of the = countries they want to migrate to. - J.Z., 15.9.02. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigration policy is not excuse for any taxation, = either, neither to support favoured immigrants nor to keep "illegal = immigrants" out. - J.Z., 3.12.02. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigration policy is the problem, not the answer. - = J.Z., 14.9.01.}{\b\f0\fs24=20 \par }{\f0\fs24 IMMIGRATION: Immigration restrictions are collectivism, = nationalism, statism and economic dirigism at their worst. - J.Z., 15. & = 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigration restrictions are infantile reactions = against freedom. As if we depended on the State to support us like a = baby or infant is dependent upon mother and father to keep them alive. - = J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigration restrictions are one instance of the all = too large remaining fear of freedom that can be found even among people = who otherwise are, largely, libertarians. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigration restrictions set mere and wrongful laws = above individual rights and liberties. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigration restrictions show that territorial = governments are more disunited than people, as individuals, are or want = to be. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigration restrictions tie in with most other = popular economic errors, myths and prejudices. That is why it is so hard = to end this abuse. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Immigration Restrictions: Public policies, unless = liberating, are the problem, individual rights and liberties offer the = solutions. - J.Z., 13. & 14. 9.01. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IMMIGRATION: Immigration to a = somewhat more free country helps to increase the total supply of goods, = services and capital for everybody. - J.Z., 4.1.00. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IMMIG RATION: Immigration, like tourism and trade and production, is, by its = very nature self-regulating. Migrants will not tend to migrate from = under-populated countries into "over-populated" countries. However, they = will follow the freedom trail from oppressi ve to less oppressive countries or governments. Alas, no one offers = them, so far, the no-government option or the exterritorial = self-government options, including that of exterritorially autonomous = free societies. - J.Z., 2.12.02. \par IMMIGRATION: Incarcerate and deport all bureaucrats and politicians = rather than any peaceful immigrants that are willing to support = themselves in freedom. - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Incarcerate restrictionists rather than immigrants. - = J.Z., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Individualise immigration, depoliticise and = de-bureaucratise it. Voluntary associations could cope with a large = immigration influx - if they are not bound by anti-economic laws and = institutions. - J.Z., 13. & 15.91.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Individuals should remain free to disassociate = themselves from new immigrants, if they want to, but neither they nor = their representatives are morally authorised to keep immigrants out of a = country or continent. - - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Insurmountable barriers for politicians and bureauc rats unwanted by individuals and their voluntary communities. No = barriers for any non-criminal immigrants. Let each volunteer community = choose freely how many new members it would accept from immigrants and = what kinds of applicants it would reject. - J.Z. , 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Investments in refugees could be the most productive = investment in Australia. The refugees themselves (considered as = multi-purpose, productive and biological "robots" - 14.9.01) constitute = an enormous "capital" influx - under f ull economic freedom. ? - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: It is a crime to keep peaceful migrants out, to hunt = and incarcerate them, to sit in judgement upon them and to deport them. = - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: It is all lastly a question of money, i.e ., of the degree of the monetary demand for more labour. When we = artificially and legally reduce it, by the money issue monopoly of = central banking, then we come to fear the competition from additional = labourers and try to keep them out. When we abolish m o netary despotism and introduce monetary freedom, then we want many more = workers and customers and would welcome swarms of immigrants with open = arms. Those few who would rather maintain their irrational and = prejudiced hatreds against them, would remain fre e to refuse to deal with them - at their own risk and expense, = diminishing their own work and sales opportunities. That kind of = self-inflicted penalty they would justly deserve. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Let all people come and go, not just tourists, by the = millions. With immigrants, by the millions, we would exchange ALL their = productive output, not just some of their savings, as we do with = millions of tourists. J.Z., - 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Let natives and former immigrants vouch for new = immigrants - under full economic freedom for all, to the extent that = they choose it, freely and individually for themselves, in their own = volunteer communities. - J.Z., 13.& 15. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Let victims escape. Punish the victimisers rather than = their victims. - J.Z., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Let's face it: We are, almost all of us, immigrants or = descendants of immigrants. Go far enough back and you will find that = even the Aboriginals are immigrants. For migrants to restrict other = migrants is not only absu rd but wrong and counter-productive. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Like all immigrants - we, too, need more freedom and = should neither deny it to them nor to ourselves. - J.Z., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Like cattle fences, most territorial borders placed = around human beings are mainly maintained by bluff and coercion. Even = the Berlin Wall could not keep all East German people captive. - J.Z., = 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Managed immigration is inevitably mismanaged = immigration - compared with free migration into freedom. - J.Z., = 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Managed immigration or immigration policies are = governmental infringements of basic individual liberties. - J.Z., 15. & = 16.9.01. \par }\pard \s15\qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\f0\fs24 = IMMIGRATION: Millions of immigrants every year to Australia! No legal = restrictio ns for them. (Violent criminals with victims excepted. These few should = remain liable to prosecution.) Freedom in production and exchange for = all, to the extent that they desire them for themselves. Then the more = the merrier we could and would be. - J.Z., 13. & 14. 9.01. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\f0\fs24=20 IMMIGRATION: More immigrants and less politicians and bureaucrats. To = the extent that some people still believe that they need politicians and = bureaucrats, they should be allowed to have them, at their expense and = risk, in their own volunta ry communities, also under full exterritorial autonomy. Refugees as well = as natives and earlier immigrants should also be free to set up their = own "panarchies" or competing governments and societies, all with = voluntary members only. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: More immigrants and less politicians, bureaucrats, = taxes, laws and regulations. As much freedom for all as they are willing = to accept, individually, for themselves, in their own volunteer = communities. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: More p eople are not a burden but an asset, a rich natural resource - if only = they are not incarcerated or otherwise fettered, i.e., if the country to = which the migrants want to go has not already restricted the own = liberties too much. Such restrictions can eith e r be ignored or repealed at the stroke of a pen or upon a single vote in = parliament - or one can allow citizens and immigrants to opt out of them = and to establish their own liberated volunteer communities, with their = own full employment programs or experi ments. Territorial governments with their institutions are, obviously, = helpless in the face of mass unemployment and they ought to step aside = enough to allow volunteers to try to do better. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IMMIGRATION: More than 1 million = persons app ly for migration to Australia every year. - Radio broadcast of = parliamentary debate, 13.3.86. "One million enquiries are received every = year regarding immigraiton to Australia." (Applications =3D/=3D = enquiries.)=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IMMIGRATION: Multiculturalism isn't = enough. Rig htful and needful are also: a) multi-politics, b) multi-economics and c) = multi-social-arrangements, all within volunteer communities that are = exterritorially autonomous. - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: National immigration barriers and other coercive = infringements of individual rights and liberties, are not the solutions = but the problems. - J.Z., 13. & 14. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: New-born babies are "immigrants", too, into this world = and into a particular country. Yet we welcome them and know that we = depend upon t hem, in our old age. So we do care for them, not sparing costs, until = they become self-supporting. The legal and illegal immigrants require = much less in care and assistance from us, and, as free workers and = taxpayers, would rapidly repay any initial outla y. Tax-funded aid for them would not even be required if voluntary = associations are at liberty to help them. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: No kinds of people, except criminals with victims, are = to be confined or restricted to their country only. For=20 all others the world should be their oyster. All they would have to do = is to respect the private property and other individual rights of = others. Rights of territorial nations are a disastrous fiction. - J.Z., = 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Not millions of refugees and immigrants are the = problem but millions of legal or despotic restrictions, in other = countries - and in "our own". - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Not only tourists migrants, too, should enjoy freedom = of movement. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Not welfarism but full freedom and self-responsibility = for all refugees - and for all Australians willing to accept it. - J.Z., = 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Only those borders that individuals maintain around = themselves and as long as they do and to the extent that they do, are = rightful. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Open arms rather than concentration camps. Resist = pirates and dictators rather than refugees. - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Open the barriers around countries and those in your = mind, which keep immigrants out and degrees of despotism in. Either open your mind to more or all = the freedom options for yourself, and utilise them in your own volunteer = communities or allow at least all other people, including all = immigrants, to do so for themselves. - J.Z., 13.=20 & 15. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Open the borders and remove all restrictions on = individual liberties and rights, especially the anti-economic ones, and = immigrants, by the millions every year, would not longer be considered a = problem. - J.Z., 13. & 14. 9.01. \par IMMIGR ATION: Optimum population distribution, under present conditions in the = world, is achievable only by free migration, free investments, free = trade, free markets, monetary and other economic freedoms, not by = "protectionist" political and bureaucratic measur es, like managed immigration policies. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Our warehouses and shops are filled with goods and = services ready for sale. Let their owners be free to monetise these = assets, competitively (*), and thus to exert a monetary demand for the labour of unemployed and immigrants, by the millions, while = assuring the sale of what they have to offer. Ticket money is one of the = tickets to free migration and could assure full employment, very fast, = and could maintain it indefinitely. - 13.=20 & 15.9.01. - (*) Without legal tender, i.e., compulsory acceptance and = compulsory value, they would be refusable, market rated or discountable = and thus would not only prevent inflation but also deflation and = stagflation. Then good money would be free to d r ive out the bad, since potential acceptors would be free to refuse or = discount the bad money and insist upon payment in honest and = non-coercive currency. Mostly the present government paper money would = be driven out of circulation. It has already and for=20 a ll too long been depreciated by the central bank of the government, even = while it is monopolistically kept money in short supply except within = governmental spending channels. Such and other private and competitive = note issuers could provide sufficient sou n d exchange media to pay for all jobs at market rates, even if, = temporarily, most job opportunities were turned into day and night shift = work, with two to three times the former number of employees. And in = streaming back to the issuers, for their cover of=20 w anted consumer goods and services, it would assure the sale of these = goods and services and their replacement by new products and more = services of the same kind. Exchange media and freely chosen value = standards would finally be freed to fulfil their funct ions. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: People unable to see the causes and the cures for = unemployment do support wrongs and absurdities like population controls = and immigration restrictions. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: People who risked their lives and the hard acquired and modest savings of their family, to get illegally = to Australia will, in the long run, and mostly, turn into better and = more productive citizens than those who merely happened to be born here = and who, all too complacently, and disinte restedly, live here, often more interested in sports and amusements than = anything else and with little knowledge of and respect for the own = individual rights and liberties and for those of others. - J.Z., 15. & = 16. 9.01.=20 \par IMMIGRATION: Politicians and bureaucrats can and will only worsen = the messes they have caused by their previous interventions, all of them = wrong, irrational, obstructive and costly. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Politicians and bureaucrats can only offer us = restrictions of our rights and li berties and of those of other people, not liberation, not rights and = liberties, wealth and security. But they can restrict our freedom of = movement and that of foreigners, who would like to become citizens here = and they can restrict our production and exch a nge efforts and they can rob, mislead, deceive, defraud and oppress us = and others. Any yet we entrust them with foreign relations, immigration = management, economic and anti-economic powers like taxation, legislative = powers, and do not even insist, in many =20 cases, on a comprehensive bill of rights and volunteer militias for = their protection. They are unable to provide our unemployed and many = immigrants with jobs but they can cause unemployment, inflation, = depressions, wars and revolutions and make them even=20 worse with their attempted "cures" or reforms. Then they take the = problems which they have created as excuses to coercively restrict = immigration and sometimes even emigration, as the USSR did. - J.Z., 13 & = 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Privatize immigration completely, as well as all = production and exchange. - J.Z., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Rather dozens of millions of immigrants, under full = freedom, than even one politician and one bureaucrat under one or two = restrictions of freedom, far less millions of politicians a nd bureaucrats and millions of their imposed restrictions. - J.Z., 13. & = 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Recognize full exterritorial autonomy for all = immigrants and volunteer communities for them, if and to the extent that = they desire them for themselves and recogn ize the same liberty for all natives and earlier immigrants and most = supposed problems would disappear rather soon under this kind of = experimental freedom and freedom of action. - A man free to help himself = will not, as a rule, be dependent upon help from others for very long. And if such help is granted at all then it should = not be given at the expense of tax slaves but by free men volunteering = for this job, or by businessmen. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Refugees abhor despotism. Thus we should welcome them = as our allies against despotism here and in other countries. - J.Z., = 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Refugees are more justified and useful, in living and = working here, than are hordes of bureaucrats and politicians, with their = avalanches of regulations, laws and monopolistic and coercive = institutions. J.Z., - 13. & 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Refugees flee the bureaucrats and politicians in other = countries and we still imagine that bureaucrats and politicians could, = would, do or ever did solve our problems here. - J.Z., 13. & 14. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Refugees need not be a problem at all for us, even if = they came by the millions, if we released their production and exchange = potential and that would be relatively easy by the introduction of full = economic liberty for them and for us. - J.Z., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Refugees should not be bureaucratically deterred, = selected, integrated, interned or deported, but, instead, FULLY = LIBERATED, far beyond the few liberties we are now allowed to enjoy - by = our occupying force o f "aliens", namely "our" politicians and bureaucrats. - If the latter = were really "mine", we would part company pretty fast. - J.Z., 13. & = 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Refugees should not be granted any hand-outs at the = expense of all Australians - but full freedom and self-responsibility, = at no one's expense. - J.Z., 13.9.01. - Except temporary assistance by = some volunteers. 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Refugees should not be integrated, selected or = interned but set free. - Refugees should not be deterred, kept out or=20 captured like criminals, when they arrive unofficially, as "illegal = immigrants" and then all too slowly and bureaucratically and = individually investigated, selected and then "nationalised or = "integrated", or, alternatively, incarcerated and finally deport e d, but, rather, set free. If they do come from a despotic regime that = should be reason enough to grant them asylum. They should also be free = to select the degrees of liberty that they want for themselves, in their = own volunteer communities, under full ex territorial autonomy. If, later, they are proven to have been criminals = with victims themselves, then they should be liable to public = prosecution. - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Refugees, illegal immigrants and economic migrants = should not be subjected to ot her fetters and chains, than the ones they broke and fled from, but, = rather, none at all should be forced upon them. They should remain free = to choose less than full liberty conditions for themselves, at their own = risk and expense, and to discard these re strictions, too, once they become ready for this. "To each the = government or non-governmental society of his or her dreams!" - J.Z., = 13. & 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Refugees, under economic freedom, would assure that = much more would be "made in Australia" and freely exchanged with the = world. ? - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Refugees: Let their acceptance or rejection become = individualized, instead of being nationalised and bureaucratised - at = the expense of taxpayers. - J.Z., 13. & 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Refugees: Let's all turn into refugees from all oppressive and exploitative = government actions and make common cause with all immigrants. - J.Z,, - = 13.9.01. That is, those in Australia, who desire more liberty for = themselves, should strive for the freedom to estab lish it for themselves and for all the new immigrants who would like to = join them in their efforts. - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Refugees: There is no territorial political or = bureaucratic solution to the refugee problem. Actually, TERRITORIALISM = is its CA USE. But full freedom has the answer to this problem as well and would, = ultimately, establish optimum population levels everywhere, in = peacefully competing volunteer communities, freed from all imposed = political, economic, social and bureaucratic fetters. That degree of liberation has to be initiated somewhere. From there it = could spread rapidly over the rest of the world. - J.Z., 13. & 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Release the creative energies of all present and = former immigrants and abolish all the destructive, oppressive and = exploitative powers and institutions of territorial politicians and = bureaucrats. - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IMMIGRATION: Remember, remember = always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from = immigrants and revolutionists. - President=20 Franklin D. Roosevelt, remarks before the Daughters of the American = Revolution, Washington, D.C., April 21, 1938. - The Public Papers and = Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938, p. 259 (1941). FDR is often = quoted as having addressed the DAR as "my fello w immigrants." The above words are believed to be the source.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IMMIGRATION: Removal of ALL = territorial restrictions solves the refugee "problem". - J.Z., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Remove the barriers against free production and free = exchanges and the barriers=20 against free migration will also appear soon to be not only wrong but = superfluous and harmful. But since these barriers are based in popular = prejudices and thus rapid changes cannot be achieved by majority votes - = but only by granting individuals and grou p s full freedom of action and experimental freedom to solve these = problems for themselves, at their own risk and expense, quite = independently, in exterritorially autonomous volunteer communities, e.g. = via free and competitive payment & clearing communities . These would soon be able to show all others how to solve these = supposedly difficult political, economic and social "problems", by the = rightful and rational self-help measures among themselves, that are = obviously successful and as such would be well publi c ised. These solutions are likely to be of a kind which our present = territorial politicians and bureaucrats might not have imagined or, via = normal channels, might not have allowed to come into existence within = another 200 years. It is the same as it is wit h e.g. better postal, general banking and insurance services. They are = not impossible, either, but merely outlawed in favour of monopolists. - = J.Z., 17.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Restrict politicians and bureaucrats rather than = immigrants. - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Set immigrants free and restrict politicians and = bureaucrats. - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Short term consumer credit could be monetised between = sellers and unemployed natives and immigrants and stream back to these = consumers, as IOUs, in payment for the jobs they would thus help to create for themselves by adding an = additional monetary demand for more goods and thus for more labour. Such = labour notes, using a sound and agreed upon value standard, could be = competitively issued with other shop and ser vice currencies. Under full monetary freedom there would soon not only = be full employment for the formerly involuntarily unemployed but also a = demand for many more immigrants. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Should planet Earth be subdivided by artifici al, territorial, political, economic and social frontiers or rather be = considered as the common habitat of free people who live and work in = diverse voluntary communities, none of them tied to any particular = territory? - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Should planet Earth be subdivided into exclusive turfs = for political gangsters and con-men? - J.Z., 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Slave masters and feudal lords would not have been = foolish enough to consider the possession of more slaves or serfs as a = burden. Only w e are so ignorant to consider more human beings as a burden rather than = as an asset and thus keep them out, not allowing them to become = self-supporting and trading partners for us. - J.Z., 15. & 16. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Someone who risked his life to get here is likely to = become a more valuable member of the community than most of those are = whose merit consists merely in having been born here. - J.Z., 15. & 16. = 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: The borders which you believe to make you secure and = better off - do actually make you more insecure and less well off. Only = due to delusions and for the benefit of territorial rulers are they = coercively maintained. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: The Christian commandments: "Love your neighbour!" and = "Love your enemy!" were not j ust meant for the people living next door to you but for all people = living across territorial borders as well. Such over-extensions of = idealistic notions were formulated at a time when the concepts of = rights, liberties, duties and responsibilities were ba r ely developed and generally even less known and appreciated than they = are today and thus a primitive analogy had to be utilised in popular = teachings. Luckily, we do not have to go so far as to try to love all = the other "bastards" - but we do owe them ful l respect for their individual rights and liberties, no matter how much = we may dislike or even hate them. That is our only duty towards them, = whether they prefer to stay where they are or whether they decide to = migrate here. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: The common enemies of immigrants and "natives" or = earlier immigrants, are politicians and bureaucrats. - J.Z., 13. & 15. = 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: The currently strong animosity to new illegal = immigrants, from some countries that are currently despotically s uppressed, may be largely due to the fact that so far only a few people = from these countries have migrated here and been accepted. Moreover, = they are different from the usual migrant streams. If they were all = "white" and also "Christians", e.g. from the U . S., Canada, South Africa, Europe or Russia, there would be much less = opposition to them, since there are already many of their countrymen = living here. Which goes to show how biased the official immigration = policy as well as much of public opinion is on th is subject. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01.=20 \par IMMIGRATION: The existence of the Welfare State is no reason for = restricting free migration but, rather, for the abolition of the Welfare = State or for reducing it to one or several volunteer communities. - = J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: The frontiers of peace-time are no more rightful and = sensible than are the frontiers of war-time. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IMMIGRATION: The late economist = Julian Simon, in addition to his own extensive research supporting = immigration, surveyed o ver 100 economists of various political beliefs, and all of them said = that immigrants had a positive impact because they were harder-working, = better educated, created jobs and businesses, and paid more taxes and = received fewer government services than the average native. - Ken Schoolland, FREEDOM NETWORK NEWS, No. 57. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IMMIGRATION: The maintenance of borders maintains the targets for ABC = mass murder devices and promotes the wrongful notion of "collective = responsibility" which leads to these anti-people "weapons". - J.Z., = 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: The only rightful frontiers exist around individuals = and their properties. And only the individuals can rightly open up their = "borders" or close them down. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: The self-delusion of most immigrants to Australia, whether the legal or the illegal ones, is = that they would have come to a free country, instead of coming merely to = one that is somewhat more free than the open despotism they fled from. = I hold that we owe them and ourselves =20 the chance to set up exterritorially autonomous volunteer communities. = Then after a few years the rumps remaining, of the present governments, = would indicate how small their "mandate" actually was. All dissenters = having seceded from them, they, too, woul d be reduced to mere exterritorially autonomous volunteer communities. = Only as such would they have the right to continue to exist, as long as = they can find volunteers for themselves. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: The test question for genuine liberals and = libertarians: Are you willing to make e.g. Australia a refuge for all = liberties and all liberty lovers? - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: The world is ONE market, ONE place of business, ONE = place to move about or to reside in. Territorial borders just g et in the way of free, peaceful, productive and economic actions. They = are obstacles for free people, not their protection. - J.Z., 15. & = 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: There is no limit to the quantity of goods, labour and = services that free people could offer to=20 each other in free exchange. Once one realises this, one will no longer = support any restrictions upon family size, immigration or any other = peaceful competition but will rather go after the restrictions that = prevent people from supporting themselves and t h eir dependants. - However, to realize all the desired and possible = exchanges, either sufficient sound exchange media or well developed = clearing opportunities must exist. And these are not impossible but = outlawed. Neither may be freely and competitively su pplied under the present statutes. Most other economic troubles stem = from that primary intervention, summed up by the term "monetary = despotism", as opposed to "monetary freedom". - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: There is no shortages of e.g. pens, watches, clo thing and food for immigrants (or unemployed) in exchange for their = willing labours but merely of goods and services that are publicly = supplied, by various government departments, especially when it comes to = sound and sufficient money tokens and finance.=20 F or self-responsible volunteer communities, applying their own laws, = institutions and systems to themselves, immigration would mostly or soon = not be a problem at all. For they would be able and willing to rapidly = learn from their mistakes. One cannot say t h e same about territorial, monopolistic, coercive and centralist = politicians and bureaucrats. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. They repeat the = same kind of basic mistakes over and over again. sometimes for centuries = (e.g. anti-truck legislation) or even thousands o f years (e.g. price controls). - J.Z., 3.12.02. \par IMMIGRATION: There is no such thing as a rightful and rational = "immigration policy". It is merely motivated by ignorant and prejudiced = politicians and bureaucrats and by those of their victimised subjects, = who share their popular errors and myths and their ignorance of the cause = and cure of unemployment, inflation, depressions and other economic = crises. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: There is no such thing as a rightful territorial = border. Borders and their institutions are attacks upon mankind. - J.Z., = 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: There is no worse population growth than that of = bureaucrats and politicians. Without them immigration would not be seen = as a problem at all but as part of the solution. Most of them co me not only equipped with mouths to feed but with minds and limbs to = feed themselves and their dependants, under laissez faire or free market = economics, and, indirectly, to help increase the general standard of = living. - J.Z., 13. & 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: There is nothing right or rational about immigration = restrictions. - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: This country, too, belongs to the world, to humanity, = not just to its natives and former immigrants. - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Those fearing the spread of a certain faith by new = immigrants seem to have little faith in their own faith or in any other = kinds of knowledge, wisdom, insights and ideas. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Those who favour immigration restrictions should be = deported themselves. Moreover, t hey should be the only ones to be deported. Maybe in this way, too, we = could come somewhat closer to finally becoming a truly free country or a = truly free people or society. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: To allow people to live only in nation-wide t erritorial concentration camps or to move only from one such prison to = another, selected, by bureaucrats, for "good behaviour", means neither = freedom for the natives nor for the immigrants. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Totalitarian regimes keep thei r people captive within their borders. Our immigration restrictions = substitute "democratic" barriers for the fallen totalitarian ones. They, = too, help to keep innocent people as captive slaves of their despotic = governments. An enormous moral guilt is invo l ved. For instance, I read only today that 50,000 Jews applied for = immigration to Australia between 1933 and 1945. Of these the Australian = government accepted less than 5,000. That was its contribution to the = Holocaust. According to some estimates ten-thou s ands or perhaps even hundred-thousands of "boat people" may have died = in boats that were not seaworthy or as victims of pirates who were not = suppressed by the navies of the world. There is no documented evidence = for or against such losses. Navies rather=20 engage in fruitless exercises or, in capturing illegal immigrants and = illegal fishermen. - 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Under freedom we can as profitably exchange with = immigrants as with people in foreign countries or with natives and = former immigrants. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Under full economic freedom refugees would not be an = economic burden but an asset. ? - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Under full political freedom, i.e., as members of = exterritorially autonomous volunteer communities, refugees would not constitute a political problem, either, but, rather, an asset, = namely allies in the struggle for peace, freedom and justice in the = world. - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Unemployment for natives and immigrants is neither = imported nor can it be deported, e.g. by deporting the unemployed and the supposedly surplus immigrants. = It can, in practice, only be abolished by governments getting out of the = way of all voluntary experiments towards full and voluntary employment. = All government experiments with the s a me aim have failed. Thus governments should no longer be granted a = monopoly to undertake such experiments. To overcome unemployment = especially the rare and dispersed monetary freedom knowledge is required = which, by mere persuasion and literature, has fail e d to spread sufficiently to the majority and is likely to fail to reach = it and persuade it in the future. How many are interested in the theory = and practice of monetary freedom? Only under full experimental freedom = could these few become effective and fin ally spread their message sufficiently, through their successful = experiments. So far all territorial governments prevent or suppress all = significant experiments of this kind. - J.Z., 15. & 16. 9. 01. \par IMMIGRATION: We are all natives of Earth, anywhere on its surface. = - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: We are not obliged to support refugees or migrants but = we are obliged to allow them to support themselves and to remove all = territorial barriers and other restrictions upon them that would prevent = them from doing so. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: We can rightly impose unjust restrictions only upon = ourselves, not upon others. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: We do not assure our own individual rights and = liberties by denying them to others. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRAT ION: We do not have to fear free, peaceful and productive competitors = coming to our shores but only enslaved, aggressive and destructive = invaders. Refugees and immigrants need only to be freed, i.e. respected = especially in all their economic rights and li berties, in order to become rapidly self-supporting, not kept out, = hunted down, incarcerated and fed at public expense as if they were = invaders, criminals and looters. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: We do not have to share accommodation, food, water and = jobs with them. A country or a continent is not a lifeboat, with all too = limited provisions, in an empty ocean. Under freedom it offers unlimited = jobs and business opportunities. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: We do not live by stopping free exchanges and our mobility but by using them to increase our wellbeing. All frontiers = are anti-life, their lives and our lives. Frontiers are a disease, = sometimes even a disaster, and not at all a cure. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: We fear immigrants as if they were invaders, = conquerors and oppressors or even cannibals, rather than additional = producers of an abundance of goods and services, that would help us to = become even more wealthy. - J.Z., 15. & 16. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: We need freedom lovers more than we need = restriction-loving natives. So let's rather deport the natives, starting = with all politicians and bureaucrats. - J.Z., 13. 9. 01. \par IMMIGRATION: We need what Leonard E. Read called: "the release of = all creative energies", not the incarceration of the creative en ergies of millions of refugees and displaced persons, nor the = involuntary unemployment or under-employment of hundreds of millions of = people in the world, all due to interventionist, monopolistic and = territorial laws and regulations. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01 . \par IMMIGRATION: We should not deny any genuine individual rights and = liberty either to ourselves or to any immigrant - unless we do so only = within a volunteer community, one that is only exterritorially = autonomous, i.e. cannot put immigration barriers around a whole country or continent. - J.Z., 14. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: We trade with the world's thousands of millions. We = accept tourists of the world by the millions every year - but we exclude = peaceful migrants by the millions, even by the hundreds. Morally and economically this does not make sense at all. It is criminal and = counter-productive. Additional millions would need only economic = freedom, including monetary freedom, to become very soon = self-supporting. Moreover, if we demonstrated the successes of=20 full economic freedom then it would soon spread over the rest of the = world and massive refugee and economic migrant streams would tend to dry = up, as they have already from countries that are now better off than = Australia is now. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: We welcomed (not early and often enough) refugees from = the Nazis and Soviets. Why not also refugees from other despotic = regimes? - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: We were & are all migrants on the surface of this = Earth and as such it does not make any sense for any migrants to shut = out other migrants. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Welcome not only refugees but also the refuge-capital = of the world. And remove all your legal and bureaucratic restrictions on = production and exchange. J.Z., - 13.9.01. \par IMMIGR ATION: While private and cooperative property can be acquired quite = rightfully, territorial, collectivist and exclusive "property" claims of = "nations" or States in whole countries or continents are all quite wrong = and a threat to peace, freedom, justice,=20 security, progress and wealth for all. - J.Z., 13. & 15. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: While the potential of any country to accept and = support parasites is always rather limited and while politicians and = bureaucrats have already brought us close to these limits, ther e are no limits for self-supporting immigrants and refugees. They = themselves, even if they do not bring any or much other capital with = them, constitute an enormous potential capital and we have only = ourselves to blame if we do not invite the refuge capita l of the world to safe and productive investments here. There is no = natural limit to the labours, services, goods and productive capital = that people can provide for each other under full economic liberty. - = J.Z., 14. & 15. 9.01.=20 \par IMMIGRATION: Who works better for you, as an employer, an employee, = a customer or investor: an immigrant or a politician or bureaucrat? - = J.Z., 13. & 15. 9.01.=20 \par IMMIGRATION: Who wrongs and harms us more, if at all, bureaucrats = and politicians or immigrants? - J.Z., 13.9.01.=20 \par IMMIGRATION: Whom do we need more? Politicians and bureaucrats or = immigrants. Who wrongs and harms us less, politicians and bureaucrats or = immigrants? - J.Z., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Why do you fear and restrict immigrants more than you = fear your politicians and bureaucrats? - J.Z., 15. & 16. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Why only e.g. freedom of expression and information, = assembly and association, freedom of religion and freedom to choose a = trade, but not freedom to migrate? - J.Z., 15. & 16. 9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Why should any goods, music, paintings, films, TV or = radio shows, poems, dramas, books, news and ideas be free to travel the = world and reside anywhere, but not people, their originators, owners or = fans? - J.Z., 14.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Why should producers and traders fear other producers = and traders? - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Why should we make the immigrants the scapegoats for = some of the many wrongs and mistakes committed by politicians and = bureaucrats? - J.Z. 2.12.02. \par IMMIGRATION: With no restrictions upon self-hel p and voluntarism even massive hordes of immigrants would not need = official aid at the expense of taxpayers. All that would be needed is a = sufficient publication of all effective self-help steps. - J.Z., 15. & = 16. 9. 01. \par IMMIGRATION: With territorial borde rs we have fenced ourselves in and become the domesticated animals of = our rulers, exploited for their benefit and sometimes even killed for = their benefit. Look at the total of all the taxes you are forced to pay = to them. - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: With whom it is easier, or possible at all, to = exchange profitably, with immigrants or with politicians and = bureaucrats? - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Without official, i.e., territorial barriers, there = would be no economic problem, neither for the nativ es nor for the immigrants, which free enterprise and free exchange and = individual responsibility and free cooperation could not overcome. - = J.Z., 13. & 15.89.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Without politicians and bureaucrats immigrants would = not be a problem. - J.Z., 13.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: Would we ourselves like to be denied freedom to flee = and migrate and settle in another country, if our own government became = too dangerous, exploitative and oppressive for us? How then can we deny = freedom to others who are now in this s ituation? - J.Z., 15.9.01. \par IMMIGRATION: You can and do profit from free exchanges with illegal = immigrants set free and thus having become self-supporting. You cannot = profit, in balance, from your involuntary exchanges with your = politicians and bureaucrats. The delusion that jobs and business opportunities are limited was = created by the interventionism of the latter, your worst enemies, posing = as your greatest benefactors. - J.Z., 15. & 16.9.01. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24 IMMIGRATION: Your bureaucrats and = politicians threaten your job s and sales, freedom, security, property and life, immigrants don't, as = a rule. - J.Z., 13. & 15.9.01. }{\fs24\lang1046=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IMMORALITY VS. MORALITY: Morality, = thou deadly bane, //Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! - Robert = Burns. - Rather, it was immorality masking as mora lity, injustice masked as justice, murder masked as protection, etc. - = The morality of priest and politicians should be distinguished from that = of free and rational men. - J.Z., 29.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IMMORTALITY & LIFE, LONGEVITY, LIFE = EXTENSION: Immortality - a basic life necessity. - ALCOR slogan. \par IMMORTALITY & POLITICIANS: If immortality were practicable and = affordable now then the politicians would be likely to withhold it from = us. - J.Z., 20.9.92. \par IMMORTALITY, AGING, DEATH, MAN, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITY, LIFE EXTENSION: If no one ever died, you could count on the ultimate strength and = knowledge and ability of each member of the tribe. When a man died, his = ability died with him, and to some extent, his knowledge. but it wasn't = only that. You lost, not only his present ab ility and knowledge, but all his future ability and knowledge. - = Clifford D. Simak, Ring Around the Sun, 151. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IMMORTALITY, CHRISTIANITY, SOULS, HEAVEN, GOD, = CHRIST: I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are = miserable enough in this life, without the absurdity of speculating upon = another. \'85 The basis of your religion is injustice; the Son of God, the pure, the = immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. - George Gordon, = Lord Byron. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IMMORTALITY, DEATH, AGE, MAJORITY: Let's never die = - for that would mean surrendering to the majority. - J.Z., 4/77. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IMMORTALITY, DEATH: To die will be an awfully big = adventure. - Sir James M. Barrie, Peter Pan, act III, final sentence, p. = 94 (1930, reprinted 1975). This line was quoted by Barrie's friend,=20 American impresario Charles Frohman, as he plunged to his death on the = Lusitania. - The Dictionary of National Biography, 1931-1940, p. 49. - = To go on living, indefinitely, will be an even greater one! - J.Z., = 12.10.02. - You can't write about this advent ure in your memoirs but only about the cases in which you cheated death. = We should become more eager to do so, all the time. Age-ism & death-ism = are still all too common. - J.Z., 25.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IMMORTALITY: \'85 Dr. Johan Bjorksten is working = on a formula that he s ays might raise average life expectance to a minimum of 150 years. Dr. = Timothy Leary, always the vard of the avant minority in science, argues = plausibly that if we mount a national campaign similar to the atomic = Manhattan Project of the Forties or the spa c e race of the Sixties, we can have immortality before 1990. - R. A. = Wilson, Right Where You Are Sitting Now, 174. - If we wait for = government finance for this we may have a very long wait ahead. But = should it not be possible to persuade most adults in the =20 developed countries to contribute, say, $ 50 p. a. to such research, = preferably to special lines of anti-aging research attempts that they = prefer, and under the condition that they, as well as their children and = grandchildren, will have prior claims upon=20 s uch research findings, corresponding to the total size or length of = their contributions? Has not salesmanship and publicity been = sufficiently developed to achieve that. Hundreds of millions of = contributions of $ 50 p.a. could greatly promote such research . So, why isn't that organized? - Why remain even libertarian deaf and = blind to such financing options? You tell me! - J.Z., 26.10.02. \par IMMORTALITY: An immortal society would be certain of total ability = and total knowledge of its manpower. - Clifford D. Simak, Ring Around = the Sun, 152. \par IMMORTALITY: Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed. - G. = B. Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma, preface, 1906. - Do try \'85 you might = \'85 - J.Z., 10/85. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 IMMORTALITY: I don't want to achieve immortality by = being inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame. I want to achieve = immortality by not dying. - Leo Durocher at eighty-one.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 IMMORTALITY: I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want = to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen. - Quoted E. Lax, Woody = Allen and his Comedy. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IMMORTALITY: Let's never die - for = that would mean surrendering to the majority. - J., 77. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IMMORTALITY: The universe goes on = forever. I want to see the end of it before I die. - LIVE & LET LIVE, = No. 16, Oct. 16, 1979. \par IMMUNITY OF LEGISLATORS, PARTIE S, POLITICIANS, BUREAUCRATS, PRESIDENTS, PRIME MINISTERS, MINISTERS & = JUDGES: The personal immunity of these decision-makers should be = abolished. They and their close family members should be held = financially responsible for all personal injuries and fina ncial damages they cause with their platforms, policies, laws, = regulations and decisions that contravened constitutional bill of rights = or other and more genuine declarations of individual human rights. - = J.Z., 5.8.02, 31.10.02. \par IMMUNITY, GOVERNMENTS, ATROC ITIES, POWER, CORRUPTION, IRRESPONSIBILITY, ABUSES, AGGRESSION, DEFENCE: = They became the creatures immunity always creates; they became monsters. = - Joseph H. Delaney: The New Untouchables, ANALOG, Mid Sept. 83, p. 162. = - Immunity for defence =3D/=3D immunity for aggression. - J.Z. \par IMMUNITY, NON-INTERVENTION, INTERNAL AFFAIRS, SOVEREIGNTY, = TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY, ROGUE GOVERNMENTS, ROGUE RULERS: No immunity for = any government and any member of a government for criminal actions. - = J.Z., 6.4.91. - And no indemnifi cations at the expense of taxpayers, either. They should also have to = fund their own legal bills, or insure themselves for legal costs out of = their earnings. Maybe that would be a strong enough incentive for these = people, mostly lawyers, to finally simpli fy, speed up and cheapen court procedures. - J.Z., 24.10.02. \par IMPARTIALITY, INDIFFERENCE, NEUTRALITY: \'85 he weighed with an = equal and dispassionate mind whether it was better to spare a man or to = cut his throat. - Lord Acton, Lectures on Modern History, 52, o n Caesar Borgia. - That does make some sense for individual = self-defence against attacking individuals, during a self-defence = effort, not afterwards, and also for the contemplation and organization = of tyrannicide. - Soldiers and officers should also co nsider that inducing their opponents to desert or to rise might be = preferable and safer as well as cheaper than trying to kill, disable or = imprison them. Not only immoral actions fall under Actons thought. - = J.Z., 25.10.02. \par IMPARTIALITY, NEUTRALITY, NOT TAK ING SIDES, INDIFFERENCE: I decline utterly to be impartial as between = the Fire Brigade and the Fire. - Winston Churchill when editing the = BRITISH GAZETTE DURING THE General Strike of 1926. - Compare: "There are = no absolute values. All values are relative! " \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IMPARTIALITY, SINCERITY, HONESTY, OBJECTIVITY, JUDGEMENT, NEUTRALITY: I = can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial. - Johann Wolfgang = von Goethe.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IMPATIENCE: The only things that I = am impatient for are enlightenment, freedom, justice, peace, lon gevity, prosperity, intelligence expansion and the stars. - J.Z., = 1.10.86, 24.10.02. \par IMPEACHMENT: Why only Nixon? Impeach them all! - J.Z., 3.5.73. - If = not corrupt or otherwise criminal, they are all at least power-mad. - = J.Z., 26.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IMPERATIVE, CATEG ORICAL, MORALITY, ETHICS, UNIVERSALITY PRINCIPLE: There is, therefore, = only one categorical imperative. It is: Act only according to that maxim = by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal = law. - Immanuel Kant, Foundations of t he Metaphysics of Morals, trans. Lewis W. Beck, ed. Robert P Wolff, = section 2, p. 44 (1969). \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 IMPERFECTIONS: ...were we to love none who had imperfections, this would = be a desert for our love. All we can do is to make the best of our = friends; love and cheri sh what is good in them, and keep out of the way of what is bad: but no = more think of rejecting them for it than of throwing away a piece of = music for a flat passage or two. - Thomas Jefferson \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IMPERIALISM, EMPIRES, CONQUESTS, = TERRITORIALISM, POWER, GREAT=20 POWERS, CRIME, GANGSTERS, ORGANIZED CRIME: The difference between = gangsterism and imperialism is mainly in scale. The attacks of Hitler on = Poland or Stalin on Finland, Alexander's plundering of Asia, Titus' = sacking of Jerusalem or the banditry of the Vand a ls, the Vikings, the Normans, the Huns, the privateers of Queen = Elizabeth, etc., etc. - it is only the size of these sanguinary = excursions and the loot that distinguishes them from common holdups. = Take off their gilded armor, fancy tunics, pretentious cro wns and ludicrous rationalizations and before you stands a motley lot of = bandits with tribal support. - D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IMPERIALISM, INDIVIDUALISM, INDIVIDUAL = SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-DETERMINATION, TERRITORIALISM: Imperialism destroys = civiliza tion. It saps morality and law, the two things upon which human society = is founded. It is hostile to three fundamental ideas: to the idea of the = unity of mankind; to the idea of individuality; to the idea that every = individual should have the right of sel f -determination. - Romain Rolland, 1866-1944, 1917, quoting from = ZENTRALBLATT DES ZOFINGERVEREINS, May 1917. - It is so ignorant of its = own limitations and of its opposite, just like most of its opponents, = that it is not even expressly hostile to the exter r itorial autonomy that is right and useful for all volunteer communities. = It does not attack this option but simply ignores it, ignorant of it. It = is never mentioned and discussed in its international "peace" = conferences. That is almost like discussion can cer without bothering to mention how to prevent it. - J.Z., 27.4.00. \par IMPERIALISM, POWER & TERRITORIALISM: The chief characteristic of = imperialism is the will to power, the desire for expansion, the longing = for domination. It is based upon a belief that migh t is right; it tends to impose itself by force. One of its mainsprings = is the nationalist spirit, the mystical cult of nationality, of the = chosen people, the sacred egoism of the fatherland\'85 . Grob, in: CENTRALBLATT DES ZOFINGERVEREINS, May 1917, quoted by: - Romain Rolland, 1866-1944, 1917, in The Forerunners, Harcourt, 1920, = 76/77. - For me its essence is territorialism and this can already be = realized in the small scale imperialism of very small States. - J.Z., = 27.4.00.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IMPERIALISM, TAXATION, INDEPENCEN CE, PATRIOTISM OR LOYALISM? "The U.S. regime taxes Americans 10 times = more today than the British Parliament ever hoped to achieve in the = past. Our government has deployed more than half a million troops in 100 = countries -- propping up dictators who suppo rt the economic special interests of politicians in Washington -- in a = way that would make the old British Empire envious." (10/02) - Liberty = For All, by Joe Goodson, http://www.free-market.net/rd/140370830.html \par IMPERIALISM: \'85 there is a wide difference between a conquering = and a flourishing empire. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, = 68. \par IMPERIALISM: Another ism figures in the forefront of Soviet = propaganda. This is American (and, when suitable, British) imperialism. = All we need to do is recall=20 a few facts which deny the Soviet Union every ounce of authority to = raise such an issue. There is in history no example of imperialism to = vie in speed, perfidy, brutality and cupidity with the virtual = annexation of Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union. It i s indeedn an impressive witness to the monumental gullibility of western = masses that Soviet leades dare speak of American imperialism from behind = a barrier of chained slave-nations. - Salvador de Madariaga, The Blowing = up of the Parthenon, 30. \par IMPERIALISM: Empire is a crippling drag on the Imperial power, that = it severele crippled the economic development of the European Empire = states especially after 1870, and that e.g. Sweden developed at the rate = of about 2.6% in the 19}{ \fs24\lang1046\super th}{\fs24\lang1046 century, while Britain and = France only at 1%. \'85 The Portugese after all had this for 400 years, and it dragged on them. = Contrast Portugal with norway which didn't fuss at all with this = nonsense, they are about the same population: think of the contribution = of Norway to European culture, i t is extraordinary for the size of the country - you can't think of a = Portuguese afer Camoens, can you? This is because of the empire, I am = quite sure, and there's tremendous evidence that it drained the British = economy after 1870. \'85 Kenneth Boulding, in SOCIAL ALTERNATIVES, Oct. 82, p. 16. \par IMPERIALISM: Russia and China have the only empires left. - Kenneth = Boulding, in SOCIAL ALTERNATIVES, Oct. 82, p. 16. - The essence of = empire is the enforced rule over large territories. States with smaller = territories t ry their brand of imperialism on a smaller scale. Instance: While = Biafrans tried to secede from Nigeria, they themselves suppressed some = coastal tribes and incorporated them in their small territorial = "empire". Even local governments try to lord it over d issenters in their domain and are, sometimes, even more intolerant than = are the masters of larger territories. - J.Z., 26.10.02 \par IMPERTINENCE: Impertinence: the name which authorities give to the = aspirations for, and declarations of independence of their inferiors. - = Thomas Szasz, Heresies, 69. - I would replace "inferiors" with = "subjects". - J.Z. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IMPORTANCE OF SMALL & SEEMINGLY TRIVIAL MATTERS, = MALARIA, MOSQUITOES, GERMS, VIRUSES, RISKS, DANGERS, DETAILS: Trivial = things do matter \'85. More people are killed e ach year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging = elephants. - Author Unknown. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IMPORTS, EXPORTS, BALANCE OF TRADE & = PAYMENTS, PROTECTIONISM, INTERNATIONAL TRADE, FREE TRADE: No nation was = ever ruined by trade. - Benjamin Franklin.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IMPORTS: Unlimited imports lead = inevitably to unlimited exports. - J.Z., 11.3.94. \par IMPOSITION, COERCON, VIOLENCE, COMPULSION: All is bad that is = imposed from without. - Isaac Asimov, Foundation & Earth, 99. - Even if = the results of a coercive intervention are q uite beneficial, the coercion itself is quite wrong - if it was = exercised against a rational being in full possession of his senses. = Even for the most rational beings this is not always the case. Thus = coercively preventing them from committing an insuffic iently considered suicide is not necessarily wrong. If the suicidal = person was right in his choice then he will, as a rule, get many other = chances to do away with himself. - J.Z.,, 27.10.02. \par IMPOSITIONS, COERCION, COMPULSION, VIOLENCE, TERRITORIALISM, LAWS, CONSTITUTIONS, AUTONOMY, INDIVIDUAL SECESSIONISM, PANARCHISM: Stop = everybody from imposing anybody's will on anybody else. - Pee Wee = Hermeneutics, TC149p42. - The "how to do so" is the important thing that = ought to be spelled out. See my ON PANARCHY seri es. - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0=20 IMPOSSIBILITIES: Do not think that what is difficult for thee to master = is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, = deem it attainable by thee. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, book 6, = section 19. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = IMPOSSIBILITIES: Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. - = Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, ch. 12. \par IMPOSSIBILITIES: Impossibilities recede as experience advances. - = Helps, Friends in Council, Book 3, Chapter 5. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IMPOSSIBILITIES: = Nothing is impossible to a willing hea rt. - John Heywood, Proverbs, I, 4. - If only wishes could make it so! = Alas, goodwill and good intentions are not enough, especially when good = ideas and sufficient knowledge are missing. - John Zube. \par IMPOSSIBILITIES: Nothing is impossible to the man who can will. - = Mirabeau, in Emerson, Considerations by the Way. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 IMPOSSIBLE & DUTY: No one is bound to do the impossible. (Ad impossibile = nemo tenetur.) Legal Maxim. Othe forms are: No one is bound by the = impossible. (Nemo tenetur ad impossibile.) The law requir es no one to do the impossible. (Lex neminem cogit ad impossibile.) = There can be no obligation to perform theimpossible. (Impossibilium = nulla obligatio.) The law excuses impossibility. (Impotentia excusat = legem.). Does that also mean that no territorial g o vernment is obliged to try to become a limited or good government, = because that would be impossible for it, by its very nature? - Or that = it ought to resign, immediately, once it becomes beware of its inherent = limitations and totalitarian nature? - J.Z.,=20 24.10.02.=20 \par IMPOSSIBLE & LUCK: It is not a lucky word, this }{\i\fs24\lang1046 = impossible}{\fs24\lang1046 ; no good comes of those that have it often = in their mouth. - Thomas Carlyle: The French Revolution, III, 1837. \par IMPOSSIBLE, CREATIVITY, DIS: What creates the new realities for = mankind has always been the impossible. - Gustav Landauer. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IMPOSSIBLE, CREATIVITY, INNOVATION: The greatest = pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter = Bagehot. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IMPOSSIBLE, DIS: By asking the impossible we = obtain the best possible. - Italian proverb.=20 \par IMPOSSIBLE, DIS: Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. = - Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, XII, 1759. - You can't show a running horse. = - Dutch proverb. - One cannot be and habve been. - French proverb. - No = one can blow and swallow at the same t ime. - German proverb. - A thousand men can't undress a nakend man. - = Greek Proverb.=20 \par IMPOSSIBLE: \'85 sometimes roads exist, sometimes not; where there = is no road, 'genius will blast a path'. - Isaiah Berlin, Russian = Thinkers, on Alexander Herzen, page 195. \par IMPOSSIBLE: All things are possible until they are proved (proven? = J.Z.) impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. - = Pearl S. Buck, A Bridge for Passing, 1962, 3. - Radical advoctes of = human rights and possibilities should also reg ister what they consider to be impossibilities, e.g., successful price = controls, central banks, limited federal governments, good territorial = governments, defence with ABC mass murder devices, universal benefits = from legalized monopolies, inflations witho ut legal tender and an issue monopoly. p J.Z., 20.11.85, 24.10.02. \par IMPOSSIBLE: Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older = man says is impossible. - Herbert V. Prochow, SATURDAY EVENING POST, 4 = Dec. 1948. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IMPOSSIBLE: To = believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. - Thomas Fuller, = Gnomologia. - To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible = because it seems so. - Scott, Rob Roy, ch. 16. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 IMPOSSIBLE: What is possible can often only be found out = only by trying, hard, imaginatively a nd repeatedly. It will not be achieved by those who consider it = impossible and thus do not even try. - J.Z., 24.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IMPOTENCE, WEAKNESS & CORRUPTION: All = weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely. - Edgar Z. = Freidenberg. - Freudenberg? Friedenberg?=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IMPROVEMENT, SELF-IMPROVEMENT: Let = him that would move the world first move himself. - Socrates. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IMPROVEMENTS, INGENUITY, = INVENTIVENESS, PROGRESS, PROSPERITY, FREEDOM: When freedom prevails, the = ingenuity and inventiveness of people create s incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of = the human condition. - Brian S. Wesbury. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 IMPROVEMENTS, INNOVATIONS, IDEAS, = REFORMS: Each day try to find some way in which your work can be = improved. - Earl Nightingale. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IMPROVEMENTS, MA N, PROGRESS, INJUSTICE, JUSTICE: "Man wants to improve his lot. This is = the first law of his nature." - G. C. Roche III, Bastiat, continued: = "There are only two ways in which each of us can improve our lot: at our = own expense; or at the expense of others. =20 The first method constitutes justice; the second, injustice. While we = all oppose injustice in the abstract, how many men follow Bastiat's = advice? " - Even Bastiat seemed unaware that man would have the best = chance for self-improvement if he could withdraw =20 from all past and present reformers and do his things to and for = himself, under full individual sovereignty or the exterritorial autonomy = of likeminded volunteers and their societies, States or communities. - = Would he have arrived at that conclusion if he had lived longer? Then he might have come across e.g. Fichte's 1793 = book on the right of individuals to secede from the State or he might = have discovered panarchism or the exterritorialist tradition = independently. - J.Z., 25.10.52.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IMPROVEMENTS, REFORM, EXPERIMENTS: We think we are = on the right road to improvement because we are making experiments. - = Benjamin Franklin. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 IN TOLERANCE, = HAPPINESS, INTERFERENCE AND ANIMOSITIES: It is terrible in this world = that we try with the same eagerness to make ourselves h appy and to prevent others from being happy. Many people all upon us as = many arrows as glances. - Rivarol, in: Franzoesische Moralisten, 324. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INACTIVITY, ACTION, SPECULATION, CONTEMPLATION, = PONDERING, THOUGHT: Even if you're on the right track you'll get run = over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INACTIVITY, ACTION: Those who appear inactive are, = believe me, engaged in far more important activity; they're dealing with = matters divine and human at the same moment. \'85 - Seneca, Letters, VIII, page 46. \par INACTIVITY? ACTION? Come now, do I really give you the impression = of inactivity? I have only buried myself away behind closed doors in = order to be able to be of use to more people. - - Seneca, Letters, VIII, = page 44. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INCENTIVES VS. COMPULSION: Natural incentives rather = than compulsion. - J.Z., 7.9.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INCENTIVES, INDUSTRY, PROFIT, EDUCATION: Where = there is no desire, there will be no industry. - John Locke, Some = Thoughts Concerning Education, 1693, 126. \par INCENTIVES, WAGES, WORK: They pretend to pay us and we pretend to = work. - From a film seen on ABC. \par INCENTIVES: One motivation is worth ten threats, two pressures and = six reminders. - Paul Sweeney. \par INCOME, WAGES, SALARIES, EARNINGS, MERIT, SATISFACTION: The perfect = income is that which, as it goes into the pocket , brings into the heart and mind a sense of satisfactionand justice. The = man who, when he gets his money, whatever it is, can feel that he has = given value in return, enjoys a perfect satisfaction which is denied to = all the rest. Whatever the system under=20 which we live may be called, the fact remains that we have to render = service to one another, and to exchange these services each with the = others. \'85 Ernest Benn, in Abel, Benn, 75. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INCOMES POLICY & INFLATION: We need a = sensible incomes policy approach. - Pop ular opinion. - The only rightful and sensible policy is to let the = productive individual chose his job, trade or profession, the wage rate = or prices offered to him or by him and the number of hours he is willing = to work in that job, trade or profession,=20 a nd the form of payment in a stable currency that is acceptable to him, = useful to him and measured in a value standard that he has reasons to = trust. All other incomes policies set by third. parties are wrong and = dictatorial, part of a centralised and plann ed, i.e., centrally mismanaged economy, or part of the utopia of state = socialism or bureaucratic socialism or state capitalism. - J. Z., n.d. & = 2.4.97. - See: WAGE CONTROLS.=20 \par INCOMES POLICY, GUARANTEED ANNUAL INCOME: The guaranteed annual = income means "guaranteed annual charity". - Anderson/MiLes, = Constitution, 52. \par INCOMES POLICY: We need therefore something new, an "incomes = policy", one that will help us resolve better this vexing conflict = between full employment and price stability. ...Examples of incomes=20 policies range from the direct wage-price controls and freezes of = wartime down to mere moral persuasion and verbal wrist slaps from the = President. Without recommending outright wage-price controls I do urge = upon the Administration an activist incomes poli c y - that is, a policy in which the Government, at times when labour = markets are not slack and demand-pull inflation is not excessive, = supplements its fiscal and monetary policies by actions that discourage = price-tag and wage rate increases. - I shall not=20 p retend here that modern economic science knows how to prescribe an = incomes policy that a jury of informed people can agree will work = well... Alas, study of foreign examples does not tell us how to solve = the problem. - Dr. Paul A. Samuelson, THE NATIONAL T I MES, 26.1.71. - The only" incomes policy" that is rightful and useful is = that agreed upon between individuals in their choices of careers and = jobs and their employers, those of tradesmen and professionals and the = customers for their services, that of e.g. =20 retailers and their buyers, the individual consumers. Each consumer with = one dollar to spend has a dollar vote on the market that expresses his = incomes policy for all those who directly or indirectly supply what he = wants. The experts and planners do not l i ke them to have this consumer sovereignty and monopolistically inclined = employers do no love it, either. Any income policies imposed upon = employers or employees or self-employed, by any third parties, would = represent either unearned incomes or coercive tr ansfer payments or robberies to make these possible. - J. Z., 2.4.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INCOMPETENCE, IRRESPONSIBILITY, = BLINDNESS, IGNORANCE, GOVERNMENT, WRITERS, AUTHORS, SCIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, = UNDERSTANDING, LEGISLATION: "\'85 scientists who neither knew nor cared about the effe cts of what they did in their labs, soldiers who fought without knowing = why, governments that legislated in mental darkness, writers who wrote = glibly about problems which they were incompetent to understand. . - = Chad Oliver, Rite of Passage, ASTOUNDING SF , British edition, Sep. 1954, page 67. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INCONSISTENCIES, INCOMPLETENESS, PRINCIPLES, = IDEAS: Incompleteness and inconsistencies of the principles, ideas and = actions of freedom lovers are among their main obstacles and enemies. - = J.Z., 30.7.96. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INCONSISTENCY AND = CONSISTENCY: There are those who would missteach us that to stick in a = rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is = inconsistency - and a vice. - Mark Twain. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INCONVENIENCE OF A GREAT VARIETY OF = MEANS OF PAYMENT, UNIFORMITY OF MEANS OF PAYMENT? - This fact or opinion = \- is often used in an attempt to justify the uniformity of an\- imposed = means of exchange and value standard. But overlooked is that the = \-inconvenience of a great variety was usually accepted because the\- = inconvenience of not being able to sell and not being paid would\- have been even = greater. Thus, as long as the convenience of \-monetary transactions was = not exceeded by the inconvenience of a\- great variety in money tokens, = a great variety was still\- accepted, naturally, not a greater variety than people were still = \-able to cope with. The varieties of present private notes, like\- = cheques, is often overlooked and people can manage to deal with\- hundred-thousands of different kinds of tickets - or refuse to \-deal = with them. At best and at least money can solve only the\- monetary = problems of its voluntary acceptors. In this respect it \- is not different from any other commodity or service, within the\- = circles of its voluntary acceptors. One can speak rightly of\- = "universal" acceptability only within the circulation sphere of a \- particular kind of money in its payment community, whether that \-be = small or large. In England from 1648 - 1672 there were over\- 20,000 = different tokens. They were still voluntarily accepted \-although m any of these tokens not beyond a particular street. -\- Source: J. = Shield Nicholson, Elements of Political Economy, 272.\-- J. Z., 12.4.97. = - See: VARIETIES OF MONEY.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INCONVENIENCES OF LIBERTY: I would = rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too m uch liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. - Thomas = Jefferson, letter to Archibald Stuart, December 23, 1791. -The Writings = of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 5, p. 409 (1895). \par }\pard\plain = \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\keep\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INCONVERTIBLE PAPER MONEY & LEGAL = TENDER PAPER MONEY: Many \-authors seem to be unable or unwilling to = distinguish between the \- two. They are right only insofar as it matters little whether a \-100% = gold convertible paper money has legal tender or not. Legal \-tender = then cannot depreciate it. Over-issues are prevented by\- the convertibility obligation and its fulfilment, as long as \-they = function. But legal tender or, its alternative, free market \-rating for = a currency, matter very much as soon as convertibility\- is temporarily = or lastingly abolished. These undi scriminating\- authors then simply assume that the abolition of = convertibility\-, on its own, would, quite inevitably, lead to the = depreciation of a paper currency,\- since governments do always have a = motive for over-issues.\- However, that applies only to inconvertible paper money with \-legal = tender - at least until this money has been so depreciated \-that it is = altogether refused, in spite of the severest\- penalties. But only legal tender permits it to reach that stage. When = \-a paper money has been made inconvertible but NOT given the legal = \-tender privilege then there are at least two possible results: The \- paper money is not depreciated but kept at par with its nominal\- gold = weight unit value, especially by being so accepted in \-payment of all = taxes and due s due to a government. The government might then increase taxes in order = to withdraw more of its paper \-money from circulation, giving it more = of a taxation reflux or, \-by further taxation, increasing the demand = for it. That was long the \- practice for sound tax foundation money that did not have any\- legal = tender power in general circulation - but only legal tender\- towards = the issuer, the government. The alternative to this is \- that the government may not care for preserving the value of its \-notes = but continue issuing them without arranging for a sufficient reflux to = keep them at par with their nominal value.\- Then there are two possible = effects on the price and wage levels.=20 \-Either these are marked in the nominal paper value units. Then \-they = do become inflated. Or they are not so marked but expressed \-in e.g. = gold weight units, with the government's money only \- accepted, in wages and salaries at its current discount and at par only = if it is so rated in the market. Consequently, prices and wages = expressed \-in these gold weight units remain the same - but the = government's \- money depreciates. Moreover, as long as taxes are still expressed \-in = gold weight units, and payable at par with the government's \-paper = money, the taxpayers have, to that extent, reasons to rejoice. Their tax = \- burden becomes reduced by the degree of depreciation of the paper = \-money. A still somewhat honest government would have to\- continue to = accept its own paper money IOUs. at par with their nominal gold weight = value units and it would h ave to fix the taxes in such value units. But, as we well know, not all = governments do so or\- do so all the time. On the contrary. They often = express the taxes\- only in paper value "standards" and accept their over-issued paper = money only at par with this nominal paper value standard.\- Then it has = lost all in-built restraint, under an exclusive\- currency system, any incentive to reduce further issues (in order not = to lose\- out, while spending its notes at a discount and having to = accept them at par in tax r evenue). Under the issue monopoly and legal tender it might find it = easier to print more and more of this legal tender \-paper money rather = than raise taxes. Although, through the\- raising of taxes, it could = increase the demand for its paper\- money and, theoretically, even restore them to par. (In practice\- this = would create deflationary difficulties. It is easier to \-increase taxes = to keep its tax foundation money at par than to\- increase them later, when the depreciation has already set in, to = \-restore them to par.) As a rule and politically, the government = \-finds it easier to abuse it legal tender and money monopoly power = rather than to increase\- its taxes to keep its paper money at par with its nominal value = standard unit, a certain weight unit of gold. The other factor that is = almost always \-involved with legal tender is the exclusive currency = status or \- issue monopoly of the central bank. Even in the absence of legal = \-tender it would force people to accept the government's or the central = bank's paper money, to the extent that they do engage in \- monetary transactions at all. To that extent that monopoly acts \-like = legal tender. However, without legal tender, people would\- not be = obliged to mark out all their contracts, prices, wages,\- debts, in the = deprec iating paper "value unit" of the exclusive currency or exchange medium. = They might, instead, go on accepting\- it only as the exclusive exchange = medium allowed to them - but \-only at its market rate. Their prices, = wages and debt amounts,\- expressed in some or the other sound value unit, would remain the = \-same, no matter how much the government inflated its exclusive \-but = not forced currency. With one exception: As soon as traders\- and employees anticipate further paper money depreciation, they\- will = tend to increase their prices and wages, in anticipation of \- further depreciation, possibly to likely (in the later stages of an = inflation) even faster than the depreciation does actually occur. To = this extent deflationary \-phenomena can then occur. There are then not = yet enough \- exchange media printed, of the exclusive currency, to keep up with this = increased demand for \-them. Naturally, the increased production of = exchange media does have\- }{\b\f0\fs24 some}{\f0\fs24 natural limits. = In Germany, in 1923, almost all printing\- presses were working overtime in producing more official and\- = emergency money notes (largely due to the above hinted at\- deflationary = effect). Moreover, the purchasing power of the exclusive and depreciated = notes became so low that production \- costs of the notes came, according to some reports, to 48 % of the = purchasing power of the notes and, according to other reports, the = \-paper value of the notes was ultimately higher than the \- purchasing power that was printed upon them. Only a Hungarian = \-inflation, after WW II, is supposed to have gone even beyond that = \-German "Great" Inflation. When strong deflationary or \-stagflationary = effects appear in a rapid inflations, then legally\- or illegally, private or official institutions tend to issue = \-"emergency money", initially also using only the depreciating \-paper = standard. To that extent such a currency is then no longer exclusive but = a competition in depreciation results. After a\- while at least some of the emergency money issuers (Reichsbahn\- and = Farbenwerke Hoechst, for instance) begin to issue gold\--weight value = emergency money. To the extent that they are thus \- made available, the official inflated paper money will be refused\- and = driven out of circulation. If, right from the beginning, the = \-government's paper money has neither legal tender nor an\- exclusive currency status, then the privately or cooperatively issued = currencies and those \-by some state or local governments, provided only = that they are sound alternative \-currencies, will tend to be preferred = for most local exchanges and the central government's\- or central bank's depreciated = paper money will either be discounted or refused (unless some taxpayers = find it still useful to help them to shed some of their tax burdens \- with it), so that the good money alternatives will drive out the \-bad = money, in correct application of Gresham's Law and in \-reversal to the = popular misconception of it. - To speak only of \- convertibility and inconvertibility, as if nothing else mattered\-, is, = indeed, very inaccurate and misleading. It is very similar \- to the abuse of the term "fiat" money as opposed to the classical gold = standard (the gold redemptionist) currency. The "fiat" consists in the = legal tender\- and the exclusive currency status of a paper money, NOT = in its\- irredeemability by the issuer into gold. Your cheque and IOUs are\- also not redeemable = in gold, at least not nowadays, and they are\- not legal tender and not = an exclusive currency, nor are your \-current account and at any time = reclaimable deposits. Potential\- acceptors are free to refuse them. They are not "fiat" money. See\-: = FIAT MONEY & CREATION OF MONEY & CREDIT.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INCORRUPTIBILITY: \'85 the = incorruptible were statistically insignificant, \'85 J. Neil Schulman, = Alongside Night, 16.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDEPENDENCE & EXPERIMENTS, = VOLUNTARISM, AU TONOMY, EXTERRITORIALITY: Experiment with yourself, not with others = without their consent and at their expense and risk. Your rights go that = far but no further. \par INDEPENDENCE VS. COMPULSION, CREATIVITY: The basic need of the = creator is independence. The re asoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be = curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It = demands total independence in function and in motive. To a creator, all = relations with men are secondary. - Ayn R and. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INDEPENDENCE VS. ISOLATIONISM: = Independence is good, but isolation is too high a price to pay for it. - = Benjamin R. Tucker, Instead of a Book, 1893. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDEPENDENCE VS. POWER, SELF-SUPPORT = VS. HANDOUTS: "Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will." - = Alexander Hamilton. \par INDEPENDENCE VS. TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS, SELF-GOVERNMENT, = AUTONOMY, SELF-DETERMINATION, POLITICIANS, BUREAUCRATS, INDIVIDUAL = SECESSIONISM, LIVING, LIFE: Do not let them govern your lives.( Those = who try to do so are often failur es in their own lives - and yet they have the impertinence to attempt to = run your life. - J.Z. 2/6/84.) \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDEPENDENCE, AMERICANISM, = SELF-GOVERNMENT, SELF-RESPECT, SELF-RELIANCE: Independence, = self-respect, self-reliance, dignity, diligence, - often narrow=20 and primitive in their manifestations, if you like, ill-rounded, not at = all }{\i\fs24\lang1033 durchgearbeitet}{\fs24\lang1033=20 , but there they were, the virtues that once spoke out in the = Declaration of Independence. It was noticeable, too, that these virtues = flourished as well as they did=20 in a state of freedom. Our life was singularly free; we were so little = conscious of arbitrary restraint that we hardly knew government existed. = Aside from the county sheriff and one deputy, the town had no police, = nor seemed to need any. On the whole, our =20 society might have served pretty well as a standing advertisement for = Mr. Jefferson's notion that the virtues which he regarded as = distinctively American thrive best in the absence of government. . - = Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, Harper,=20 1943, 60. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INDEPENDENCE, CHARITY, BENEVOLENCE, GIFTS, WELFARE STATE: A man = receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed = characteristic of human nature. - George Orwell. - Unless they convince = themselves that they possess "welfare rights" as=20 claims against other human beings. - 29.11.02. \par }\pard \s15\qj\li48\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\f0\fs24\lang1033=20 INDEPENDENCE, COMPULSION, CREATION: The basic need of the creator is = independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of = compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any = consider ation whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in = motive. To a creator, all relations with men are secondary. - Ayn Rand. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\f0\fs24 INDEPENDENCE, FREEDOM, BROTHERHOOD, MAN: There is nothing to = take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man = must be free of his brothers. - Ayn Rand. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDEPENDENCE, FREEDOM, SUCCESS, = TAXATION, REGULATIONS, LAWS, PERSONAL LAWS, VOLUNTARISM: There is only = one success \'85 to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others = absurd maddening claims upon it. - Christopher Morley, Where the Blue = Begins, p. 85 (1922). \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDEPENDENCE, FREEDOM: What do you suppose will = satisfy the soul, except to walk free an down no superior? - Walt = Whitman. \par INDEPENDENCE, FREEDOM; The free man wants to live, crate and work = in independence. D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought, 60.=20 \par INDEPENDENCE, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, INDIVIDUALISM, PANARCHISM, = INDEPENDENCE, SELF-GOVERNMENT: Let every vat stand upon its own bottom. = - William Bullein, Dialogue Against the Fever P estilence, 1564. - Every tub must stand upon its bottom. - Charles = Macklin, The Man of the World, I, 1781. \par INDEPENDENCE, INDIVIDUAL, NOT JUST INDEPENDENCE FOR TERRITORIAL = GOVERNMENTS: Independence for everybody, not just for governments. - = J.Z., 26.7.89. - Independence only for exterritorially autonomous communities and = societies - but not for any territorial government for that would mean = dependence for all people in their nation-wide territorial prison or = slave pens. - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDEPENDENCE, LIVELIHOOD, MAN, = DEPENDENCE: "Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will." - = Alexander Hamilton. \par INDEPENDENCE, MAN, STATISM, PARASITISM, SELF-SUPPORT, TRADE, = INSURANCE, CREDIT: "No man shall seek or give the unearned or = undeserved." (From Anderson/Miles, Constitution \'85 ?) \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 INDEPENDENCE, MONEY, POVERTY, WEALTH, INDEPENDENCE: To be poor and = independent is very nearly an impossibility. - William Cobbett = (1762-1835), Advice to Young Men, 2, "To a Youth". - The degree to which = independence of individuals cou ld be increased through the realization of full monetary freedom remains = still to be widely enough appreciated. - J.Z., 26.11.02. \par INDEPENDENCE, NATIONAL & TERRITORIAL, ANTI-IMPERIALISM: = Independence - The ideal of the elite of those small nationalities who se natural and legitimate propensity to oppress still weaker groups is = thwarted by the rulers of the Empire in which they are incorporated. - = Max Nomad, A Skeptic's Political Dictionary, 1953, 56.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDEPENDENCE, NATURE, RICHES, POVERTY: Nature has = not told me: Be poor! or: Be rich! but, instead, it shouts at me: Be = independent! - Nicholas Chamfort, Aphorismen, German version, p. 4. - = Gedanken und Maximen, p. 26. \par INDEPENDENCE, PANARCHISM, MAN, MATURITY, INDIVIDUAL SECESSION: For = man to grow up, fully, into a mature human being, he must become master of his own fate, = exterritorially autonomous or independent from any collectivist, = territorial and hierarchical system, even though such a system might = still be preferred by the majority of his countrymen. - J.Z., 25.8.98, 21.10.02. \par INDEPENDENCE, PANARCHISM: To be independent is the business of a = few only; it is the privilege of the strong. - F. W. Nietzsche, Beyond = Good and Evil, 1886. - But the others should at least be free to = individualy and not collectively cho ose their own masters or leaders, if they really cannot achieve, between = them, the forms of self-government and self-management they might be = capable of and might wish for themselves. After all, the masters are = only single persons, too and their physical=20 a nd mental strength does have limits as well. As a result of this kind of = consumer sovereignty they might grow towards fully self-responsible = individual human beings and free producers and traders, at least over = several generations. Voluntary taxation and=20 the individual secession option as well as the successes of competing = communities would greatly reduced the influence of power mongers, = prophets and "great leaders" and their personality cults. - J.Z., = 10.7.86, 25.10.02. \par INDEPENDENCE, PANARCHISM: True advoc ates of independence would not aim at participation in the messes of = territorial politics but rather at opting out from under it and = replacing territorial States by exterritorially autonomous communities, = as fast as possible or as free individuals desire=20 them for themselves. - J.Z., 22.6.92, 14.1.93, 23.10.02. \par INDEPENDENCE, PATH: Follow your own path, no matter what people = say. - Karl Marx, Das Kapital, pref., 1867. - One of his pupils, = Trotzky, declared that he would sacrifice up to 75 % of the population for the victory of communism. Should we respect the independent paths = of mass murderers, builders and users of ABC mass murder devices? Or = only the independence of those who respect the individual sovereignty of = others? - J.Z., 24.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDEPENDENCE, = POVERTY AND RICHES: Nature does not say to me: Don't be poor! Far less: = be rich! But it always tells me: Be independent! - Chamfort, in: = Franzoesische Moralisten, 261. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INDEPENDENCE, PUBLIC DEBT, TAXATION, WELFARE STATE: I = place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public = debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared\'85 .To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with = perpetual debt - we must make our choice between economy and liberty, or = profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the = pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. - Thomas Jefferson. \par INDEPENDENCE, PURCHASES VS. GIFTS: What is bought is cheaper than a = gift. - Miguel de Cervantes. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDEPENDENCE, RIG HT, AUTONOMOY, PANARCHISM, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF ACTION, = LEGISLATION, JURISDICTION: One should not have to go through a = bureaucrat, politicians or lawyer to do what is right or be prevented by = them from doing it. - J.Z., 11.9.98. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDEPENDENCE, RIGHTFUL & RESPONSIBLE ACTIONS VS. = ARBITRARY ONES: No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he = pleases to do right. - Charles Simmons. \par INDEPENDENCE, SELF-GOVERNMENT, CHOICE, VOTING, INDIVIDUAL = SOVEREIGNTY, CONSENT: Each generation \'85 has a right t o choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of = its own happiness. - Thomas Jefferson. - Not only each generation but = every individual, every minority, every majority, - everywhere and all = the time! - J.Z., 14.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDEPENDENCE,=20 SELF-HELP, VICTIMISATION, POVERTY, FORGOTTEN MAN, WELFARE: If we lift = any man up we must have a fulcrum, or point of reaction. In society that = means that to lift one man up, we push another down. ... The = beneficiaries are selected by favouritism, and are=20 a pt to be those who have recommended themselves to the friends of = humanity by language or conduct which does not betoken independence and = energy. Those who suffer a corresponding depression by the interference = are the independent and self-reliant, who once more are forgotten or passed over; and the friends of humanity once = more appear, in their zeal to help somebody, to be trampling on those = who are trying to help themselves." - W. G. Sumner, What Social Classes = Owe To Each Other, 118. \par INDEPENDENCE, SELF-HEL P, WELFARE, SELF-RELIANCE, SUBSIDIES, GOVERNMENT: Government is good at = one thing. It knows how to cripple you, hand you a crutch, and then = tell you that you couldn't walk without government. - Harry Browne, 1996 = Libertarian candidate for President of th e US, in his acceptance speech at the nominating convention, July 1996. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 INDEPENDENCE, SELF-MANAGEMENT, SELF-EMPLOYMENT, CONSCIENCE, REASON, = SELF-CONTROL, LICENSES, PERMISSIONS, DEPENDENCY: Freedom is the absolute = right of all adult men and women to seek per mission for their action only from their own conscience and reason, and = to be determined in their actions only by their own will, and = consequently to be responsible only to themselves, and then to the = society to which they belong, but only insofar as they have made a free decision to belong to it. - Mikhail A. Bakunin, = Gesammelte Werke, II, 9. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INDEPENDENCE, SELF-RELIANCE, SELF-HELP, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, VS. = STATISM, WELFARE STATE, PROTECTIONISM: I do not choose to be a common = man. It is my right to be unco mmon - if I can. I seek opportunity - not security. I do not wish to = be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. = I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and = to succeed. I refuse to barter incenti v e for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed = existence; the thrill of fulfilment to the stale calm of utopia. I will = not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will = never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think = and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the = world boldly and say: This I have done. - Dean Alfange \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDEPENDENCE, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, = CHOICE: Free agency\emdash righ t to work toward the goals of our choice, necessitates acceptance of the = consequences of choice. - Author Unknown. \par INDEPENDENCE, SELF-SUFFICIENCY, SELF-RELIANCE, SELF-HELP, FREEDOM: = The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom. - Epicurus (341-270 = B.C.), Fragments. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDEPENDENCE: "... = over himself, his independence is of right absolute." - Leigh H. Irvine, = What Is Americanism? 1940, 17. =20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDEPENDENCE: \'85 it is better to lead a simple life on = your feet than a fancy one on your knees. - Runes, A Dictionary of = Thought, 124. \par INDEPENDENCE: National independence does not make ME independent. - = J.Z., 2.10.91. - Nor does it make anyone else independent. - J.Z., = 26.10.02. \par INDEPENDENCE: Son of man, stand upon your own feet so that I may = speak with you. - William James. \par INDEPENDENCE: Stand on your own feet - and mind - otherwise you = have nothing to stand on. - J.Z., 3.6.73. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 INDEPENDENCE: There are twenty-seven specific complaints = against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. = To modern ears=20 they still sound reasonable...in large part, because so many of them can = be levelled against the federal government of the United States. = }{\i\cf1 - P . J. O'Rourke. }{\cf1=20 - Its mistake was to assume that independence for individuals could be = attained and maintained through a territorial State or State Federation. = - J.Z., 3.7.00. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 INDEPENDENCE: There is only one thing in life that matters = - independence. - Galsworthy, Five Tales, A Stoic. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033\cgrid0 INDEPENDENCE: We should be as independent of = territorial borders, as are the birds, plants and the clouds. -- J. = Zube, 21st of January 1999. \par }\pard \sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 INDEPENDENCEM COSMOPOLITANISM, INTERNATIONALISM, COUNTRIES: Independence = is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place = or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. - = Thomas Paine. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 INDEPENDENTS, POLITICS, PARTIES, POWER POLITICS: An independent is the = guy who wants to take the politics out of politics. - Adlai Stevenson, = The Art of Politics, The Sevenson Wit, 1966. - But territorial politics = and interven tionism remain politics and interventionism, even under independent = representatives. - J.Z., 20.11.85. - Even the independents do continue = the wrongs and injuries of territorial politics. They do not allow = individuals to become sovereign and volunteer co mmunities to become exterritorially autonomous. To that extent they are = still part of the problem, not of the solution. - J.Z., 24.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDEX CURRENCIES, INDEX STANDARDS & = MONETARY FREEDOM: Free \-market rating of currencies and free choice = among competing value \- standards, are also a form of indexing - but of a \-non-monopolistic = kind and one in which the money monopoly and the \-exclusive and forced = value standard or legal tender privilege of\- the government currency is = eliminated. Then, and as a rule, via\- consumer and entrepreneurial sovereignty, ensuring free\- competition = and fully free choice, only those currencies could\- survive, in the = long run, which remain largely and mostly at par\- with their value = standards. In other words, under monetary\- freedom any additional and frequent indexing of prices, wages &\- = contracts would no longer be required. Price and wage levels\- would = then be as stable as they could be, and should be, from the\- monetary side, because they would be safe from coercive monetary = interventions and policies and measures, safe from any \-government, as = safe as measures of length, weight and volume. -\- J. Z., 18.10.89, = 29.4.97. \par INDEX CURRENCY AND PRICE LEVEL STABILITY: "We need a currency = stabilised by a price index at a particular stable p rice level." - Popular opinion. - What this really means is that some = people do believe that they would benefit from such an index currency = and thus they want all people to adopt it. While morally they do have = the right to adopt any of a possible hundreds =20 if not thousands of different index standards for themselves, they have = no right at all to force their preferred index standard or any index = standard at all upon any dissenting people, not matter how strongly they = believe that others would "need" it and o u ght to be included in their "we". - Freedom of choice for value = standards, too. Indeed, most government currencies are somewhat managed, = too, under the pretence that governments can and will provide stability = in this sphere. What can be achieved in this p o litical way can be seen by the more or less rapid depreciation of almost = all paper currencies in this and former centuries. Stability can be best = provided for when neither bad nor even sound currencies are not granted = any monopoly or legal tender powers - except the natural legal tender against their issuer, and when all = possible, desired and practicable alternative private enterprise and = cooperative currencies can freely compete even against the supposedly = best one. - J. Z., 24.3.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INDEXATION & GOLD WEIGHT UNITS, = INFLATION, WAGES: Let the value of grams of gold index your paypacket. - = J.Z., 15.9.75. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDEXATION: Let the value of grams of = gold index your pay-packet. - J., 75. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INDEXES: How can anyone love = libertarian literature without wanting to see it it f ully and permanently published, collected, kept available and = accessible, easily and cheaply, anywhere, to anyone, in any major = language, also indexed, abstracted, reviewed and bibliographically = listed and surveyed in many different ways, as comprehensiv ely as possible and without being willing to work or otherwise = contribute somewhat towards this end? Between tenthousands of freedom = lvoers this job could be done easily and fast. 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I.e.: The more the y reduce, by further avalanches of laws and regulations, the remaining = productivity of the economy, the lower their salaries etc. should = become. On the other hand, if the pass no further laws and regulations = or, better still, repeal many more of them tha n they do pass, then their salaries should rise. That procedure could be = individualized: The more a particular politician votes against new laws = and for the repeal of old ones, the higher his salary should become. = Thus, in the end, they would all have vote d themselves out of a job - in return for a golden pension, which would = cost the taxpayers only a small fraction of their former tax burden. - = J.Z., 30.9.87, 26.10.02. \par INDEXING, HISTORY, REGISTER, NAMES, SUBJECTS: If world history had = a subject index as wel l as a name index than it would be more useful. - Boerne, Fragmente und = Aphorismen, 14. (Haette die Weltgeschichte ein Sachregister, wie sie ein = Namenregister hat, koennte man sie besser benutzen.) \par INDEXING, INDIVIDUALS, GREATNESS, MANKIND: Grosse Menschen sind Inhaltsverzeichnisse der Menschheit. - Hebbel, Tagebuecher, 6.5., = 1837. - At most they are entries in a whole index for all of mankind. = Great people may be hundred times as wise as are average men but even = they and their ideas cannot represent the w h ole of mankind, not even via a comprehensive index. The ideas of = mankind, the facts it has accumulated, its opinions, theories and = beliefs, its inventions, its works, cannot be full known and = comprehended by any man and not even complete and easily retrie vable records have been kept of them so far. - J. Z., 25.10.02. \par INDEXING, SCANNING, FREEDOM KNOWLEDGE, CD-ROM PROJECT: Scan in and = automatically index all freedom writings and make the results = accessible, e.g., online, on CDs, floppy disks and microfiche, in any = desired segments. - J.Z., 1.5.93, 23.10.02. \par INDIA, NATIONS, NATIONALISM, UNITY, PEOPLES, STATES: India is a = geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. - = Winston Churchill, Speech, Royal Albert Hall, 18 May 1931. - India is = not alone in this. Every "nation" has its more or less suppressed = minorities and dissenters. "Nothing but what is voluntary deserves the = name "national" - C. Chisholm. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIAN TRIBES, NO GOVERNMENT, TRIBALISM, = GOVERNMENTS, SOCIETIES & STATES: Mr. Jefferson, fo r example, remarked that the hunting tribes of Indians, with which he = had a good deal to do in his early days, had a highly organized and = admirable social order but were "without government". Commenting on = this, he wrote Madison that "it is a problem not=20 c lear in my mind that [this] condition is not the best," but he suspected = that it was "inconsistent with any great degree of population". = Schoolcraft observes that the Chippewas, though living in a = highly-organized order, had no "regular" government. Her bert Spencer, speaking of the Bechuanas, Araucanians and Koranna = Hottentots, says they have no "definite" government; while Parkman, in = his introduction to }{\i\fs24\lang1033 The Conspiracy of = Pontiac}{\fs24\lang1033=20 , reports the same phenomenon, and is frankly puzzled by its apparent = anomal ies. - A. J. Nock, Our Enemy, the State, Caxton, 1959, 39. - Ibid, page = 40: "Their code-apparatus sufficed for assuring freedom and security to = the individual, and for dealing with such trespasses as in that state of = society the individual might encounter - fraud, theft, assault, adultery, murder\'85 " - In Nock's terms they had "government" of the ideal type, but no = "States."- If I remember some references rightly, ca. 52 tribes without = rulers have so far been somewhat described. Thus "human nature" does not = seem to require States or governments but only some form of social = organization. - J.Z., 1.5.00.=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIFFERENCE & = APATHY: Indifference ... is the strongest force in the universe. It = makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand the = c hance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go = unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And immorality 's what gives it = so much power. - Joan D. Vinge, The Snowqueen, 533. - Can it withstand = better ideas, if these are fully mobilis ed, e.g. by and Ideas Archive? - J. Z., 6.3.99. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1=20 INDIFFERENCE & PUBLIC AFFAIRS: If once [the people] become inattentive = to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges = and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of ou r general nature, in spite of individual exceptions. }{\i\cf1 - Thomas = Jefferson to E. Carrington, 1787. }{\cf1=20 - As long as decisions on public affairs are concentrated in the hands = of a few rulers, away from the majority of most people, we have to = expect most people to=20 be ignorant of and disinterested in public affairs. People adapted = themselves even to open slavery and closed forced labour camps. = Oppressive and exploitative politicians of all colours utilize this = adaptability of human beings for their purposes. If citi zens were monetarily and financially emancipated, also armed, organized, = trained and motivated to defend their individual rights, then situation = would soon be quite different. - J.Z. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDIFFERENCE TOWARDS RELIGION: = Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, = half infidelity. - Washington Irving. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIFFERENCE, APATHY, DIS: Wir \'85 zerfallen in = drei Klassen: die Untertanen - die haben bisher geherrscht; die = Geistigen - die haben sich bisher beherrschen lassen; die Indifferenten = - die habe n gar nichts getan (und sind an allem Elend schuld). - Kurt Tucholsky, = Politische Texte, 24. - (We \'85 constitute three classes: the subjects - they have so far ruled, the = intellectuals, they have let themselves be ruled; and the indifferent = ones, - who have done nothing (and have caused all the misery) . -- Did the slaves and = subjects really rule or merely form the all too obedient majority? Where = many intellectuals - if not part of the really ruling class - not at = least among the rewarded apologists for =20 it? Are all too obedient thinkers quite innocent? And how can those who = did nothing be guilty of everything, while those who self-interestedly = did something wrong, or lied about the wrongs of others, are guilty of = nothing? Such confused and confusing inte llectualizing makes the continuance of many abuses possible, because it = does not sufficiently clarify minds. - There was a time when I liked his = writings. Since then I have found better and more truthful ones. - J.Z., = 24.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIFFERENCE, HUMANITY, MAN, CHANGE, APATHY: "\'85 = nothing remained static in the shifting chaos of things, save humanity's = vast indifference\'85 " - Ethel Mannin, Crescendo, 1928-1937, 81. - The concept of individual = rights and liberties, however incomplete and flawed they still were and = a re, gained some support only during the last ca. 250 years. When close = to completed, they could make all the difference. Ideas have = consequences. Flawed as well as close to perfect ones. - J.Z., 19.4.00. \par INDIFFERENCE, THOUGHTLESSNESS: \'85 the thoughtless indifference of = people who cannot observe an unobserved disaster. - A. E. van Vogt, The = Pawns of Null-A, 39. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIFFERENCE: "The only thing = necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - = Edmund Burke (1729-1797). \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INDIFFERENCE: Being wrong is no = disgrace, being indifferent is. - Dagobert D. Runes, A Book fo = Contemplation, 70. \par INDIFFERENCE: Indifference towards the own rights and the rights of = others is one of the worst evils in the world. - J.Z., 8.1.85. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIFFERENTISM, RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE,=20 RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, TOLERANCE, EXTERRITORIALITY: TOLERANCE: Everybody's = deity is as good as anybody else's - indifferentism, I believe, is the = theological term. - H. Bean Piper: Temple Trouble, ASTOUNDING SF, 10/51, = p.6. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDIGNATION & ANGER: \'85 the = absence of anger, especially that sort of anger which we call = }{\i\fs24\lang1033 indignation}{\fs24\lang1033=20 , can be a most alarming symptom. And the presence of indignation may be = a good one. - William F. Buckley, Jr., The Governor Listeth, = Putnam-Berkeley, 1963-1970, 369. \par INDIGNATION, ANGER: A man that does not know how to be angry, does = not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core = with indignation over things evil. - H. W. Beecher. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIRECT APPROACH: If there are obstacles, the = shortest line between two points may be the crooked one. - Bertolt = Brecht, Galileo, 1938. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033=20 INDIVIDUAL CHOICE, FREE CHOICE, CHOICE OF GOVERNMENTS, PANARCHISM, FATE, = DECISION-MAKING, FREEDOM OF ACTION AND EXPERIMENTATION: For each = individual his own chosen place, liberty, society, community, creative activity and communication option, in this world and in all others, now = and forever. - J.Z., 14.2.98. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUAL GROWTH, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, MAN, = MATURITY: Individual growth, to the limits of the own potential, = requires individual sovereignty, not ter ritorial submission to politicians and their systems and prejudices. - = J.Z., 25.8.98. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE & EFFICIENCY: The = importance\'85. of encouraging individual initiative, even at the cost = of some efficiency \'85 - A. E. van Vogt, The Voyage of the Space = Beagle, 147. \par INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY & THE STATE: (The State is) the sum of all the = negations of the individual liberty of all its members; or rather that = of the sacrifices which all its members make, in renouncing one portion = of their liberty to the profit of the common good. - Mikhail A. Bakunin, Oeuvres, Vol. I, p. 143; quoted = by Adler, The Idea of Freedom, p. 374. - With the statement: "to the = profit of the common good" this anarchist reveals himself as another = statist! - J.Z., 24.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY & THE STATE: Where the State begins, individual = liberty ceases, and vice versa. - Mikhail A. Bakunin, Oeuvres, Vol. I, = p. 143; quoted by Adler, The Idea of Freedom, p. 374. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY VS. COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY: not even all = kinds of con victed criminals are equally guilty. - J.Z., 10. 2.98. - Except in one = thing: they all violated, to some extent, some rights or liberties of = others. - J.Z., 5.4.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY VS. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY & = COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY: A new mor ality has arisen which renounces personal responsibility in favour of = social responsibility. - Randolph S. Bourne, in essay: War and the = Intellectuals, ascribes this opinion to Paul Elmer More.=20 \par INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY, SOCIETY, MORALITY, DUTY TO WORK FO R FREE, JUST & PEACEFUL SOCIETIES: Bastiat understood more clearly than = any other man of his time the painful lesson that societies will never = change for the better until the individuals composing that society come = to understand fuly their own moral respo n sibilities. Once enough men fully perceive that responsibility and = thereby relese the productive energies which come from full development = of that responsibility, we will have both a moral and a prosperous = society. Meanwhile, the schemes of the social arc hitects will continue to lead us astray. - G. C. Roche III, Bastiat, = 164. - Only territorialist architects and engineers are dangerous to our = rights and liberties. - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY, = SUBORDINATION, FOLLOWERS, LEADERSHIP, FREEDOM:=20 Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an = irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be = ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual = responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, " to be free from freedom." - Eric Hoffer. - Unless we allow the sheep to = live under their shepherd they will tend to put us under his = "protection". Panarchies even for followers and their leaders! - J.Z., = 29.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY:... a "true democracy" = which protects individual rights, not group interests. - Pierre = Lhoste-Lachaume, view quoted in Mises bibliography, 204. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS RATHER THAN "HUMAN RIGHTS CLAIMS" LIKE = THE FOUR FREEDOMS: In the future days, which we seek to make secu re, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human = Freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression\emdash = everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to = worship God in his own way\emdash=20 everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want\emdash which, = translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will = secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its = inhabitants\emdash=20 everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear\emdash which, = translated into world terms, mean s a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a = thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act = of physical aggression against any neighbor\emdash=20 anywhere in the world. - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the = U nion message to the Congress, January 6, 1941. - The Public Papers and = Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940, p. 672 (1941). A plaque in the = stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty is inscribed: = "Liberty is the air America breathes\'85 . In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a = world founded upon four essential freedoms\'85freedom of speech and = expression\'85freedom of worship\'85freedom from want\'85 freedom from fear." - This was just about the worst "human rights" = declaration of all. - Alas, it did not lead to an avalanche of criticism = and more rightful human rights declarations. - J.Z., 23.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS VS. DESPOTISM: Will you, Sir, or will you not, = concur in putting matters on such a footing, in respect to the libe rty of the press, and the liberty of public discussion, that at the = hands of persons exercising the power of government, a man shall have no = more fear from speaking and writing against them, than from speaking and = writing for them? If his answer be yes, t he government he declares in favor of, is an undespotic one; if his = answer be no, the government he declares in favor of, is a despotic one. = - Jeremy Bentham, On Liberty of the Press and Public, 1821. \par INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, ANARCHISTS, SOCIALISTS: We can not fo r a moment admit that by simply applying an unpopular or obloquious name = to men, whether that name be anarchist, or socialist, capitalist or = vagabond, republican or democrat, an officer can be justified in = depriving men of rights guaranteed by the fundame n tal law, and can break up their meeting, can club, search and imprison = them, not for what they have done, but for what he, in his wisdom, or = his prejudice, or his caprice, fears they might do. If this principle = were once admitted, there is no limit to its =20 application. While it is sought to apply it to one class today, it could = be applied to any other class tomorrow, and a precedent made in one case = would be sure to be cited and acted on in another, and a political = party, for the time being in power, could=20 p revent its opponents from meeting and put them in jail. - John Peter = Altgeld, To the chief of police, Chicago, November 14, 1891; in Live = Questions, 1899. - However, convicted criminals with victims cannot = always claim the same rights as rational individu als. They forfeited some of them, at least temporarily. - J.Z., = 27.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, NATIONAL RIGHTS, VIOLENCE, = COMPULSION, COERCION: No individual has the right to rape a nation, nor = does any nation have the right to rape any individual. - J.Z., 25.12.73. \par }{\fs24\lang1033=20 INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: The public good is in nothing more essentially = interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. = - Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 9th ed., = book 1, chapter 1, section 3, p. 139=20 (1783, reprinted 1978). \par INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: The right to discuss freely and openly, by = speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to = examine and animadvert upon all political institution, is a right so = clear and certain, so interwoven wi th our other liberties, so necessary, in fact, to their existence, that = without it we must fall at once into despotism and anarchy. To say that = he who holds unpopular opinions must hold them at the peril of his life, = and that, if he expresses them in publ i c, he has only himself to blame if they who disagree with him should = rise and put him to death, is to strike at all rights, all liberties, = all protection of law, and to justify or extenuate all crimes. - William = Cullen Bryant, Editorial on the murder of R ev. E. P. Lovejoy, 1837. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUAL SECESIONISM, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, = PANARCHISM, EXTERRITORIALITY, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, TERRITORIALITY, = STATES, COERCIVE COLLECTIVISM, DECISION-MAKING, SOVEREIGNTY, WAR: \'85 = end the war before it starts. I ask you, my frie nd, what is the history of conference? - Clifford D. Simak, Ring Around = the Sun, 201. - The war of territorial rule against individual = sovereignty and voluntary experiments must finally be ended, as a = precondition for world peace. - J.Z., 23. & 30.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 I NDIVIDUAL SECESSION & SURVIVAL: By now only widely practised secession = by individuals and minorities can ensure the survival not only of = particular individuals but of the human race. - J.Z., n.d. & 15.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & POWER: What kind of pol itical power is required to prevent nuclear war? Apart from secession = there are, naturally, others: Decision-making power on war, peace, = armament and disarmament - by free people, rather than by governments, = right to participate in disarmament measures, r i ght to negotiate over the heads of governments for a separate and just = peace, the right to grant or withhold one's contributions, i.e. = voluntary taxation, the right to associate in exterritorial and = autonomous communities. But all the other powers, rights and liberties of individuals that are involved here can lastly only be = gained or maintained by individual secessionism. - J.Z., n.d. & 3/5/84. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & CHURCHES, RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: To leave a = church was once considered as impossible or difficult or undesirable as = is now seceding from a State. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & COERCION: Only initiated coercion is wrong. = Secession is no coercion nor any meddling act. But forcing someone to = remain in an association against his will does constitute initiated = coercion and meddling. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & DISSENTERS, DISASSOCIATION: All dissenters = must have the right to dissociate themselves or secede. Compulsory = schooling makes for school-boy arsonists who do not have to bear the = exclusive blame for their acti ons. (Example reworded today. - J.Z., 2/6/84.) \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & DIVORCE: Even if you think that you are = married to the State - by rights you may divorce it one-sidedly. Any = divorce is right if undertaken voluntarily, at least by one participant. = - Th is assumes marriage to be a relationship between sufficiently rational = beings. Trying to divorce oneself, one-sidedly from the obligations = towards one's own children would be quite another matter. Guardianship = obligations would come in here. But children=20 may well be authorised to divorce themselves from the guardianship by = their parents and to have still some maintenance claims against them. = State governments try to treat us as children who have no right to = reject paternalism. - J.Z., 2/6/84. \par INDIVIDUAL SEC ESSION & FREEDOM OF ACTION: Secession is required for freedom of action = in the political and economic sphere. - When politicians speak of their = freedom of action and of keeping their options open, they actually want = to restrict your freedom of action and=20 your options - but they never say so. - J.Z., 2.5. 84. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & HARMONY: All people are different. They can = have harmony between them only when they sufficiently agree or at least = agree to leave each other alone. This requires many things, chi ef among them the right of individuals to associate freely and to = secede. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE: Would you want to see = every historical secession squashed? - A question put just to loosen up = brain cells for the question of individual secession. Can we really afford to continue to ignore the historical = precedents not only for geographical but also for individual secessions = - as samples of what human beings are capable of, what relationships are = practicable between them, even if they d i d not always live up to the highest and most clearly expressed ideals of = individual secessionism? We might accept as a part excuse for them that = they were far from perfect in other respects, too. Just consider the = various religious spleens and scientific=20 myths they were still suffering under at the same time. Thus we should = not expect them to have fulfilled, already then, all our purist hopes = and expectations for individual secessionism. - J.Z., 2/6/84. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & JOBS: All those abhorring force d labour do favour free choice of jobs. (Well, apart from their = unjustifiable concessions to compulsory licensing and regulations. - = J.Z., 2.6.84.) But subjection to a State can be as bad or even worse = than the worst job. What is right in the first case i s right also in the second case. Secede! - J.Z., n.d., 15.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & LAISSEZ FAIRE: The right to secede and to = associate individually in new, autonomous and exterritorial communities, = is nothing but an important application of laissez-faire principles. - = J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & LEADERSHIP: You are not obliged to lead and = you are not obliged to follow. Secede! - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & MILKING COWS, VOLUNTARY TAXATION, = PARASITISM, EXPLOITATION: Those who anticipated that you would c ontinue to be their milking cow, have no right to reduce you and to keep = you in this position. (One may at only be deprived of one's unearned and = not contracted for income, income not due to inheritance or gifts but = e.g., through extortion, coercion and l egal monopolies.) No one is entitled to the continuance of an = exploitative situation. Tax slavery may be unilaterally ended by the = victim at any time. - J.Z., 2.6.84, 15.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & MUTUAL CONVENIENCE. State membership ought = to be a mutual, not a single convenience relationship. The right to = individually secede would ensure that. (Terminology by Don Werkheiser.) \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & NAZIS, TOTALITARIANS, DICTATORSHIPS: Nobody = but Nazis & other totalitarians doubts the right to secede from a regime like that of the Nazis or Soviets, i.e. everybody recognises = it in such extreme instances. One might even consider it duty to resist = them if one can, or at least to flee and desert from them & to become = independent from them by individual or gro u p secession. However, without full appreciation of the basic individual = right to secede, it is considered unjustified, unnecessary, useless, = impossible, impractical or irrelevant in democracies and republics. And = yet it can be one of the most effective de fence, liberation, resistance and revolutionary actions - in combination = with a number of other measures. Also one that would prevent most = terrorist acts. - J.Z., reworded 2/6/84, 15.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & NONVIOLENCE: Secession is a nonviolent form = of resistance and, as such, undoubtedly moral. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & OPTING OUT OR WITHDRAWING FROM THE STATE: If = you want to, you should be free to opt out of your nation state and to = join one or the non-territorial State or free society or any wo rld federation - or abstain from all of them - for as long as you = please. - J.Z., n.d. & 14.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & PEACE: Can there be anything more peaceful = than secession from all aggressors and all inherently aggressive & = oppressive institutions? - J.Z., n.d. & 15.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & PROTESTS: Secede from the establishment - = instead of merely cursing it. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & SECESSION ANALOGIES: Let's split and grow = like cells. - J.Z., 30.12.73. - I doubt that there is a true an d organic or biological analogy to secession - apart from the fact that = we are all individual and sociable or political animals. For most the = notion that they could possibly separate themselves from the State, = without migrating away from "its" territory & =20 territorial legislation, is still for most people so strange as for a = chess player the notion that the pawns in a chess game be given free = will, i.e., the option to secede or, possibly, join the opposition or = establish another society on the same board, o r the opportunity to declare themselves neutral towards the two = contestants. But after seeing how citizens have usually been treated, = for centuries, nay, thousands of years, as no more than pawns on chess = boards, isn't it high time for them to begin to thi n k and act for themselves, to secede from the games which their kings, = queens and other rulers play and possibly of those of some hidden = master minds behind these? Unlimited obedience to criminal orders by = territorial governments is rather a crime than a=20 d uty. - A quite unusual mix of politics is bound to follow, once people = are finally free to follow their own paths, rules and self-chosen = experiments, exterritorially quite autonomous, together with like-minded = people. - Most motives, opportunities, resou rces and manpower to resist and terrorize or oppress other people will = then disappear. - J.Z., 2.6.84, 15.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & SLAVERY: Slavery and any aspect of it is = wrong. You may give notice to your slave master or, better still, just = break awa y from him or escape instantly, without doing him any wrong. If you were = no volunteer then you are entitled to sue him. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & SOVEREIGNTY, LOYALTY, TREASON, VOLUNTARISM, = CONSENT: "If a man never consented or agreed to support a government, he = breaks no faith in refusing to support it." - Lysander Spooner, No = Treason, 4. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & TENANCY: State membership should be as = voluntary as tenancy. You should be free to contract with another = landlord, even in the same street. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & THE RIGHT TO QUIT: "The Right to Quit - = chapter heading by L.E. Read in: Having My Way, 152. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & THE STATE: The State is just an agency. If = the State is recognized as nothing but a particular agency - which ma kes some preposterous claims towards becoming an all-powerful monopolist = - then the right not to hire it or to withdraw from it, to cease = patronising it, becomes obvious. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & TOLERANCE: The concept of tolerance demands = the recognition of individual secession. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION & TREASON: The recognition of the right to = secede would prevent treason against oneself. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION AS A RIGHT: The right to secede follows = directly from the definition of rights as concep ts that harmonise arbitrary actions with each other according to a = general law of equal freedom for all sufficiently rational beings. - = J.Z., n.d., 15.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION AS A RIGHT: Why have you got the right to = secede from the State, whether you=20 know this right or not? - It has no less and no more moral foundation = than any other right has. I happen to hold that rights are more than = mere one-sided claims, God-given or government granted privileges, mere = contracts or power relationships but, rather , the specified embodiment of equal freedom spheres for rational beings = and as such they are as real and practicable as an equilibrium is or 2 x = 2 =3D 4. - J.Z., 2/6/84.=20 \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION AS A RIGHTS: What other rights are involved in = the right of individ uals to secede from a State and any other coercive organizations, like = an army or a trade union or State church? - The right to own oneself, = the right to decide one's own affairs, the right to associate and = dissociate, the right to privacy, the righ t to trade freely, the right to be left alone, the right to issue = one's own money, the right to live in accordance with one's beliefs, = the right to one's property, the right learn & to practise any = profession, the right to experiment, the right t o resist, the right to survive - by one's own efforts, the right to = vote, the right to divorce oneself from others. - J.Z., n.d. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUAL SECESSION OR = RENUNCIATION OF CITIZENSHIP: For the wise investor is the investor who = is departing these United St ates, living abroad and shedding US nationality. Officially, Internal = Revenue Code section 877 says that if US citizens renounce their = citizenship to avoid income taxes, and the IRS can prove it, their tax = liability remains. But for those who know, there=20 are legal ways to thwart the IRS. (See THE DE'ORSEY NEWSLETTER of July = last year on how to become an ex-American citizen. Single copies = available for $ 16 or Swiss fr. 30 each.) - Arthur Hailey, The = Money-Changers, 90. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUAL SECESSION VS MAJORITY & TER RITORIALISM, COMPETING GOVERNMENTS: "If you do not choose to associate = with us on those terms, there must be two separate associations. You = must associate for the accomplishment of your purposes; we for the = accomplishment of ours. In this case, the minor i ty assume no authority over the majority; they simply refuse to = surrender their own liberties into the hands of the majority. They = propose a union; but decline submission. The majority are still at = liberty to refuse the connection, and to seek their own h appiness in their own way, except that they cannot be gratified in their = desire to become absolute masters of the minority." Spooner, Trial by = Jury, Works, 219. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION, ALLEGIANCE, VOLUNTARISM, ASSOCIATIONISM: = Allegiance is a voluntary act and may thus be one-sidedly broken off. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION, DISSERVICES, REFUSAL: You have the right to = refuse disservices and to break off relations with such a supplier. - = The greatest and most costly disservices are offered by territorial = governments. We have the right to practise consumer sovereignty towards them as well. - = J.Z., n.d. & 14.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION, EMPLOYMENT, GIVING NOTICE: You may freely = choose a job or give notice when dissatisfied. Moreover, you neither = have to be a state employee nor a state subject. You have the right to withdraw from both = positions. - J.Z., n.d. & 14.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, FREE ENTERPRISE: Free = enterprise means that you may set up or leave any enterprise (even that = of some enterpris ing politicians and bureaucrats - J.Z.. 2/6/84.) - As long as you pay = your contracted debts. (A continuing obligation as a tax slave can well = be imagined by some but can hardly be enforced as a moral obligation. = Repudiate government debts as investments i n tax slaves! - J.Z., 2/6/84.) \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION, LICENSING, PERMITS, APPROVALS, AUTHORITY, = BUREAUCRACY: One needs government approval even to dump any old and = useless government equipment. But one should not need any approval to = dump the whole governmen t - as far as oneself is concerned. - J.Z., 3/7/77. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION, MARRIAGE & DIVORCE: Forced state membership = is like a forced marriage (A kind of continuous rape and gang bang! - = J.Z. 2.6.84.) and it may at any time be rightfully and one-sidedly d issolved. - None of the enforced associates has any indemnification = claim against you - unless you freely signed a contract with him. - = J.Z., 2.6.84. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION, MORALITY, STATE, ASSOCIATIONS, = TERRITORIALISM: The State is just another association . All its exclusive and monopolistic claims for territorial and uniform = rule are without any moral foundation. - Territorial States have now = become very counter-productive for any rightful objective and they = prevent individuals from transferring their al legiance to other organizations whom they prefer. - J.Z. 2.6.84, = 14.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION, NON-COOPERATION & COOPERATION: Cooperation & = other forms of voluntary associations are rightful, - but so is, = undoubtedly, non-cooperation & non-intervention. T he right to secede does sharply limits the right and opportunity to = manage or intervene with the affairs of non-consenting others, i.e., = dissenters and objectors. At most you may regulate the affairs you have = in common with your own members - and they mus t all be volunteers. J.Z., n.d. & 15.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION, OPTING OUT: Life is nothing but a series of = choices. You may opt for or against any of them (which is = non-aggressive.) Disassociation is by definition non-aggressive. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESS ION, PUBLIC SERVANTS & THE STATE: The State is supposed to be your = public servant. Well, so you should be free not only to hire him but = also to fire him. - And this liberty should not depend on X other people = agreeing with you. Naturally, the public serva nt or State fired by you might still continue to give desired services = to others who remain satisfied with it. - J.Z., 3.6.84. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION, REVOLUTION, OPPRESSION, RIGHTS: "The right of = revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by th eir government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves = of the oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from = it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more = acceptable." - Ulysses S. Grant : Personal Memoirs , quoted in G. Seldes, The Great Quotations. - It is not only a = collectivist right of "the people" but an individualist right all = individual people. Moreover, they may not substitute or impose just = another territorial government but they are to be free to=20 establish and exterritorially autonomous one, for their volunteers, or = some non-governmental free society, also so limited. - J.Z., 14.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION, SAFEGUARDS & LIBERTY: "The right of secession = would seem a better safeguard for liberty, espe cially if every individual person were to possess it on his own behalf. = If one does not grant this right, then one would seem to have removed a = key safeguard for liberty..." - William Stoddard, Reason, 3/74. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION, SURVIVAL, WAR, NUCLEAR WAR THREAT & PHILOSOPHY: A number of philosophers have considered the = question and concluded that you have the right to secede. - But these = philosophers have so far been largely ignored. Now our very survival may = depend on us no longer ignoring their complet ely voluntaristic alternative to territorial politics as is usual today. = - J.Z., 2.6.84, 15.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION, WARS, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, NEUTRALITY, = PEACE: Don't go to wars with the rascals and fools. Secede from them! - = J.Z., 77. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION: "...Quit the club and find a better one." - = Harry Browne: How I Found Freedom, 75. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION: "...the right of secession is paramount and = indisputable." - Paul Berman: Quotations from the Anarchists, = introduction, 9. \par INDIVIDUAL SECES SION: "Spooner concluded that 'the whole Revolution turned upon, = asserted, and, in theory established, the right of each and every man, = at his discretion to release himself from the support of the government = under which he had lived.'" - Charles Shively, comments to & quoting Spooner's works, introduction 5 to No Treason I. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION: "Anyone in a free group can decide to give up = his own idea and go along with the majority. If he does not want to do = this, he can get out of the group. This is a u se of freedom, an exercise of self-controlling responsibility." - R. W. = Lane: Discovery of Freedom, 180. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION: "Plainly, the central idea of secession is = the essence of anarchy." - Abraham Lincoln in his 1st inaugural address. = - Quoted in t he article: "Secession, the Essence of Anarchy..." by J. R. Stromberg. = LIBERTARIAN FORUM, June 76. - Naturally, Lincoln meant this in quite = another sense, equating anarchy with chaos. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION: "Unlike Stephens who took the federal Union = as a joint-stock operation, Thoreau took all States as artificial and = asserted his right to secede." - Stromberg, LIBERTARIAN FORUM, June 76, = p. 6. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION: By seceding you do not attack but, on the = contrary, defend your own rights. To force you to remain in the old association would be wrong. - But some = contractual obligations undertaken in the old association may remain for = a while. - J.Z., 2/6/84.=20 \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION: CONTRACT DISSOLUTION: Secession is just the = form of dissolution of a s pecial contract. All contracts may be rightfully dissolved - at least = after giving due notice. The social contract is a possible exception but = there is no firm evidence that territorial States or governments can = play the rightful role of individuals and s o cieties in this. - J.Z., 2/6/84. - There is no justification or need to = exempt the contract with governments - which was rarely ever formally = concluded anyhow. (With the possible exemption of naturalisation = ceremonies. - I tend to answer those who look=20 d own upon naturalised "New Australians" by stating that the scoffer would = merely be an Australian by the accident of birth on location, while I = would be one by free individual choice. I do not mention, at these = occasions, that this choice is not as free a s I would like it to be. - JZ 2/6/84. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION: Let rioters secede - before they riot! JZ 76. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION: NATIONAL WEALTH, PRIVATISATION, = DENATIONALISATION, EXPROPRIATING POLITICIANS & BUREAUCRATS, = INDEMNIFICATION OF TAX AND OTHER STAT E VICTIMS: When you seceded, you can, naturally and rightly, claim at = least the monetary value of your share in the nationally held property. = Nobody could rightly withhold it from you any longer. This could, in = many countries, become a strong incentive fo r individual secession. (Compare Peace Plans 19C.) \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION: Secede from party politics, bureaucracy, war = mongers, tax collectors, oppressive laws, kidnappers working for the = schools and armies. Run your own life, as a sovereign individual. - = J.Z., 1973. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSION: Workers! opt out of the State Socialist Mess! = - J.Z. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INDIVIDUAL SECESSIONISM, PANARCHISM, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM: No = compromises or deals any longer, no gradualistic, collectivistic, = monopolistic reforms by territorial govern ments only, but all kinds of solution attempts tolerantly practised at = the same time and in the same country - but only among their voluntary = supporters. - J.Z., 23. & 30.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUAL SECESSIONISM, REVOLUTION, THE LAST ONE = & EXTERRITORIAL TOLERANCE &=20 AUTONOMY, ONE-MAN REVOLUTIONS, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Make the = Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future = revolutions. - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, = 1790. - Turn all revolutions into one-man or voluntaristic =20 revolutions, which requires the recognition of individual secessionism = and of exterritorial autonomy for volunteer communities. We have widely = done it in the sphere of religion and private lifestyles. We have still = to realize this in the political, econom ic and social spheres that are now preempted by territorial governmental = domination. - J.Z., 13.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUAL SECESSIONISM, VOTING, PANARCHISM: With = individual secessionism and the exterritorially autonomous volunteer = communities resulting from it you c ould have the most decisive votes on your own life - every day. - J.Z., = 19.12.93, 21.10.02.=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUAL = SECESSIONISM: Right to repudiate. ... one of the fundamental rights of = every American citizen -- a right so sacred and so vastly esteemed that = its innov ation would mean revolution... (is) the right to bolt the caucus, to = repudiate the platform, to repeal the laws,... what is authority, what = are facts against that divine privilege? There is no privilege, indeed, = which gives the American people keener or=20 m ore permanent delight.... - H. L. Mencken, 1910. - That is, probably, as = close as Mencken and most Americans have come to individual secessionism = and exterritorial autonomy for volunteers. Obviously, it was not close = enough. If one is free to secede and t o associate exterritorially then one does not need any other revolution. = - John Zube, 23.3.99. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSIONISM: The ability to play a system against = itself until it breaks down and disintegrates. - Colin Kapp, Patterns of = Chaos, 99. - Release all cr eative energies, as Leonard E. Read suggested, or all centrifugal = forces, as Ulrich von Beckerath suggested. That merely requires = permitting or enforcing individual secessionism and exterritorial = autonomy for volunteer communities. - Imagine what this co u ld achieve now, for instance, in the Balkans and in Africa, but = everywhere else just as well. Let everyone fill his shopping cart with = all those public and private goods and services only that he wants and = is willing to pay for. Uniformity is not the idea l of most sovereign consumers, freed to pick their individual choices. - = John Zube, 9.4.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = INDIVIDUAL SECESSIONISM: The ability to play a system against itself = until it breaks down and disintegrates. - Colin Kapp, Patterns of Chaos, = 99. - Release all creat ive energies, as Leonard E. Read suggested, or all centrifugal forces, = as Ulrich von Beckerath suggested. That merely requires permitting or = enforcing individual secessionism and exterritorial autonomy for = volunteer communities. - Imagine what this could =20 achieve now, for instance, in the Balkans and in Africa, but everywhere = else just as well. Let everyone fill his shopping cart with all those = public and private goods and services only that he wants and is willing = to pay for. Uniformity is not the ideal o f most sovereign consumers, freed to pick their individual choices. - = J.Z., 9.4.99. \par INDIVIDUAL SECESSIONISM: The ability to play a system against = itself until it breaks down and disintegrates. - Colin Kapp, Patterns of = Chaos, 99. - Release all creative ener gies, as Leonard E. Read suggested, or all centrifugal forces, as Ulrich = von Beckerath suggested. That merely requires permitting or enforcing = individual secessionism and exterritorial autonomy for volunteer = communities. - Imagine what this could achieve =20 now, for instance, in the Balkans and in Africa, but everywhere else = just as well. Let everyone fill his shopping cart with all those public = and private goods and services only that he wants and is willing to pay = for. Uniformity is not the ideal of most s overeign consumers, freed to pick their individual choices. - J.Z., = 9.4.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUAL SECESSIONS & PANARCHISM: They turn all = relationships from zero-sum games into win-win games, naturally based on = subjective values. Some people are masochistically incline d & provide the sanction of the victims to their great leaders or gurus, = even if this costs them their lives. - J.Z., n.d. & 15.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY & SOCIETY: = Society rests on a voluntary and not on a coercive compact, at least = with regard to po litical, social and economic associations, systems and institutions. The = social contract of mutual support in emergencies is morally obligatory = but not coercive. - J.Z., 3.6.84.) \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY & DOING THE OWN THING: Doing one's own thing = is morall y never wrong. - But doing wrongs to others as if they and their = property were your own, that is the greatest crime, on any scale, from = individual robberies and murders to compulsory taxes and official mass = murders. - J.Z., n.d., 15.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY & LIFE: Real life means independence, = freedom, self-responsibility, not submission to any organization, not = even to the State.=20 \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY & OBEDIENCE: Obedience towards tyranny is = not obligatory, not even towards a majority-supported tyranny. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY & REVOLUTION: "The revolution (1776) was = this idea: 'Each person is a sovereign individual with certain = inalienable .... rights...". - Vincent A. Drosdik, III, quoted in THE = FREEMAN, 7/73. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY & RIGH T TO ACT & EXPERIMENT FREELY, VERSUS TERRITORIALISM & IMPOSED LAWS, ACT: = You have the right to act*- not only to react to the impulses given to = you by others. (* alone or in association with like-minded people. - = J.Z., 2/6/84.) \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY & TERRORISTS: Even terrorists have some = rightful claims and they should thus be given the secessionist and = exterritorial option to realize them. Who knows, that approach might = even pacify many of them! - J.Z., 2.6.84. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY & TERRORISTS: Let terrorists rule themselves = - but no one else. If anything, that could pacify them. Naturally, we = would also have to destroy their - and our belief in "collective = responsibility". - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY & VOLUNTARISM VS. COMPULSORY STATE = MEMBERSHIP: "No one may be compelled to belong to an association." - = Article 20, par. 2 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY & VOLUNTARISM: "You }{\b\f0\fs24 = can}{\f0\fs24 beat ' em if you }{\b\f0\fs24 don't}{\f0\fs24 join = 'em." - Prof. Galambos \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY VS. NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, NATIONAL LIFE: = National life is a mythical concept. Only your own life - and that of = other individuals - is real and worth living - if you claim it - and = they do theirs - and use it fully. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY VS. NATIONAL SOV EREIGNTY: Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own = (destiny), that no power on earth shall rise over him, that he is and = always shall be sovereign of himself and all relating to his = individuality. Then only shall all men realize securi ty of person and property. - Josiah Warren, quoted on p. 102 of William = Bailie's biography of J.W. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY VS. NATIONS: Every = individual is by rights a sovereign nation by himself and under no = obligation to federate or to remain in a federati on, least of all a territorial one. - J.Z., n.d., 15.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY VS. TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS, INDIVIDUAL = SECESSIONISM FROM NUCLEAR POWERS AS A DUTY: Governments - supposedly our = servants, are in reality armed against us, their nominal mas ters. (And they involve us in their arguments and struggles with the = "servants" of others. Instead of being hired and fired by us, they tax = us and regulate us. And all too many of us call this a solution and the = only and best possible one! As Ulrich von B e ckerath used to say, particularly with regard to the threat of the = nuclear holocaust, in which they have involved us, in which each = "nuclear power" holds all the subjects of the other nuclear power as = hostages, even a dog would tend to run away if it were as badly treated. But we continue to cheer for our masters or vote them = into office or tolerate them in office. - J.Z., 2.6.84. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, AUTHORITY, = INDIVIDUALISM, ANARCHISM: I am an individual and there is no authority = higher than I. - An an archist in Rostov, Oct. 1917, quoted by Avrich, The Russian Anarchists, = 154. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, AUTONOMY, PANARCHISM: Barring force and = fraud, autonomy need }{\b\fs24\lang1046 never}{\fs24\lang1046 be = abridged in society, if autonomy is understood in the sense of = individual sovereignty . - Roy Childs, Anarchism and Justice, INDIVIDUALIST, 10/71. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, DECISION-MAKING, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, NUCLEAR = WAR THREAT, VOTING, CHILDREN: Even children should have the right to = vote e.g. on nuclear weapons. After all, their survival=20 is also involved. - J.Z., n.d. - Would they really make mostly worse = decisions than our top political decision-makers have made so far? - = J.Z., 15.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, = DENATIONALIZATION: "denationalization of Sovereign Individuals."\'85 - = James Dal e Davidson & William Rees-MOGG, The Sovereign Individual, MacMillan, & = Simon & Schuster, 1997, 276. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, FREEDOM OF ACTION, RIGHT ACTION: Freedom! A = fine word when rightly understood. What freedom would you have? What is = the freedom of the most free? To act rightly! - Johann Wolfgang von = Goethe (1749-1832), Egmont (1775-1787). \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, FRIENDS, ENEMIES, ASSOCIATES: Imposed friends = are no friends. You have the right to pick and choose them yourself - = provided they are agreea ble. With major allegiances, expressed in patriotism and international = treaties it is the same. (The same applies to internal and external = enemies - which will be reduced to a minimum once individual = secessionism is widely practised. - J.Z., 2/6/84.) \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDIV IDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, GENIUS, PERSONAL LAWS, MAKING & LIVING ONE SELF BY = THE OWN RULES, LAWLESSNESS, SELF-MANAGEMENT, SELF-GOVERNMENT, = SELF-DETERMINATION, INDEPENDENCE: As it must not, so genius can not be = lawless; for it is even this that constitutes its g enius\emdash=20 the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination. - = Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare = and Other Dramatists (published 1853). - Under territorialism neither = the genius nor the fool, neither the rich=20 nor the poor have the liberty to live under laws and institutions of = their own individual choosing. - J.Z., 13.10.02. - Under = exterritorialism both do. - J.Z., 26.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, GOVERNMENT, = ANARCHY, NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY: If each member of s ociety affirms himself and only himself, and individual sovereignty is = established, there is no more room for government, all supremacy is = destroyed; man is equal to man- .... - A. Bellagarrigue, quoted in THE = MATCH, 9/75.=20 \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, GOVERNME NT, VOLUNTARY, COMPETING: Government service shall be exactly, and only, = what the people want and are willing to voluntarily pay for. - = Anderson/Miles, Constitution, 47. - In this wording 'the people ' should = be replaced by: "individual people". J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, INDEPENDENCE, INDIVIDUALISM, FREEDOM, = PANARCHISM: Freedom means: Do your own thing, in your own time, in your = own place, at your own risk and expense, in whatever country you please. = - J.Z., n.d., & 16.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, INDE PENDENCE, INDIVIDUALISM: The only part of the conduct of any one, for = which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the = part which merely concerns himself, his independence, is, of right, = absolute. Over himself, over his own body and=20 mind, the individual is sovereign. - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, ed. = David Spitz, chapter 1, p. 11 (1975). Originally published in 1859. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, INDIVIDUAL = SECESSION, FREE TRADE & BOYCOTT: You may trade freely anything with = anyone. (*) You are under no moral or contractual obligation to trade certain services = only with a particular government. - J.Z. - (*) Not that I do not favour = "Free Trade" e.g. in mass extermination devices but consider them to be = mass murder preparations and conspirac ies. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, INDIVIDUAL SECESSION, OWN FLAG, LIBERTY, = INDEPENDENCE: " ... raise your own flag and defend your liberty." - = Jackson Pemberton. THE FREEMAN, 5176 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, INDIVIDUAL = SECESSION, VOLUNTARISM: Let each man have the wit to go his own way. - = Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegies, II, xxv, 38. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, INDIVIDUAL SECESSIONISM, LAWS, COERCION, = STATE: Freiheit von jedem staatlichen Zwang fuer das Individuum. Jeder = Mensch ist von Natur frei, u nd niemand hat das Recht, ihm ein Gesetz aufzuerlegen, als er selbst. - = J.G. Fichte, Beitrag zur Berichtigung der Urteile des Publikums ueber = die Franzoesische Revolution, 1793, Roederberg Ausgabe, S. 246. (Freedom = for the individual from every coercion b y the State. Every human being is free by nature and no one has the = right to impose a law upon him but himself.) \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, INDIVIDUAL = SECESSIONISM, TERRITORIALISM, FREEDOM, VOLUNTARY STATE MEMBERSHIP: The = freedom concept applies to any organiz ation. None can rightly claim compulsory membership. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, INDIVIDUALISM, LIFE, MAN, RIGHTS, = DECISION-MAKING, SUBVERSION: It amounts to subversion of one's own life = if one lets others decide how one is to live. - J.Z. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGN TY, INDIVIDUALISM, MASTERS, SUBORDINATES, SLAVES, SELF-MANAGEMENT, = COOPERATIVES, SELF-OWNERSHIP, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY: We cannot all be = masters. - William Shakespeare, Othello, I, I, 43 - We can and should = all be masters of ourselves - and of no one else!=20 - J.Z., 12.10.02. - While, obviously, we cannot be masters over all = others or even many others, we should all be free to master ourselves = and our own affairs in complete freedom, tolerance and justice. - J.Z., = 26.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, INDIVIDUALISM, PANARCHISM, = VOLUNTARISM: You must be an individual country by yourself. - Harry = Schultz, 10/87. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, INTERNAL AFFAIRS, MAJORITIES, STATES, DECISION: = Your decisions on your own affairs ought not to depend upon the opinions = of others, no matter how large their number. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, LIBERATION, DEFENCE, PEACE, MINORITY = AUTONOMY FOR ALL, ALLIES, ENEMIES, STRENGTH: EVERY person being entitled = to SOVEREIGNTY within his own sphere, there can be, consistently, no = limits or exce ptions to the title to protection in the legitimate exercise of this = sacred right, whether on this side or the other side of the Atlantic, = and whether 'in a state of war' or not: and, as soon as we take position = for this universal right for all the world, we shall have all the world FOR us and WITH us and no enemies to = contend with. Did military men ever think of this? Did governments ever = think of it? - J. Warren, True Civilization, 16. (21.) \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, LIBERTY, LIFE, SELF-OWNERSHIP, PROPERTY=20 & CONSENT: "My life, liberty and property are mine. I have never ceded = to any 'sovereign' power whatever a right to dispose of either without = my consent." - paraphrasing the First Continental Congress of 1774, as = reported in THE FREEMAN, April 72, p. 237. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, MAJORITY & BUREAUCRACY: A bureaucracy has = no more right to own and direct your life than a monarch or a tyrant has = - even if this bureaucracy had majority consent. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, MEDDLING, MAJORITIES, TERRITORIALISM, = BELIEFS: You have the right to live according to your own beliefs - as = long as you don't meddle with other people living according to theirs. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, PANARCHISM, = DUTY: It is certainly true that we can hardly blame a man for acting in = a way which=20 he believes to be right. We cannot condemn him for not acting in = accordance with a rule that he does not recognise, for not following a = law of right conduct which he does not accept. - David Nicholls, The = Pluralist State, 41. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, PANARC HISM, EXTERRITORAIL AUTONOMY, VOLUNTARISM: Just contemplate how much = exterritorial self-determination and voluntary and cooperative actions = and contracts do already determine our private lives and actions and = associations and then consider how much they c ould, likewise, come to do for us in our public lives. - J.Z., 17.7.01, = 31.10.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, PANARCHISM, MINORITY AUTONOMY, = TERRITORIALISM, POLITICS AS USUAL, HUMAN RIGHTS, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: = Interference with individual sovereignty and minority autonomy is = treason against man and mankind. - J.Z., 1984, 1986, 25.10.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, PANARCHISM: Sovereignty exists only in the = individual. What the group has - the State, the Church - is not = sovereignty, it is }{\fs24\ul\lang1046 power}{\fs24\lang1046 . The = members have lost their sovereignty & become }{ \fs24\ul\lang1046 parts}{\fs24\lang1046=20 instead of wholes. All are less. Power takes. - David Reissig, 1988. - = Volunteer communities, only exterritorially autonomous, subject to = individual secessionism, are another matter. They do not destroy but = uphold individua l sovereignty and are based on it. - J.Z., 24.11.96, 20.10.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, PANARCHISM: The moment you abate anything = from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any = artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that=20 moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of = convenience. - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, = 1790. - So, even in this later book some of his original radicalism = still shows through! - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDU AL SOVEREIGNTY, PARENTS & PATERNALISM, TERRITORIAL STATISM & = GOVERNMENTS: The State didn't father or mother you - & even your parents = do not own you. - J.Z., n.d. & 15.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, PATRIOTISM, SELF-INTEREST: Patriotism to = one's self precludes any other fore of rational patriotism. - W. Robert = Black, THE NEW BANNER, 18.12.72. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, PEACE, HARMONY, NATIONALISM: The = coincidence or harmony of Nations will necessarily arise from that of = INDIVIDUALS. - J. Warren, True Civilization. (427.)=20 \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, PUBLIC SERVICES, STATES & CONSUMER = SOVEREIGNTY: Consumption should be voluntary - also for State services. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, SANCTION OF THE VICTIMS, TYRANNY, = LEADERSHIPS: "The tyrant has 'nothing more than the po wer you confer upon him to destroy you'." - Albert the Unknown in THE = LIBERTARIAN CONNECTION, 28/12/75. - Albert there questions the statement = but I would add: The proper secession of a single individual is still = the beginning of the end of all tyrannies. - J.Z., 76. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-DETERMINATION, SELF-GOVERNMENT, = VOTING, CHOICE, FREEDOM: You have the right to vote - on all your life's = issues - yourself. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-OWNERSHIP & CHARITY: You have the = right to be charitable but you are not obliged to work for the benefit = of others. You may opt out of coercive charity, like that practised by = Welfare States. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-OWNERSHIP & MAJORITY: You are an = individual. The majority does not own you, either. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-OWNERSHIP, CAESAR, LEADERSHIP, RULERS, = GOVERNMENT, STATES: Caesar, by natural law, does not own anyone but = himself. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-OWNERSHIP, CAESAR: Caesar does not = rightly own you, your property or your allegiance - unless you yourself, = voluntarily and temporarily give them to him. (Rather: give yourself and = it to him. - J.Z. 2/6/84.) \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-OWNERSHIP, CONTRACTS: Society, States, = communities, institutions & laws by contract. - J.Z., 14.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-OWNERSHIP, INDEPENDENCE: Being your = own man is the most serious crime of all today. - Paul Herr \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-OWNERSHIP, NATIONAL RESOURCE: You are = not a national resource but your own man - or woman. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-OWNERSHIP, SELF-GOVERNMENT, = INDIVIDUALISM, INDEPENDENCE: "Being your own man is the most serious = crime of all, today." - Paul Herr. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-OWNERSHIP: Nobody owns you but = yourself. Any other claim against you amounts to an imposed slavery - = unless you consented, voluntarily, freely and individually. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-OWNERSHIP: Primarily you own yourself. = What you do with your life is your thing - as long as you respect the = same self-ownership in others. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-OWNERSHIP: Who has first claim on your = life, if not you yourself? \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, SEPARATION, SEPARATISM, INTEGRATION, UNITY, = COERCION, VOLUNTARISM: There is nothing wrong with voluntary sepa ration or separatism. Nor with voluntary integration. But everything is = wrong with coercive separation and coercive integration. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, SHARING: You may share your life - but you = are not obliged to share it with every-one laying claim to it, not even = with the majority. Choose your own friends! - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, STATES, NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, GOVERNMENT, = MAN: "If each member of society affirms himself and only himself, and = individual sovereignty is established, there is no more room for government, all supremacy is destroyed; man is equal to = man..." - A. Bellagarrique, THE MATCH, 1/75. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, TAXATION, ALLEGIANCE, TERRITORIALISM, = STATES: Taxation is theft - and nobody owes allegiance to thieves. - = J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: "...the principles of individual = sovereignty were incompatible with the idea of a State. - Libertarian = Handbook 1973, p. 43. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: "Edith was a little country bounded on the = North, South, East and West by Edith." - Martha Ostenso, b. 1900, quoted = in A. Andrews Quotations. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: "Most significantly, Virginia, New York and = Rhode Island declared that 'the powers of government' may be 'resumed' = or 'reassumed' by the people when perverted or abused - in the text of their ratification of the constitution.' - Tansill, Documents, = pp. 1027,1034-5, & 1052. Quoted in THE LIBERTARIAN FORUM, June 76, p.5. = - Not only "the people" enjoy this freedom but ever single adult and = rational member. - J.Z., 14.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDU AL SOVEREIGNTY: "Over his own body and mind the individual is = sovereign." - J. S. Mill. - Should be, is more correct. - J.Z., 23.8.95. = - Not yet, but under panarchism they would be! - J.Z., 20.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: "Raise a = standard to which the w ise and honest can repair." - George Washington. - His is no longer the = resort of the wise and the honest - if it ever fully was. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: "Warren had called his philosophy = 'Individual Sovereignty', and Andrews made this phrase his motto." - = William Chadwick. THE FREEMAN, 3/76 \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: ... sovereignty of the individual is what = really counts, not sovereignty of any State. A state is an environment = or place, therefore cannot possess sovereignty. When sovereignty is = granted to a State politically, in the name of the people, it is usually = usurped by some individual. (*) - G. C. Szmak in The Four Blind Spots. = (*) An essentially insane power-addict and most people are insane enough = to obey him, no matter how much it costs them ! - J.Z., 18.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: ... the principles of individual = sovereignty were incompatible with the idea of a State .... - = Libertarian Handbook 1973, p. 43. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: ...for it must be continually remembered = that the doctrine o f Sovereignty of the Individual demands that I should sedulously and = religiously respect your Individuality, while I vindicate my own. - S = .P. Andrews, The Science of Society, 26. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: A Free Man is a Sovereign. - W. G. Sumner: = What Soci al Classes Owe to Each Other, 25. - Nevertheless, he did not clearly = come out for exterritorial autonomy and personal laws for volunteer = communities. People do not always draw the right conclusions from their = own beliefs. - J.Z., 18.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVER EIGNTY: Anarchism, as Tucker conceived it, arose out of the = contradiction that exists between the sovereign individual and the = sovereign State. One or the other must emerge supreme, and in Tucker's = opinion, this must be the individual. - W. O. Reichert, P artisans of Freedom, p.152. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: And now, if these principles, as I have = tried to set them before you, are true; if men have no rightful claim to = possess any sovereignty over the bodies and minds of each other; if that = sovereignty only be longs to the man's own self; ... - Auberon Herbert, Mack edition. p. = 150. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Edith was a little country bounded on the = North, South, East and West by Edith. - Martha Ostenso, b. 1900. - But = did little Edith, then or even 60 years later , comprehend all that is involved in individual sovereignty? Or did she = confine her sovereignty mainly to the trivia of individual daily lives? = - J.Z., 18.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Every Man a King. - Title of Huey Long's = biography, 1933. - Kings make war against each other, using up their subjects in the process, because = they do not recognize their kinghood or individual sovereignty. Thus = this phrasing is not sufficiently enlightening. - Everyone a king, but = only a king without subjects! A king witho ut owning an exclusive territory and all its population. Or a king - but = only over voluntary followers. - J.Z., 18.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Every man is free to do that which he = wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. - = He rbert Spencer, Principles of Ethics, Part IV, Justice. - He was, as a = young man, in SOCIAL STATICS, one of the few he drew consistent = conclusions from this principle, like "the right to ignore the State." = Later he seems to have renounced this idea, withou t sufficiently, if at all, explaining why he did so. - J.Z., 18.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: He then makes a distinction between = individual freedom and individual licence: 'What, then, constitutes the = boundaries of one's own dominions? ... The limitation=20 is this: every individual is the rightful Sovereign over his own conduct = in all things, whenever, and just so for as, the consequences of his = conduct can be assumed by himself...' THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL = IS TO BE EXERCISED AT HIS OWN COST ...' - Tuccille: Radical Libertarianism, 29, quoting S. P. Andrews, The = Science of Society. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Hence it has been said that free trade or = the free market means THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE CONSUMER. And so effective, = so necessary, so ineluctable is=20 this sovereignty that, as we had just occasion to observe, not even the = communist economy can suppress it completely. And as the consumer is the = public in general, without distinction of rank or fortune, the free = market is the most obvious expression of t he sovereignty of the people and the best guarantee of democracy. - F. = Ballv\'e9: Economics, 16. - He, too, denied consumer sovereignty towards = all forms of territorial States as "services". - J.Z., 18.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: He's free because he recogn izes his most priceless asset, the same asset that YOU possess - = sovereignty. Every person is the sovereign ruler of his own life. But = few people ever recognize that fact. Those who do will make it their = business to find freedom. Those who don't will inva riably resign themselves to whatever 'society' makes available to them. = - Harry Browne, How I Found Freedom, 167. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: I have always given it as my decided = opinion that .... everyone had a right to form and adopt whatever = government they=20 like best to live under themselves; .... - George Washington, August 25, = 1796, quoted by Roger McBride in A New Dawn, 58. - All too soon and by = all too many this becomes misinterpreted as a right only of the = collective "everyone", i.e., "the people. - And then we tend to stick with such wrong ideas for decades to centuries, = no matter how much they cost us, as unchecked premises, even if they = cost us most of our earnings, our liberties, our health or our lives! - = J.Z., 18.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: If ea ch individual in society respects his own person and minds his own = business, then individual sovereignty is established, there is no more = room for government, every rule is destroyed and man is equal to man. - = A. Bellegarrigue, Manifesto. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: If every nation is entitled to choose the = political system under which it wishes to \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: In his private affairs, the now sovereign = individual would have to abide by the dictum of the market place: = produce or you will not eat, for=20 no law will help you. In his public behavior he must be decent or suffer = the sentence of social ostracism, with no recourse to legal exoneration. = From a law-abiding citizen he would be transmuted into a self-respecting = man. - Frank Chodorov: Out of Step,=20 45. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: In the same way each declared for himself, = that his own will, pleasure, and discretion were the only authorities he = had any occasion to consult, in determining whether he would any longer = support the government under which he had always lived. And if this action of each individual were valid and = rightful when he had so many other individuals to keep him company, it = would have been, in the view of natural justice and right, equally valid = and rightful, if he had taken the same step =20 alone. He had the same natural right to take up arms alone to defend his = own property against a single tax-gatherer, that he had to take up arms = in company with three millions of others, to defend the property of all = against an army of tax-gatherers. - L. Spooner, No Treason, I, Works I., page 13. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0=20 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Individual sovereignty, as opposed to national = sovereignty, or centralized, coercive and territorial sovereignty, does = not require the obedience of others but, instead, the same freedom of=20 action for them, as for oneself, and obedience only to a self-given law, = one which presupposes the individual sovereignty of others. - John Zube, = 25. 12. 84. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Individuality = is the keynote of Warren's philosophy. Everyone should be a law unto himself, but always exercising his liberty with due regard to = the equal rights of others... - William Bailie on Josiah Warren, p. 99. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Is man a sovereign individual who owns his = person, his mind, his life, his work and its=20 products - or is he the property of the tribe (the state, the society, = the collective)? - Ayn Rand, Capitalism the Unknown Ideal, Signet = edition, 18. - Nevertheless, she argued vehemently against "competing = governments", completely misunderstanding what w a s meant by that term, and stood up only for monopolistic and = authoritarian because territorial governments, which she dared, like so = many others, to call "limited" governments. - Roy Childs and myself have = written on her false premises and conclusions in=20 this respect. Childs supposedly renounced this criticism of A.R. I have = not seen such a withdrawal by him in writing. Have you? - J.Z., = 18.11.02.=20 \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Like William Godwin, Warren held that the = only possible road to human freedom lies dow n the path of individual sovereignty. As he viewed the problem, 'the = great mistake of all society is the compromise or surrender of the = sovereignty of the individual.' Unless sovereignty can be reconstituted = without this surrender of individual sovereignt y, freedom must forever remain unknown to mankind. - W. O. Reichert: = Partisans of Freedom, 68/9. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Men like Andrews steadfastly held to the = individual's right to freedom from coercion and their communitarian = experiments were strictly v oluntaristic. One might refer to a man like Andrews as a left-wing = anarchist but would have to call him a right-wing socialist, using = 'right-wing' to mean respect for the rights of the individual. Warren = had called his philosophy 'Individual Sovereignty', and Andrews mode this phrase his motto. - Willian Chadwick, THE = FREEMAN, March 1976. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: My life, liberty and property are mine. I = have never ceded to any 'sovereign' power whatever a right to dispose of = either without my consent. - par aphrasing the First Continental Congress of 1774, as reported in THE = FREEMAN, April 72, p. 237. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Once individual secession has replaced = national sovereignty, the danger of nuclear war will have passed because = this would imply the abo liton of all life and death powers over non-aggressive others. - J.Z., = under: Individual Sovereignty in: An ABC Against Nuclear War, Peace = Plans 16-17. (Now available upon request in RTF per e-mail, until made = available on a CD-ROM with much other liberta rian material.) \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Parrington calls Thoreau's position = 'individual compact' which 'implied ... individual nullification' or = full anarchism.- J. R. Stromberg, in LIBERTARIAN FORUM, 6/76, on = Parrington: Main Currents, II, 402/3. \par INDIVIDU AL SOVEREIGNTY: Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These = three alone lead to sovereign power. - Alfred Lord Tennyson. - So far it = is only misled some people into territorial power over other people. As = long as the territorial power opportunity=20 e xists, and is hardly ever doubted or criticized, the worst kinds of = people will tend to get to the top of this kind of power pyramid - and = stay there for all too long, no matter how much this suppresses the = individual sovereignty of all those under them.=20 - J.Z., 18.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Sovereignty of every individual over his or = her own... - J. Warren. True Civilization, 13. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Sovereignty of the individual at his own = cost. - Josiah Warren \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: That each and every individual has the unquestionable and unabridgeable right of free = and voluntary association with other equally sovereign individuals for = economic. political, social and all other purposes...- Emma Goldman in = her "A New Declaration of Independence", MOTHER EARTH, vol. IV, 1909/10 - coming out against property! \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: The actually harmful factors in State = sovereignty are: a) territorial exclusiveness and b) centralised powers = (arising from a), like the power to decide on war and peace, not from autonomy, which can very well exist on a completely voluntary = and personal law basis. - J.Z., 2.6.82. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: The American citizen must be made aware = that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its = purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be = repudiated. There is no such thing as the People; it is a collectivist = myth. There are only individual citizens with individual wills and = individual purposes. There is only one social sy s tem that reflects this sovereignty of the individual: the free-market, = or capitalist, system, which means the sovereignty of the individual = 'vote' in the marketplace and the sovereignty of the individual vote in = the political realm. - Simon: A Time for Tr uth, 221. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: The Bill of Rights of the United States = Constitution did not establish the sovereignty of 'society', but the = sovereignty of the individual. Neither did it require that the = individual serve the State, the king, the nobility, the society, the rich, the poor, the public interest, the fatherland, = or humanity. As long as the individual did not initiate force against = others, he was to be free to live his own life without fear in = accordance with his own convictions. It was individ ualism that was the basis of the most free and progressive nation on = earth. - The Incredible Breadmachine, var. authors, p. 134. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: The individual is morally 'sovereign of the = domain of his own life, liberty and property, and is soverei gn of no other domain. To interfere forcibly with another's use, = disposal or destruction of his own property is to initiate force against = him and to violate his rights. - Duncan Yuille in leaflet on Human = Rights. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: The libertarian ins istence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary = allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but = also shout of banners and boundaries. - Karl Hess: Death of Politics, 2. = - Late in life he made a rather panarchi stic half-page statement, which was published in the Libertarian Party's = newsletter. I microfiched it somewhere and probably reproduced it in my = ON PANARCHY subseries. - J.Z., 18.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: The only part of the conduct of anyone, for = whi ch he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part = which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. = Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. - = J .S. Mill, On Liberty, ch. 1, 1859. \par I NDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: The only possible apparent solution or settlement = of this vital subject is in LIMITING THE SPHERE WITHIN WHICH EACH = INDIVIDUAL CAN HARMLESSLY BE SOVEREIGN OR ABSOLUTELY FREE, ACCORDING TO = HIS OWN INTERPRETATION OF THAT WORD, OR ANY=20 OTHER WORD. This sphere includes at least his OWN PERSON, HIS OWN TIME, = HIS OWN PROPERTY, AND HIS OWN RESPONSIBILITIES. - J. Warren, True = Civilization, 181. Point 556? \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: The only real 'sovereignty' or right of = 'sovereignty' in this or=20 any other country, is that right of sovereignty which each and every = human being has over his or her own person and property, so long as he = or she obeys the one law of justice towards the person and property of = every other human being. This is the only NA TURAL right of sovereignty, that was ever known among men. All other = so-called rights of sovereignty are simply the usurpations of impostors, = conspirators, robbers, tyrants, and murderers. - Spooner: Cleveland 86, = Works I. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: The revolution was this idea: 'Each person = is a sovereign individual with certain = inalienable \'85 rights .... - Vincent A. Drosdik III, quoted in THE FREEMAN, 7/73, on = the revolution of 1776. - In spite of also publishing panarchistic ideas = in general form, FEE & it\rquote=20 s "THE FREEMAN" mainly confined themselves to advocating "limited" = territorial government, which, by its very nature, does NOT recognize = individual sovereignty, although it sometimes concedes some rights, even = economic rights, to individuals. - J.Z., 18.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: The right of self-sovereignty in every = individual is my constitution. - J. Warren. True Civilization, 54. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: The SOVEREIGNTY OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL in his = or her own sphere. places a ll mankind upon the only possible plane of political Equality. All being = sovereigns, none can be less, none more. This is beautifully illustrated = at every assembly of kings and emperors. Each one is admitted by all the = others to be SUPREME within his own=20 sphere of jurisdiction. - J. Warren,' True Civilization, 147. (438.) \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: The vote in the political realm means, in = practice, a renunciation of individual sovereignty. - J.Z., n.d. - In = other words, in disenfranchises rather than liberate s the individual. It deprives him of the decisive vote on his own = affairs. - J.Z., 18.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: To Each, His Own .... My faith in the = proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all = which is exclusively his own, li es at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me. I extend = the principle to communities of men as well as to individuals. I so = extend it because it is politically wise, as well as naturally just: = politically wise in saving us from broils about=20 m atters which do not concern us. - Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Peoria, = Ill, 16.10.1854. - And then he wasted half a million lives to retain = power in the face of wide-spread secessionism. He did not, when he = ruled, permit even geographical secessions. Far le ss did he permit individual secessionism. Even his inflated paper money = was forced upon people, not only his "federation" and its taxes and its = war. - J.Z., 18.11.02. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: We hold that each individual has the right = to exercise sole domini on over his own life, and has the right to live his life in whatever = manner he chooses, so long as he does not forcibly interfere with the = equal rights of others to live their lives in whatever manner they = choose. - Statement of Principles, Platform of th e Libertarian Party, 1972. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: With his usual independence, Spooner does = not use the term, 'individual sovereignty' - which his late friend = Josiah Warren had introduced. Warren's term had been popularised among = Americans by Stephen Pearl Andrews, and in England by John Stuart Mill (who did not fully = understand Warren's ideas) (Stephen Pearl Andrews, Science of Society, = Charles Shively, ed. - M.& S. Press, Weston, Mass, 1970). This idea is = at the core of all anti-statist thought - the ide a that people are born free, each independent, each the sovereign master = over his or her life and work. - Shively's Introduction to Letter to = Cleveland, p. 8, Spooner, Works I. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Would you describe yourself,... as = a sovereign individual of fully intact sapient? - L. Neil Smith, = Converse and Conflict, 78. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: You are the ruler of your world and no one ... = can stop you from living as you want .. .unless you disregard your own = sovereignty. - Harry Brown, How I Found Freedom, 167. \par INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: You live in a world of your own, bounded by = your own knowledge and experience. It's a wonderful world - full of the = power to do things to bring freedom and happiness. Recognize your = sovereign authority. You won't ever be=20 the totalitarian ruler of someone else's life. But you do rule your own. = - Harry Browne: How I Found Freedom, 161. \par }\pard\plain = \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUAL VS. COLLECTIVE = RESPONSIBILITY, INDEMNIFICATION FOR SLAVERY OF ANCESTORS ETC? The point = is: You are not responsible for what your g reat-grandparents did to mine, and I am not responsible for what my = great-grandparents did to yours. \'85 a whole group does not incur guilt = for every misdeed by any of its members, and \'85 no one incurs either guilt or entitlement by being born into any group. - Stanley Schmidt, editorial, ANALOG, Oct. 1999. - Was he anywhere = consistent enough to demand the abolition of imposed borders between = territorial nation States and free competition for their exterritorial = and voluntaristic alternatives? - J.Z., 25.1.02 .=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INDIVIDUAL VS. COLLECTIVIST, TERRITORIAL & COMPULSORY STATE SOVEREIGNTY, = MASTER OF THE OWN FATE, SELF-OWNERSHIP, SELF-DETERMINATION: By natural = law you are the master of your own fate. - What an absurd and disgusting = thought that politicians and bureaucr ats, as they are, could and should be masters of your fate! - J.Z., = 2/6/84. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INDIVIDUAL VS. MASS, FREEDOM, AUTHORITY, COERCION, DEPENDENCE, FREE = SOCIETY: Yes, authority, coercion, dependence rest upon the mass, but = never freedom or the free unfoldment of th e individual, never the birth of a free society. - Emma Goldman, quoted = in Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible, 402.=20 \par INDIVIDUAL VS. MASS, MAJORITY, MOBS: \'85 the fashion is to play = down to the mass instead of up to the individual, to put the world right = and everybody in the world wrong. - Abel: Ernest Benn, 154. From his = speech, 27.1.31. \par INDIVIDUAL VS. PUBLIC OPINION: "'What is an individual', asked = Coningsby of the Stranger, 'against a vast public opinion?' - 'Divine', = said the stranger. - Benjamin Dis raeli. - Well, the opinions of every individual as compare with public = opinion, is certainly not divine, nor is the opinion even of the best = individuals, but it can be a much more moral, reasonable and rational = point of view and if all these individuals g et their hearing, too, or can and do record them accessibly \'85 - J.Z., = 27.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUAL WILLS = AND SOCIAL GOOD: It is only by the free action of individual wills that = the social good is attained; and inequality of property may be regarded = as the necessary price for that free action. - Ernest Barker, Political Thought In = England 1848 to 1914, 55. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM & HUMANITY: How could one serve humanity = and ignore individuals? - Christopher Wood, James Bond, The Spy Who = Loved Me, the book of the film, page 153. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INDIVIDUALISM & MORALITY: To be what we are, and to become what we are = capable of becoming, is the only end in life. - Robert Louis Stevenson. = - Something is missing in this wording, for cannibals, murderers and = mass murderers might say the same about t hemselves. - J.Z., 29.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0=20 INDIVIDUALISM & PANARCHISM: There is another form under which = civilization can be generalised... a progress towards that constitution = of man and society required for the complete manifestation of everyone's = individuality. - Her bert Spencer, Social Statics, 481-83. \par INDIVIDUALISM & RIGHTS: I believe each individual is naturally = entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labour, = so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights. - Abraham = Lincoln. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 I NDIVIDUALISM & SELF-INTEREST, RATIONALITY, LAISSEZ-FAIRE, FREE MARKET: = The Laissez-faire or free market doctrine does not assume that everyone = always knows his own interest best; it asserts rather that everyone = should have the right to be free to pursue h is own interest as he deems best. - Rothbard, Power & Market, 153. \par INDIVIDUALISM & SOCIETY: The philosophy called individualism is a = philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of = the social nexus. - Ludwig von Mises. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUALISM=20 & TERRITORIAL RULE, MAJORITARIANISM AND SACRIFICES: A system that serves = a few, all many, or even most people, but which does so at the expense = of sacrificing any other persons, destroys the one essential element for = peaceful and civilized society: RESPEC T FOR THE AUTONOMY AND INTEGRITY OF EACH HUMAN BEING. - Butler D. = Shaffer, Calculated Chaos, 310. \par INDIVIDUALISM & THE PROLETARIAT: It is not in Popular Front visions = of a faceless, soulless, lockstep equality that any of us will discover = what it means to be truly liberated. Those who "cannot acknowledge any human identity = smaller than ' the proletariat'", will be unable to comprehend that the = essence of our humanity is to be found in our commonly-held needs for = forms of social corporation that respect the=20 essential dignity and autonomy of each of us. - Butler D. Shaffer, = Calculated Chaos, 220. =20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM & THE STATE, INDIVIDUAL SECESSION: \'85 we = are individuals. We aren't the servants of any state. On the contrary, = the state serves us. And poorly, too. I=20 think we should give it notice. - P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores, = Picador, 1992, vii. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = INDIVIDUALISM & THE STATE: If you conquer the State, then you have it, = and it has you and you have been. - Doeblin. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUALISM & UNIVERSE: The Universe = has as many different centers as there are living beings in it. - = Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM & VOLUNTARISM VS. = COMMUNISM AND COLLECTIVISM: From each according to his inclinations. - = Joe Haldeman, Worlds Enough and Time, heading, 87. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM VS. COLLECTIVISM, STATE SOCIALISM, = COMMUNISM: Individualism has slain its thousands, but collectivism has = murdered its millions. - - Ernest Benn, Honest Doubt, 11. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUALISM VS. COLLECTIVISM: The = illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical d elusion of our consciousness. - Albert Einstein. - At least as a thinker = on social problems he was no better than the man in the street. He just = repeated and reformulated popular prejudices. - Such misjudgements and = false observations make me suspect all=20 his other ideas as well. - J.Z., 2.12.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 INDIVIDUALISM VS. MAJORITARIANISM, MORALITY, ETHICS: It is strangely = absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, = are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately. - = Thomas Jefferson.=20 \par INDIVIDUALISM VS. MASSES OR MOBS OR MAJORITY, HUMANITY: The = humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their numbers. - = Aldous Huxley. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM VS. POLITICIANS, GOVERNMENT, STATE, = BUREAUCRACY, INDEPENDENCE, SELF-GOVERNMENT,=20 SELF-DETERMINATION: If you don't run your own life, someone else will. - = From a goss advertisement for its make-up kits, GOOD WEEKEND, Oct. 12, = 02. }{\field\flddirty{\*\fldinst {\fs24\lang1046 HYPERLINK = http://www.getthegoss.com.au }{\lang1046=20 {\*\datafield=20 00d0c9ea79f9bace118c8200aa004ba90b0200000017000000160000007700770077002e0= 067006500740074006800650067006f00730073002e0063006f006d002e00610075000000= e0c9ea79f9bace118c8200aa004ba90b3c00000068007400740070003a002f002f0077007= 70077002e00670065007400740068006500 67006f00730073002e0063006f006d002e00610075002f000000000000000000000000000= 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000= 00000000000000000000000000000000}}}{\fldrslt {\cs16\ul\cf2 = www.getthegoss.com.au}}}{\fs24\lang1046 =20 \par INDIVIDUALISM VS. SOCIALISM, MARKETS VS.=20 INTERVENTIONSM: Why should a person who advocates government control of = the economy and the "means of production" be regarded as a "socialist" = rather than an anti-social menace? Why should a person, who seeks to = acilitate human interaction through the imp lementation of a free market be regarded as in inhuman "individualist"? = - Diogenes of Panarchia, TC 11116, April 83, page 45, his page 5. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUALISM VS. SOCIETY, PUBLIC = GOOD, COMMON GOOD, WELFARE: How can ... a program be for the "public = good" when such=20 a program adversely affects me, a part of the "pubtic"? I guess some = people are just more "public" than others! - Anderson/Miles, = Constitution, 45. \par INDIVIDUALISM VS. SOCIETY: How can something be "for the benefit of = society" when I don't benefit? (I am par t of society.) How can it be "a benefit for society" when such a = "benefit" is beneficial to some people and makes slaves out of others! - = Anderson/Miles, Constitution, 45. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM, ACHIEVEMENTS, = ACTIONS, FATE, INBORN ABILITIES OR DISABILITIES, LUCK,=20 ACCIDENTS, PERSONALITIES VS. PERSONS, CHARACTER, VALUES, CHOICES: That = something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to = you. The important thing about you is what you "choose" to make happen - = your values and choices. That which happe ned by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and = where you went to school - is totally unimportant. - Ayn Rand. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM, ALONE, LONELINESS: I'm not alone. = I've got me. - From film: Candleshoe. \par INDIVIDUALISM, ANARCHISM, AUTONOMY, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: The = essential principle of Anarchy is individual autonomy. - Emma Goldman, = speech to International Anarchist Congress, 1907.=20 \par INDIVIDUALISM, ANARCHISM, KNOWLEDGE, ENLIGHTENMENT, PROGRESS, = KNOWLEDGE, SELF-THINKING: Break your mental=20 fetters, says Anarchism to man, for not until you think and judge for = yourself will you get rid of the dominion of darkness, the greatest = obstacle to all progress. - Emma Goldman, Anarchism. \par INDIVIDUALISM, ANARCHISM, SOCIETY & THE INDIVIDUAL: Of all social theories, Anarchism alone steadfastly proclaims that society exists for = man, not man for society. The sole legitimate purpose of society is to = serve the needs and advance the aspirations of the individual. - Emma = Goldman, The Place of the Individual in S ociety. - She should have added: As long as this is done on a voluntary = and contractual basis, i.e., through aggreements or free exchange. - = J.Z., 23.10.02.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM, ANTAGONISM, ANIMOSITY, WAR OF ALL AGAINST = ALL: The assumption that hatred and warfar e is the natural relation between individual men is manifestly untrue. - = Thomas Mackay, Empiricism in Politics.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM, AUTHORITARIANISM, DYNAMISM & STASIS: \'85 = the battle is now between individualism and authoritarianism (or = dynamism vs. stasis as d escribed by Virginia Postrel in her fine book "The Future & its = Enemies"). - James R. Elwood, FREEDOM NETWORK NEWS, No. 558, Winter = 2000, p. 13. \par INDIVIDUALISM, AUTONOMY, VALUE, PRICE: What price can be set on the = autonomy of the individual? - Thomas M. Disch, The Prisoner, 46. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033=20 INDIVIDUALISM, COLLECTIVISM, DICTATORSHIP, DESPOTISM, TYRANNY, = TOTALITARIANISM, ALTRUISM, COMMON GOOD, PUBLIC INTEREST, NATIONAL = INTEREST: Totalitarianism is collectivism. Collectivism means the = subjugation of the individual to a grou p - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism = holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective = thought for the sake of what is called "the common good". - Throughout = history no tyrant ever rose to power except on th e claim of representing "the common good". Horrors which no man would = dare to consider for his own selfish sake are perpetrated with a clear = conscience by "altruists" who justify themselves by - the common good. = - Ayn Rand, The Only Path to Tomorrow, READ ER'S DIGEST, January 1944. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM, DEATH, COERCION, VIOLENCE, FORCE, = VOLUNTARISM, PANARCHISM, FREEDOM: I was not born to be forced. I will = breathe after my own fashion \'85 If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man. = - H. D.=20 Thoreau, An Essay on Civil Disobedience, 1849. - We are surrounded by = the living dead. - J.Z., 10.7.86. - By their errors, myths, prejudices = and misguided actions and institutions. Also by the wisdom and = achievements of long dead innovators. Let us pick a nd choose our own constitions, laws, ideas, principles and institutions = for ourselves - and for no one else who does not volunteer to join us or = to stay with us. - J.Z., 24.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUALISM, = DECISIONS, FREE CHOICE: No individual or group of individuals=20 can decide what is the good life on others' behalf; we are all entitled = to go to Hell in our own fashion. - - Geoffrey Sampson, AN END TO = ALLEGIANCE, 227. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM, DESPOTISM: Whatever crushes individuality = is despotism, by whatever name it may be called. - J.S. Mill, On = Liberty, III, 1859. \par INDIVIDUALISM, DEVELOPMENT, MATURITY, LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS, = PERSONALITIES, EDUCATION, SELF-IMPROVEMENT: We should, understandingly, = encouragingly and tolerantly, help people to grow to their full = potential rather tha n carelessly leaving them stagnate at their present stage of = development. We should not only appreciate their present personality but = also, and perhaps more so, the future one that they are capable of. To = that extent we should be as considerate of adults =20 as we are of children. Generally, we know that they could do better than = they are doing now. - However, in giving advice or passing on = suggestions or tips to people one should be even more careful and = persuasive than one has to be with children. - J.Z., 6 .9.93, 22.10.02. - See: Ideas Archive, Red, Dis, Sign Debates, = Definitions Encyclopaedia. \par INDIVIDUALISM, DIS: Above all, individualism, if it can be purged = of its defects and its abuses (*), is the best safeguard of personal = liberty in the sense that, compa red with any other system, it greatly widens the field for the exercise = of personal choice. - John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of = Employment, Interest and Money, 1936-1947 edition. - (*) There are no = defects or abuses involved in individualism. Var i ous forms of democracy, collectivism, socialism, communism and = despotism, all posing as individualism or pretending to favour freedom, = are not individualistic because they do not know, appreciate and respect = all individual rights and do not realize the in dividualistic limits to their own licentious actions. - Keynes himself = even advocated one of the greatest abuses of monetary despotism, namely, = inflation, as a cure for unemployment! J.Z., 6.4.89, 26.10.02. \par INDIVIDUALISM, DISAGREEMENTS: Two persons never lit a fire without = disagreeing. - Irish proverb. (Tot homines tot senses. - Latin proverb. = - As many opinions as there are people.) \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = INDIVIDUALISM, EGOTISM, ELITISM, ARISTOCRACY: It is an amiable illusion, = which the shape of our planet prompts, that every man is at the top of the world. - Emerson, Uncollected Lectures: = Table-Talk. - Seeing the world is round, i.e., like you, I am on top of = the world. - J.Z., 9.4.79.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM, ENTHUSIASM, INDIVIDUALS, CONVICTION: Let = a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to = the world. - Saint-Exup\'e9 ry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939, 9.1, tr. Lewis Galanti\'e8re. - The aim = should not be to set fire to the world or to a nation but, rather, to = individual minds acting voluntarily and creatively togeth er with likeminded people, to realize whatever ideals they have among = themselves, at their own expense and risk. That would greatly help to = improve the whole world, by the failed experiments as well as by the = successful ones. One should neither carelessly shout: "Fire!" nor write about it, or use it negligently. After all, = there were more harmful prophets than beneficient ones and even the best = of them led, sometimes against their intentions, to all too many = atrocities. - J.Z., 23.10.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM, FAT E, FORTUNE, SELF-HELP, SUCCESS: Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is = in his own hands. - Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Fortune. - Yes, when he is = not steam-rollered by a territorial State or ignored in the absence of a = proper market for ideas and talents. - J.Z., 23.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046=20 INDIVIDUALISM, FOOLISHNESS, REASON, HONESTY, MORALITY, PROFIT, REWARDS: = Individualism ist ein System, in welchem die menschliche Dummneit den = geringsten Schaden anrichten kann. - Clark. - (Individualism is a system = in which human foolishnes s can do the least damage.) It is also a system in which human energy, = creativity, reason and industry can reap the surest and greatest = rewards. - How can people satisfy themselves with as incomplete = definitions? - J.Z., 5.7.92, 25.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM, FO REIGNERS, WE ARE ALL STRANGERS: What you learn is everybody comes from a = foreign country. Communicating heart to heart, mouth to soul, with = anyone is like climbing Mount Ararat. - Sol Stein, The Touch of Treason, = Charter Books, N.Y., 1985, 65. - Thus we s hould grant each other "diplomatic immunity" for all self-concerned or = contractual actions, rather than imposing our laws and systems upon = them. - J.Z., 21.4.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM, FREEDOM, BOOKS, IDEALS, = EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF ACTION, INDIVIDUAL SECESSION: Follow = your own book, path, ideal or dream. - J.Z., 10.3.99. - And let all = others follow theirs. - J.Z., 21.10.02.=20 \par INDIVIDUALISM, FREEDOM, FAITH, PANARCHISM: "Bastiat built upon his = faith in the free-choosing individual as the cornerstone of a free = society." Roche III, Bastiat, 214. - Have faith in the \'85 \par INDIVIDUALISM, FREEDOM, POLITICIANS, STATISM, FREE MIGRATION, = IMMIGRATION: "We are keeping our options open." - We have come to = embrace the concept that freedom is only for the politician who admini sters our affairs for government rather than for the individual citizen. = - Oscar W. Cooley & Paul Poirot, The Freedom to Move, 1951, p. 22. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUALISM, GENERAL WILL, = GOVERNMENT, LIBERTY, CONSENT: In a government bottomed on the will of = all, the... liber ty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all. - Thomas = Jefferson. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM, GOD, CHRISTIANITY, = WORSHIP, RELIGION, CREATIONISM: \'85 promise some kind of salvation to = anyone \'85 who would surrender his \'85 identity to a Higher Power, which remai ned unspecified. - Thomas M. Disch, The Prisoner, 67. - If the "divine" = creation were really divine, i.e., perfect, one would, as a part of it, = hardly need salvation at all. Moreover, how flawed and lacking in = self-confidence must a superior being be if i t wants adulation from inferior ones! - J.Z., 28.11.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\lang1033=20 INDIVIDUALISM, GOING IT ALONE, ALONE, INDEPENDENT ACTIONS: The man who = goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait = till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off. = - Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 INDIVIDUALISM, GOOD, GOODNESS, VALUES, SERVICES: What's good for one is = good for all. - Piers Anthony, Viscous Circle, 183. - Although this is = widely true, it certainly does not apply e.g. to medicines and = panarchistic choices. - J.Z., 12.6.92. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM, HUMAN NATURE, MATURITY, MAN, = NONCONFORMISM: Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist. - Ralph = Waldo Emerson. - Conformism to rights, liberties, reason, = responsibilities is one thing. Conformism to=20 status, corruption, wrongful obedience, customs and traditions is = another. - J.Z., 26.11.02. \par INDIVIDUALISM, HUMAN RIGHTS, FREEDOM, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, = SELF-INTEREST: The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of = pursuing our own good in our own wa y, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede = their efforts to obtain it. - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, ed. David = Spitz, chapter 1, p. 14 (1975). Originally published in 1859. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri55\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 INDIVIDUALISM, INCENTIVES, PROFITS, PROPERTY RIGHTS,=20 ECONOMIC FREEDOM, SELF-DETERMINATION: Only when the human spirit is = allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal = stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success... = can societies remain economically alive,=20 dynamic, progressive, and free. - Ronald Reagan. - Within territorial = States this is possible only to a very limited extent. The most = important enterprises remain monopolised and consequently mismanaged in = them. - J.Z., 1.7.00. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM, INDEPENDENCE,=20 FREEMEN, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Individuality is the aim of political = liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being = as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render = him truly a freeman. He is left to pur sue his means of happiness in his own manner. - James Fenimore Cooper. - = Territorial politics cannot achieve that. Exterritorial politics could. = - J.Z., 27.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri55\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 INDIVIDUALISM, INDEPENDENCE, HAPPINESS: "This is = living!" "I gotta be me!" "Ain't we got fun!" It's all there in the Declaration of Independence. We are the only = nation in the world based on happiness. Search as you will the Maga = Charta, the Communist Manifesto, the Ten Commandments, the Analects of = Confucius, Plato's Republic, the New Testament o r the UN Charter, and find me any happiness at all. - P. J. O'Rourke.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 INDIVIDUALISM, INDEPENDENCE, SECURITY: I do not choose to be a common = man. It is my right to be uncommon if I can. I seek opportunity - not = security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen,=20 humbled, dulled, by having the State look after me. I want to take the = calculated risk; to dream and to build; to fail or succeed. I refuse to = barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the = guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillm e nt to the state calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for = beneficence, nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any = master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud = and unafraid; to think and act for myself; enjoy t he benefits of my creation, and to face the world boldly and = say\'85.This I have done! - Author Unknown. \par INDIVIDUALISM, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES, FACTS, MAN, NO MORE = INVOLUNTARY SACRIFICES OF ANYONE, TOLERANCE, ALL TRUTHS ARE = INTERCONNECTED. IT TAKES ALL KINDS TO MAKE A WORLD: Every piece = }{\i\fs24\lang1033 is}{\fs24\lang1033=20 a key piece. - Mark Clifton and Frank Riley, They'd Rather Be Right, = ASTOUNDING SF, Nov. 1954, p. 124. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUALISM, INEQUALITY, = ENVIRONMENT, INHERITANCE: Every politician, clergyman, educator, or = physician, in shor t, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave = mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) = no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic = endowment make a contribution to nearly every trai t. - Ernst Mayr. \par INDIVIDUALISM, INTERVENTIONISM: The State cannot rightly do what an = individual cannot rightly do force others to join his club. Others have = no right to intervene in your life. You have no right to intervene in = theirs. This implies voluntary membership in all associations. \par }\pard\plain = \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 INDIVIDUALISM, LAW & ORDER & REGULATIONS, STATE INTERFERENCE, LAISSEZ = FAIRE: It is not from any horror of law and order, of method and = regulation in all things, that individualism is opposed to State = interference; on the co ntrary, it is rather the reverse; it is because it attaches so high a = value to these things, and because it fears to see the habits of = self-rule crushed out by the enervating effects of grandmotherly = government. . - Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Liberty or Law? =20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033=20 INDIVIDUALISM, LIBERTY VS. EQUALITY, AMERICANISM: The real democratic = American idea is not that every man shall be on a level with every = other, but that everyone shall have liberty, without hindrance, to be = what God made him. - Henry Ward Beecher. \par INDIVID UALISM, LIBERTY, FORCE, SUBJUGATION, COERCION, NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, = STRENGTH, VOLUNTARISM, OBEDIENCE, SUBMISSION, RESISTANCE: When one by = force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit, = because their strength is not adequate to resist . - Mencius, Book II, 1:3.2. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INDIVIDUALISM, LIBERTY, POLITICS, TERRITORIALISM VS. EXTERRITORIALISM: = Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen = as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the = rights of others , the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his = means of happiness in his own manner. - James Fenimore Cooper. - The = territorialists have quite a number of unchecked premises on this = subject. Their ideals can only be realized exte rritorially and competitively by volunteer communities operating under = personal laws. - J.Z., 21.8.02. \par INDIVIDUALISM, LIFE, OWN PURPOSE, OWN SAKE: The purpose of your = life is not to live for the lives of other people. That would be an = absurdity for any self-respecting person. - J.Z. \par INDIVIDUALISM, MAJORITY & RIGHTS: Two people have no more rights = than each has individually. - Anderson/Miles, Constitution, 43. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM, MAN, COMMON MAN, = UNCOMMON MAN, AMERICANISM: I do not choose to be a common man. It is my = right to be uncommon\emdash=20 if I can. I seek opportunity\emdash not security. I do not wish to be a = kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I = want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to = succeed. I refuse to bar ter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the = guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of = utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a = handout. I will never cower before any master nor b e nd to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; = to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to = face the world boldly and say, this I have done. All this is what it = means to be an American. - Dean Alfange, cr eed.\emdash=20 Who's Who in America, 1984-85, vol. 1, p. 42. These words have appeared = at the end of his entry in several successive editions. Originally = published in This Week Magazine. Later reprinted in The Reader's Digest, = October 1952, p. 10, and January 1954, p . 122, lacking these words: "I will never cower before any master nor = bend to any threat" and "to stand erect, proud and unafraid."=20 \par INDIVIDUALISM, MAN, RATIONALITY, DECISION-MAKING, = SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, DEFINITIONS, REALITY, DELUSIONS, PREJUDICES: Man = bei ng a creature of rationality, of making decisions as a single entity, = not a member of an instinct-bound species, can only act as one even when = he is in a group, he alone is responsible for his action. - Arthur = Ketchen, chairman of the New Hampshire LP, in =20 Loomis, Mildred, ed.: Moving into the Frontlines of Social Change, = 70/71. - He is also a creature of all too much irrationality and = indecisiveness, ignoring rather than solving problems - and one who = coercively holds back the moral, rational and innovativ e decision-makers, who want to do their own things for themselves. - = Ketchen should have told this to a conscript in the front trenches, of = an invasive and mass murderous regime, whose enemies, according to the = "principle" of collective responsibility, mak e no prisoners, or treat prisoners so badly, that most of them die, like = the ca. 95,000 of ca. 100,000 German prisoners captured at Stalingrad, = or, to the inmates of a Nazi slave labour or extermination camp. - = Their delusive definitions prevent many peop le from seeing reality and responding realistically to it. -=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM, MAN, SELF-APPRECIATION: We are each = the product of billions of years of stellar and biological evolution. - = William Tedford, TIMES QUEST, Bk. II: Hydrabyss Red, p. 56. \par INDIVIDUALIS M, MAN, SELF-RULE, SELF-DETERMINATION, SELF-MANAGEMENT, SELF-RELIANCE, = SELF-RESPONSIBILITY: Each man the architect of his own fate. - Appius = Caecus. - Compare: Each the smith of his own fate. - Years ago I thought = that someone should make a compilation of =20 all the hyphenated terms beginning with "self" and divide them into = three groups: 1: Those in which the combined word has still mainly = positive connotations, 2: Those in which the term has gained a negative = flavour and 3: Those in which the term remains r ather neutral. I believe that most of the terms would fall into the = first category, which would indicate that some good sense would still = remain in our language use. - J.Z., 26.10.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM, MINORITIES: The smallest minority = on earth is the individ ual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of = minorities. - Ayn Rand. - And those who deny the right of individuals = and minorities to secede from governments, even from limited = governments, and to set up competing governments, like Ayn Rand did, cannot claim to be consistent defenders of individual = rights and of the rights of minorities. - J.Z., 11.2.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM, MISTAKES, ERRORS, RIGHT, FREEDOM: = If freedom means anything, it's the freedom to be a damn fool. To do = something irrational or even dangerous. To be stubborn and cussed and = downright mule-headed. \'85 - Michael F. Flynn, A Rose by Other Name, ANALOG, 5/90, 131. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM, NONCONFORMISM, LIFE. SELF-HELP, = SELF-MADE MEN, SELF-REALIZATION, LIFE: Life is a do-it yourself = project. - Denis Waitley. \par INDIVIDUALISM, NONCONFORMISM: If a man does not keep pace with his = companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him = step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry = David Thoreau, Walde n, chapter 18, p. 430 (1966). Originally published in 1854. \par INDIVIDUALISM, OWN PATH, OWN PURPOSE, AIMS AND MEANS: But each of = us must make her own path. - Frank Herbert, Dune, Complete & unabridged = edition, 28. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM, PANARCHISM: Individualism, wh at M. Follin describes as the great lesson of Individualism, under = Natural Order, does not seek to wrench from the herd those who have the = herd instinct. It only desires to free from the pressure an dthe = imitative ways of the gregarious herd those, who ha v e the mentality of men. Let each individual fulfil the durty of being = himself. In this way each will find in his life a hundred opportunities = of being superior to everyone. - S. Hutchinson Harris, The Doctrine of = Personal Right, 373. (Alas, so far I was a b le only to get a posthumous compilation of the sayings of Henri L. = Follin, compiled by his son: Paroles d'un Voyant. Can anyone supply me = with more of his writings? - In 1899 he contributed an article to the = Journals des Economistes. In 1901 he founded L' Individualiste. - Possibly with his heirs a long correspondence with = Ulrich von Beckerath does still exist. - J.Z., 23.10.02. \par INDIVIDUALISM, POLITICAL FREEDOM, DIS: Individualismus ist die = Suende der politischen Freiheit. - Cooper. - (Individualism is the s in of political freedom.) - Rather the virtue. But is there something = like political freedom? Or does territorial politics indicate merely = various degrees of oppression, exploitation, fraud & misdirection from = which only consistently practised individuali sm, including individual sovereignty and individual secessionism and = voluntary and exterritorially fully autonomous associationism can save = us? - J.Z., 5.7.92, 25.10.02. \par INDIVIDUALISM, POWER, DECISION ON WAR & PEACE BY A FEW INDIVIDUALS? = SECESSIONISM, PANAR CHISM, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: The United States has the power to = destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone. - Margaret Mead. = - It is not power of anyone over anyone that can save the world. J.Z., = 8.7.91. - The first individuals freely, consci o usly and quite publicly seceding from any State might set off a chain = reaction of similar secessions and of establishing exterritorially = autonomous volunteer communties - and thus a few individuals might come = to save the world. The world-wide repetition o f numerous territorially imposed wrongs and absurdities will not save = us. - J.Z., 12.7.92.=20 \par INDIVIDUALISM, PRIVACY, PROPERTY, INTERVENTION; If every individual = is in contact with a unique, obstinately real, fragment of the universe, = it follows that each mus t be consulted before that reality is manipulated. - Jon Stopa, A Pair = of Glasses, ASTOUNDING SF, 4/58, p. 41. - Regarding his own life, = activities and property, his rights and liberties, an individual should = not only be consulted but left alone. - J.Z.,=20 24.10.02. \par INDIVIDUALISM, RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, SECTS: I am of a sect by myself, = as far as I know. - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Ezra Stiles, 1819. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM, RIGHT TO BE DIFFERENT, AUTONOMY, = INDEPENDENCE: When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. - Charles Evans Hughes, address at Faneuil Hall, = Boston, Massachusetts, on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker = Hill, June 17, 1925. - Hughes Papers, Library of Congress. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUALISM, RIGHTS, LIBERTIES, = DUTIES, RESPONSIBIL ITY, SELF-GOVERNMENT, NON-INTERVENTION, CONTRACTARIANS, HUMAN RIGHTS: = Your responsibility is only to fulfil your contracts and to respect the = rights of others. You are not tied to them - or, at least, not rightly = so. - J.Z. \par }\pard\plain = \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM, RIGHTS, VOLUNTARI SM, EQUALITY, EXCHANGE, REGULATIONS: Individualism holds that man is an = independent entity with an inalienable right to the pursuit of his own = happiness in a society where men deal with one another as equals in = voluntary, unregulated exchange. . - Ayn Ra nd, The Only Path to Tomorrow, READER'S DIGEST, January 1944. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INDIVIDUALISM, SACRIFICIAL LAMBS, SANCTION OF THE VICTIMS, VOTING = CATTLE, STATISM, VOLUNTARISM, GENUINE SELF-GOVERNMENT, INDIVIDUAL = SOVEREIGNTY, HUMAN RIGHTS: Be human, not a sacrificial lamb on the altar = of the State. - J.Z., n.d. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INDIVIDUALISM, SELF-DEVELOPMENT, MATURITY, SELF-IMPROVEMENT, = SELF-LIBERATION, INDEPENDENCE: In the world to come I shall not be = asked: "Why were you not Moses?" I shall be asked: "Why were you not = Zusya?" - Rabbi Zusya. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INDIVIDUALISM, SELF-RESPECT, GOVERNMENT, DECENCY: Of government, at = least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency = engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of = acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency. - H. L. Mencken. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 INDIVIDUALISM, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, INDEPENDENCE: The maxims are, first, = that the individual is not accountable to society for his actions, in so = far as these concern the interests of no person=20 but himself. Advice, instruction, persuasion, and avoidance by other = people if thought necessary by them for their own good, are the only = measures by which society can justifiably express its dislike or = disapprobation of his conduct. Secondly, that for su c h actions as are prejudicial to the interests of others, the individual = is accountable, and may be subjected either to social or to legal = punishment, if society is of opinion that the one or the other is = requisite for its protection. - John Stuart Mill, O n Liberty, ed. David Spitz, chapter 5, p. 87 (1975). Originally = published in 1859. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INDIVIDUALISM, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, SELF-RESPECT, SELF-MANAGEMENT, = SELF-GOVERNMENT, SELF-DETERMINATION, FREEDOM, LIBERTY, RESPONSIBILITY, = SELF-CONTROL: When we leave people o n their own, we are delivering them into the hands of a ruthless = taskmaster from whose bondage there is no escape. The individual who = has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to = himself. - Eric Hoffer \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM, SELF-RULE, LIFE, = SELF-DETERMINATION, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY: Every person is important = enough to rule his own life. - D.Z., 12.8.74. (At 10.) \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM, SELF-THINKING, SELF-ENLIGHTENMENT, = SELF-IMPROVEMENT: Millions of minds are in a state of slavery. How shall = they escape? Rebel, think of yourself, let others grumble. Dare to be = singular -let others sleep. - (Amos) Bronson Alcott. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM, SOCIETY, GOOD, BEE HIVES: What is = not good for the hive is not good for the bee. - Marcus Aurelius, = 121-180. - Surviving and free bees could always build another and better = hive. - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INDIVIDUALISM, SOCIETY, RIGHTS: A society that does not recognize that = each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can = have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know = freedom. - F. A. Hayek. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INDIVIDUALISM, SPECIALIZATION, CONSCIOUSNESS, SELF-AWARENESS, MAN, = COLLECTIVISM: Man's top-knot makes him conscious of himself as a = separate being, which does not often happen in animals and savag es, so that any form of pronounced collectivism in politics is contrary = to the specilization of man. - T. H. White, The Book of Merlyn, 116. \par INDIVIDUALISM, STATE, ENLIGHTENMENT: There will never be a really = free and enlightened state until the State comes=20 to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from = which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him = accordingly. - H. D. Thoreau, An Essay on Civil Disobedience, 1849. - = There will never be a really free and enlightened t e rritorial State. - As a territorial regime over millions of people - or = even over a few hundred only, not all of them volunteers, a State cannot = respect the rights of individuals but makes decisions and acts against = the rights of dissenting individuals an d minorities. - J.Z., 24.10.02. \par INDIVIDUALISM, SUPERIORITY COMPLEX, INFERIORITY COMPLEX: The least = develop'd person on earth is just as important and sacred to himself or = herself as the most develp'd person is to himself or herself. - Walt = Whitman. \par INDIVIDUALISM, SUPERVISION, CONTROL, MONITORING, WORK: Get the = individual to monitor his own work. - W. Edwards Denning. \par INDIVIDUALISM, TERRITORIALISM, MASS MEN, MUTLTITUDES, MOBS, = PANARCHISM: Individuals alone are all ones, unique. But en mass all = their differenc es cancel each other out. Their total becomes zero. - Individuals are = all different, in a territorial political mass their differences cancel = out and reduces them to zeros. Only in the voluntary associations of = panarchism do they become free individuals a nd like-minded one, who tend to cooperate and whose ideas and actions do = not amount to nothing in balance. - J.Z., 28.10.98, 20.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM, TOLERANCE, DIVERSITY, CHOICE, = FREEDOM: De gustibus non disputandum. - There is no accounting for = tastes. - Anonymous Latin Proverb. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUALISM, TRUTH, MASSES: = Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for = truth alone. - William of Conches. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM, UNIQUENESS: All of = us are unique - but only few are fully aware of this and make the most = of it. - J.Z., 27.10.82. \par INDIVIDUALISM, UNIQUENESS: Everybody is unique. There is no other = person like him. - D.Z., 10/74. (At 11.) \par INDIVIDUALISM: \'85 the key value of Western civilization is the = primacy of the individual; all the rest is but a manifestation of it. - = - Frank Chodorov, One Is A Crowd, 173. \par INDIVIDUALISM: "The only alternative to continued chaos and further = development of dehumanizing trends is the rebirth of the individual as a = separate entity - unsmothered by the claims fo any State, whether = democratic or totalitarian." - Source?=20 \par INDIVIDUALISM: All that is valuable in human society depends upon = the opportuntiy for development accorded to the individual. - Albert = Einstein, public statement in England, Sep. 15, 1933. - What opportuni ty do those armed with ABC mass murder devices provide for individuals = in the targeted areas? - J.Z., 24.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUALISM: Every person in = important enough to rule his own life. - D., 74. \par INDIVIDUALISM: Everybody is unique. There is no other person like = him. - D., 74. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INDIVIDUALISM: For, it must be kept in mind that individualism is the = modern radicalism. In the ture sense of the word, individualism is = always radical, for it rests its case on root ideas; it delves into the = nature of things for basic cau ses; it rejects the idea that man is best served by a series of = expedients. - Frank Chodorov, One Is A Crowd, 6. \par INDIVIDUALISM: I am like no one in the whole world. I may be no = better, but at least I am different. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, = Confessions. \par INDI VIDUALISM: In politics - we were sure of that - individualism is a = negative point of view: cut government to the bone. But, what is the = allowable minimum? - Frank Chodorov, One Is A Crowd, 2. - To the bone? = No! To the individual! - J.Z., 8.7.94. - Rather=20 c ut it down to the individual, his individual sovereignty and his = voluntary associations, which, for independence from territorial States, = require full exterritorial autonomy. - Did Chodorov in his writings go = as far, anywhere, or was he always still stuck to the concept of limited but still territorial and thus unlimited = governments? - J.Z., 26.10.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALISM: It is my right to be uncommon. For = I do not choose to be a common man. If I can, I seek opportunity. I do = not wish to be a kept citizen, humbl ed and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take = the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose = not to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to a = guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfi llment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for = beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. - Author Unknown. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM: No bird flies too high, if he flies = with his own wings. - William Blake. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUALISM: One = man means as much to me as a multitude, and a multitude only as much as = one man. - Democritus, Fragments, No. 302. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM: Remember always that you have not only = the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. - = Ascribed to one of the Roosevelts. Quoted=20 in one ANALOG issue (8/94?). - How many wise sayings ascribed to = presidents etc. were actually written by one of their ghostwriters? - = J.Z., 20.10.02. \par INDIVIDUALISM: The ancient American tradition, in so far as it was = vital and productive and civilized, was obviously a tradition of = individualism and revolt, not of herd-morality and conformity. - H. L. = Mencken, Prejudices, 4}{\fs24\lang1046\super th}{ \fs24\lang1046 series, 18/19. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUALISM: The = only letter which Englishmen write in capitals is I. This I think is the = most pointed comment on their national character. - Attributed to = Rubinstein. \par }\pard\plain = \s15\qj\li48\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24\lang1033=20 INDIVIDUALISM: The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of = social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social = nexus. - Ludwig von Mises. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM: The political idea = of i ndividualism is simple: we have the right to seek what we want in the = world so long as we do not commit real crimes against others. - Michael = Moorcock, The Retreat from Liberty, 76. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUALISM: The Universe has as = many different centers as there are living beings in it. - Aleksandr = Solzhenitsyn. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INDIVIDUALISM: There is one person a rugged individualist cannot stand, = and that is another rugged individualist. - Woody Welling, TC124p80. - = Provide the individual choice or exterritorial autonomy option to bo th of them and they could become the best of friends or neutral or = polite or respectful of each other. Territorialism and its threats and = fears sets them against each other when they hold different ideals and = provides not rightful and peaceful coexistence =20 option for them. An analogous example is the kind of industrial warfare = and class warfare practice that is inherent in the maintenance of the = employer-employee relationship. Genuine self-management, in whatever = form it might take among voluntarily associa ted producers and exchangers, would end that kind of warfare. - J.Z., = 25.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1=20 INDIVIDUALISM: There will never be a really free and enlightened State = until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and = independent power, from which all its ow n power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. - Henry = David Thoreau. - A government thinking and acting in terms of = territorial rule isn' t an enlightened or free government. - An = enlightened government would have only voluntary members,=20 i.e., it would let individuals secede from it and would allow = exterritorially autonomous competitors in form of volunteer communities. = - J.Z., 30.6.00.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM: This man is free = from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall: Lord of himself, t hough not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all. - Henry Wotton, = The Character of a Happy Life, 1651. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUALISM: = Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be = called. - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, ch. 3. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = INDIVIDUALISM:... in being individually UNIQUE, we are all the SAME. - = Butler D. Shaffer, Calculated Chaos, 222. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUALISM:... = nothing ultimately matters save maintenance of the conditions which make = for the emancipation of personality. Our business, if we desire t o live a life not utterly devoid of meaning and significance, is to = accept nothing which contradicts our basic experience merely because it = comes to us from tradition or convention or authority... That is why the = condition of freedom in any state is alway s a widespread and consistent skepticism of the canons upon which power = insists. - Harold Laski, quoted in: Butler D. Shaffer, Calculated Chaos, = 225. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISM; "Rugged" individualism is the signature = of our civilization. - Ludwig von Mises, Human Actio n. - Most "rugged" individualists, alas, are still territorial = collectivists regarding some of the most important matters. - J.Z., = 6.5.89. - To the extent that "rugged" individualism has been introduced = in economics, it has made most people comfortably we ll off! - More individualism would mean even less "ruggedness" in our = lives, e.g., via extensive credit and insurance arrangements and higher = personal savings. - J.Z., 26.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUALIST, RATIONAL, EGOISM, = SELF-INTEREST: The }{\b\f0\fs24 rational}{\f0\fs24 individualist is n ot the enemy of benevolence or civility, but their truest exemplar. - = David Kelley. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 INDIVIDUALISTS, INDIVIDUALISM: I am only one, // But still I am one. // = I cannot do everything, // But still I can do something; // And because = I cannot do everything //=20 I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. - Edward Everett = Hale, "Lend a Hand." - Masterpieces of Religious Verse, ed. James Dalton = Morrison, p. 416, 1948. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALISTS, UNITY, PANARCHISM: "Individualists = of the world unite." - from some book=20 that appeared in September 94. - Panarchism would "unite" individualists = and collectivists in a tolerant framework for all their diverse and = independent efforts. It could turn them from enemies into good = neighbours, with each doing his things to and for h i mself, together with like-minded people. - In spite of all their = internal differences, different ideas and beliefs and different actions, = they would all subscribe to individual secessionism, voluntary = membership, exterritorial autonomy and respect for the individual rights claimed by members in the other volunteer = communities. - J.Z., 21.10.02. \par INDIVIDUALITY, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, INDIVIDUALISM: Individuality = is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything = good. - Jean Paul Richter, Titan, CXII, 1803. - Only to the extent that it does not infringes the = individuality of others, as the individuality of "great leaders" does, = legally or illegally. - J.Z., 24.10.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALITY, INDIVIDUALISM, FREEDOM, LIVING: = Individuality is freedom lived. - John Dos Passos. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALITY, POWER, EMPOWERMENT, FREEDOM OF = ACTION, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, PANARCHISM, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, = INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, SELF-GOVERNMENT, SELF-MANAGEMENT, SELF-DETERMINATION: = Du sollst Dich selbst, und deine sinnliche Kr aft erhalten, ueben, staerken, denn es ist im Plane der Vernunft auf = diese Kraft mit gerechnet. Aber du kannst sie nur erhalten durch = zweckmaessigen, durch einen den eignen inneren Gesetzen dieser Sachen = angemessenen Gebrauch. Und ausser dir sind noch me hrere deinesgleichen, auf deren Kraft gerechnet ist, wie auf die = deinige, und die lediglich auf die gleiche Weise, wie die deinige, = erhalten werden kann. \'85 Fichte, Die Bestimmung des Menschen, 3. Buch, = Glaube, S. 120.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALITY: If it were felt that th e free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of = well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is = designated by the terms civilization, instruction, education, culture, = but is itself a necessary part and conditi on of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be = undervalued. - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, ed. David Spitz, chapter 3, = p. 54 (1975). Originally published in 1859. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALIZATION, VOLUNTARIZATION & = EXTERRITORIALIZATION: Only the=20 individualization or voluntarization of societies and States is rightful = and peace, progress and prosperity promoting. - J.Z., 25.8.94. - That = requires the kind of decentralization that becomes possible only through = individual secessionism and exterritori a l autonomy for volunteer communities and their experiments. It would = make any form of voluntary segregation and integration possible, any = democratic, authoritarian or other ideal - among its true believers. It = would provide the ideal framework even for li mited government libertarians, anarcho-capitalists and other forms of = libertarianism and anarchism. - J.Z., 25.8.94, 20.10.02. \par INDIVIDUALIZATION: All collectivist problems can be solved by = individualization. - J.Z., 1975. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUALS & = COMMON ANCESTORS:... those of us now living are individual expressions of a shared gene = pool, enjoying with many total strangers a crisscrossing of common = ancestors. Furthermore, each of us manifests our personal development = from conception through infancy, the evolutionary=20 h istory of all mankind. ... Like blossoms on the tree in an orchard, each = of us reflects a shared ancestry. - Butler D. Shaffer, Calculated Chaos, = 221. - To that extent that are no strangers for us. Were are all more or = less related to each other. It is mo re due to accidents than our natures that all of us bear different = names. The - John Zube, 3.3.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALS & COURAGE: One man with courage makes a = majority. (*) - Attributed to Andrew Jackson by Robert F. Kennedy in his = Foreword to the Young Readers Mem orial Edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, p. xiii (1964). = Unverified. Kennedy continued, "That is the effect President Kennedy had = on others." A variation of the phrase above, "One man can make a = difference and every man should try," was wri t ten by Jacqueline Kennedy on a card to accompany an exhibit that = traveled around the country when the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston = was first opened. - (*) Maybe, hopefully, if he has also right and = reason on his side. He would also need a suitable pl atform or market for publicity for its proposals or freedom to put them = into practice at least among the first few volunteers. - Some of the = greatest scoundrels and tyrants did not lack courage - but much else! - = J.Z., 25.11.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALS & DEMOCRACY: Dem ocracy exists for individuals, not individuals for democracy. - Ivor = Brown, English Political Theory, Methuen, London, 1920, 126, ascribing = this view to Mill.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = INDIVIDUALS & FREEDOM:... every other individual in the world who is in = any way different from him or her MUST be free if we are to survive. - = Arthur C. Clarke, The Garden of Rama, 108. \par INDIVIDUALS & GOVERNMENTS, CHOICE IN GOVERNMENT, FULL VOTES FOR = INDIVIDUALS: If the essential attribute of a democracy is its power to = accept or reject the government , there must be genuine possibility of an alternative government. - J. = D. Mabbott, THE STATE AND THE CITIZEN, 175. - Rather, power for = INDIVIDUALS to accept or reject or establish a government for = THEMSELVES, without thereby losing any individual human ri ghts, except those which they themselves want to renounce for the time = being. - J.Z., 23.3.99. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUALS & = GROUPS, COMMITTEES, COMPROMISES:... The individual's chief advantage = over the group of men lies in his mental mobility. With him perception = is foll owed almost instantaneously by action. But with the group there are = countless steps between. There must be a constant striking of averages, = a constant effort to reconcile irreconcilable propositions, a perpetual = waste of time. At definite, workable ide a seldom survives this process unscathed. It grows barnacled with ifs = and buts... - H. L. Mencken, 1909. \par INDIVIDUALS & MASSES: That cause is strong which has not a = multitude, but one strong man behind it. - J. R. Lowell, Democracy: = Books and Libraries. - T he individual stands a better chance with alternative media, an Idea's = Archive, an Encyclopedia of the Best Refutations, the experimental = freedom of Panarchism and a militia for the protection of individual = rights on his side. Otherwise, even the stronge st personality with the highest ideal is not likely to succeed. - John = Zube, 29.3.99. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INDIVIDUALS & MINORITIES: Minorities have the rights of individuals and = they cannot enjoy them in systems dominated by individuals, small = groups, particular minorities or majorities. - J.Z., reworded 2/6/84. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INDIVIDUALS & MINORITIES: Q.: What is the smallest minority of all? A.: = The individual. Those who demand benefits for minorities (or the = majority) should ask the question, at whose expense? The individual = should never=20 be enslaved (taxes and regulation) in the name of fairness to other = minorities. - Glen G. Cooper, Contemporary Realism.=20 \par INDIVIDUALS & PANARCHISM: There are many worlds in one. We share in = all these worlds as we allow for the flowering of individual percep tion and consciousness. The many worlds of our existence are all = virtually undiscovered. Everyone is a world in himself. - Joan Marie = Leonard, THE FREEMAN, 9/76. - So let all individuals finally make a = world or a community or establish institutions, toget h er with likemined people, that corresponds to their convictions and = their beliefs. Neither any democratic or republican or limited = government nor an form of anarchy will satisfy everybody. To each his = own - as long as he can stand it! - Exterritorial auto nomy has "space" for an unlimited number of societies, dream-worlds and = utopias. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = INDIVIDUALS & SOCIETY: He that lives not somewhat to others, liveth = little to himself. - Montaigne, Essays, III, chapter 10. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS & SOCIETY: Indeed, so ciety is often less subtle, less perceptive than the individuals who = compose it. - Chad Walsh, From Utopia to Nightmare, 146. - Compare: = Majority, Mass Psychology, Public Opinion, Ideas, Individual = Sovereignty. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUALS & THE = PUBLIC OR THE PEOPLE: In fa ct he didn't really believe in anything that might properly be called = "the public." There were just billions of pre-occupied individuals, = coping with their own lives as he was attempting to cope with his. He = knew the media lied about every issue he was=20 familiar with, and as a consequence he assumed they lied about = everything else, as well.- L. Neil Smith, Pallas, 373. \par INDIVIDUALS & THEIR POTENTIAL, GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT, FREEDOM: The = great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capabl e of being. - Carlyle, Essays: J.P. F. Richter. - I would except born = authoritarians, tyrants and dictators, unless the act only among = volunteers. - John Zube, 29.3.99. \par INDIVIDUALS VERSUS THE MASSES, MAJORITIES, TRUTH V. ERRORS: Rather = stand up, assured with conscious pride, alone, than err with millions on = thy side. - Charles Churchill, Night, I, 381. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS VS. COLLECTIVISM, RESPECT, ENTITIES, HONOUR: = Ehret ihr immer das Ganze, ich kann nur Einzelne achten, / Immer im = Einzelnen nur hab' ich das Ganz e erblickt. - Schiller, Gedichte: Das Ehrwuerdige. (You may honour the = whole but I can only respect the individual. Always I have seen the = whole only in the individual.) \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALS VS. COMMITTEES: A committee of one = gets things done. - Joe Ryan. - Teams of like - minded people can = achieve even more, in loose cooperation. - J.Z., 23.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS VS. GOVERNMENTS, FREEDOM VS. TYRANNY: = \'85 history shows that individuals have always done best at solving = social and economic problems when they have been free of government = tyranny. - Earl W. McMunn, THE FREEMAN, 3/78. \par INDIVIDUALS VS. GOVERNMENTS: Individuals, peaceful and productive = ones, are morally much more important and valuable than are any, even = the best governments. - J.Z., 13.4.92. - Are there any quite peaceful and productive governments or rulers? - J.Z., 26.10.02. \par INDIVIDUALS VS. INSTITUTIONS, KNOWLEDGE, IDEAS: Institutions do not = know anything; only individuals have knowledge. - Marc Stiegler, The = Third Alternative, ANALOG, Nov. 87, 82. \par INDIVIDUALS V S. LEADERSHIP, FANATICISM, REGIMENTATION, DOGMATISM, IDEOLOGIES: We are = living in a world and in a time when powerful leaders with millions of = fanatical followers are committed to the forcible regimentation of their = fellow men, according to formulas which =20 have no initial authority but that of their own private dogmatism. They = not only refuse to recognize the right of private thought and personal = conscience to be considered in the management of public affairs, but = they have abolished the concept of the indi v idual as a private personality and have reduced him to the level of the = bee in the hive. To restore the individual to his former dignity as a = human being is the urgent need of the day. - Martin ten Hoor, quoted in = THE FREEMAN, under Ideas on Liberty. Date ?=20 \par INDIVIDUALS VS. MAJORITY: Everyone in whom the animal disposition = is preponderant believes firmly that millions are more than one; whereas = spirit is just the opposite, that one is more than millions, and every = man can be the one. - S\'f6 ren Kierkegaard, Journals. \par INDIVIDUALS VS. MASSES, MAJORITY, CREATIVITY: Was ist je bei = grossen Begebenheiten das Werk von vielen zugleich gewesen? Oft war es = nur das Werk eines einzigen. - Lichtenberg, Vermischte Schriften, II, 7: = Politische Bemerkungen. (What was ever, in g reat events, the work of many people at the same time? Oft it was only = the work of one individual.) \par INDIVIDUALS VS. STATE: \'85 the view (which goes back at least to = Sismonid) that the spiritual and physical condition of the individual = citizen matters more th an the power of the State, so that if, as often happened, the two stood = in inverse ratio to one another, the rights and welfare of the = individual must come first. They rejected as historically false the = proposition that only powerful States could breed go od or happy citizens, \'85 - Isahiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers, 230. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALS VS. THE STATE, RIGHTS & LIBERTIES VS. = PRIVILEGES & GRANTS, STATISM VS. FREE SOCIETIES: In brief, what it came = to was that the State is everything; the individual nothing. The indiv idual has not rights that the State is bound to respect; no rights at = all, in fact, except those which the State may choose to give him, = subject to revocation at its own pleasure, with or without notice. There = is no such thing as natural rights; the funda m ental doctrine of the American Declaration of Independence, the doctrine = underlying the Bill of Rights, is all moonshine. Moreover, since the = State creates all rights, since the only valid and authoritative ethics = are State ethics, then, by obvious infere nce the State can do no wrong. - Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a = Superfluous Man, Harper, 1943, 114/115. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS, ALONE, LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE: In what = concerns you much, do not think you have companions; know that you are = alone in the world. - Thoreau. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDI VIDUALS, ALONE, STRENGTH: The strongest man in the world is the who = stands most alone. - Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People, act 5. - = That ignores the advantages of voluntary co-operation, specialisation, = division of labor and free exchange. It just s tresses the value of a large degree of independence. - John Zube, = 1.4.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 INDIVIDUALS, ALONE, TALKING TO OR THINKING BY ONESELF, MAN VS. MASSES, = PEOPLE: It was the face of those who did not dare sit down and talk with = themselves, the people who could not be alone a minute, the people who were tired without knowing they were = tired and afraid without knowing that they were afraid. - Clifford D. = Simak, Ring Around the Sun, 81. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUALS, = ALONE: He travels fastest who travels alone. - Rudyard Kipling, The = Winners. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = INDIVIDUALS, APPEARANCES AND PERSONALITIES: Everyone sees what you = appear to be; few really know what you are. - Machiavelli: The Prince, = 1513. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS, ARMIES NATIONS, PEOPLES, PROGRESS: Not = armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here a nd there in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his = shadow over the world. - E. H. Chapin, American clergyman, 1814-1880, = quoted in Leonard E. Read, How Do We Know, 83. - I would rather have = said that he cast his LIGHT over the world. - J.Z. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0=20 INDIVIDUALS, CONTRACTS, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, SOCIETY:... they could only = explain society if they presupposed contracting individuals with = individual rights,... - Ernest Barker, Political Thought In England 1848 = to 1914, 166. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALS, CONVICTIONS,=20 POWER: Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is = convinced. - Goethe. - Not everything is within the reach and power of = isolated individuals. However, their free associations can achieve = everything achievable by man. - J.Z., 23.11.0 2. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0=20 INDIVIDUALS, COURAGE, MAJORITIES: One man with courage makes a majority. = - Andrew Jackson, U.S. President. - Good sense is also helpful! - The is = an abundance of courage wasted in wars but it has not yet brought about = a lasting peace. A lot of courage a nd persistence are required to search for, find, recognize and finally = utilise alternative good ideas. One is also to be free to act upon one's = own ideas. - John Zube, 13.3.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS, DEATH, TALENTS, GENIUS, IDEAS ARCHIVE: Der = Tod eines einzigen Mens chen kann fuer die ganze Menschheit eine grosse verlorene Schlacht = bedeuten. - Romain Rolland, Au-des-su de la m\'eal\'e9es, XVII. - (The = death of a single man can means a great lost battle for the whole of = mankind.) \par INDIVIDUALS, DECISION-MAKING, MONOPOLIES, PAN ARCHISM, INDIVIDUAL SECESSIONISM: My personal feeling is that this is = how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals = making quality decisions and that's all. - Robert M. Prisig: Zen and the = Art of Motorcyle Maintenance, 352. - But f irst we would have to set individuals free to do so, regardless of = government, majority and expert opinions. - J.Z., 27.109.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALS, DIVERSITY: At bottom every man knows = well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by = no extr aordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity = in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. - Friedrich = Nietzsche. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\lang1046 = INDIVIDUALS, DUTY, OBLIGATION, SELF-SUPPORT, RIGHT, IDLENESS, = EXPLOITATIOIN: Kein Mensch auf der Erde hat=20 das Recht, seine Kraefte ungebraucht zu lassen und durch fremde Kraefte = zu leben. - Fichte, Beitrag \'85 quoted in review, S. 363. - (No human = being on Earth has the right to leave his abilities unused and live at = the expense of the energies of others.) \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INDIV IDUALS, ENLIGHTENMENT, SOME OF THE BEST IDEAS FOR LIBERTY, KNOWLEDGE: = The voice of one crying in the wilderness. - Matthew, III, 3. - Have the = few freedom lovers in the world taken up enough contacts with each = other? Do they exchange enough freedom inform ation between them, or do they largely ignore each other, too? - J.Z., = 1.5.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS, FORGOTTEN MAN: Indeed, the individual = has become "the forgotten minority". - LIBERTARIAN AMERICAN, March-June = 68.=20 \par INDIVIDUALS, FREEDOM, GOVERNMENTS: Just remember t hat you are a free individual, no matter what the government thinks. - = Fritz Knese, TC115p107. - The government knows that you are not yet a = free individual, no matter what you believe your actual status to be and = it will do its worst to keep you unfree w h ile thinking that your are free, e.g. through the democratic vote and = your right to utter some complaints. Wishful thinking, false confidence = and self-deception, combined with some more or less trivial liberties, = are no substitute for real and full libert y. The man who imagines himself to be free will be kept unfree and his = delusions will remain government supported. F. K. should have stated: = "ought to be" instead of "are". - J.Z., 26.10.02.=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUALS, = GROUPS AND COLLECTIVES:... if your interest lies wi th the group, consider that it consists of nothing but individuals. = What else exists for it to consist of? And it's from individuals that = its survival, all its role and progress, derive. Where else could they = come from? Suppress the individual, you su ppress the group, defeating your original purpose.- L. Neil Smith, = Contact and Commune, 157. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, IDEALISM, IDEOLOGIES, COLLECTIVISM: "I find = Kierkegaard's almost fanatical concern for the individual and keen = psychological insights much more appealing than the grandiose schemes and concern for = humanity-in-the-abstract of Hegel or Marx. Respect for groups that = doesn't include respect for individuals of those groups isn't respect at = all. . . . . In history, some of the worst disasters have=20 b een caused by idealists trying to force people into ``doing what is good = for them''. Such idealism not only leads to suffering among its = innocent victims, but also to delusion and corruption of the idealists = applying the force. I also find idealists pro ne to ignore experience and experiment that inconveniently clashes with = dogma or theory." - Bjarne Stroustrup, "The Design and Evolution of = C++", p23 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, MASSES, = EMOTIONS, INTELLECT, PSYCHOLOGY, FEELINGS: One fundamental observation = of grou p psychology says that two changes occur when individuals are assembled = into a group. There is an }{\i\fs24\lang1046 = intensification}{\fs24\lang1046 of the emotions; and there is an = }{\i\fs24\lang1046 inhibition}{\fs24\lang1046=20 of the intellect. - Henry M. Boettinger, Moving Mountains. - Compare Le = Bon: The Psychology of the Masses. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALS, IDEAS, MAJORITY, MINORITY: Any man = more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one. - Henry = David Thoreau. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, BUREAUCRACY: \'85 = the individual is the one big think in the world, \'85 he has rights = which come from a higher source than the bureaucracy. - Frank Chodorov, = The Income Tax \'85, 50. \par INDIVIDUALS, INDIVIDUALITY, INDIVIDUALISM, INEQUALITY: Even one ear = of corn is not exactly like another. - T. J. Sanhedrin, 4: 9.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALS, INEQUALITY, UNIQUENE SS: The human features and countenance, although composed of but some = ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands = of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from = one another. - Pliny the Elder, Natural His tory, VII, 8. \par }{\fs24\lang1046=20 INDIVIDUALS, INFERIORITY, SUPERIORITY, INEQUALITY: I had wrongly judged = men. I had labeled them as inferior to me, when this was not the case. = Some were inferior, some my equal, osme even my superior in ways. Each = minim of intelligent life on=20 this planet was such an individual spark, such a varying quantity and = quality that no sweeping comparison could ever be made. What I had = alsways sensed and what I had misinterpreted was that }{\b\fs24\lang1046 = society}{\fs24\lang1046=20 was inferior to me. No man. }{\b\fs24\lang1046 Society. = }{\fs24\lang1046 - Dean R. Koontz, A Darkness in my Soul, 99, Daw Books, = N.Y., 1972. - Compare Stirner's philosophy in his The Ego and His Own.=20 \par INDIVIDUALS, INSTITUTIONS, COUNTRIES, STATES, GOVERNMENTS, = RESPONSIBILITY: The things that are wrong with the country today are the = sum total of all the things that are wrong with us as individuals. - Charles W. Tobey. = - Are all individuals really to blame for the existence of territorial = States, countries and nations or are they rather victims of them and = their institutions and laws and regulation s , of the official myths and false pretences? Are they free to secede and = to try to do better for themselves at the own expense and risk? = Institutions, especially coercive, monopolistic, territorial, = centralistic ones, not only reduce men to less of their=20 p otential growth but also destroy them. The crimes of the victimizers = should not be blamed upon the victims. The only crimes of the victims = here consist in ignoring the criminality of all territorial institutions = and not caring enough about finding, public izing and realizing sound alternatives to them. - J.Z., 12.7.92, = 25.10.02. \par INDIVIDUALS, JUSTICE: The prophets of Israel who preached the idea = of the nucleus of ten good men required for a city's survival, built = this concept on the Talmudic idea or the Thirt y-Six Just Ones whose existence in each generation is necessary for the = survival of Humankind. - Judaism's Book of the Dead, Shiprecords. - = Quote in: Frank Herbert, The Jesus Incident. - The notion that 36 just = men can be a substitute for most people adop ting justice as their ideal, is as absurd as that of one "savior" taking = the sins of all mankind upon himself. Just 36 ust men only - among a = mankind of injust men, can only expect their extermination, soon. - = J.Z., 12.6.92. \par INDIVIDUALS, KNOWLEDGE: So much=20 one man can do that does both, act and know. - Andrew Marrell: Horatian = Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, 1650. - Would he have been = overthrown without his conquests and victories there? Did he, his = officers and his soldiers show sufficient restrai n t and tolerance there, as they had shown in England? Was it too much a = religious war that they conducted there? Did they respect the various = local autonomy aspirations? Perhaps the republic might even have been = continued if he had been defeated there and=20 k illed in a battle? - He was a great man in many respects - but he had = his flaws, too. - What is the opinion among Irish Catholics today about = his actions and victories? Are they forever grateful and honouring him? = A great man may be a good defender - but=20 also a wrongful aggressor. - J.Z., 24.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALS, MAJORITY, COURAGE, SHEEP, NATIONS: In = a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority. - Edward Abbey, = 1927-1989. Vox Clamantis in Deserto (A Shout in the Wilderness or Crying = in the Wilderness.) - If only this were ALWAYS true, not only morally but in practice. - = J.Z., 2.6.01. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS, MASS MEN, SELVES: For every man has a = mob-self and an individual self, in varying proportions. Some men are = almost all mob-self. - D. H. Lawrence, Obscenity and=20 Pornography. - Is this all or mainly an inherited character trait or = mainly or largely false conditioning? - J.Z., 4.4.89. - We should = become more conscious of the many important spheres in which territorial = States have eliminated individual responsibili ty and decision-making and the opportunities for developing judgment, = maturity and competence and replace them by centralized, monopolistic = and coercive political, bureraucratic and even military decision-making. = - J.Z., 26.10.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALS, MASSES, PEOP LE, POPULATION, NATIONS, PROLETARIAT, CLASSES: Leave this hypocritical = prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in = their demands and influences, and need not to be flattered but to be = schooled. I wish not to concede anything to=20 t hem, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals = out of them. The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to = preserve are not worth preserving. Masses! The calamity is the masses. I = do not wish any mass at all, but honest=20 m en only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only, and no shovel-handed, = narrow-brained, gin-drinking million stockingers or lazzeroni at all. If = government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply the = population. When it reaches its true law o f action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential. - Ralph = Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Conduct of Life (1860). \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUALS, MINORITIES, FORGOTTEN = MAN: Indeed, the individual has become 'the forgotten minority'. - = LIBERTARIAN AMERICAN, March-June 68. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUALS, MULTITUDES AND CAUSES: That causes is strong, = which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. - James Russell = Lowell. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS, NOBODIES: "I'm just a nobody!" - Nobody is = just a nobody - unless and as long as they do turn themselves into such = things. - J.Z., 22.11.87. \par INDIVIDUALS, OPINION-MAKERS, PUBLIC OPINION, MASS MEDIA, PRESS, = RADIO, TV, BROADCASTERS, COMMENTATORS: \'85 individuals who appear every = night on national television wield more influence than government = leaders. - F. M . Esfandiary, Up-Wingers, 1973, p. 96.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALS, OPTIONS, POSSIBILITIES, CHOICES, FREEDOM: = Any single individual had a whole universe of possibilities in him. - = Gordon R. Dickson, Mission to Universe, 217. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUALS, PERSISTENCE, INDUSTRY, = GROWTH, MATURITY, DEVELOPMENT, SELF-IMPROVEMENT: Every oak tree was once = a nut who stood its ground. - (anonymous) \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALS, POWER, ACTION: I am = only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. = What I can do, I ought to do, and what I ough t to do, by the Grace of God, I will do. - Author Unknown. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDIVIDUALS, POWER, INFLUENCE: When = you can't do as you would, you must do as you can. - Anna Warner. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUALS, PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS: The best problems = solvers are individuals. Many people act ing independently, are more intelligent than a few people acting as a = group. - P. J. O' Rourke, All The Trouble In The World, 203. =20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS, PROGRESS, INITIATIVE, COURAGE, FREEDOM TO = EXPERIMENT: The world's progress always has been started by indivi duals, not by groups. And these individuals have always been = non-conformists - people who had a vision of something better than the = status quo and had intestinal fortitude enough to fight for it - people = who bearded Procrustes in his den and die battle wi t h im, instead of letting themselves be cut down to his size. Progress is = never made by those who merely follow the crowd, but by those who dare = to show the crowd a better way. - Kenneth W. Sollet, quoted in NOTES = FROM FEE, Jan. 78. - The last option is of t en outlawed by censorship and almost always by the suppression of = exterritorial autonomy for volunteer communities. Most fighting could be = avoided once individuals may freely opt out to do their own things to = and for themselves, together with like-minded=20 people.=20 \par INDIVIDUALS, PROGRESS, MANKIND: The race advances only by the extra = achievements of the individual. You are the individual. - Charles Towne. \par INDIVIDUALS, PROGRESS: It is because nations tend to stupidity and = baseness that mankind moves so slowly; i t is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves = at all. - George Gissing, "Spring". The Private Papers of Henry = Ryecroft, 1903. - It is stupid to assume that "nations" exist and that = the coercion, collectivism, and monopolism and=20 majority despotism of territorialism have no negative effects. - J.Z., = 23.10.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALS, RESPONSIBILITY: Responsibility and = danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind - = rather the contrary; but wherever they do liberate an indiv idual's judgment and confidence we can be sure that we are in the = presence of exceptional ability. - Carl von Clausewitz. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS, SAVINGS, LIFE SAVINGS: \'85 whoso = saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all = mankind. - The Kor an, Surah V, 32. - Over history and even in our times many lives have = been saved, perhaps even by you. But none of these life-saving acts has = so far assured the survival of mankind. For this much more than the = occasional saving and heroic acts is required . We might even have to change our beliefs, principles and institutions = and should no longer make collectivist and territorial efforts to save = and conserve them in spite of the threats they pose to our lives, = liberties, rights, prosperity and progress. - J .Z., 21.10.02. \par INDIVIDUALS, SELF-GOVERNMENT, SELF-DETERMINATION, = SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, AUTONOMY, PANARCHISM, MULTI-GOVERNMENT: Individuals = are more qualified to decide what is best and good for themselves than = are bureaucrats. - Le Grand E. Day, TC140p77. -=20 Compare the old English proverb: The wearer only knows where the shoe = pinches. =20 \par INDIVIDUALS, SELF-HELP, SELF-RELIANCE: No one can really pull you = up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet = you can climb mountains. - Louis Brandeis. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALS, SELF-HELP, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, = INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I = am only for myself, what am I? And if not now\emdash=20 when? - Aboth 1:14, saying of Hillel. Pirkay Avot, often known in = English as the "Chapt ers of the Fathers," is the best known of the books of the Mishnah, = first part of the Talmud. Translations vary; that above is from Leo = Rosten's Treasury of Jewish Quotations, p. 459 (1972). \par INDIVIDUALS, SELF-IMPROVEMENT & PERFECTION: It is an absolute = perfection\'85 to know how\'85 to get the very most out of one's own individuality. - Michel de = Montaigne. - While that may be the perfection of any particular = individual, it will have reached its limits with it, not absolute = perfection itself. - J.Z., 25.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS, SPACE, UNIVERSE, SIZE, MAN, ATOMS, = CONSCIOUSNESS, REASON: By space the universe encompasses and swallows me = up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world. - Pascal, = Pens\'e9es, 1670, 348, tr. W. F. Trotter. \par INDIVIDUALS, SUCCESS, POWER, INFLUEN CE, OPINION-MAKERS, PARADIGM, MODELS: One free man says frankly what he = thinks and feels in the midst of thousands who by their actions and = words maintain just the opposite. It might be supposed that the man who = has frankly expressed his thought would rem a in isolated, yet in most cases it happens that all, or the majority, of = the others have long thought and felt the same as he, only they have not = expressed it. And what yesterday was the novel opinion of one man = becomes today the general opinion of the maj o rity. And as soon as his opinion is established, at once by = imperceptible degrees but irresistibly, the conduct of mankind begins to = alter. - Leo Tolstoy, quoted in NOTES FROM FEE, Jan. 78. - If only it = would always work that way! - See under Ideas Archiv e. - J.Z., 24.10.02. - See Kuhn on scientific revolutions. See: Experts, = Public Opinion, Enlightenment.=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUALS, THE = PUBLIC, PUBLIC OPINION, AND PRINCIPLES: Let a man proclaim a new = principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side. - Thoma s B. Reed. - That would not matter at all, if only the man and his = voluntary followers are granted experimental freedom or freedom of = action, while the rest, the dissenting public, remains free, to go on as = before, undisturbed by these innovators and refo r mers. To each his own, that is justice and has always been. To = coercively mix opposites is a horrendous mistake, worse than compulsory = marriages, enforced sexual intercourse, the prescription of one sport = for all, one kind of meals for all, one kind of=20 c lothing for all, one kind of recreation for all. In most spheres of = living we have already come away from this kind of nonsense, intolerance = and wrongful interventionism. Why are we foolish enough to retain it = for politics and for economic and social sy stems, without any good moral or rational motive for doings so? We do = not even discuss this wrong, this great mistake in these three remaining = spheres, no matter how much we daily suffer for this omission. - John = Zube, 3.4.99.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS, TOOLS, MACHINERY : Today the individual is more powerful than ever. The individual has = communication facilities, mibility, information, knowledge, awareness. = These are powerful tools. - F. M. Esfandiary, Upwingers, 1973, 98. \par INDIVIDUALS, TRUTH, INFLUENCE: "One man plus the truth is an army". - Source? - Rather: One man plus truths can become = an army. - J.Z., 5.2.92. - Compare the remark by Machiavelli: All armed = prophets won. All unarmed prophets lost. - One individual, consistently = and clearly standing for individual rig hts and liberties, could get all individuals as his allies. - J.Z., = 26.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALS, WISDOM, SOCIETY: No man is wise = enough by himself. - Titus Maccius Plautus. Miles Gloriosus, act III, = sc. iii. - There is wisdom to be gained from human society, team work and collaboration, even from arguments with opponents. - J.Z., = 27.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS: \'85 J. S. Mill's attempt to draw 'a = circle around every individual' within which the individual must be left = free to act as he chooses. Mill's distinction between self-regarding and = other-regarding acts \'85 - David Nicholls, The Pluralist State, 19. \par INDIVIDUALS: Each thinking individual hears, sees, reads, = experiences and thinks so much and so differently that all his = impressions and thoughts constitute a universe of his=20 own which others could come close to almost fully exploring only at the = expense of their own unique individual lives. Otherwise thinking = individuals are largely unknowable to each other. We get only glimpses = of them. But all the pearls which they do produ ce should be recorded, gathered, ordered, indexed and published upon = demand and remain easily accessible in an optimal market for them. - = J.Z., 2.10.88, 25.10.02. \par INDIVIDUALS: Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows = some effect. - Baruch Spin oza, Ethica, I, 1677. - For positive effects that applies more to = creative, moral and rational individuals, free to act, than to anything = else in the human sphere. - J.Z., 12.7.86, 24.10.02. \par INDIVIDUALS: I believe that each new-born child arrives on earth=20 with a message to deliver to mankind. Clenched in his little fist is = some particle of yet unrevealed truth, some missing clue, which may = solve the enigma of man's destiny. He has a limited amount of time to = fulfill his mission - and he will never get a se cond chance - nor will we. He may be our last hope. He must be treated = as top-sacred. - Sam Levenson. \par INDIVIDUALS: It's the fault of those physicists and that = synchronicity theory, every particle being connected with every other; = you can't fart without chan ging the balance in the universe. - Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High = Castle, p 53. - Perceptively, even from 100 m away? - When you go = swimming in an ocean, do you cause a world-wide tsunami and flood all = the coastlines? - Does your opinion automatical ly change world opinion? - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par INDIVIDUALS: No individual is irrelevant - unless he makes himself = so. - J.Z., 18.6.92. \par INDIVIDUALS: Nor armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but = here and there in the cause of ages, an individual has stood up and cast = his shadow over the world. - E. H. Chapin, 1814-1880. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INDIVIDUALS: Only individuals exist, and in the = individual nothing but the individual. - Victor Cousin, quoted in: - = Letters From Albert Jay Nock, 1924-45, to Mr. & Mrs. Edmund C. Evans & = Ellen Windsor, Caxton, 1949, 202. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS: The great creative individual \'85 is = capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be. - = John S. Mill, 1806-1873. - But an intelligent combination of numerous = small creative sparks of many people from different times and places, can often be greater than any = individual creative contribution. Compare the development of motors and = cars. - J.Z., 9.6.92, 27.10.02. \par INDIVIDUALS: The sun is so large that, if it were hollow, it could = contain more than one million worlds the size of our earth. There are stars in space so large = that they could easily hold 500 million suns the size of ours. There are = about 100 billion stars in the average galaxy - and at least 100 million = galaxies in known space. Who says it 's a small world? - Morris Mandell, quoted in ANALOG 4/88, P. 119. - = Size is not the most important thing, at least not for human beings. Who = says that consciousness, creativity and morality of a tiny human being = is small by comparison? - J.Z., 16.4.91. \par INDIVIDUALS: To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do. = - Susan Blow. - Alas, in the absence of an Ideas Archive and a projects = list - how many people have become familiar with their work? - J.Z., = 24.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDIVIDUALS: = Underneath all, individuals, I swear nothing is good to me now that = ignores individuals,...- Walt Whitman, BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDIVIDUALS: What difference can one man make? One man = can always make a difference. - W. To Quik, Handball, in ANALOG, 12/88, = p. 123. - And sometimes h e can make "the" difference - but hardly ever as a mere voting cattle. - = J.Z., 27.10.02. \par INDIVIDUALS: Whatever little you can do - do it! - J.Z., 27.5.88. \par INDIVIDUALS: You don't matter if you think you don't. - Harry = Schulz, quoting a letter from a friend. - 10/87. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033=20 INDIVIDUATION, ANARCHISM: Yet we are all of us attracted by the concept = of individuation; and every man, unconsciously perhaps, is something of = an anarchist at heart. Our dream is of a community where men will so = respect the rights of others that there will be no need of a policeman to enforce those rights; of a land = where virtue will be entirely voluntary and entirely successful. Most = Socialists have a strong vein of anarchism \'85 - Ivor Brown, English Political Theory, Methuen, London, 1920, 132. In = discussion of Herbert Spencer.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033=20 INDOLENCE, INACTIVITY, PASSIVITY, APATHY, RIGHTS & LIBERTY, RESISTANCE, = OBEDIENCE, SUBMISSIVENESS, SLAVE MENTALITY, SUBORDINATION: It is the = common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the = active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal = vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the = consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. - John Philpot = Curran, "Election of Lord Mayor of Dublin," speech bef o re the Privy Council, July 10, 1790. - The Speeches of the Right = Honorable John Philpot Curran, ed. Thomas Davis, pp. 94-95 (1847).An = early use of the words "eternal vigilance." Bartlett's Familiar = Quotations, at least, lists this as the source of "eterna l vigilance is the price of liberty" (15th ed., p. 397, footnote 8, = 1980). But see also No. 1073. - All the more it is important that those = who love their individual rights to arm, organize and train themselves = in suitable ways for their protection. See: M ilitia: J.Z., 26.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INDUCTION, CONSCRIPTION, SELECTED SERVITUDE, = MILITARY SLAVERY, KIDNAPPING: Induct, v. Abduct. - L. A. Rollins, = Lucifer's Lexikon.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INDULGENCES, BODILY NEEDS, LIVING: Cling, therefore, to = this sound and wholesome plan of life: indulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. It needs to be = treated somewhat strictly to prevent it from being disobedient to the = spirit. Your food should appease your hunger, your drink quench your = thirst, your clothing keep out the cold, your hous e be a protection against inclement weather\'85 \'85 - Seneca, Letters, = VIII, page 45. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INDUSTRIAL ACTION, COERCIVE UNIONISM, STRIKES: = "Industrial action" is a misnomer used to cover willful stoppages or = even anti-industrial actions, like sabotage and blocking acc ess to jobs for "scabs", i.e., people still satisfied with job = conditions that no longer satisfy the strikers. Scabs should be allowed = to help heal wounds. - J.Z., 16.11.95, 20.10.02.=20 \par INDUSTRIAL ACTION? Non-industrial or anti-industrial actions would = be=20 a better term for e.g. most strikes. Voluntary loafing is involved = rather than industriousness, breaches of contract rather than the = keeping of promises, production stoppages rather than the continuance = and increase of production. - J.Z., 24.11.94. - Self - management, by owners or free contractors would stop most of this = nonsense. They would not go on strike against themselves or their = customers. They would also know that they would risk loosing many = customers is they charged to much or did not serve them w ell enough. The whole employer-employee relationship and its industrial = warfare and class warfare keeps us on the wrong tracks. - J.Z., = 19.10.02. \par INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: The subject of "industrial relations" should = be subdivided into pro-industrial and anti-i ndustrial relations, at least as long as class warfare ideas, fallacies = and institutions remain, which means, essentially, as long as the = employer-employee relationship continues to dominate the field. - J.Z., = 24.6.86, 24.10.02. \par INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, WAGE S, LIVING STANDARD, MASS PRODUCTION, CAPITALISM: The outstanding fact = about the Industrial Revolution is that it opened an age of mass = production for the needs of the masses. The wage earners are no longer = toiling merely for other people's well being \'85 They themselves are the main consumers of the products the factories = turn out. - Ludwig von Mises, Human Action. \par INDUSTRIOUSNESS, WISHES, LABOUR: Industry ned not wish. - Benjamin = Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1758. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INDUSTRY AND THE = COUNTRY: The statement that aroused such fury among the collectivists - "What's good for = General Motors is good for the country" - was true. And the reverse is = also true: What's bad for industry is bad for the country. - Ayn Rand, = THE SANCTION OF THE VICTIMS, 152. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INDUSTRY, O PPORTUNITIES, FRONTIERS, OPEN MINDS: There exist limitless = opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there = will always be a frontier. - Charles Kettering. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INDUSTRY, PLANNING, CONTROL, = NATIONALIZATION, UNIONS, CENTRALIZATION, REGULATI ONS, PANARCHISM, COMPETITION IN ALL SPHERES: Industry can't be statized, = unionized, centrally planned, controlled or regulated without ceasing to = be a productive industry. It's just being turned into a = counter-productive bureaucracy, if not soon altogethe r bankrupted and destroyed. - J.Z., 28.6.92. - Sometimes the excessive = wage or fee demands of tradesmen or specialists have done away with = their trades or professions. I met once the last orthopaedic shoe-maker = in Berlin. He lost his job, being replaced by =20 quickly trained and partly skilled labourers, each of whom just did a = small fraction of the total job - with the help of advanced machinery. = The Berlin building labourers, who specialized on weatherproofing brick = buildings with a layer of special mortar,=20 a lso priced themselves largely out of a job by monopolizing it and = artificially driving their union wages above the market value of their = labour. Now most of their jobs are done by automated machines, doing the = job much more cheaply. If government interven t ionism were not upheld by protective and monopolizing laws and subsidies = out of compulsory taxation funds, it would soon be largely discontinued. = Charitable contributions can only subsidize so much in lack of = productivity. Even Architects may be on the wa y out, gradually being replaced by computer programs. The same might = happen to doctors, dentists and barbers. There are not many = ditch-diggers left. Competition should replace all over-priced & = outdated services - and in the political, economic and social sytems spheres it also ought to play its role. - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par INDUSTRY: Industry is the road to wealth and honesty to happiness; = and he who strenuously endeavours to pursue them both, may never fear = the critic's lash, or the sharp cries of penury and wa nt. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Bee, 416. - Under monetary despotism, heavy = taxation and other restrictions upon economic liberties, even the = greatest industry and honesty cannot bring enough wealth to all people. = On the contrary. Then the exploitation of oth e rs and dishonesty is often the road to riches - but only for relatively = few people. Whatever prosperity we experience is largely due to the = remaining liberties and the degrees of capital, good ideas and = management that are applied. - Under full freedom we could achieve the same with much less effort or much more with the same = effort. - J.Z., 24.10.02.=20 \par INDUSTRY: Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you. - Saying = quoted by Oliver Goldsmith, The Bee, 416.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = INEQUALITY AND EQUALITY: Those who will not endure SOCIAL equality condemn themselves to suffer the POLITICAL variety in = its place. - L. Neil Smith, Converse and Conflict, 99.- I would = replace "social equality" by " social inequality". - J.Z., 14.3.99. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INEQUALITY AND = INDIVIDUALS: Now, as individuals dif fered greatly from each other, in intelligence, sagacity, energy, = perseverance, skill, habits of industry and economy, physical power, = position and opportunity, the necessary effect of leaving all free to = exert themselves to better their condition must be =20 a corresponding inequality between those who might possess these = qualities and advantages in a high degree, and those who may be = deficient in them. The only means by which this result can be prevented = are either to impose such restrictions on the exertio n s of those who might possess them in a high degree, as will place them = on a level with those who do not; or to deprive them of the fruits of = their exertions. But to impose such restrictions on them would be = destructive of liberty - while to deprive them=20 o f the fruits of their exertions would be to destroy the desire of = bettering their condition. It is, indeed, this inequality of condition = between the front and the rear ranks, in the march of progress, which = gives so strong an impulse to the former to mai ntain their position and to the latter to press forward into their = files. - John C. Calhoun. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INEQUALITY OF MAN, GENES OR INHERITANCE VIA ENVIRONMENT = & UPBRINGING: I am sure you do not doubt that intelligence is hereditary = at least in that dogs are smarter t han worms, apes are smarter than dogs, and men are smarter than apes. = Why is it so difficult to believe that without one species, that one = type has a genetic advantage in ability to perform certain tasks? Tall = people can dunk basketballs usually better th a n short people (Spud Web aside). No one seriously questions that there = are hereditary physical advantages and disadvantages, why not mental as = well? Or will you claim that a gorilla can have a 150 IQ if only his = environment is correct? - Fritz Knese, TC13 5p47. \par INEQUALITY VS. EQUALITY: .. the Italian professor Pareto. He got = very near to a scientific demonstration of the truth as held by most = responsible people. He expressed in mathematical language a law which = translated into more ordinary terms says: That=20 inequality is natural, necessary and inevitable and promotes the well = being of the whole. - Ernest Benn, Honest Doubt, 157. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INEQUALITY, DEPENDENCE, INDEPENDENCE & ECONOMIC = FREEDOM: It's not inequality that's the major problem, it's dependence. = - - John La ws, John Law's Book of Uncommon Sense, Pan, 1995, 76. - Alas, so many = dependencies are never seriously questioned, e.g. that upon central = banking, the capacities or incapacities of territorial organizations and = those of the employer and employer relations hip. - J.Z., 18.4.00. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 INEQUALITY, EQUALITY, EXPLOITATION, THE STRONG & THE = WEAK, & COMMUNISM: Communism is inequality... Communism is exploitation = of the strong by the weak. }{\i\cf1=20 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.}{\cf1 =20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INEQUALITY, EQUALITY, SLAVERY & = FREEDOM: Americans are s o enamored of equality that they would rather by equal in slavery than = unequal in freedom. Alexis de Tocqueville/ \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INEQUALITY, EQUALITY: The worst form of inequality = is to try to make unequal things equal. - Aristotle, 384-322 B.C. \par INEQUALITY, INDIVIDUALISM , MAN, RIGHTS, LIBERTY, PANARCHISM, AUTONOMY, SELF-GOVERNMENT: Every man = is odd. - Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, iv, c. 1601. - Thus let all = of them have their odd poltical, economic and social system preferences. = Do not impose any. - J.Z., 10.7.86. \par INEQUALITY, INDIVIDUALITY: \'85 everyone knows that the = fingerprints of all persons are different. And these differences - these = individualities, these inequalities - carry through all the physical, = mental, and moral characteristics of mankind. \'85 . no person is like any other person; that is to say, \'85 each person = is an individual. - Ben Moreell, THE FREEMAN, 7/78, p. 411. \par INEQUALITY, RICHES, PROVERTY, PROPERTY, CAPITALISM: Wherever there = is great property, there is great inequality \'85 for one very rich man, = there must be at least five hundred poor. - Adam Smith, 1723-1790. - There is = great inequality in the willingness and ability to earn riches - for = oneself and for one's children. Under freedom every poor prepared to = work hard and intelligently could become ric h . - In several ways many of the poor are already rich - without being = aware of it and without controlling and utilizing these riches. - J.Z., = 9.7.92. - Their share in the assets now mismanged by bureaucrats can be = very large. The savings of small savers i n banks could already suffice, in some countries, to permit them to = purchase all the controlling shares in all its share companies. -Riches = in knowledge, in ideas and talents are available to them or could be dug = up, combined and utilized by them, if they=20 b othered and could lead to unlimited riches for all who participate. The = unemployed could also work towards monetary freedom to become = permanently employed at whatever earnings their work would merit, = payable in the competing sound monies of monetary freed o m. Already the abolition of compulsory taxes and of regulations and = their costs could make millions of people prosperous. - We are also = unequal in our economic rights and liberties. In all too many countries = they are extensively suppressed and that makes=20 f or wide-spread involuntary poverty. - Smith's conclusion does not follow = at all. The other 500 may be simply less rich, which rather correspondes = to much of our present reality, in relatively developed and free = countries. Anyhow, to riches and poverty, as =20 to intelligence and stupidity, height and weight of human beings etc., = Pareto's Law of distribution applies. When people are quite free and = sufficiently educated then only few are extremely rich and only few are = extremely poor and the latter, also, mostly intentionally or through their own faults. - If people bothered to = think and act reasonably then the poor could become rich and the rich = could become richer. - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par INEQUALITY, SUPERIORITY, INFERIORITY, RACISM: Everybody is = inferior, on many points, to many people but he is also unique and = superior, on many points, to many people, by birth, experience, training = or thinking. - J.Z., 18.7.93, 22.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INEQUALITY: = "...men are created unequal.-- Robert Ardrey, The Social Contract, 360. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INEQUALITY: In nature there can never be two beings = which are exactly alike. - G. W. Leibniz, The Monadology, IX, 1714. \par INEQUALITY: In republican governments, men are all equal; equal = they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are = everything; in the latter, because they are nothing. - de Montesquieu. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INEQUALITY: It is a wise man who said that there = is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. -=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INEQUALITY: It is the nature of things to me = unequal. One is worth twice, or five ti mes, or ten, or a hundred, or a thousand, or ten thousand times as much = as another. To think of them as equal is to upset the whole scheme of = things. Who would make shoes if big ones were of the same price as small = ones? - Mencius, Discourses, c. 300 B.C. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INEQUALITY: Though = all men were made of one metal, yet they were not cast all in the same = mold. - Thomas Fuller. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INERTIA, SOCIAL: \'85 there's always social inertia in = everything - even technological advance. - Isaac Asimov, Foundation's = Edge, 284. \par INERTIA: There is social and psychological intertia as well as = physical intertia. - Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundatioin, 426. \par INFALLIBILITY: Now, infallibility is not a human quality. - Henry = Wickham Steed, A Way to Social Peace, 1933, p. 67. \par INFALLIBLE: Infallible, adj. Incapable of admitting error. - L. A. = Rollins, Lucifer's Lexikon.=20 \par INFERIORITY, INSULTS, SLANDER, LIBEL: No one can make you feel = inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt. Quoted Don Peretz = Elkins, Glad To Be Me. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INFERIORITY, SELF-RESPECT, SELF-CONFIDENCE, = SELF-RESPECT, UNDESERVED CRITICISM: No one can make you feel inferior = without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFERIORITY, SUPERIORITY, HATE: People = hate those who make them feel their own inferiority. - Earl of = Chesterfield. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INFIDEL,=20 ATHEIST, NON-BELIEVER, RELIGION, FAITHS, INTOLERANCE: Infidel: In New = York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in = Constantinopel, one who does. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFLATION & CAPITALISM: "Capitalism = drives prices up. " - Popular opinion. Compare: GREED, INTEREST, PROFIT, MONOPOLY. - In = unjust discrimination leftist people tend to blame capitalism for almost = everything and state socialism for almost nothing. What is true is that = it drives up e.g. wages for skilled labo u r to their highest level, precisely by equipping it not only with = training but also with much capital. Only unskilled labour, unwilling to = learn enough, and easily and cheaply replaced by machines, will have to = satisfy itself with lower wages as a result=20 o f a kind of referendum among the consumers, whose will is found out by = entrepreneurs. But even while it does increase wages of those able and = willing to handle advanced tools and machines, it is blamed for paying = starvation or exploitation wages. The fact =20 that demand for labour is generally, quite artificially and legally, = limited by the note issue monopoly, remains widely ignored. By = developing markets and to the extent that it is really free (and this = requires monetary freedom, as well, which statists ar e not willing to concede or promote) it does, indeed, achieve the highest = prices producers - including employees - can achieve on their internal = and the world market. But it does not allow them to charge monopolistic = high prices because it does not permit=20 l egal monopolies but rather introduces maximum competition - provided = only it introduces monetary and financial freedom, too. Without these it = is an incomplete capitalism or a still restricted market. Wherever its = production is quite competitive, e.g. in t h e production of cheap nylon stockings, ball point pens and digital = watches, it has obviously driven prices down to their lowest possible = level, even when reckoned in already much depreciated paper money. The = latter indicates that capitalism is not fully o perative but that statism still mismanages its forced and monopolistic = exchange medium and value standard. - J. Z., 24.3.97.=20 \par INFLATION & COMPULSORY SAVINGS: Some form of compulsory savings = would be an attractive alternative which would probably win public=20 acceptance. - Colin Chapman, THE BULLETIN, 13.2.71. - When the managers = of the central bank have so mismanaged the money issue entrusted to = them, that the currency would be depreciated if everyone fully spent = what he has earned, then these mismanagers and =20 their supporters want to diminish the effectiveness of that over-issue = upon the price level by depriving those, who earned this money, of its = immediate use. Two wrongs do not make one right. - Further, an = over-issue has already occurred and has already b e en somewhat expressed in nominally increased prices. To then enforce = savings by everybody, e.g. through the issue of forced loans, would = suddenly reduce the circulation and create a deflation. That could have = catastrophic rather than healing effects upon=20 t he economy for while individually fallen prices (due to technological = or agricultural progress), do encourage buying, generally falling prices = deter potential buyers from buying right now as much as they could, in = the expectation that prices will fall fu r ther. - Furthermore, this proposal overlooks that through financial = despotism banks are already forced to deposit certain percentages of all = their deposits with the central bank and, moreover, they are often and = to a large extent forced to purchase govern m ent insecurities. The same applies to many public authorities and their = savings and especially to superannuation and pension funds. In all these = cases the victims of these forced loans are later forced, as taxpayers, = to repay these loans to themselves. An d all such dishonesty is smugly called "public finance". - J. Z., n.d. & = 5.4.97. \par INFLATION & DEARNESS: Inflation and dearness (dearth or high\- = prices) are completely different concepts. Inflation is caused\- = exclusively from the monetary side, dearness exclusively from the = \-goods side. - Ulrich von Beckerath, 25.1.52. \par INFLATION & DEFLATION, ARE THEY ALWAYS OPPOSITES & OCCUR ONLY ONE = AFTER THE OTHER OR CAN THEY OCCUR AT THE SAME TIME IN THE SAME COUNTRY? = Under monetary despotism they can occur at the same tim e and in the same country, for then different segments of the economy = are differently supplied with exchange media from one monopoly centre = only. There are different circulation spheres and channels as well as = greater or smaller time delays. For instance, =20 governments may insist on rapid tax payments but are not so rapid when = it comes to paying the bills that taxpayers send them for supplies to = the government. One area or segment of all business may be flooded with = currency (e.g. arms industries during a wa r ) while others are starved for cash (like e.g., clothing or toy = producers or builders during war time.) From one issuing centre a whole = country can no more be evenly supplied with locally required currencies = than water could be supplied to it from a sing le spring or lake or via the weather. - Moreover, during rapid = inflations prices can race ahead of the printing presses and thus cause = shortages in the depreciated notes, to pay all these rapidly increasing = prices with them. - J.Z., 9.9.02. \par INFLATION & EXCH ANGE RATE: Any country, if it wishes, can insulate itself from inflation = abroad by allowing its exchange rate to move to offset that inflation. - = "Milton Friedman in Australia", 1975, p. 58/9. - But he still opposes = competing and private currencies intern ally (and externally) with free market rates between them and between = them and accepted or agreed upon value standards! - J.Z. 18/2/83. - = Anyhow, no "country" can wish or do anything, because it is not an = entity. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION & EXCHANGE RATES : "That inflation has taken place can be best (or only) be seen in the = foreign exchange rates. - A widespread opinion this but one only partly = true. Other central banks, as Keynesians or Friedmanites, might inflate = at the same rate. Only if they do not or =20 against the currencies which are not or not as much inflated, could the = difference be seen. And exchange rates are influenced by many other = factors, too. But generally it is true that when internally free market = rating is suppressed (through legal tender=20 a nd the exclusive currency status, that outlaws competing internal = currencies), then external exchange rates, against foreign currencies, = where the internal legal tender does not apply, can and often do = indicate degrees of depreciation. But, e.g., a free o f ficial or unofficial gold or silver market can do the same much faster = and more accurately. So can a selected basket of commodity prices. But = why presume that the internal price control and monopoly for a currency = must continue? Why not abolish it and sub ject every currency to competition and free pricing and maximum = publicity and let it survive only on its merits? - J. Z., 24.3.97. \par INFLATION & FEVER: Inflation is a type of fever. - Popular opinion. = - It is certainly indicative of a disease in a currency, t he disease of monetary despotism. One might compare this fever to the = action of government injecting harmful germs into healthy blood streams = and thereby artificially inducing a fever. But why grant any government = such abusable power? Usually, the term is =20 used by culprits or their apologists, to prevent people from looking at = the real causes of inflations. One might compare it to Mafia chieftains = "explaining" a rise in crime with a rise in dishonesty in the general = population. - See : VIRUS. - J. Z., n.d.=20 & 2.4.97. \par INFLATION & GOVERNMENT SPENDING: Inflation could be stopped by a = reduction of government spending. - Popular opinion. - Government = spending is non-inflationary as long as it remains within its tax, fees = and loan returns. Only if "spending" is done with newly printed or coined money, money that is an exclusive and = forced currency, due to the issue monopoly and legal tender, does = inflation come it and can it result. "Spending" is too good a world for = legal imposition of depreciated money upon all cr e ditors and the enforced and exclusive circulation of depreciated notes - = among people not allowed to provide honest money for themselves and = under no individual or moral obligation to support any wildly spending = government and its budget. - J. Z., 2.4.97. \par INFLATION & GOVERNMENTS: The tenor of most of the submissions was = the admission that there was an inflationary problem and that the = government should do something about it, ... - On industry submissions, = THE AUSTRALIAN, 11.2.71. - The offender is asked to =20 go straight! But he is left in power over an exclusive and forced = currency that is not criticised, not even doubted or questioned by = industry and agriculture and business representatives, whose output and = services are required to give value to any currenc y and who should rather be in charge of currencies issued by themselves = than expect government gangsters or "representatives" to run a single = currency rightfully, honestly and efficiently for all - although during = all of history that was only done very rar ely by them and then, usually, not for long. - J. Z., 2.4.97. \par INFLATION & HIGH PRICES: "Inflation is caused by high prices. - = Popular opinion. - The reverse is true, even when one reckons in an = inflated paper standard. If the standard of value is sound, the n prices remain the same and an inflated currency becomes depreciated = against it, i.e. it is either refused or accepted only at a = corresponding discount, while all other optional means of exchange, = using the sound value standard, are still accepted at par . Then the cause and effect relationship in these cases will become = clear very soon. Under an exclusive and forced currency it remains = obscured for most people, for all too long and for some forever. - J. = Z., 24.3.97.=20 \par INFLATION & LEGAL TENDER & THE ISSUE M ONOPOLY: Inflation can only happen when you or somebody else has the = power to legally force all his tokens upon all others in their country, = at their nominal value, regardless of how valuable or valueless they = actually are. It can never happen when each i s only at liberty to issue tokens which only oblige himself - and his = associates - to accept them at any time at par from anyone, in payment = of debts owed to him or them, or for any of his goods, services or = labour offers, regardless of any discount which=20 t hey may have suffered in general circulation. Each will tend to severely = limit the total amount of commitments to supply others at any time they = demand it, and most potential acceptors will severely limit the amounts = of such commitments by others, unless=20 t hey are very convenient local currencies, with an obvious and believable = local shop-foundation. Even then, they would not accept local currency, = in most cases, much beyond their immediate or near future requirements. = If they went beyond that then they wo u ld carefully check out the exchange rates of this local currency, = perhaps even its rating in futures dealings and they might unload their = excess local currency holding fast at a local currency exchange office, = like tourist do with local national currencie s that they do no longer need. In other words, local currencies would = not tend to be over issued and depreciated. If they were, they would = soon disappear from circulation, driven out by better or excellent ones. = - J. Z., 5.4.97. \par INFLATION & LEGAL TENDER, GOOD & BAD MONEY, GRESHAM'S LAW: = \-Inflation-proof money is not impossible. It is merely outlawed by\- = legal tender legislation and the central bank's issue monopoly.\- Let good money drive out the bad: Repeal legal tender and the \-central = bank's legal privileges, especially its note issue monopoly. - = Keyboarded version of April 97, slightly revised. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\f0\fs24 = INFLATION & LEGAL TENDER: Try also to find any large and lasting\- = inflation of the general price level, through any physical or\- = accounts-only currency, that ever h appened without the legal \-tender and monopoly issue privilege. I would = be very interested \-to hear or read about one. - J. Z., 3/97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INFLATION & MAN: In Zeiten der = Inflation pflegt der Mensch schneller zu sinken als die Waehrung. - = Krailsheimer. - (In tim es of inflation man depreciates faster than the currency.) \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INFLATION & OVERSPENDING: Is inflation due to = "overspending"? What does "overspending" mean? Without legal tender, = i.e., compulsory value and compulsory acceptance for a monopolistic = currency, no g overnment or its central bank could over-spend, in an inflationary way, = unless it first extracted this purchasing power via taxes or loans, = which would correspondingly reduce the purchasing power of others and = even, sometimes for considerable periods, lea v e the thus extracted monies unprofitably in accounts, thus making sales = for the rest of the economy even more difficult. Any spending by any = government may be considered to be "over-spending", like the spending of = any bank robber or mugger or thief or any o ne who forged cheques upon your account or who had stolen and used your = credit card. What is probably meant is "deficit-spending" or use of the = note-printing press for legal tender money. If a government had to = depend upon tax foundation for soundly const r ucted tax foundation money of its own, its voluntary acceptance in = general circulation, its value rating against a sound value standard, = upon full publicity for all its issues, on the refusal option of = potential acceptors, on competition with alternative=20 a nd freely issued currencies and on voluntary membership of its taxpayers = - would much "overspending" opportunity remain for it? All thought = models that take for granted monetary and financial despotism, as well = as territorial sovereignty over tax slaves a n d subjects to its other laws, imposed by the minority which rules, in = effect, are all too limited in understanding the present and = alternatives to it. Take an ordinary citizen who tries to "overspend" by = trying to take up more credit than he can expect to =20 repay or tries to issue uncovered cheques. His cheques, although made = out to legal tender, are not legal tender themselves and thus can be = refused. Moreover, his bank will charge him highly for overdrafts and = for uncovered cheques not accepted by it in ad v ance. In the absence of legal tender and a means of payment monopoly for = him, he cannot over-issue or over-spend without rapidly reaching his = limits, getting into debt and bankruptcy and perhaps losing all he had = accumulated. Why should we grant such priv i leges to governments, who almost never failed to abuse them? If a = government, due to monetary freedom, could only issue its tax foundation = money at 10% discount, it would immediately have to accept it at par, at = 100%, from all who still owed it taxes, i. e ., it would have given them a 10% tax discount. Its self-interest would = prevent such issues. And others would largely refuse to accept = government money at all, if it had such a discount on a free money = market and would rather arrange for payments in alter n ative exchange media that stand at par with their nominal value and thus = could readily be passed on in payment to others. Monetary despotism = leads inevitably to many and large abuses. Monetary freedom ends them, = to a large extent, although it could not pr event all kinds of frauds and deceptions. - J.Z., 16.8.91, 26.8.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INFLATION & PAYMENT DIFFICULTIES: Without inflation there would be = payment difficulties in the payment of wages and pensions. - Popular = opinion. - With inflation there are also payment diff iculties in the payment of wages and pensions. Wage and pension = recipients are only partly paid, by being paid in depreciated money and, = since prices tend to race ahead of rapid inflationary money issues, = money is then often so short that the government f i nds it difficult to pay its suppliers and employees. There is much = historical evidence for the reality of such payment difficulties in = spite of or because of monetary inflation. - Strikes multiply during = times of inflation, indicating that the ability of=20 e mployers is not so much increased by inflations that they can readily = give in to any wage demands. - Nor should one assume that all sectors of = an economy are equally supplied with the inflated currency. The = government sector and some privileged private se c tors may be over-supplied while, at the same time, other sectors may be = under-supplied. Price adaptations to inflations and deflations are = neither instantaneously nor completely evenly and proportionate. Both = introduce enormous artificial distortions and=20 miscalculations. - J. Z., 2. 4. 97. \par INFLATION & PRICES: Inflation is caused by excessive prices. - = Popular opinion - Yes, in the same way as fever is caused by a = thermometer indicating a high body temperature! - J. Z., n.d. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INFLATION & SAVINGS: Spare in der Zeit, so hast du in der Not alles, was dir die Inflation gelassen hat. = - Lothar Schmidt. - (Save in time, so that in an emergency you have = whatever the inflation has left you.) \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 INFLATION & TAXATION: Inflation is taxation without = legislation. Comment on President Carter's plan to raise taxes to reduce = inflation, 1979. }{\i\cf1 - Milton Friedman. }{ \cf1 - Every degree of inflation is made possible through the legal = monopoly granted to the central bank as a monopoly issuer of currency = and through the legal tender power that is granted to its currency, which means, a forced acceptance and a = forced value for it, apart from its monopoly position. So you your not = free to refuse it, ask for or issue a better currency, or to discount it = below its nominal value, when, once again,=20 it has been depreciated by over-issues and bad reflux management. - = J.Z., 1.7.00.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INFLATION & TAXATION: The most effective thing that Mr. Gordon (then = Prime Minister of Australia) could do now to contain the inflation bogy = would be to cancel or suspend the personal income tax concessions he granted in the August budget. - T. = M. Fitzgerald, THE AUSTRALIAN, 22.1.71. - First the victimised citizens = are taxed by the government-caused inflation and then, when in their = only defence left to them against inflation , they have nominally increased their incomes, expressed in the = depreciated, forced and exclusive government paper money, they are to be = taxed again, to counter this inflation! And the politicians have the = cheek to call it a "concession" when they do not c o llect as much in tributes from you as they did before! - The only kernel = of truth in the above statement is that of tax foundation, which Adam = Smith did also recognize in at least one passage of his writings on = money in The Wealth of Nations. A government s optional paper money issues can, indeed, be balanced and limited in = amount by its taxation. Such tax foundation money should have legal = tender only towards its issuer and it should also use a sounder value = standard than a managed and usually mismanaged p a per standard. Taxes and tax foundation money should be expressed e.g. in = gold weight units and the government should have to accept its own tax = foundation certificates at their face value even when in general = circulation they have got a discount correspon d ing to their over-issue. That would reduce the "spending" power of the = government and reduce the tax burden for the tax victims. Moreover, = without legal tender power and the issue monopoly, government paper = could ultimately be altogether refused in genera l circulation, so that at last even government employees would no longer = be prepared to accept it. The more and more worthless bucks should be = passed back to the issuer. Pay to Caesar what is Caesar's! Do not offer = him your own honest currencies in payment - and do not let your incomes, paid in these currencies, be confiscated = by him! Rather go on a well organized tax strike, one that includes the = total refusal to accept any government paper money. - J. Z., 2.4.97. \par INFLATION & THE IGNORANCE OF OUR RULERS & TH EIR EXPERTS. INFLATION AN ACT OF GOD? AN HONEST CURRENCY POSSIBLE ONLY = THROUGH AN ACT OF GOD? - "I really never have confused myself with God. = So I can't cure inflation. Who the hell do I think I am? I do what I = can." - Alfred Kahn, Chief of President Car t er's Anti-Inflation Programme. - INQUIRY, June 11 & 25, 1979, p.2. - Do = not forgive them - for they do not know what they are doing or care what = they are doing to us - by their legalized actions, measures and = programs, systems and institutions. - J.Z., 15 .9.02. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1=20 INFLATION & UNEMPLOYMENT: We don't have to put people out of work to = control inflation. The goal of the next decade should be to fight = inflation and unemployment through supply-side incentives to put more = goods on the shelves. That's the way to cut p rices and boost employment. }{\i\cf1 - Lloyd Bentsen, Statement of Joint = Economic Committee of Congress, 1980. - }{\cf1 See my website essay, The = Soft Option, on this. - J.Z. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFLATION & VOLUNTARY RESTRAINTS: = Voluntary restraints by private industry in new investments in=20 plant, machinery and new office blocks could curb inflation. - Pop & = "expert" opinion. - The ongoing inflation is a strong incentive to = borrow long term and invest this money by buying capital values that = preserve their value even during inflations and th e n, finally, repaying these loans with inflated paper money. The = suggestion tackles effects, not causes. - Why not discuss, instead, a = voluntary restraint of the institutions of monetary despotism and their = activities - or their outlawry? - J. Z., n.d., 6. 4.97. \par INFLATION AN INFECTIVE VIRUS? Business and farm leaders would = follow the union men to the White House within the next few days to help = plan a system of wage-and-price stabilisation measures which, Mr. Nixon = said yesterday, would ensure that "America i s not again inflicted by the virus of runaway inflation". - THE SYDNEY = MORNING HERALD, 11.9.71. - Was he really as stupid or dishonest or = misinformed? - J. Z. - See: FEVER.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 INFLATION AND GOVERNMENTS:... governments resort to = inflation when tax rates have=20 been pushed beyond the point of maximum returns... - View ascribed to = Mises, in Greaves' bibliography, 100. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INFLATION BY GOVERNMENTS: For example, between 1960 and = 1991, when President Menem launched Argentinia's currency-board reform, = inflation struck sev enteen zeros off successive versions of Argentine currency. If all the = wealth of the world had been converted into Argentine Pesos in 1960 and = buried, it would not have been worth the effort to spade it up by 1991. = James Dale Davidson & William Rees-MOGG, The Sovereign Individual, MacMillan, & Simon & Schuster, 1997, 202. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INFLATION FIGHTING : Inflation must be fought by various measures. - = Popular opinion. - Why create the legal preconditions for it in the = first place and then maintain it for over a century ? If one does not introduce an evil or let it grow then one does not = have to fight it. - J. Z., n.d. - If you really want to fight inflation, = its cause, not its symptoms, repeal legal tender and the issue monopoly = of the central bank and do not grant it a n y regulatory and supervisory powers, either. At most it should be = allowed to run the government's monetary system, but only quite = non-coercively, competitively, with government paper money in = circulation only upon whatever merits its voluntary customers w o uld still see in it. Without compulsory taxation and compulsory = territorial State membership only competing state paper currencies based = on voluntary contributions and their voluntary tax foundations could = remain. No governmental value standard should be=20 granted any monopoly over a whole territory and allits people any = longer. Free choice in currency and value standards, confining all bad = issues to voluntary victims only. - J. Z., 2.5.97. \par INFLATION IS A MATTER OF TOO MUCH MONEY CHASING TOO FEW GOODS. - = Popu lar opinion. - It would be more correct to say that the coercive and = exclusive money issues of others than the owners of goods, labour and = services, tend to wrongly chase the goods, services and labour, upon = which they are not and cannot be rightly based=20 a nd that they prevent the owners of goods, and providers of services and = labour to issue just as many money token, based upon their goods, = services and labour, as are needed to sell all of them easily, all the = time, at market prices, as long as they are wa n ted. If one does not make these distinctions between different forms of = money, i.e., especially the money of monetary despotism and the money of = monetary freedom then one will never understand the cause of and cure = for inflation. - Honest money doesn't ha v e to chase goods and services: it represents them. Exclusive currency = that is supplied by others one has to chase with one's goods and = services. The money of monetary freedom one can issue oneself, based = upon one's goods and services and accepts it for on e 's goods and services. No chasing is involved. The goods and services = are simply its fundamental cover and redemption fund, its issue and = reflux guaranty. The goods and service side is automatically kept in = balance with the money side, by the owners and t r aders of goods and services themselves. Honest money has no other = convertibility or value or reflux option or foundation than being used = in payment for the assortment of goods, services and labour upon which = it is based, in any private or cooperative paym e nt community. But it can also be used to purchase gold, silver and = platinum on the markets for these rare metals. Owners of these rare = metal commodities could also issue certificates based upon and = redeemable in these products. But they should not imagine =20 that their issues could suffice to provide a substitute for all the = monies that could and should be issued based upon and redeemable in all = other daily and frequently wanted goods and services. - Monetary = troubles arise only when honest monies are not all owed to chase bad monies, when wanted goods, services and labour cannot = be turned into optional and market rated currency by their owners and = providers. - J. Z., 28.3.97, 30.8.02. \par INFLATION OUT OF EXCESSIVE WAGE CLAIMS? Inflation arises out of = excessive wa ge claims of labourers. - Pop opinion. - This view is so superficial = that it does not even include salary claims of employees in the private = and public sector and the higher fee claims of tradesmen, professionals = and of the professional con-men, the polit i cians. And the supposedly unjustified prices of imagined "price-makers" = are left out, too! - If mere claims could lead to their satisfaction, = regardless of the supply of exchange media, then and only then would = such assertions be somewhat right. But such =20 things happen only in fairy tales. Real inflation has other causes - = central banking and legal tender or monetary despotism, i.e. the = outlawry of monetary freedom. No employer has an unlimited wage fund to = pay higher wages with. No employer, except the ce n tral bank, has a note printing press, a money monopoly and legal tender = powers. No employer can say to the central bank: You must give me more = inflated paper money so that I can seemingly satisfy their demands for = higher nominal wages. Without the circula t ion being further inflated by the central bank, the employer simply = cannot pass on higher wage demands to wholesalers and retailers - for, = ultimately, the employees themselves, as consumers, would resist the = higher prices resulting. Not only that, they co u ld not pay them at all, not even the former lower prices, when they had = to be laid off, in the expectation that at the higher costs, of higher = wages, many less goods could actually be sold. Goods do not have legal = tender power for the consumers. The produ c tion and trade in mere survival goods and services would go on, although = reduced, too. All the other production and exchanges, made uneconomical = or impossible, through excess wage and salary demands, would simply come = to a stop. Anyone can price himself o u t of his market. As a sovereign consumer he does this to others, all the = time, who try to extort too high prices from him. He goes, instead, to = those suppliers and their wholesalers and manufacturers with lower = costs, including lower wages, salaries and p r ofits. The free pricing system is a continuous referendum on "just" = prices, wages, salaries, fees and subscriptions etc. - However, to be = really free, it should also include free enterprise, free trade and free = pricing for optional, competing exchange me d ia and value standards. Workers and employees will not be fully = emancipated until they are monetarily emancipated, too. - Instead of = striving for nominal wage increases in the exclusive and forced currency = of monetary despotism, employees should contract=20 f or wages and salaries that are expressed in sound alternative = currencies, that do preserve their purchasing power and do increase only = with the development of technology, science, of the economy and of = individually increased higher productivity. And they=20 s hould strive for autonomous work group or cooperative production = contracts that would automatically increase their earnings in accordance = with their increased productivity. - The highest wages were for a long = time paid in the U.S. and perhaps they are sti l l the highest there now. But in the U.S. prices were often not higher = but lower. Not the hourly cost of labour is decisive but the labour cost = per unit produced. A very expensive labourer may, due to extensive use = of labour saving machinery and good manag e ment, lead to a smaller percentage of labour costs in the total = production costs. In other countries or employments, much lower labour = costs may form a much higher percentage of the unit costs. - Real wage = increases should be aimed for e.g. via productivi t y increases (leading also to lower prices), sound currencies, free = trade, cooperative production, lower taxes etc. To strive for merely = nominally increased wages, paid for in the government's inflated = currency, is absurd. Foolish wage demands are "satisfi e d" thus, in foolish ways, with which only fools will remain content. - = If the government does not inflate its currency and thereby nominally = increases earnings and prices, what happens? Shoe repairers may e.g. = double their wages or prices. Then, if their=20 c ustomers were to go on to demand as many repairs from them as before, at = the new prices or wages (highly doubtful), then these customers would = have to reduce their demand for other goods, whose prices would = correspondingly fall. Thus the general price lev e l would remain unchanged although the shoe repairers would then have = gained a larger share of the total earnings - at the expense of others. = But the most likely result would be a reduction of the turnover and = thereby the total income of the shoe repairers =20 and an increase in the sale of new, cheap and factory produced and = disposable shoes, which can be produced by unskilled labourers and which = are never repaired but merely thrown out. To that extent their increased = wage claims would make the shoemakers unem ployed. That has actually happened, to a large extent, not only to = shoemakers but e.g. to plasterers, too. -J. Z., n.d. & 6.4.97. \par INFLATION PSYCHOLOGY: The most important need is to check the = development of an inflation psychology, of a tendency for people=20 to express a growing distrust for money by accelerated spending and by a = chronic process of industrial turbulence in search of wage increases to = offset the dollar's falling value. This would be a self-reinforcing = process: industrial turbulence and wage ho s ts promote the deterioration of money's value, which provokes the wage = demands. - The psychological type is the third and worst form of = inflationary pressure, the other two forces in the spiral being the = cost-push and the demand-pull types. - T. M. Fitzge r ald, THE AUSTRALIAN, 22.1.71. - In other words, he wants to prevent = people from engaging in the only defensive measures that are left to = them against monetary despotism and he slanders it as a mere "inflation = psychology". Any inflating government has real l y earned any degree of distrust against its monetary policy. A monetary = revolution against it would be morally and economically justified. Here, = too, the defensive measures are accused of being aggressive or = inflationary by themselves. He did not demand a =20 stop to the note printing presses, the abolition of the privileges of = the Reserve Bank and of legal tender for its exclusive currency and of = the monopoly for the issue of notes. - J. Z., 2.4.97. - Unfortunately, = only such "experts" find it easy to get the i r flawed and misleading views expressed in most of the mass media, even = when no formal censorship has been introduced. Their ignorance and = prejudices, backed up by those of the public, prevent monetary and = financial enlightenment even more so than a forma l governmental censorship would. - J. Z., 2.9.02. \par INFLATION PSYCHOSIS & CENTRAL BANKING CONTROLS: "Tighter and more = painful central banking controls are required to eradicate a nation's = inflation psychosis." - Pop or even "expert" opinion. - That "psychosis " is the all too well founded distrust against any government forced and = exclusive paper currency over the last few decades. Without that = monetary despotism and its catastrophic results, crippling whole = economies and impoverishing all their people, it wou ld not exist. More of the same does not offer a way out but merely one = into further troubles. Monetary freedom instead of monetary despotism! - = J. Z., 23.3.97. \par INFLATION TARGET: Inflation, with 1.3%, is at the lower end of\- = the Reserve Bank's target of 2-3%. - Radio news 24.4.97. - And\- who = says Keynesianism is dead after it has been repeatedly and\- thoroughly refuted? Here it even frankly admits that it aims not \-at = currency stability but at inflation or currency depreciation,\- instead = and pretends that it has reasons to be proud of having\- achieved a lower inflation rate, rather than stopping inflation = altogether, something that it could do immediately, merely by\- ending = its monopoly and legal tender powers, letting its paper \-money find its = true market va lue and leaving all prices and wages\- to be marked out in sound = alternative value standards, unchanged \-by its shenanigans. The law = usually ascribes the role as a\- defender of the currency to the central = bank. In reality, it\- becomes its depreciator in the vain pursuit of full employment\- = through a gradual and managed inflation of the monopolised and\- forced currency. The figures given are, naturally for government = institutions, not the truly representative ones for the facts but\- = politically influenced ones. See: CPI or Consumer Price Index.\- This is also a monopolistically determined figure that leans away\- = from the fact to please the politicians. Controlled prices are = \-included to measure inflation and no economists protests, at \-least = not in public. - J. Z., 24.4.97. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\f0\fs24 = INFLATION THEORIES: They are so numerous that all should be \-listed - = and confronted with the facts and contrary theories as \- far as is possible, in order to enable the patient researchers to = \-finally sort the wheat from the chaff. - J. Z., 19.3.97. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\f0\fs24=20 INFLATION, A LESSER EVIL? - Inflation is the lesser evil compared with = deflation, depression and mass unemployment and mass bankruptcies. - = Should we argue at length which is the greatest evil among cancer, heart = disease, AIDS and tuberculosis? Or=20 should we try to resist or prevent all of them? Inflation is not the = opposite to deflation, since it also has deflationary effect sand can be = mixed with deflation and unemployment in stagflations. Deflations and = mass unemployment can also, under monetary=20 despotism, be used as excuses for permanent inflations. - J. Z., 2. 4. = 97. \par INFLATION, A NEBULOUS ECONOMIC MECHANISM? - In reality it is a = quite simple mechanism but this is hidden in a dense fog of errors, = wrong premises, myths, fallacies, prejudices, misle ading terms, wrong conclusions, false observations etc. - I would rather = say that it is an over-issue of money that is made possible through = legal tender and the issue monopoly - beyond the quantity of money that = would be readily accepted on a free market , and this at par with its nominal value, expressed in a sound value = standard, if the issue monopoly and legal tender in general circulation = (apart from the natural, economical and moral one towards its issuer) = were absent. - That is my version of Ulrich v on Beckerath's definition. - J. Z., 2.4.97. \par INFLATION, CAN IT BE PREVENTED OR IS IT A NATURAL CATASTROPHE? - It = is impossible to prevent inflation altogether. One can only fight some = of its consequences. It is like an earthquake or other natural = catastroph e. - Popular opinion. - So the real culprits of this result of monetary = despotism would have us believe. They do not want to be blamed for their = flawed and despotic payment and value measurement system and their = actions within it. At most they are prepare d to "reform" their system of monetary despotism somewhat but never to = abolish it. - Without legal tender and the issue monopoly one cannot = inflate a currency, not even with the worst intentions. For then anyone = is free to discount an inflated currency or=20 t o reject it altogether while going on to reckon and account all one's = prices and contracts in sound alternative value standards. - If = inflation is like a natural catastrophe, inevitable, then how come there = were some prolonged periods of stable currency, e.g. in Prussia, from the Napoleonic wars to WW II? - J. Z., n.d. & = 3.4.97. \par INFLATION, CAUSE OR GUILT? WHO OR WHAT IS TO BLAME? Who is to blame = for inflation? - This or that group of claimants, with their = inflationary demands. This or that group of conspir ators, financiers, speculators, unionists, shopkeepers etc. - Popular = opinion. - The question should not be "who?" but "what?" - While the few = who can, under monetary despotism, initiate the process, do have = motives, these are not the causes which make in f lation possible. I may have a motive to cause an inflation but I do not = have the power to do so. Neither have you. I possess neither an issue = monopoly for my notes, nor do they have legal tender power, like those = of the central bank. Nor does any bank or=20 f inancial institution, subordinated to monetary legislation and to the = central bank has any such power. One should not try to assign blame = without referring at all to monetary legislation and legalized = institutions and "principles" of operation. - 7.4.97.=20 - Free people can only oblige themselves to accept their own notes in = payment for their goods, services or debts owed to them, they cannot = oblige others, who are not their debtors, to accept these notes at all = or to accept them at par with their nominal va lue. Thus they cannot cause an inflation of all prices, wages, salaries, = fees, etc. that are reckoned and priced in sound value standards and = sound exchange media using such standards. - J. Z., 4.9.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INFLATION, CENTRAL BANKING, FREE = BANKING & MONETARY FRE EDOM: Fully freed competition against central banks is the only way to = rapidly stop inflation, stagflation, depressions, credit restrictions = and involuntary mass unemployment. - J.Z., 31.10.01, 26.8.02.=20 \par INFLATION, COMMUNISM, CENTRAL BANKING, MONETARY DESP OTISM: The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the = currency. - Attributed to Vladimir Ilich (Ulyanov) Lenin by John Maynard = Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, p. 235 (1920, reprinted = 1971). Keynes says, "Lenin is said to h ave declared\'85 " Despite careful searching by the European Division of the Library Of = Congress, this has not been found in Lenin's writings and remains = unverified. - While he may not have used these terms or have recorded = them in writing, they are nothing but a rewording of the communist manifesto's platform for communism. It = demanded central banking, and in later comments legal tender for its = issues, as an uneconomic means to promote communism by the chaos it = would cause. - J.Z., 13.10.02, 26.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFLATIO N, COMPETITION & LOWER PRICES: Increased competition could curb = inflation, e.g. by legislation against restrictive trade practices and = by lowering some high tariff barriers. - Popular opinion. - This would = not deal with monetary inflation but merely with=20 price increases due to goods shortages, in these cases artificially = caused goods shortages. The correct name for high prices causes by the = goods side is "dearness", not inflation. - J. Z., n.d., 28.3.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 INFLATION, CREDITORS AND DEBTORS: Whatever temporary=20 benefits accrue to debtors as a result of inflation are finally = nullified, because monetary inflation is the power of confiscation. The = debtor confiscates the creditor's wealth by paying off in worthless = money for valuable goods or properties. - Rousas J . Rushdoony, Politics of Guilt and Pity, 229. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INFLATION, CURE OF INFLATION: Like the common cold there is no = guaranteed cure for inflation. - Mr. McMahon, quoted in THE SYDNEY = MORNING HERALD, 12.6.l71. - McMahon was once federal treasurer and even = prime min ister for Australia - and well represented wide-spread ignorance, myths = and prejudices in this sphere. One should rather say that, as for the = common cold and among orthodox doctors, there is no cure for commonness = or monetary prejudices among treasurers a n d prime ministers. On the contrary, to worst of all men, like scum, tend = to rise to the top. Only extremely ignorant and prejudiced voters would = consider such people as if they were financial wizards and great = leaders. - There is a guaranteed cure: Repeal =20 or effectively ignore legal tender and the issue monopoly of the central = bank and thus let good money drive out the bad. Emancipate all people = monetarily, who can be so emancipated. Then at least their exchanges = will not longer be distorted or rendered di f ficult to impossible by inflations, deflations and stagflations. - Only = one thing is right about the above remark: Within a system of financial = despotism no cure is possible for its evils. Landsberg, in Germany, = after the great 1913-23 inflation, proposed =20 once a "gallows currency", under which the finance minister and the = director of the central bank would be sent to the gallows as soon as the = currency entrusted to them would be depreciated by a certain percentage, = let us say 5%. But that is no more helpfu l than saying that rulers should fight it out among themselves, in duels, = rather than conscripting and victimising millions of their subjects. = Those, whom the victims leave in power over them, will continue to abuse = these powers - with the sanction of the=20 v ictims. - This kind of monetary ignorance and prejudice is still so = prevalent that politicians at best promise to reduce inflation within = years to decades and not to abolish it and its preconditions, = immediately. - J. Z., n.d., 29.3.97. - They even manage =20 to speak openly of "inflation-targets" and are not instantly recalled, = as they should be, in the same way as they should be if they talked e.g. = about "mass murder targets" and "torture targets" and "robbery targets". = The latter they usually call "budget e stimates" and the former "Nuclear defence". - J. Z., 31.8.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INFLATION, DEFICIT FINANCING, FULL = EMPLOYMENT POLICY OF KEYNES: When you wet your bed, first it is warm, = then it gets cold. - James Joyce. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFLATION, DEPRESSIONS, CENTRAL = BANKING, MONEY MONOPOLY, CURRENCY \-STABILITY, MONETARY POLICY, = EURO-CURRENCY: The cases where the \- government money was not inflated, in spite of its monopoly \-status and = legal tender powers, for years, decades or even \-centuries, are rather = exceptional than the rule. The rule is that\- such a currency provides an almost irresistible temptation and = opportunity to \-any government to abuse these powers - and depreciate = its \-government paper money and thereby economic conditions. Once this = is sometimes partly realized, then in panic a nd with quite inappropriate responses and measures, the opposite is = achieved: deflation, depressions and their mass unemployment or = stagflations. But it is only rarely that governments attempt to slow = down their inflations. Then, and under monetary despo tism, they see no better way \-to do this than to cause the seeming = opposite, a deflation, with mass unemployment. Once in that situation it = does not know how \-to get out of it without causing an inflation. Not = being market-\- based, issued, accepted, refused or discounted, returned to the = \-issuer, not being freely valued and rated, not being under competition = and the \-full spotlight of publicity, its exclusive and forced currency = is without the natural or market \- limitations and indicators and can thus only be more or less = \-mismanaged, using poor substitutes for the natural indicators. It \-is = almost as if we put a dancer or a runner into chains and then\- expected him or her to perform at their best. - It is a riddle to \-me = how people can expect to reap the full benefits of the\- division of = labour, free enterprise, free trade and free exchange \- without freedom in the supply of exchange media and how they can\- = expect a sufficient stability of value standards under legal \-tender, = i.e., under the suppression of free choice of value \-standards. That's = like expecting to find out and being able to \- spread truths by suppressing freedom of expression and \-information. = - We have already spread exterritorial autonomy for \-volunteers in so = many spheres of our lives and have taken it for\- granted there. When will we finally, completely and consistently, = \-apply it, experimental freedom, freedom of action and individual\- to = volunteer group decision-making, in the last few spheres where \-it is = still suppressed e.g. by territori al States and their\- central banks of issue and all their other = despotic laws and institutions, despotic because they are territorially = imposed upon dissenters? - J. Z., 16.9.92, 1.5.97, 12.9.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INFLATION, DEPRESSIONS, = UNEMPLOYMENT, CRISES, & MONOPOLIZED=20 DECISION-MAKING ON MONETARY MATTERS, COMBINED WITH GREAT ECONOMIC = IGNORANCE & NUMEROUS WRONGFUL PREMISES, MYTHS & PREJUDICES, CENTRAL = BANKING, MONETARY DESPOTISM, MONETARY POWERS, MONETARY MISMANAGEMENT, = CENTRAL BANKING, MONEY MONOPOLY, LEGAL TENDER, ISS U E MONOPOLY: By their utterances and actions the few who now can legally = cause inflations and deflations as well as stagflations and their = involuntary mass unemployment, do not know that they cause them and how = they do so and, consequently, do not know how =20 to stop the consequences of their own decisions and actions. They have = often enough admitted their ignorance in this respect - and their = inability to cope with the problems they have created is rather obvious, = too. Required is the repeal of their correspo nding laws and powers and they are not even aware of how wrongful and = harmful these are. - J.Z., 14.1.02, 27.8.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFLATION, EXCESSIVE: Some people = speak of acceptable and excessive degrees of inflation as if not every = manipulation of the standard of value would be excessive. A small sum stolen does still amount to 100% theft = and when a robber only gains a few dollars by openly violating the = property rights and physical security of others, then it still amounts = to a complete act of robbery. - One should a l so take into consideration what effect a small percentage of annual = inflation has upon all long term investments and claims, like e.g. old = age pension claims, payable in depreciated legal tender. 40 years of a = 2% annual inflation, can destroy about 80% o f the nominal value of a pension payable in paper dollars. Moreover, = inflation rates are not always made up in full, if at all, by = correspondingly increased interest rates. Sometimes at least some = interest rates are reduced by inflation to negative interes t rates. Thus, instead of premiums building up an old age security = capital, the value of that capital may be diminished, - quite apart from = the taxation robberies committed against old age security funds. - J. = Z., n. d., & 2.4.97. \par INFLATION, GERMAN INFLATION OF 1914-23: By November 1923 notes = denominated 100 Billion Reichsmarks, was, apparently, the biggest = denomination note issued,\- according to the guides for collectors that = I have seen. One\- mentioned that this note was then worth about 7 UK pounds.\- - = "Workers were paid twice daily & given time to go shopping before \-the = value was eroded by inflation." Not only the Reichsbank \-issued large = denominations. The money shortage, in relation=20 \-to the inflated prices, which were expressed in the inflated \-money, = anticipating further inflation, was so large that numerous\- others = issued emergency currencies, also, mostly in Reichsmark \-denominations, = thus participating in the inflation of the \- Reichsmark while trying to reduce its deflationary effects. But = \-some, like the Reichsbahn & Farbwerke Hoechst, did later issue = emergency monies on a stable value basis. This and secessionist\- aspirations were two of the factors that finally forced the = \-Reichsbank to discontinue its paper money inflation. - J. Z.,\- = 25.4.97. -=20 Initially many of the emergency money issues were only for small change, = that was in short supply by the Reichsbank. But soon these issues = followed the depreciation of the paper Reichsmark and thus they were = also issued in large denominations, although, p robably, not in as large ones as those which the Reichsbank got printed = for itself and forced upon the public. - J. Z., 8.9.02. \par INFLATION, GOVERNMENT MOTIVATIONS, GOVERNMENT SPENDING, CAUSE OF = INFLATION, DEFICIT SPENDING, BUDGETS, MONETARY DESPOTISM, LEGAL=20 TENDER, ISSUE MONOPOLY: The CAUSE of inflation is not that governments = have a MOTIVE to inflate it that their legislation gives them or their = central banks the power of the money issue monopoly and of legal tender = for its paper money, so that the national =20 economies, depending upon monetary exchanges, have no other options, as = long as this monetary despotism can be effectively enforced, than to use = this monopoly and forced currency, no matter how much it has already = been over-issued and depreciated, because =20 reflux via taxation, forced loans and subscriptions to government = insecurities (investment in tax-slaves, mostly not safeguarded against = inflation) is not strong enough. Its victims are not free to refuse it = or to discount it. They are not free to price o u t their goods and services and labours in sound value standards, instead = and accept, if at all, the government's paper money only at its = discounted value. They are not free to use only their own or freely = chosen sound exchange media and value standards in s tead. They are disfranchised in this respect. They are deprived of their = consumer sovereignty of free pricing and free choice and freedom to = refuse to buy the currency of the government at all, with their goods = and services. Instead, their only remaining=20 o ption, until price controls, quotas, rationing and forced labour are = imposed upon them as well, is to increase the nominal prices for their = goods, services and labours, paid in the depreciating, inflated and thus = price-inflating government paper money. -=20 W ithout these coercive and monopolistic, even despotic or totalitarian = monetary powers, the government's motivation would be irrelevant. It = could not force an excess of its notes or insecurities upon an unwilling = market. Then it could not do any wrong or h arm in this way. - J. Z., 9.3.89, 15.5.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INFLATION, KEYNESIANISM & CENTRAL = BANKING: The Keynesian inflationists are still allowed to rule the = economy in and through the central banks. - J.Z., 4.7.00. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INFLATION, MONETARY FREEDOM & GRESHAM'S LAW: Just anoth er example of the government screwing up whatever they touch. In this = case it's deliberately diluting the value of our money. - Demand that = money be denationalized. Money that has integrity and maintains its = value will survive. "Funny money" (like Federal Reserve Notes) will die - if people are free to use alternatives. - = Simon Jester Sticker. - It is not diluting OUR money but ITS money - = while it outlaws OUR money! - J.Z., 27.4.00. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFLATION, PRICES, PRICE MAKERS, PRICE = SETTERS & GREED: Inflation is a mea sure of the greed of those in the community who are in a position to set = their own prices for the goods or services they provide. - Popular = opinion. - Even world corporations shave not market power to raise their = price in the face of a slackening demand f o r their products or of growing competition. The law of diminishing = returns applies even to monopolists. We buy less and less of their = overpriced products and services and more and more of substitute goods = and services at lower prices. Trades, by their ver y nature, are not deals or bargains in which one side is at liberty to = set all the conditions and gather all the advantages to itself, even = though, sometimes, a particular market may be more a seller's market = than a buyer's market or more a buyer's market=20 than a seller's market. - J. Z., n.d. & 3.4.97. \par INFLATION, PROGRESSIVE INFLATION, GALLOPING INFLATION, LIMITED = INFLATION, CONTROL OF INFLATION: An inflation is not necessarily = progressive and runs the full course towards almost complete = depreciation. It ca n be kept within certain bounds. - In spite of strong political = pressures to continue an inflation, once begun and to dispense and take = larger and larger doses of this "drug", to achieve the same effect and = in spite of the remaining deflationary pressures =20 demanding relief by further money issues, not all inflations have run = the full course. Many have been stopped before that. For instance, in = Germany, after 3 inflations in this century, the 4th inflation, since = 1948, has been kept mostly to low annual perc e ntages and, for some years even, no further inflation took place. Too = many remembered the past experiences with large scale inflations during = and after WW I, that by the Nazis and that by the occupation forces, = from 1945 - 1948. Alas, all too often inflat i ons have only been stopped or reduced at the price of a deflation, with = mass unemployment. The soft option, stopping it without causing even = temporary mass unemployment, is still held to be impossible, even by = most libertarians who are interested in at le a st aspects of monetary freedom. I have shortly described that option in = PEACE PLANS 19B: The Soft Option: Monetary Freedom to Stop Inflation = without Causing Unemployment, 1976, 16 pp. It is one of the numerous = topics still insufficiently discussed among l ibertarians, in spite of their significance. -J. Z., 3.4.97. \par INFLATION, RATE OF INFLATION, SLOW INFLATION, STABILITY OF = CURRENCY: The economy is comparatively stable if price rises do not = exceed 4 % in any year. - Popular opinion. - It may be relatively sta ble, when compared with rapid or galloping inflations taking place = elsewhere but it does not stabilise long term credit and debt = relationships at all. Imagine the disturbance in the market if length, = weight and volume measurements were reduced annually by =20 4%. Even a 1% inflation could already destroy all too much of one's old = age insurance claim. This kind of policy is no more honest that the = stance of a thief who steals from many people only something of little = value every time, arguing that they won't no t ice it or will not mind it. Those who watered down milk or fruit juice = could similarly argue: We do little harm. And many polluters would argue = the same. Especially those who disperse radioactive substances and = increase the radiation hazards or add poison ous substances to our foods. - J. Z., 5.3.97. \par INFLATION, RATE OF INFLATION, STABILITY OF CURRENCY: So long as we = were not inflating as fast as the rest of the world we had no real cause = of alarm. - John Hallows, THE AUSTRALIAN, 12.2.72. - Assume that all th e rest of the world would be inflating at 1000% and we "only" at 100%. = Would this be no cause of alarm? - Do I exaggerate? "Retail prices = skyrocketed 20,000 % between 1945 &1 965". - NEWSWEEK, 5.8.68, on = Indonesia. It continued: "The budget has been balan ced and inflation has been slowed down from a gallop to a canter of = about 100% per year." - Isn't it surprising how propagandist choice of = words can minimise the impact of facts upon man's "thinking" or = opinions? - J. Z., 4. 4. 97. \par INFLATION, RATE OF INFLAT ION, TOLERABLE RATES? Inflation at an annual rate of between 7 & 8% is = simply politically intolerable. - Pop opinion. - It might be, IF people = had been used to currency stability for a long time. Not otherwise. = Politicians know better under present condit i ons, where they themselves and their voters and those who voted against = them, are not yet monetarily emancipated and have no right to vote in = this sphere. Thus they do go on inflating beyond these already = catastrophic inflation rates - and remain safely i n office, nevertheless, and can even expect to be praised for their = nominally higher and higher" spending" of what does not rightfully = belong to them and has not been voluntarily and individually entrusted = to them. - It all depends on how much the politici a ns have hoodwinked those they are supposed to represent. A fool and his = money are soon parted. The money of people who monetarily remain fools = will soon be depreciated by those who have the legal monopoly and power = to do so and tend to do so in their own=20 short term interest. When someone objects then, with Keynes, they might = reply: "In the long run all of us are dead", or: "Let posterity take = care of itself", or like Louis XIV: The great flood may come after us. I = don't care! (Apr\'e9 s nois la deluge!) During=20 the 1913-23 great inflation in Germany it came to a DAILY inflation rate = of 100%, i.e., from day to day the purchasing power of this paper money = was halved. Inflation rates of 30-100 % p.a. were quite common for years = to decades in South America, Indonesi a & Vietnam and the reduction e.g. of a 70% inflation to a "mere" 30% = inflation was celebrated as an economic and political achievement = already indicative of "political stability". I really wonder whether a = proper survey of the may be 200 "independent nati o ns" now in existence, would not indicate as high inflation rates among = most or all too many of them. Alas, the mass media do not even publish = regularly and reliably the current inflation rate and that of past years = and past decades in the own country, e.g . by a tabulation of the note and coin circulation year by year, = together with the rise of the wage and price levels, the exchange rates, = unemployment rates, rates of bankruptcies, and of taxes, as well as of = \ldblquote=20 rare metal prices expressed in paper currency " standards" and of the official and unofficial CPI's. The rate of = strikes, revolutions, civil wars and international wars, as well as = terrorist acts, that accompany or follow monetary despotism, should also = be tabulated, not only for one country but for al l of them. Such surveys would daily induce more questions, doubts, = demands and resistance against monetary despotism and its obvious = effects. Alas, the most important facts, ideas and abuses are rarely = discussed by the mass media and when at all then usual l y quite insufficiently, spreading more confusion and prejudices = regarding them rather than light. - In the long run even the smallest = degree of inflation undermines political stability and promotes = revolutionary or dictatorial conditions. - J. Z., n.d. &5 .4.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INFLATION, REPUDIATION, DEPRECIATION, LEGAL TENDER, LEADERSHIP, = PRESIDENTS, POLITICIANS: Inflation is repudiation. - Calvin Coolidge, = Speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, Jan. 11, 1922. - Rather, = inflation, possible only under legal tender and a note issue monopoly, amounts to a repudiation of the own original paper = money "value standard" and to supplanting it by a "value standard" that = is almost continuously further depreciated by further issues of its = forced and exclusive currency - and this b y the supposed guardian of a national currency, the central bank. It is a = kind of price, wages, rent and interest rate control that drives their = prices up, while it reduces the value of all credits granted and = repayable in the depreciated paper money, whic h is a forced and exclusive currency. But that does not keep these = "controllers" from trying to control prices etc. in another way, by = trying to keep them at same level, even while they continue to = depreciate the purchasing medium. Nor do they stop blaming =20 those, whose only remaining defence (as long as they submit to monetary = despotism) is to increase their prices proportionally, when reckoned in = the depreciated or inflated paper money. - Oh the ignorance, stupidity = and prejudices at the top of the pyramid s of territorial politics - and at the bottoms! - J.Z., 17.10.85, = 24.10.02. -- "There is no more terrible sight to behold than ignorance = in action.! - said Goethe..=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFLATION, See : BUDGET. \par INFLATION, SLOW INFLATION TO ACHIEVE FULL EMPLOYMENT? A slow infla tion is necessary to provide full employment. - Popular & "expert" = opinion. - That has been tried, under monetary despotism, for decades = and has led only to many fast inflations and a permanent degree of = unemployment and sometimes massive unemployment rat es - presently totalling 1 billion unemployed and underemployed. - You = really want more of the same for the next few decades? - J. Z., 6.4.97. \par INFLATION, UNEMPLOYMENT & WAGE CONTROL, THE HARD OPTION: Inflation = can be countered by creating substantial unempl oyment through various repressive measures that would restrain wages and = salaries. - Popular to "expert" opinion. - Only one repression is = needed, that of the monopoly for the issue of paper money and the legal = tender privilege for it. Other people, who=20 d o not possess such wrongful powers, should not be blamed, penalised or = restricted due to the effects of these wrongful powers. Unionised = workers might demand a million dollars as a normal weekly wage. Unless = the central bank inflates the currency to that =20 extent, they will not get it. If you demanded as much tomorrow, from = your employer, then he would have to give you "the sack" or you would = have to resign. The same applies to e.g. a baker who demanded $ 10,000 = for a loaf of bread from you. He would have t o do without your custom and he would be out of business very fast, = having priced himself out of his market. Instead of trying to back up = monetary despotism by further despotic measures - we should simply = abolish it. - J. Z., 6.4.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INFLATION, WAR & THE ST ATE, DIS: Inflation ist das erste Wundermittel des schlecht gefuehrten = Staates. Das zweite Wundermittel ist der Krieg. Beide fuehren zu = zeitweiligem Wohlstand, und beide fuehren zu voelligem Zusammenbruch. - = Hemingway. - It isn't a miracle cure, not even =20 a temporary one, but just another wrongful means to transfer purchasing = power from the deserving to the undeserving. - Inflation does not even = lead to temporary prosperity. It only does away with preexisting degrees = of deflation and then proceeds to depre ciate the currency. Neither inflations nor wars lead always to complete = collapse, although both have the tendency and capacity to do so. - J.Z., = 25.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFLATION: ... pumping up the money = supply (inflation) as we have been doing for over 30 years - has=20 n o t raised r e a l income nor brought security for the aging. - = C.W. Anderson. THE FREEMAN, 10/75. \par INFLATION: Inflation is a form of taxation that has one very = special feature. It's the only form of taxation that can be imposed = without anybody votin g for it. - Milton Friedman. - The minister of finance or the central = bank's director does. And before them the legislators voted for the = issue monopoly and legal tender and refused to repeal either! - Anyhow, = they are mostly just the high priests of the=20 p opular religion on money, as Ulrich von Beckerath pointed out. How many = ordinary citizens and "expert" economists are opposed to monetary = despotism as opposed to those who assume it to be right and necessary? - = Let those in opposition opt out and practis e monetary freedom among themselves! - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par }\pard \s15\qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\f0\fs24 = INFLATION: Inflation is defined as that quality that makes balloons = larger and chocolate barssmaller. - G.F.C. - READERS DIGEST, 5/75. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\f0\fs24 INFLATION: It is in any case impossible (as explained in = Chapter=20 43) for everybody to protect himself against inflation. A minority can = do so only at the expense of the rest of us. The only cure for the evils = of inflation is to halt the inflation itself. Any government can do this = if it has the will. - Henry Hazlitt, May 1968: "Inflation". It not only needs the will and the knowledge and = informed public opinion to back it up. Individuals can also help to stop = it - if they have the sense and courage to engage or participate in a = monetary revolution. - J.Z., 1976. \par INFLAT ION: This swindle erodes the purchasing power of everybody's income and = the purchasing power of everybody's savings. It is a concealed tax, and = the most vicious of all taxes. It taxes the incomes and savings of the = poor by the same percentage as the inco mes and savings of the rich - Henry Hazlitt: Inflation, 76. - More so = because the rich have many of their assets in illiquid and appreciating = forms. - J.Z., 15.11.76. \par INFLATION: We should not ask: How many per cent will inflation be = this year but rather: How can we bring it to a stop? - J.Z., 13.2/.75. \par INFLATION: "A forger," writes Hutt, "does not contribute to the = source of demands ..." - THE FREEMAN, 1/76, p. 23. - Can one forge the = OWN currency or just multiply it and get it accepted, nevertheless, via = legal tender? - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: "Monetary prudence in nipping inflation in the bud."\- - = I found that remark somewhere, I did not note down where. Nor \-did the = remark detail what monetary prudence would really\- require. I hold, = e.g.: competitive issue, market rating against a \-sound value standard, full publicity = for all issues, absence of \-legal tender and the issue monopoly, = freedom to refuse or\- discount the exchange media and value standards = of others. -\- J. Z., 22.12.94, 17.4.97. \par INFLATION: "positive government action" - today's euphemism for = more inflation. - Hazlitt, Inflation, 106 \par INFLATION: ... a permanent policy of not paying our debts. - Ralph = Bradford, THE FREEMAN, 11/75, p. 665. - Or, rather, pretending to pay - = with newly issued forc ed currency! - J.Z. - Or only part paying them, through depreciated = currency forced upon the creditor at its nominal value, not offered at a = discount, at its market rate. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: ... a repressed inflation is even worse than an open = inflation. - F. Hayek: EconomicFreedom and Representative Government, 9. \par INFLATION: ... an enormous siphoning off of accumulated capital = assets by diluting the medium of exchange - inflation! - Read: Talking = to Myself, 96. - The dilution is done coercively, v ia legal tender, and legal tender also supports the second precondition = for this abuse: an exclusive currency. - J.Z., 18.2.83. \par INFLATION: ... if spending l e s s can really fight inflation, = why hasn't the government applied this policy to its own spending = habits? - Irwin A. Schiff, The Biggest Con, 32. \par INFLATION: ... that printing paper money is a continual temptation = to politicians who want to bribe their electorate. - Henry Meulen, THE = INDIVIDUALIST, 12/74. \par INFLATION: ... we find at once all the little princes vying with = one another in diminishing the coin. ... - Hayek: Denationalization of = Money, 28. \par INFLATION: .... It reminds us that inflation is nothing but a great = swindle, and that this swindle is practised in varying degrees, = sometimes ignorantly and sometimes cynically, by nearly every government = in the world. - Hazlitt, Inflation, 76. \par INFLATION: ....well up till after the second world war, inflation = and deflation were terms used to describe shifts in the relationship = between the volume of commodi ties, services and land being offered for sale and the volume of money = being available for their purchase, to the extent of causing generally = and persistently rising or falling prices. - A. R. Cannon, GOOD = GOVERNMENT, 6/75. - Again, only coercive and excl usive money is considered - as if one could derive from it and it alone = natural economic laws of money! - J.Z., 18.2.83. \par INFLATION: ...die maessige Inflation (davon zu sprechen, ist etwa = so sinnvoll wie von einer Lawine mit Fussgaengertempo) ... (To speak o f a moderate inflation is as sensible as to speak of an avalanche with = walking speed.) Paul Brass, DINGE DER ZEIT, Juni 73, S. 34. \par INFLATION: ...the contribution that successive governments have = made to the surest agency for social disintegration that is k nown to modern science: the debauching of the currency. There is = abundant historical evidence of how accelerating inflation dissolves = lifelong habits of thrift, honesty and non-militancy and triggers a = vicious conflict over relative living standards. - Ro bert Moss: 1985: An Escape from Orwell's 1984, p. 108. \par INFLATION: \'85 today's dollars are like today's newspapers, not = much worth tomorrow! - S.L.M. 1/79. \par INFLATION: \'85 a real increase in ONE price has nothing to do with = inflation, which is an increase of ALL prices, i.e. a fall in the VALUE = OF MONEY! - Enoch Powell, in GOOD GOVERNMENT, 6/75. \par INFLATION: \'85 differs from counterfeiting in two respects: (1) = Inflation is legal and (2) the dilution is by the Federal Government = rather than by individuals. - L. E. Read, Talking to Myself, p. 129. \par INFLATION: \'85 government is the direct and sole CAUSE of = inflation. - Libertarian Option, I/75.I would add: through legel tender = legislation. - J.Z., 1/76. - Government does not cause anything through = its mere existence but onl y through its actions, laws, constitutions, coercions, penalties and = obstructions. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: \'85 inflation being caused by the government "printing" = money to pay for the few rash promises they are forced to keep, but = aren't game to fund through unpopular taxation. - Workers Party, = introductory leaflet, 1976. \par INFLATION: \'85 inflation causes only a temporary increase in = employment, followed by even more serious unemployment in the future. - = Patrick M. Boarman, Money, Employment and the Politica l Process, p. 7. - And even of this increase much may not be due to the = corresponding inflationary wage reduction but to the temporarily better = supply with however bad means of payment. - J.Z., 10.7.80. \par INFLATION: \'85 inflation has been extolled as desirable . Yet, it is nothing but legal counterfeiting. - Chodorov. ibid, 95. - = Illegal counterfeiting of paper money that is subject to a free market = rate, could at most considerably deteriorate that particular paper = money. It could not inflate other paper moneys . It could not inflate all prices, i.e. prices expressed in other = currencies, in some or the other alternative and stable standard of = value. - J.Z. \par INFLATION: \'85 prices dance ... to the tune of the quantity of = money per unit of output. - Milton Friedman in A ustralia 1975, p. 42. - Legal tender currency-only has this effect! = Prices marked e.g. in platinum weight units and paid either in a stable = or in a deteriorated currency, would still be the same in their platinum = weight prices! - J.Z., 18.2.83. \par INFLATION: A little inflation is just like a little pregnancy. It = keeps on growing. - Joke on radio, 13/1/71. - Well, here I am f o r = abortion! - J.Z., 18.2.83. \par INFLATION: According to Ulrich von Beckerath, inflation is that\- = excess of circulating money which is forced into circulation \-through = legal tender and the issue monopoly beyond that amount of \- its total possible circulation at which, in the absence of legal = \-tender and the issue monopoly, it would not have been accepted at\- = all or not at par with its nominal value. All other attempts to\- prevent or end inflation than by the removal of this monopoly \-and = coercion are in vain. In the presence of this monetary\- despotism it is = even impossible to measure accurately and fast\- enough the point at = which the saturat ion point for exchange media\- is reached and beyond which monetary = inflation sets in. - J. Z., \-14.4.97. \par INFLATION: All lasting inflations of the general price level in\- a = whole country do occur and can occur only under the communist, = \-collectivist & despotic system of an exclusive currency with \-forced = acceptance and forced value (legal tender power), \- against which the sellers of goods, services and labour have no \-other = defence left than to increase their prices, charges and \-wages or = salaries. Alas, those depending on fixed incomes,\- only nominally = accounted and paid for in the depreciated \- currency, are, as a rule, not given such an option. At most they\- can, = in future, avoid to make such investments, if they still \-have some = earnings that they could invest. - J. Z., 9.10.93,\-1.5.97. \par INFLATION: Although inflation is a vicious form of taxation, it may = even be popular because its effects are rarely understood. There are the = beneficiaries of inflation who sing loud praises of 'easy money' and = 'credit expans ion'. The government and its economists even invent complex theories and = doctrines in support of inflationary policies. For inflation boosts = government revenue and permits politicians to spend more money than they = can raise by taxes. Inflation also repudi ates government debt as it reduces its purchasing power. In this respect = it is a silent tax on all creditors and money-holders. - Sennholz. = Inflation or Gold Standard? page 7. \par INFLATION: An inflation tends to demoralise those who gain by it = even more than those who lose by it. The gainers become used to an = "unearned increment". They want to keep their relative gains .... = Hazlitt: Inflation, 131. \par INFLATION: And, above all, the losses which inflation inflicts on = millions of people breed a political and economic radicalism that tends = to destroy our private property order. Sennholz, Inflation or Gold = Standard? p. 18. \par INFLATION: As Germany did in the 1920's, the State can make = inflation and repudiation synonymous; it can inflate for the purpose of = repudiation. Thi s is what is called "uncontrolled" inflation, another impostor term. = There is really no such thing as "uncontrolled" or "run away" inflation, = because the printing presses do not run themselves; somebody must start = and keep them going until the desired end , the wiping out of the national debt, is accomplished. The disadvantage = of this process, as against outright repudiations, is that in wiping out = the debt it also wipes out the values which the citizens have = laboriously built up; it wipes out savings ..... Frank Chodorov, Out of Step, 175. - This inflation started with the war = and was planned in the Banking Enquete of 1908, which led to the = introduction of legal tender from the 1.1.1910. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: As the government continues to uphold the=20 legislation which makes inflation possible (central banking and legal = tender legislation), I can no longer believe that its inflation is = unintentional. - J., 75. - They cannot be that ignorant and stupid - or = can the really be? - J.Z., 3.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INFLATION:=20 Ausser Preisen setzt sie alles herab. - Ron Kritzfeld. - (Apart from = prices it drags everything down.) It does also increase unemployment, in = its rapid stage, and taxes (at least for a while, putting people into = higher rates of progressive taxation) - and political unrest and poverty, despotism and war. Debtors are enriched = by it to the extent that it wipes out their debts. - Anyhow, reckoned = not in the inflated currency but in sound currencies, it actually = decreases prices. - J.Z., 25.10.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFLATION: Be cause governments cause inflation, they can stop inflation. (*) Prices = and wages can rise only if there is extra money to pay the higher costs. = If the government did not inflate the currency, prices and wages would = not rise. - Maxwell Newton, ibid. - (*)=20 B ecause inflated paper money also depends on acceptance, people can stop = inflation by ignoring or defying legal tender and refusing to accept it! = - In the last stages of a galloping inflation they often do. However, a = monetary revolution should be organiz ed much earlier and to prevent inflations and deflations in the first = place. - J.Z., n.d. & 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: Bring down the high cost of Fighting Inflation! - A MAD = Sticker! - Do it with the stroke of a pen! Repeal Legal Tender and the = Note-issue monopoly of the Central Bank! - J.Z., 18.2.83. \par INFLATION: Britain is a land of funny money, and no one can keep a = financial promise because the medium of exchange is no longer a standard = of value or a store of value. - H.S. Ferns: The Disease of Government, = p. 128. \par INFLATION: But in time even an accellerative rate of inflation is = not enough. }{\b\f0\fs24 Expectations which at first}{\f0\fs24=20 lagged behind the actual rate of inflation, begin to move ahead of it. = So costs often rise faster than final prices. Then inflation actually = has a depressing effect on business. - Henry Hazlitt, THE FREEMAN, 3/75. - = Deflationary effects of inflation become particularly obvious once = prices race ahead of the capacity of the note printing presses, in = expectation of further large degrees of money depre ciation. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: Competition holds the cure for inflation: Let the good = money drive out the bad. Repeal legal tender. - J.Z., free after: = Competition held cure for Inflation" - by Robert E. Wood, LOS ANGELES = TIMES, Aug. 5, 1974. \par INFLATION: Compulsory money - compulsory inflation. - D., 75. \par INFLATION: Corrupt a currency and you get a corruption of all moral = standards and a dictator-ship to the same extent. - J.Z. - This = corruption starts with the corruption of the laws of monetary despotism. = - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: Credit itself is never inflationary, no more so than = clearing is. Credit is just the present value of a future good. - J. \par INFLATION: DEMAND-PULL & COST PUSH INFLATION: If you permit = demand-pull inflation to rage for three=20 years, then it will follow, as the night follows the day, that the = subsequent periods will become subject to cost-push inflation. ... In = cost-push inflation, we witness a rise in wage rates arrived at by = collective bargaining. Cost push, or 'seller's infl a tion', to distinguish it from demander's inflation, is more than a = matter of intransigent union leaders or impatient rank-and-file = strikers. It comes also from the side of rises in 'administered prices' = by large corporations in their desire to protect the i r profit margins or even to improve upon them. - Econo-babble by Dr. = Paul A. Samuelson, THE NATIONAL TIMES, 26/4/71. - To call the issue of = exclusive and forced currency by a government, leading in enforced = over-issues or monetary inflation, a "demand-pus h " inflation, is as misleading as calling the "payments" of governments = "spending". It is assumed that a genuine "demand" or "spending" is = involved. One might as well say that the issue of currency forged by = private forgers is a genuine demand - instead of =20 a fraudulent transfer of purchasing power from honest people to = dishonest people or that the "spending" of a bank-robber is the = equivalent of the honest spending of his victims. - The fancy terms = "demand-push" and "cost-pull" - inflation are used to cover =20 up what happens frequently with forced and exclusive currencies, = particularly when they are world-wide used currencies like the U.S. = dollar and are not as much depreciated as most other currencies are, so = that they become a currency hoarding option for ot h er victims of monetary despotism. Inflation means the over-issue of = notes whose acceptance and value is enforced beyond the quantity that = would be accepted at par and quite voluntarily if they were not legal = tender and monopoly money. An equivalent rise o f all prices to the total issue of US dollars does not take place today, = or not yet, because many to most of the notes are internally or = externally hoarded. Sometimes by internal authorities, sometimes by = internal criminals, to some extent by foreign banks =20 and foreign criminals, to some extent by honest citizens overseas, who = trust the U.S. dollar more than they trust the paper money of their own = government. - Once part of this overhead of over-issued and hoarded = dollars is let loose upon the internal U.S.=20 m arket, then this previously issued excess of notes will tend to drive up = prices and wages, to the extent that it streams back to the U.S. and is = there used for consumer purchases. - But inflation takes not place = evenly all over the economy but unevenly. S o me prices and wages rise later than others, especially when they are = somewhat fixed for a period, by contracts or government controls. - All = types of monetary inflations are characteristic for the monies of = monetary despotism, not those of monetary freedo m . - J. Z., 28.3.97. - without legal tender and the issue monopoly one = cannot inflate a currency, not even with the worst intentions. The = supposed gold-inflations, that are ascribed to periods of great gold = discoveries, are mostly imagined. The total stock =20 of gold accumulated over thousands of years was not very significantly = increased and certainly not quite out of proportion with the increased = population and the increase in produce, products and services. If we had = prohibited the sale of goods, labor and=20 s ervices for anything but rare metal then the somewhat free economies = could not have grown as far as they did. Luckily, the clearing options = went far beyond the available rare metal stocks even before the great = gold discoveries in modern times, so that we=20 w ere never completely dependent upon the rare metals. Alas, for wage and = salary payments we were, largely, for all too long as we are now = dependent upon government monopoly money, for them, even when they are = not paid in such cash put only accounts of this monopoly money. - J.Z., 30.8.02. \par INFLATION: Derselbe Stact, der die Schaffung des Umlaufsmittels, = des Geldes, als sein alleiniges Privileg betrachtet, dieser selbe Staat = entwertet eines Tages dieses Geld und bringt dadurch einen Teil des = Volkes um alles, w as er sich erarbeitet und erspart hat - eine Handlungsweise, deren = Schmutzigkeit selbst von ihm nicht mehr ueberbotenund zugleich ein = glatter Betrug, wie er frecher and schamloser nicht ausgeheckt werden = kann. Auch mit meiner Unabhaengigkeit war es vorbei . - J. H. Mackay, Abrechnung, S.175. (The same State which considers the = provision of the exchange medium, of money, as its exclusive privilege, = this same State one day depreciates this money and, thereby, deprives a = part of the people of everything they h a ve worked for and saved. This is such a dirty deed that even the State = cannot exceed it. At the same time it is such a sheer fraud that a more = impertinent and shameless one cannot be imagined. My independence was = thereby destroyed, too.) - In other words, like all too many others, he had not paid sufficient attention to the = laws and practices of monetary despotism and their consequences. = Otherwise he would have made some safer investments. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: Each unit of v a 1 u e standard is n o t = deteriorated as more units of the e x c h a n g e medium are issued - = unless both are coercively combined (as is now the case) through legal = tender. - J.Z., 13.6.79. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INFLATION: Ein ganzes Volk geht = pleite. - Werner Mitsch. - (Inflation: A whole peo ple goes bankrupt.) - The debtors don't go bankrupt, at least not = immediately. They get rid of much to most of their debts, by paying them = with depreciated money - i.e., at the expense of the creditors. And = debtors are also creditors in many way as as the y so lose at the same time. Moreover, while inflation persists they will = find it rather hard to get further and sufficient credit. Evils like = this ought to be at least as carefully considered as chess moves in an = important game of chess. - J.Z., 5.7.92, 25 .10.02. \par INFLATION: Etwas ist faul im Staate: Deine Mark! - Ron Kritzfeld. - = (Something is rotten in the State: Your Dollar!) - The dollar does not = rot or depreciate by itself. It takes a government's central bank and = its issue monopoly and legal tender powe r, also note printing presses, paper and ink and the criminal intention = to use them for the government's usual excessive spending. When returns = to governments from direct and indirect taxes can no longer be easily = increased then it resorts to the inflatio n tax. Once inflation becomes progresive then returns from taxation = become greatly decreased, because collection is slow and taxpayers delay = payment as long as they can. - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFLATION: Every time the government = creates extra money, it in effec t steals from every one of us. It is the greatest con ever invented - = how to commit a robbery without actually touching the money. It leaves = us with our money, but steals its value. - Howard/Singleton: Rip Van = Australia, 134. - The money is "touched" by t h e government: Firstly by the legally imposed note issue monopoly, then = by it giving its paper money legal tender (forced value plus forced = acceptance) and thirdly by making use of these powers and multiplying = its paper money by printing more and more of=20 it. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: Everybody is against inflation but everybody is in = favour of the things that produce inflation, and what people don't = realise is the connection between them. - Milton Friedman in Australia, = 1975, p. 76. - Perhaps, if Milton=20 Friedman had come out in 1975 against legal tender and any privilege for = any central bank, then many countries would already be without inflation = and deflation by now. Alas, he belongs to the people he condemns in his = above expression. No one had a better =20 press on the subject - and no one else has so messed up a great = opportunity. His half-truths are the enemy of the full truth on the = subject. - He does not want the abolition of the mismanagement of = currency but just less mismanagement of a still exclusive and coercive currency, which he considers to be proper or scientific = management. That is as absurd a view as the other popular one of our = times, that nuclear weapons would do some good - if only they are in the = right hands! - J.Z., 18.2.83. \par INFLATION: Exce ssive government spending can never be curbed in the face of excessive = demands on government. - Read: Having My Way, XI. - Repeal Legal Tender = and the Central Bank monopoly and the government can no longer = over-spend! - J.Z., n.d. - Anyhow, the printing a nd passing around of requisitioning certificates or uncovered cheques = does not amount to "spending". - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: Fight inflation - drive over public servants. - Car = sticker, seen 6/80. \par INFLATION: For sheet hypocrisy, nothing can beat the ne rve of politicians who constantly permit the government to spend (*) = beyond its means, and then blame the resulting inflation on the = 'greediness' of its citizens. - Jesse Helms, (Sen. N.C.), When Free Men = Shall Stand, a paperback Zondervan. - If I succeed ed in passing uncovered cheques, would this be "spending" on my side? - = J.Z. \par INFLATION: G.W.: Finally, Mr. Powell, what, in your view, should be = the legitimate role of government in the control of inflation? - E. P.: = TO STOP CAUSING IT! - Enoch Powell, 6/75 , quoted in GOOD GOVERNMENT, from MANAGEMENT FORUM, a new periodical = from the University of New England. \par INFLATION: G.W: Mr Powell, in your view what are the main causes of = the world-wide inflation we are suffering? - EP: You might as well say = we are suffe ring from world-wide ADULTERY. Inflation is the fall in value of = currency, and currencies are national! - Enoch Powell, - GOOD = GOVERNMENT, 6/75. - He should have added that none of them should be = imposed, neither upon the world nor upon a nation, nor upon any individual, but that, instead, all of them should be private, = optional and competitive! - J.Z., 18/2/83, 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: Government alone is strictly accountable for inflation = because government alone determines the money supply. - Sennholz, = Inflation or Gold Standard? p. 28. \par INFLATION: Grands are no longer grand - due to grand larceny by the = government. - J. \par INFLATION: Groseclose notes that if people can't respect a = government's money, they are likely to lose respect for all its other = institutions . - SLM, 5/79. - In other words : Inflation is a libertarian = opportunity! - J.Z., 9.6.82. - If one can interest "libertarians" in its = real cause and cure! - J.Z., 18.2.83. \par INFLATION: Help to stabilise the currency - by spreading the idea = of the right to refuse acceptance of deteriorated currency and to issue = or accept instead alternative, sound, private issues without legal = tender and thus inflation-proof. - J., 75. \par INFLATION: History is largely inflation engineered by government. - = Hayek: Denationalization of Money, 27. \par INFLATION: However, the effects of currency inflation are not even. = Some people benefit - at the expense of others. (*) People whose selling = prices (incomes) rise first can make purchases before there is a general = rise in prices; people whos e selling prices (incomes) rise last (or not at all) must make purchases = after there has been a general rise in prices. The people in the first = group benefit at the expense of the people in the second. Maxwell = Newton, WP NEWSLETTER, 6/75. - (*) Also only=20 in the short run. Creditors become wary of inflation and where will = debtors get credit then? - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: I n f l a t i o n, correctly understood, is a device = used by government to acquire revenues in lieu of direct taxation, and = is achieved by debasing the nation's currency and stealing from the nation's = savers. - Schiff: The Biggest Con, 22. - It is made possible by there = being a national currency in the first place, one imposed by law, and = this at its face value, regardless of how much it has been depreciated by over-issues! - J.Z., 18.2.83, 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: I think there is not doubt one of the most serious costs = of inflation is that it destroys the efficiency of the capital market. - = M. Friedman, ibid, p. 23. - With considerable help from taxes, laws, = prohibitions, regulations. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: If my theories were put into practice, Australia would = be rid of its two greatest handicaps .... inflation and politicians. - = THE BULLETIN, 26.4.75, quoting Milton Friedman. \par INFLATION: If over-issuing legal tender paper money is forgery then = it isn't "spending". If it is genuine "spending", then it isn't = forgery. - J., 77. \par INFLATION: If you start to drink at night the good effects come = first, the bad effects come the next morning. It's the same way with = inflation. - M. Friedman, ibid, p. 61. - I drink water every night - = without ill effects! - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: In its later stages inflation tends to bring about a = disorganisation and demoralisation of business. - Henry Hazlitt , THE FREEMAN, March 75. - That is like saying that the drinking of = alcoholic drinks would harm people only in large doses. In reality, = already small doses do already do their amount of harm! - J.Z., 18.2.83. \par INFLATION: In times of inflation real money is scarcer than before. = - J. 76. \par INFLATION: Indeed the measures supposedly necessary to combat = inflation - as if inflation were something which attacks us and not = something which we create - threaten to destroy the free economy in the = near future. - F. A. Hay ek: Economic Freedom and Representative Government, 8. \par INFLATION: Inflation also inflates government. - J., 75. \par INFLATION: Inflation as a way of life leads to the loss of freedom. = - Lawrence Fertig, THE FREEMAN, 1/67. \par INFLATION: Inflation has been aptly ca lled "the termite of civilisation". It never rests, working day and = night to gnaw away at the solid foundations on which our people have = built their social and economic systems with such great care and with = confidence in the future. - Admiral Ben Moreell: Log II, 144. \par INFLATION: Inflation has been irresistibly attractive to sovereigns = because it is a hidden tax that at first appears painless or even = pleasant, and above all because it is a tax that can be imposed without = specific legislation. It is truly tax ation without re-presentation. - Milton Friedman, How to Use Indexation = to Fight Inflation, QUADRANT, June 75. - It still needs legal tender and = money monopoly legislation! - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: Inflation is a condition where the economy is so = mismanaged and distorted that mere long-term borrowing and clever = spending can make you rich. - J., 73. \par INFLATION: Inflation is a consequence of government legislation\- = establishing a note issue monopoly and legal tender for its \-notes. = Without such despotic powers no one could inflate. But\- almost all governments possess them and they do inflate, most of\- the = time, - if they do not use their powers to cause deflationary = \-depressions, mass unemployment or a stagflation (which combines \-the = evils of inflation and deflation). - Possibly no other\- economic fact is better established = and none is more widely \-ignored. - J. Z., 26.3.93, 27.5.97. \par INFLATION: Inflation is a device for siphoning private property = into the coffers of the government, and will be activated whe never the costs of government rise to the point where they cannot be met = by direct tax levies - inflation to make up the difference. - L. E. = Read: Who's Listening? 44. - There are many indirect taxes that extort = about as much as the direct ones. Inflation , actually, is partly an indirect tax as well and partly a direct one. - = J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: Inflation is a method of cutting a dollar note in half = without damaging the paper. - C. T., READERS DIGEST, 9/75. \par INFLATION: Inflation is a printing press phenomenon, said Milton = Friedman. He overlooked that not every printing press can or does = inflate a currency. Only those associated with a money monopoly and = legal tender powers can. - J., n.d. & 3.11.02. \par INFLATION: Inflation is a world-wide problem simply because = governments. world-wide, follow essentially the same economic policies. = - Maxwell Newton, ibid. \par INFLATION: Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary = phenomenon. - M. Friedman: An Economist's Protest, p. 29. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 INFLATION: Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as = frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.\line }{\i\cf1 = - Ronald Reagan.}{\cf1 =20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFLATION: Inflation is being broke = with a lot of money in your pocket. - Industrial Press Service, READERS = DIGEST, 10/78. \par }\pard \s15\qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\f0\fs24 = INFLATION: Inflation is brought about by go vernment printing money that even the government is not game to cover by = taxation. - A version of a remark by Roger Court, 20.10.76. - See: Tax = Foundation. - Even if a governmental paper money had not a sufficient = tax foundation, it could inflate a curren c y only if it is a monopoly money and one that has legal tender. Without = the monopoly and the legal tender imposition, sound value reckoning and = pricing could go on and alternative exchange media could be issued and = accepted and drive out the bad money of=20 the government. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\f0\fs24=20 INFLATION: Inflation is legal forgery and illegal taxation and only the = government has the power to undertake either. - J. - Since one can only = forge other people's money, not the own, it isn't forgery but a coercive = and mo nopolistic imposition of a depreciating value standard and exchange = medium, via legal tender laws and the note issue monopoly. - J.Z., = 3.11.02. \par INFLATION: Inflation is like a cheque drawn by the government on = all earnings and property of the taxpayers. - J., 71. \par INFLATION: Inflation is not imported from abroad. Inflation is made = at home. - M. Friedman, Milton Friedman in Australia 1975, p. 58. - Not = in the homes of its victims or even of its oppressors and exploiters, = but in the official offices of the latt er. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\f0\fs24 = INFLATION: Inflation is the over issue of exclusive and forced\- "legal = tender" and monopoly currency by the government or its central bank - \- beyond the quantity that a free market and competitive issues and\- = value standard conditions would be prepared to accept at par\- value with its nominal value under free market rating for such a = currency, or at par with alternative value standards, if the = paper-\-standard of the government is not suitable for marking out = prices, wages and other deb t contracts or contract offers or searches. For instance, in Israel, at = least a few years ago, \-wages were frequently settled by an index = standard and most \-prices in the shops were marked out not in the = official Shekel\- standard but, rather, in U.S. dollars. Without legal tender and \-the = issue monopoly refusals and discounting of any inflated\- currency would = be wide-spread to overwhelming. - J. Z., 3/97. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\f0\fs24 INFLATION: Inflation is the over-issue of money with "forced = currency" (forced value and acceptance at=20 par or 'legal tender') that denies the right of any creditor - including = wage earners - to refuse to accept this money or to accept it only at = the market-rate instead of at the nominal value, beyond the point at = which (due to a sufficient foundation) it w ould ( even in the long run and in the absence of legal tender) be at = par with a relatively stable value standard in all dealings on a free = market, for the money tokens and for the value standard. - J.Z., 5.5.81 = & 18.2.83. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\f0\fs24 = INFLATION: Inflation is the product of centralised control of\- your = money. - Peter A. Wright: Australian Campaign Against\- Centralism. - = Rather, it is the product of centralised control of \- THEIR money, which is FORCED UPON YOU as an exclusive currency. -\-J. = Z., 20.3.97. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\f0\fs24 INFLATION: Inflati on means that due to the note issue monopoly and legal tender = legislation, an exclusive paper currency is "created" and forced into = circulation - and thereby into the pricing of all goods and services - = more currency than people would have willingly accep t ed at par (against a sound value standard). Thus competition by sound = alternative exchange media and pricing in sound alternative value = standards is outlawed and the government can easily inflate its = exclusive and forced currency and thereby blow up (unso und pricing, in its inflated currency) and destroy all sound price and = credit relationships. - J.Z., 78, 3.11.02. \par INFLATION: Inflation means the repudiation of all debts public and = private, the utter destruction of credit, and a long lapse into = barbarism. - Rutherford B. Hayes, Republican, quoted by Charles Shively = in his introduction to L. Spooner's Our Financiers. \par INFLATION: Inflation means: Too much money without backing is = forced into the market. - D. & J., 77. \par INFLATION: Inflation robs the weakest people the most. - George = Hardy: The Doom of the Welfare Society, 57. \par INFLATION: Inflation should be described rather by a }{\b\f0\fs24 = fall}{\f0\fs24 of the value of money, reckoned in goods and services = than by a }{\b\f0\fs24 rise}{\f0\fs24 of goods- and service prices = (reckoned in deteriorated paper mo ney). Thus one would come closer to seeing cause and solution. = Otherwise, one tends to wrongly and senselessly interfere with goods and = service prices or to approve of such interference, thus making matters = still worse. - J.Z., 22.4.79, revised 8.6.82. \par INF LATION: Inflation steals our savings. - Michael G. Steuart, 1975. - More = precisely: The governmental note monopoly and legal tender money allows = not only the government but all other debtors to repudiate part of their = debts by paying their debts nominally in full but in reality only with depreciated money. - Good money is not = allowed to drive out the bad. One can only increase one's prices and = wages reckoned in the depreciating and forced monopoly currency. - J.Z., = 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: Inflation will persist until people are freed to provide = better money and to refuse or discount the bad. - J.Z. ,26/4/81. \par INFLATION: Inflation, \'85 is a condition in \-monetary = transactions where paper money is accepted without\- limits and at a = prescribed value only because legal tender \- prevails: a coercion which makes it legally impossible to account for = depreciation by discount or refusal. - Ulrich von \-Beckerath, = 25.1.52. \par INFLATION: Inflation-proof money is not impossible - it is merely = outlawed! (It is outlawed in order to=20 enforce the circulation of the government's inflated currency which = leaves us no other legal choice than barter as an alternative to this = imperfect monetary transaction.) - J, \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INFLATION: Is the Australian = government honest about the degree to which it infl ates the Australian dollar currency, every year, every day of the year? = Or does it e.g. juggle the CPI figures and deceive the nation about its = note printing press activities for its forced and exclusive currency and = the result of such wrongful and harmfu l activities. How many of those "educated" by the government are = sufficiently informed about inflation, its cause and cure? - J.Z., = 7.4.86, 24.10.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFLATION: It falls with greatest = force precisely on the thrifty, on the aged, on those who cannot protect themselves by speculation or by demanding and getting higher money = incomes to compensate for the depreciation of the monetary unit. - Henry = Hazlitt, Inflation, 34. \par INFLATION: It is a way governments have of meeting bills that, for = political reasons, canno t be met by taxation. (*) It is sheer dishonesty, a bold-faced robbery = of the thrifty, a surreptitious tax. If there is any need to prove that = the interests of the government are not those of its citizens, inflation = supplies that need. - Frank Chodorov, O ut of Step, p. 96. - (*) They could be met, with good will on both sides = and for common objectives! - J.Z., 18.2.83. \par INFLATION: It is high time that our community took heed of = Churchill's view that "inflation is a time when we cheat our creditor." = - W. H. O rchard, South Melbourne, Vic., in THE AUSTRALIAN, 24.4.79. - As if it = were entirely o u r fault, As if the government left us free to refuse = to use or to discount its depreciated paper money and paper dollar and = to reckon our prices, wages, salaries and other contracts in sound, alternative and freely chosen value standards = instead and to use soundly managed alternative means of exchange and = clearing avenues instead, competitively run, privately or cooperatively! = - J.Z., 18.2.83, 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: It is not merely that inflation breeds the gambling = spirit and corruption and dishonesty in a nation. Inflation is itself an = immoral act on the part of government. - Hazlitt: Inflation, 131. \par INFLATION: It's the government's banking system that creates = inflatio n, recession, and depression. - Murray N. Rothbard: Penthouse = International, 10/76. - Does it deserve the name of a system when it = systematically produces deflation, inflation and stagflation and, due to = its nature, cannot prevent either? - J.Z., 15.11.0 2. \par INFLATION: Legal Tender + issue monopoly =3D Inflation. - J., 73. \par INFLATION: Let good money drive out the bad - repeal legal tender. = - J.Z. \par INFLATION: Monetary destruction breeds not only poverty and chaos, = but also government tyranny. Few policies are mor e calculated to destroy the existing basis of a free society than the = debauching of its currency. - Sennholz: Inflation or Gold Standard? p. = 2. \par INFLATION: Money is important not just as a medium of exchange, = after all, but as a standard by which society ju dges our work, and thus ourselves. If all money becomes worthless, then = so does all Government, and all society, and all standards. - Otto = Friedrich (TIME Magazine editor) in book: "Before the Deluge". \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\f0\fs24 = INFLATION: No clearing of deposits acts inflationary. It cannot\- do so = any more than barter can inflate prices. It just does what \- barter does (namely exchange goods and services), but unlike barter, not = as slowly\- and inefficiently, but much faster, easier, more = effectively, more\- widely, multilaterally and=20 anonymously. Thus no clearing medium or method ought to be outlawed or = made difficult or more or less\- monopolised or qualified and = restricted. The debtors and\- creditors, whose debts and credits are = somewhere and soon settled\- in a free clearing system, in several stages, may never come to \-meet = or even hear of each other. During clearing debts and assets are = mutually cancelled -\- in enormous amounts, daily. They do not = indefinitely grow and\- cannot be made to grow, indefinitely and unilaterally. They are\- based = on and depending upon the underlying sales and purchases of \-goods, = services and labour. Mere paper profits and paper capital\- illusions may grow, even for prolonged periods, if there is no\- truly = free market - in the monetary sphere as well. But, sooner or later they = collapse down to the reality behind them. - J. Z., 3/97. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\f0\fs24 INFLATION: No subject is so much discussed today - or so = little understood - as inflation. The politicians in Washington talk of = it as if it were some horrible visitation from wit hout, over which they had no control - like a flood, a foreign invasion, = or a plague. It is something they are always promising to "fight" - if = Congress or the people will only give them the "weapons" or "a strong = law" to do the job. Yet the plain truth i s that our political leaders have brought on inflation by their own = money and fiscal policies. They are promising to fight with their right = hand the conditions brought on with their left. - Henry Hazlitt: = "Inflation". \par INFLATION: No wonder people liked living in the past - it was so = much cheaper. - W.G.P. - Not if one reckons in gold weight units! - = J.Z., 18.2.83. \par INFLATION: Of inflation, we may ask: Is it right to reduce the = value of the money now in circulation by increasing the supply? - = Clarence B. Carson , THE FREEMAN, 5/76, p.304. - If my cheques were uncovered and I = increased their supply - they could not cause a corresponding inflation! = They are not legal tender! Others do not have to price out their goods, = labor and services in my cheques! - J.Z., 18/ 2/83, 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: On October 8, 1974, before a joint session of the = Congress, President Ford called "inflation, our public enemy No. I." - = Schiff's thesis is that since it's the Federal Government that causes = that inflation, it's the Federal Govern ment that is, in reality, "public enemy No. V' - and blistering chapters = add to this indictment. - Schiff: The Biggest Con, cover. \par INFLATION: On the superficial level, inflation is not a capitalist = phenomenon, not a socialist phenomenon, (*), not a trade u nion phenomenon. It is a printing press phenomenon. - M. Friedman, ibid, = p. 10. - It is a socialist and not a free enterprise phenomenon in that = it requires a nationalised or privileged currency with coercive = characteristics! Printing presses can and have been used for the production of sound currencies! - J.Z., 18.2.83. \par INFLATION: One of the essential disadvantages of today's monetary = economy is that the monopoly good which enforces a high interest = tribute, namely the purchasing warrant resting on compulso ry acceptance, called "money", can be put in arbitrary amounts into = exchange transactions between goods and services, for irresponsible and = short-sighted political purposes. Thereby production and exchange are in = many ways disturbed and hindered. - K. \par INF LATION: One ought to distinguish between the depreciation of one or even = of several among competing currencies and the depreciation of an = exclusive and forced currency. Under monetary competition some might not = only provide unsound exchange media (e.g. ba s ed on land or shares, likely to depreciate fast) but also unsound value = standards and will have these expressed in their unsound currency issues = and in their prices & wages etc. Then these exchange media would = depreciate, either against a sound value stan d ard which others using. Then the own prices, expressed and paid in the = own currency would be driven up but not the prices of others, expressed = in sound value standards and paid for with sound exchange media. The = inflated currency would be discounted and l a stly refused in general circulation. At the same time, all other and = quite sound currencies might circulate at par and their prices, = expressed in their sound value standards, will remain, unchanged by the = fact that some currencies have depreciated and som e value standards have shown to be unreliable. The responsibility for = over-issues is rapidly driven home to the one who caused it and his = supporters. They alone will have to bear the damages they caused. They = cannot spread them to others or over the whole=20 c ountry. Moreover, inflations under these conditions will be rare and = limited, through the informed self-interest of issuers and acceptors - = or refusers. - It is very different under monetary despotism. There is = only one medium of exchange permitted and it =20 has legal tender and all prices have to be expressed in it, as long as = legal tender can be effectively enforced. All blocks against over-issues = are removed: Free market rating, sound value standards, right to refuse = acceptance, competing currencies, note=20 e xchanges and clearing house returns, good business reputation, value = preserving clauses, publicity on issues and reflux, limited circulation = period and area, limited commitments to single borrowers, discounting = only of real bills, a free gold market, a so u nd and short term reflux of all exchange media issued. Moreover, in the = absence of prescribed convertibility by the issuer, upon demand by the = note-holders, misplaced confidence will not hide over-issues for all too = long. Redemption of all competing curre n cies takes place in full, hourly, daily, etc., in goods, services and = labour at par. The par value of competing currencies against their value = standard, e.g., grams of gold, is also checked continuously on a free = gold market. To that extent competing curr e ncies are under "intensive care", but without any extra effort or high = technology equipment, just by and continuous and automated as well as = self-interested scrutiny. Their strength is not run down, unnoticed, = over prolonged periods, leading to a sudden d i scovery of its flaws and a collapse. They do not depend upon unreliable = and belated statistics, on political motivations and career ambitions of = a few powerful administrators of a central bank. They are not the = footballs of political and military ambition s. - Note to a volume by POOR, on money, p. 57,- J. Z., 1.6.85, 9.5.97, = 13.9.02. \par INFLATION: Only governments can inflate but not every government = necessarily does. - J.Z., 25.10.75. - Only most of them do, most of the = time. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: Only the government can and does cause inflation - by = legal tender laws and exclusive currency regulations. - J. \par INFLATION: Only the government can cause inflation, for only the = government has the privilege of printing money; any private citizen = trying it is c ourting a jail sentence. - Frank Chodorov, Out of Step, 100. - To = indiscriminatingly call the worst kind of money, namely a monopoly money = with legal tender, simply "money", as if all money had to be like that, = is very misleading. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATI ON: Our currency is inflatable because it is Legal Tender. Without being = legal tender, it would not be inflatable. Without it, it could not even = exist - apart from the limited amount that could be issued with sound = tax foundation. - J.Z., 7/76, 18/2/83. \par IN FLATION: Our inflation is simply a fat price level getting fatter. Why? = Because the economy is being fed too much. Fed what? Fed dollars. By = whom? By the Federal Reserve System (commonly known as the Fed by = knowledgeable economists). - Angus Black, ibid,=20 3 6. - He should have stated that it is being force-fed with exclusive = dollars. That could not be done with private dollars that are subject to = a free market rate and the right of people to altogether refuse = acceptance of means of payment they are not contr actually, or as issuers, obliged to accept. - J.Z., 18.2.83. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INFLATION: Periodisch wiederkehrender Beweis fuer die Tatsache, das = bedrucktes Papier bedrucktes Papier ist. - Helmar Nahr. - (Periodically = repeated proof for the fact that printed paper is printe d paper.) - Not all printed paper has legal tender power and the = note-issue monopoly behind it. - Sound currencies can also be printed on = paper. - J.Z., 4.8.92, 25.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFLATION: Politicians have a vested = interest in inflation, since it enables them to=20 spend more money than they collect in taxes, which enables them to = increase handouts to all their followers. Since the effects are = difficult to see, when prices start rising the politicians blame = everybody else; the unions, big business, greed, man's natu r e - everything and everyone is blamed by governments and politicians, = except government and politicians. Have you ever heard a politician = admit that governments cause inflation? - Maxwell Newton, WORKERS PARTY = NEWSLETTER, 6/75. - Inflation is also a form=20 of taxation. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: Price and wage increases do not cause inflation by = themselves. When price increases (including wage increases) are demanded = without additional notes being made available to pay them, then they = will either be refused or they can be satisfied only by correspondingly reducing the currency = available in other spheres. The over-all expenditures and the price = level tend to remain the same. - Any industry or labour group demanding = prices and wages above the market level wou l d find its turnover and employment reduced. - Wage and other price = increases act inflationary only in case they are paid for - directly or = indirectly - with additionally issued paper notes (or base metal coins). = In other words, not they but the paper note =20 issue increases cause inflation. The wage and price rises are merely an = effect. - Moreover, the additional inflationary issues of means of = payment become possible only with the legal assistance of "legal = tender". Otherwise, over-issued currencies would r a pidly depreciate (against any sound standard of value that is used in = marking prices) and would become costly to the issuer (who has still to = accept his notes, issued below par, at par at any time when someone pays = his debts to him in these notes) or impo s sible to issue for general circulation - because most people would = simply refuse to accept the depreciated notes. They could not affect a = wage and price level expressed in freely chosen stable standards like = e.g. gold weight units. - J.Z., 10.3.75 & 18.2. 83. \par INFLATION: Prices rise so fast that a dollar saved is 50 cents = lost. - Gene Courtney, READERS DIGEST, 5/75. \par INFLATION: Prolonged inflation never 'stimulates' the economy. On = the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and = employment. - Henry Hazlitt. \par INFLATION: PROVISION OF A HANDBOOK OF POPULAR FALLACIES ON = INFLATION & THEIR BEST REFUTATIONS SO FAR FOUND OR FORMULATED: Such a = handbook is long overdue. An individual can hardly provide it because he = or she would not have the time to s ufficiently peruse all the nonsense written on this subject and to = extract it for this purpose. The Internet could be used for this purpose = and I would also like those who might be interested to provide me with = good photocopies of their relevant compilati o ns for a special LMP microfiche issue of this kind. It should be = accompanied by a popularly written article on how to stop inflation's = main cause: monetary despotism (the issue monopoly combined with legal = tender: forced acceptance and forced value) and p r event it for the future by the introduction of full monetary freedom. - = Collaborators for this project are wanted now. I really wonder whether = the false notions on this subjects are numbered merely in the hundreds = or in the thousands, if not ten-thousands . Only extensive collaboration can determine that. - Notes towards an = INTRODUCTION for such a handbook, written many years ago: Seeing the = inflation of garbage articles on inflation and the difficulty to sift = the welter of conflicting viewpoints, it is abo u t time that an encyclopaedic approach is undertaken. Without sufficient = publicity, showing the real market rate of deteriorated opinions on = inflation, the bad views will flood and overpower the sound ones. Among = a crowd of idiots, shouting at the top of t h eir voices, a wise man will presently not be heard. The remnant of = enlightened economists and students of money would get their chance via = such a handbook. The wrong views, although numerous, would be cancelled = out. Truthful or so far unrefuted statements =20 on inflation could be specially marked. Other markings would indicate = all the popular views that have long been refuted as such. But they = would be reproduced in full - and with all their best refutations. - = Government or central bank propaganda on money i s often comparable (given the statist mentality) to giving a forced = currency to flawed or false views on inflation (bad "money") and thus = drive out the scarce truths advanced by a few (the good "money") through = numerous untruths, advanced by the many at mo s t occasions, especially in the mass media. Something like the popular = version of Gresham's Law is here involved. Thus we ought to get a = sufficiently informed free market and market rating on inflation views = into operation, one that would systematically an d permanently operate to publicly wipe out the errors, lies, wrong = premises, dogmas and myths in this sphere: A breach for the truths on = inflation to invade the citadel of monetary despotism. The handbook = should enable every lover of liberty to hold his ow n in any public discussion with any advocate of monetary despotism, at = least as far as inflation is concerned. Extended, into a general = handbook on monetary freedom, it might similarly deal with other = monetary freedom aspects, opinions, arguments ideas and =20 proposals and with all relevant and provable facts. - EDITORIAL NOTE & = PUBLISHING SUGGESTIONS: The first draft for such a manuscript, provided = perhaps by a single person or a few, could become tested and perfected = in public debates, like Beta Testing on t h e Internet for new software. In this hundreds, even thousands could = participates with the bits of truths they are able to contribute to this = debate. Everybody is a victim of inflation. Everybody who can, should = therefore try to contribute to such a handbo o k. Develop new and better arguments, collect more relevant facts and = submit them to the central compilation and editing office. It does not = matter if the same ideas are expressed repeatedly in different words. = The sorting out and cutting down of the lengt h of the text could come later and even for this the readership of each = version of improved drafts could be invited to add its comments and = evaluations. Towards the end, when the draft is already sufficiently = advanced and edited, and to the extent that it=20 i s wanted in expensive printed copies, advance subscriptions could be = invited. For cheap editions on microfiche, floppy disks, text-only = CD-ROMs and on-line editions, no advance subscriptions would be needed. = Almost everyone would be able to afford them. S h ort and popular versions of the handbook and pamphlet and leaflets = indicating its essence, should also be drafted and published, by anyone = game to try. Bets might be offered on certain views of inflation, on = whether they could be publicly either proven or =20 disproven. If anyone could prove to me that in essence my own views on = inflation are quite wrong, I would gladly pay him or her A $ 100 - but = I doubt that anyone would be able to make me lose that bet. But, the = avalanche of wrong opinions on the subject=20 i s so large that I do not feel confident enough to refute all of them = thoroughly for any particular individual, i.e., I would not be prepared = to bet even $ 10 that I could convince a single individual of them, i.e. = clear out the Augean Stables in his mind=20 ( on this subject) first and effectively and then implant successfully in = his minds a new and clean foundation for his general acceptance of = monetary freedom views. Such results can only be guaranteed by a = combined educational effort - like e.g. the coopera t ion required to produce this kind of handbook. Are there enough moral = and rational dissenters among the freedom lovers to independently = collaborate in the provision of such an encyclopaedia? Will they be = prepared to forego any copyrights claims on their c o ntributions? Any rightful resistance against monetary despotism must = first be preceded by a period of sufficient enlightenment. Knowledge = must precede actions - otherwise the same mistakes will be repeated over = and over again. - J. Z., n.d. & 24.3.97. - W ouldn't it be nice if bets on the correctness or incorrectness of = certain monetary ideas or arguments could become as popular as the = betting on horse and dog races, which do not decide any questions of = considerable importance to mankind? - J.Z., 30.8.02. \par IN FLATION: Refuse to submit to reductions of your purchasing power by a = depreciating currency. Refuse to accept it before its total collapse and = insist on or issue yourself sound alternative means of payment. In = short: start a monetary revolution. - J., 78. \par INFLATION: Refuse to use a depreciated currency! - Free after = Beckerath's Berlin Programme, - J.Z., 7.8.75. \par INFLATION: Rising prices are the cause of inflation in the same way = that wet streets are the cause of rain. - Robert Bleiberg, Editor = BARRONS", THE MERCURY, July/Aug., 1979. \par INFLATION: Sign at a motel: "Because of inflation our single rooms = are double." - Erna Tveter - Readers Digest 5175. \par INFLATION: Since the State can print money and compel its subjects = and banks to accept this paper in payment of i ts debts, it can rob them by inflation and thus, make up its = over-spending and over-promising. - Joseph DeJan in "The Devil Theory", = a pamphlet, p. 14. \par INFLATION: Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get = his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your = career. - Bill Vaughan. - Too bad you did not dream of a better standard = than the paper dollar! - J.Z., 18.2.83. \par INFLATION: Stop inflation - demand gold. - Bumper-sticker of the = National Committee to Legalize Gold. - Was it ever outlawed as jewelry? = - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: Stop inflation by repealing legal tender laws. - J. \par INFLATION: That is the lesson of history. Inflation leads in the = direction of dictatorship. It means reversion to some of the terrors of = a by-gone ag e. It leads to the loss of the most precious possession which man has = gained over the centuries - the right to choose freely and to live like = a free man. - Lawrence Fertig, THE FREEMAN, 1/67. \par INFLATION: That rise in prices expressed in the value standard\- of = legal tender money which results because stable value \-reckoning is = outlawed by legal tender clauses, and thus the \-depreciated paper money = cannot be discounted against sound value\- standards in case of over-issues. Due to this and the note issue\- = monopoly almost any excessive quantity of the exclusive and forced = exchange medium can be pushed permanently into circulation \- and it must be accepted at par with its nominal value in all\- payments. = Thus the only option left to all acceptors is to \-increase their prices = and wages, etc., expressed in that forced and\- exclusive currency - or = to participate in underground\- transactions that are somewhat freely paid in alternative\- currencies = to the extent that these, usually more stable other\- currencies, become = available to them, often under great risk of \- prosecution if uncovered and caught and convicted. Thus inflated\- paper = standard value "prices" do not indicate really increased \-prices but = the decreased value of the forced and exclusive \-currency. - = Unfortunately, popular language use does not make=20 \-this distinction or even the distinction between price increases\- due = to shortages, or dearness, and price increases due to an \-over-issue of = forced currency. - J. Z., 3.7.91 & 12.4.97. \par INFLATION: The advantages tha t Professor Hayek claims for competitive currencies are not only that = they would remove the power of government to inflate the money supply = but also that they would go a long way to prevent the destabilising = fluctuations that government monopoly of money=20 has precipitated over the last century of 'trade cycles'... - Arthur = Seldon, introducing Hayek's "Denationalization of Money". \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INFLATION: The Australian paper = dollar has really deteriorated. A few decades ago I could still buy 10 = newspapers with it, now onl y one and, after the GST on 1.7.00, one costs even $ 1.10. - It is an = old experience that newspaper prices are among the first reliable = indicators of the inflation of a currency. - J.Z., 4.7.00. \par INFLATION: The Australian paper dollar has really deteriorate d. A few decades ago I could still buy 10 newspapers with it, now only = one and, after the GST on 1.7.00, one costs even $ 1.10. - It is an old = experience that newspaper prices are among the first reliable indicators = of the inflation of a currency. - J.Z., 4.7.00. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INFLATION: The dollar is stronger against the pound sterling but still = weak against the pound sirloin. - CHANGING TIMES, quoted in NEWS DIGEST = INTERNATIONAL, June 1977, p. 19. \par INFLATION: The evils of runaway government, with its inevitable = inflatio nary consequence, approach the insufferable stage. - L. E. Read, Notes = from FEE, Nov. 75. - The financing of runaway government via the = over-issue of legal tender currency is subject to a decision, i.e., is = not "inevitable"! - J.Z. 18.2.83. \par INFLATION: The=20 federal government is now declaring war on the inflation it initiated = and promoted and which it continues to press forward with ever greater = force. The same politicians who now sound like militant inflation = fighters pushed hard in the past for every dolla r of deficit spending. - H. F. Sennholz, THE FREEMAN, 2/75. - All = present governments have also legally prepared for inflation - through = the laws of monetary despotism. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation = of t he currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both = bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and = economic opportunists. - Ernest Hemingway: Notes on the Next War. \par INFLATION: The government can inflate its currency only when the = people are not free to refuse to accept it. - J., 77. \par INFLATION: The government goes on printing these scraps, because, = if it stopped, that would mean the end of the government. Because, once = the printing presses stopped - that is the requisite for the stabilisation of the mark - the swindle would at once be = brought to light. - Adolf Hitler, Feb. 1923, quoted in Good Government, = 2/78. - Actually, quote a few governments survived the stopping of the = printing presses and they may only have surviv ed because of this. Alas, the same abuse goes on and on, because the = constitutional and legal foundations of monetary despotism have not yet = been abolished. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: The government has not only a problem in fighting = inflation: it causes it! - J. \par INFLATION: The government need no longer fight inflation - as soon = as it would stop making it. - J., 77. - Replace "making" by = "continuing". - J.Z., 3.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INFLATION: The government tries to = drive inflation down. - Radio comment, 23.8.88. - Firs t it causes all of the present inflation by its monetary despotism and = then it "drives it down", partly. - That is like the Mafia bosses = declaring that in future they will reduce their crimes with victims. - = See under Legal Tender, Central Banking & Mone y Monopoly, Monetary Freedom, Free Banking. - J.Z., 23.8.88, 24.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INFLATION: The government's efforts to contain the inflation are like a = man carrying a torch and a water bucket through a field of standing = grain. With one hand he sets the field afire,=20 with the other he attempts to douse it from his bucket. - Elgin = Groseclose (Viewpoints), SLM, 2.80. \par INFLATION: The inflation that is destroying the life's savings of = millions of thrifty Americans must be abhorred as a crime against = economic well-being and=20 social peace. The business cycle must be prevented through resort to = sound and honest money. - H. F. Sennhoz in THE FREEMAN, 5/76, p. 299. \par INFLATION: The natural tendency of the state is inflation. - M. N. = Rothbard: The Case for a100 Percent Gold Dollar, p . 16. - There are at least some instances of States that issued paper = money without legal tender for years to decades, i.e., without affecting = prices that were marked out in sound value standards. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\f0\fs24 = INFLATION: The notion that the private deposit and credit system\- acted = itself in an inflationary way and that it could do so, on\- its own. (Price increases on the goods side or due to temporary = \-speculation and hoarding attempts, are not permanent but \-temporary. = They soon lead to corresponding price falls - reckoned\- in honest value standards. They indicate dearness from the goods\--side = but not inflation from the monetary side.) - Wherever, as\- long and to = the extent that clearing occurs, which is using a \-sound value = standard, no inflationary e ffect does occur or can occur. That applies to any payments carried on = in books, bank\--passports, bank accounts, or bank computers, too. But = forcing all \-people to use a governmental and legal tender paper = standard,\- one frequently or almost constantly depreciated by the government, = involves all private \-transactions in the depreciation of this paper = standard, too. But \-the private non-cash or clearing transactions = themselves do not \- depreciate this depreciating standard further. I would not\- depreciate = the government's paper currency when I clear e.g., \-paper $ 10 of my = apples against paper $ 10 of your potatoes.\- Naturally, the government = as the culprit for every inflation,\- tends to blame everyone and everything - except itself. However, \-if = all managed to settle all their transactions by clearing or\- private = optional note issues and if all used in these \-transactions a more = reliable value standard than most governments \- are able or willing to supply, then the government's "value = standard\-" and its paper money would become worthless because they = would be \-ignored or refused, i.e. their inherent worthlessness would = be \- revealed. Government's inflationary paper money issues, like\- other = forms of government spending, based on taxation or forced \-loans or = "investments" in future tax slaves, is entirely \-parasitical. That is = its own flaw. It cannot rightly blame its\- worthlessness on others. - J. Z., 3/97. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\f0\fs24 INFLATION: The only factory in Australia where the lights are = going day and night is the Australian Governme nt Mint. - The Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Lynch, SMH, 19.4.75. = - But he would probably be one of the last to switch off the lights, = there! - J.Z., 18.2.83. - If it were not, by law, monopoly money and, = through legal tender legislation, a forced=20 c urrency, with forced value and forced acceptance, the government could = go on printing as much as it liked - and we would still be free to = discount it or refuse it altogether and reckon in sound value standards = and exchange using competitive sound exchange media and clearing options. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: The printing of money to finance political programs = leads to rising prices. - Roy Childs, Liberty Against Power. - Not, if = it is e.g., paper money with tax foundation, subject to a free market = rate a nd the right to refuse acceptance in general circulation and if it is = reckoning in gold weight units. Even wars have been financed with such = sound paper money. - J.Z., 18/2/83. - Only the government or its central = bank would have to accept it at any time=20 at par with its nominal gold etc. value, regardless of its free market = rating. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: The real obstacles to ending inflation are political, = not economic. Ending inflation would deprive government of revenue that = it now obtains without legislation. - M. Friedman: How to Use Indexation = to Fight Inflation, QUADRANT, June 75. \par INFLATION: There are those who equate inflation with high prices. = That is like maintaining that the wet streets caused the rain to fall. - = Frank Chodorov, Out of Step, 99. \par INFLATION: There can be no large-scale inflation of any currency = \-or any inflation of the general price level in all currencies, \-from = the monetary side, without legal tender and the money issue \-monopoly. = No inflation is possible under freedom for no te issues\- and free choice of value standards and free clearing, using = sound\- alternative value standards, and freedom to price one's goods,\- services, labour and contracts in sound value standards. - J. Z., = 20.11.91, 26.4.97. - Merely by observing how che aply people with foreign and relatively stable currencies can buy goods, = labor and services in countries with a galloping inflation, economists = should have rapidly come to the conclusion that the essential difference = between the foreign currencies with hi g h purchasing power and the low purchasing power of the own currency = national was due to the fact that the own currency was pushed into = circulation by the issue monopoly and legal tender, while the foreign = currency, in the inflating country, had no monopol y position and no legal tender and thus did not participate in the = inflation and could not make it worse. On the contrary, it made at least = some sound exchanges still possible. It had preserved its own value = standard and it was voluntarily accepted at its=20 purchasing power. - J. Z., 8.9.02.=20 \par INFLATION: There is one great country in Europe where the = equalisation of wealth and income has progressed faster than in Britain = and the United States: Germany in the decade before Hitler's advent. = There the inflation of 1923 did the trick. Equalisation was achieved by the impoverishment of = the rich, not the enrichment of the poor. - Gustav Stolper: This Age of = Fable. p. 67. \par INFLATION: Two bob isn't worth two bob these days. - ascribed to = Lawson by Colin Chapman in a review in THE BULLETIN. \par INFLATION: War, pestilences, plagues, and catastrophes rarely bring = about the fall of a nation; but inflation has been responsible for the = downfall of many great empires of the past." - John Howard Pew, THE = FREEMAN, 3/76. - I would not=20 have minded it, if inflations had only brought empires down. Alas, it = pulled their subjects down, too! - J/Z. 18/2/83. \par INFLATION: What is spent merely equals the number of dollars = floating around, multiplied by the number of times they change hands. = What i s received simply equals the number of things sold, multiplied by their = prices. Since these two equals equal, the relationship between prices = and other things can easily be figured out. Say dollar bills don't = change hands faster (*) than usual and that th e re aren't more things being bought than usual. Then, if the number of = dollars floating around increases, prices have nowhere to go but up. How = do these excess dollars come into existence? Because someone is doing = this thing with a printing press, but not=20 in a damp dark basement. It's happening in the well-lit offices of the = U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve, Washington, D.C. 20551. - Angus = Black: A New Radical's Guide \'85 p. 37. - (*) Here he should rather have said: "slower"! Moreover, he = ignores that his description applies only to forced and exclusive = dollars. - J.Z., 18.2.83. \par INFLATION: When a great body of men are preaching the righteousness = of the confiscation of property, the stability of the society is = threatened, even though the method of confiscation be simply the depreciation of the currency for the benefit of the = discontented poor. - Andrew C. McLaughlin, The Confederation and the = Constitution, 1905, in THE FREEMAN, 3/76. - Inflation is not a benefit = to the discontented poor, no matter what many "e conomists" say, politicians assert and people believe! - J.Z., 18.2.83. = - As debtors they get limited and temporary benefits. As creditors they = lose and in the longer run also as debtors. - J.Z., 15.11.02. \par INFLATION: Who cares about long term depreciation by slow\- = inflation? In the long run we are all dead! - A flippant opinion\- = ascribed to Maynard Keynes. - This point overlooks e.g. the \-effect a = slow and steady (if it remains steady and slow!) \- inflation has e.g. upon old age pension claims. We cannot simply\- = assume that after their retirement everybody will simply die off,\- = uncomplaining and unaffected by inflation. Only after his death \- will he finally not care any longer. But in the meantime, often \-for = years to decades, he is wrongly impoverished by inflation.\- Rightly so = only to the extent that he never cared about such questions \- at all and never worked towards monetary freedom to replace the\- = monetary despotism that placed him into poverty. - If he were made\- = aware how rich he could be, in his old age, after a normal\- working = life, if bearable premiums were paid, not taxed, \- productively invested, credit insured, preserved by value\--preserving = clauses, not subject to forced loans or interest rate\- restrictions, in = an economy neither impoverished and misled by\- inflations, deflations and stagflations, - that then he could, at\- = least in his old age, be even a multi-millionaire in assets, then we = would finally be close to a monetary revolution.\- For who would = willingly consent to being prevented from honestly=20 \-becoming a multimillionaire by his own efforts, insurance, \-savings = and investment arrangements (or by those who would act as \-his agents = and trustees), instead of being continuously robbed or cheated by the = governments, as happens now? Presently, \-t here is probably not one voter in a million who is so enlightened. And = governmental avenues as well as popular avenues \-are rather closed to = such ideas. Thus flippant apologists for\- monetary despotism, like M. = Keynes, got away with it for decades \- and the central banking system that he favours has still got us \-in its = claws and has invaded and occupied most minds. - J. Z., 14.4.97, 6.9.02. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\f0\fs24 = INFLATION: Without legal tender and the note issue monopoly, \-i.e., = under free market rating for competing and optional \-currencies and = their freely chosen value standards, no inflation \- is possible. A systematic historical research would soon provide = \-enough evidence for this precondition for inflation. So many more \-or = less silly researches are officially financed. This kind is\- not. I have recently challenged my State MP to initiate it \-through = the Liberal Party's research department. But I do doubt \-that this will = happen. The best way to convince someone else is\- not to try to = convince him against his will by raining fa cts and\- arguments down upon him but, rather, to challenge him into\- = convincing himself and to appeal to his self-interest for doing \- so. - J. Z., 19.3.97. My own letter, to the Australian Liberal Party's = research department, through the local MP, trying t o follow this advice, received no response at all. One cannot = effectively appeal to the knowledge and reason of politicians, not even = to their self-interest, outside of their usual channels of "thought", = "ideas" and "interests". However, unlike a Stalin,=20 Hitler or Mao, they did not order my imprisonment or execution. - J. Z., = 28.8.02. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\f0\fs24 INFLATION: Your cheques are not legal tender. Thus you could = not cause an inflation, even with the worst intentions. Only the = government can and does cause inflation - with it s legal tender paper money. - J. \par INFLATIONARY DEPRESSIONS OR STAGFLATIONS: When a forced and\- = exclusive currency depreciates considerably, during a galloping = \-inflation, from day to day, week to week, etc., and as an \-investor = the creditor could only be certain that, if at all, then\- he would only be repaid in depreciated money, then he would be a\- fool = if he continued saving and investing. To that extent all\- production = that depends upon further investments comes to a stop,\- causing a = corresponding depress ion and unemployment, not a boom\- economy and full employment. = Furthermore, once prices race ahead\- of the note printing presses, = inflations will at the same time \-become deflations or stagflations. = Within a system of monetary\- despotism there are only hard and costly options of ending an = \-inflation. The moderate steps merely prolong the stagflation. The = \-soft options of free markets in this sphere, offered by monetary \- freedom, are not possible under monetary despotism. Thus \-inflations = are often continued, although not desired, out of fear\- of sharply = increased mass unemployment, which would be \-politically even less = acceptable. If the victimisers of this\- system are not prepared to give up their wrongful powers, then the = \-victims of it should at least consider no longer granting them \-these = powers. - J. Z., 28.4.97. \par INFLATIONS & GOVERNMENTS: Governments force you into = \-participating in the depreciation of their paper currencies by a)\- = legal tender, b) their money issue monopoly, c) their outlawry of\- = value preserving clauses in contracts, d) by misdirecting\- savings, pension- and insurance funds into government \-"insecurities". = - J. Z., 10.7.91.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INFLUENCE, IMAGINATION, = INDIVIDUALS, POWER: Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever = he may be, and=20 wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a = power. - Henry George (1839-1897), Social Problems (1884). - He needs a = market for his ideas and talents, too. This market his not yet optimally = developed. - J.Z., 25.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INFLUENCE, POW ER, PANARCHISM, SECESSION, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM: Facts and correct ideas = will influence behavior, at least of some people, only if they are free = to find them, and their search is sufficiently facilitated - by a free = market for facts, opinions, ideas and o p portunities and if they are freed to act upon them. Submitting them to = territorial rulers would just add them to the existing large garbage = heaps of the ignorant and prejudiced masses in their territorial prisons = and slaughterhouses. - J.Z., 25.8.93, 22.1 0.02. \par INFLUENCING PEOPLE, PROPAGANDA, AGITATION, ENLIGHTENMENT, = EDUCATION, COMMUNICATIOIN, RED: There comes a time when the twig can no = longer be bent. - D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought. - Minds set like = concrete can't be bent. Trying it is a waste of tim e and energy. - J.Z., 26.7.92. \par INFORMALITY, ORDER, NATURAL ORDER, FREEDOM, TOLERANCE, DIVERSITY, = COEXISTENCE, PANARCHISM, PEACE, SECURITY: A tolerant informality and = absence of imposed order is, in the long run, the equivalent to a high = degree of natural order. - J.Z., 11/73, 26.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFORMALITY: A tolerant informality = and absence of imposed order is, at least in the long run, the = equivalent to a high degree of order. - J., 73. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INFORMATION & ENERGY: Information = ist Energie. Bei jeder Weitergabe verliert s ie etwas davon. - Wolfgang Herbst. - (Informaiton is energy. In every = transfer it loses something.) \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INFORMATION & MONEY. IS MONEY PURE INFORMATION? If that were true then = pure scholars would be very attractive parties on the marriage market = and money worri es absent for them. As it is, information, particularly on innovations = in the social and legislative or custom ridden sphere and invention = knowledge or any knowledge not corresponding to accepted and = authority-supported knowledge or models, is among the h a rdest items to sell. One of the main reasons for this is that no ready = and specialised and world-wide market exists for it and innovators. = Patent offices, venture capital firms, novelty shops, catalogues of = novelties offered, broadcasted inventor shows an d inventors' exhibitions can only satisfy a fraction of this market = requirement. An ideal market would bring all existing supplies of ideas = - and special talents - together with all existing demand for them and = with all future demand for them. The Global I d eas Bank of the London Institute for Social Inventions, established on = the Internet, is a good step in this direction. - As it is, money may = often buy some kind of information but not all relevant information. And = all relevant information is not ready cas h and cannot always buy ready cash. Money and information are not = identical, even while much information can already be turned into cash = and while cash can buy much information. - While exclusive information = has some special value, knowledge, wide-spread,=20 i s not depreciated or less useful by becoming even more widely spread and = used. (Only the rarity value of knowledgeable people can become = reduced.) While knowledge is providing some kind of standard, it is = often expanded and discredits former theories, con v ictions and assumptions. It is thus hardly useful as a standard of = value. It is too changeable for that. At a time when information has = been said to be exploding, it hardly makes sense to equate it with = money, far less a sound money. This in spite of the=20 f act that money, too, expresses some relevant information and does that = in some useful and round figures and some useful and widely accepted = standards. The main information it expresses is that of prices, fees, = charges, costs, profits and potential earning s and opportunities. - Like all vast generalisations, this is wrong in = too many particular cases. It would be more correct to say that money = represents an agreement on payment and debt settlement or an agreement = on a particular way of mutually clearing one ' s debts in a very convenient way. But it is far from true to say that = all information is like ready cash and coinable by its holder into notes = or coins for local circulation. This in spite of the fact that every day = knowledge and skills and capabilities a n d abilities are sold for cash - or clearing certificates. That still = does not make them identical. - However, it is true that knowledge or = information, combined with skills, abilities & resources are behind all = goods, services, labours and capital values=20 o ffered for sale, which, in their turn, can be used to issue currencies = or capital securities upon. Even assuming that almost all consumer goods = and capital goods were suddenly destroyed and only enough remained to = allow people to survive at a minimum leve l , knowledge would permit them to restore their former wealth rather = fast, unless natural catastrophes would prevent them from doing so. The = notion that information equals money or is money is no more sound than = the notion that a labour standard of value w o uld be ideal. Millions of involuntary unemployed prove that their = information, skills and labour potential is far from having a ready cash = value for them, under conditions of monetary despotism. Under monetary = freedom, their readiness to accept their own=20 I OUs in payment, whenever anyone buys their knowledge, skills or labour, = could, indeed, to the extent that they would get such IOUs accepted, = provide them with some exchange media and, finally, with paid jobs, in = which these IOU's would be included in thei r pay packets. They would be paid with these IOU's, having anticipated = their payment already when they issued their IOU's in their spending for = consumer goods and services. In short, issue freedom and clearing = freedom and knowledge of the sound technique f o r both and the practice of this knowledge and the ability to practise = it, in spite of legal suppression attempts and condemnation by experts = of such self-help measures, are required to turn information or ability = and capacity and willingness to work or se r ve (labour or professional skills and services) into some form of ready = cash. - But just try to coin your knowledge and information and skills = now, into your own paper money and see whether people will readily = accept it. Only if they know that you have so m e money or payment coming to you - will some accept your personal scrip = or IOU and see to it that they are presented to you, in payment, as soon = as possible. - J. Z., 27.4.89, 16.5.97. - See: IDEAS ARCHIVE & ITG: = IDEAS, TALENT & GENIUS CENTRE, INDIVIDUAL=20 ISSUERS, CLEARING FOR INDIVIDUALS, POTENTIAL ISSUERS. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INFORMATION & SOCIETY: Information ist der Kitt der Gesellschaft. - = Wiener. - (Information is the glue of society.) - Information is the = record of society and science. It not only holds us together but a lso pulls us apart, into separate intentional communities. But many of = our divisions are based upon incomplete or misunderstood information. - = J.Z., 5.7.12. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFORMATION & SUCCESS: As a general = rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the bes t information. - Benjamin Disraeli. - So why haven't libertarians = assembled all their information as yet and made it cheaply and = permanently accessible? - J.Z., 29.11.02. \par INFORMATION & SUCCESS: As a general rule the most successful man in = life is the man who has the best information. - Benjamin Disraeli. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INFORMATION AGE & NATION STATE: = "\'85 the Information Age will make it increasingly obvious that the = nation-state \'85 is a predatory institution. With each year that passes, it will seem = less a boon to prosper ity and more an obstacle, one from which the individual will want to = escape." - James Dale Davidson & William Rees-MOGG, The Sovereign = Individual, MacMillan, & Simon & Schuster, 1997, 117. - The Internet = does promote prejudices, errors and myths as well a s truths - and swamps truths with them. It will need special = enlightenment and information steps, measures, institutions and = processes to make truth victorious over lies etc. The Internet, merely = by its existence, does not automatically assure that. - Have =20 the anti-statists made better use of its options so far than the = statists? Remember, for instance, how effectively Hitler made use of = planes and radios for his campaigns. - The Soviet propaganda and media = monopoly has left still about 30% of the Russians=20 " thinking" like communists! - And libertarians have failed to offer them, = and other victims, elsewhere, a complete and consistent liberation = program. - So many hopes connected with the printing press, a free press = and the new mass media and a "free" educat i on system and "free" libraries were disappointed. A genuinely cultural = revolution and new age of enlightenment requires more than the mere = existence of powerful technologies. That of microfilm has now existed = for decades - and how extensively has it been=20 used by freedom lovers? - J.Z., 23.4.00. \par INFORMATION AGE & NATION STATE: "\'85 the Information Age will make = it increasingly obvious that the nation-state \'85 is a predatory = institution. With each year that passes, it will seem less a boon to = prosperity and more an obstacle, one from which the individual will want to escape." - = James Dale Davidson & William Rees-MOGG, The Sovereign Individual, = MacMillan, & Simon & Schuster, 1997, 117. - The Internet does promote = prejudices, errors and myths as well as truths - a n d swamps truths with them. It will need special enlightenment and = information steps, measures, institutions and processes to make truth = victorious over lies etc. The Internet, merely by its existence, does = not automatically assure that. - Have the anti-st a tists made better use of its options so far than the statists? Remember, = for instance, how effectively Hitler made use of planes and radios for = his campaigns. - The Soviet propaganda and media monopoly has left still = about 30% of the Russians "thinking" l i ke communists! - And libertarians have failed to offer them, and other = victims, elsewhere, a complete and consistent liberation program. - So = many hopes connected with the printing press, a free press and the new = mass media and a "free" education system a n d "free" libraries were disappointed. A genuinely cultural revolution = and new age of enlightenment requires more than the mere existence of = powerful technologies. That of microfilm has now existed for decades - = and how extensively has it been used by free dom lovers? - J.Z., 23.4.00. \par INFORMATION AGE & NATION STATE: "\'85 the Information Age will make = it increasingly obvious that the nation-state \'85 is a predatory = institution. With each year that passes, it will seem less a boon to = prosperity and more an obstacle , one from which the individual will want to escape." - James Dale = Davidson & William Rees-MOGG, The Sovereign Individual, MacMillan, & = Simon & Schuster, 1997, 117. - The Internet does promote prejudices, = errors and myths as well as truths - and swamps tr u ths with them. It will need special enlightenment and information steps, = measures, institutions and processes to make truth victorious over lies = etc. The Internet, merely by its existence, does not automatically = assure that. - Have the anti-statists made=20 b etter use of its options so far than the statists? Remember, for = instance, how effectively Hitler made use of planes and radios for his = campaigns. - The Soviet propaganda and media monopoly has left still = about 30% of the Russians "thinking" like communis t s! - And libertarians have failed to offer them, and other victims, = elsewhere, a complete and consistent liberation program. - So many hopes = connected with the printing press, a free press and the new mass media = and a "free" education system and "free" li b raries were disappointed. A genuinely cultural revolution and new age of = enlightenment requires more than the mere existence of powerful = technologies. That of microfilm has now existed for decades - and how = extensively has it been used by freedom lovers?=20 - J.Z., 23.4.00. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFORMATION BASED ECONOMY? As we move = from an economy based on \- money and ownership to one based on information, the way we interpret = information becomes a key issue. - Jeremy Horey, THE\- AUSTRALIAN. (Some = text was lost here.) - We can't su rvive merely by lecturing each other and supplying each other with = literature. Try to eat the screened or printed out words from your = computer - or use them as a shelter again rain, wind and snow. Is an = economy based on "money" or upon production, in divi s ion of labour, tools, machines (capital) and on free exchange of = products and services, in whatever form that is done, with or without = money tokens? While knowledge, skills and ideas, tools and machines, as = well as better communications, can increase prod u ction and facilitate exchange, we cannot live on them directly. An = economy needs information, e.g. that of the free pricing system, but we = cannot live by reading classified advertisements or the share prices = published by the stock exchange. And how long c o uld we survive without private property and self-ownership? How many = Internet users managed so far to make their living from it? And even = then they can ultimately do so only via distributing goods or services = through it. (Those committing fraud through it =20 still live at the expense of the production of goods by others.) Some = intellectuals fancy that they provide the only really required services. = At least these would be over-paid, I believe, even if they received only = a minimum wage. Let them live from and=20 within their intellectual structures, with no one forced to listen to = them or to read them. Their economic knowledge and interest is all to = often negative and then they make such absurd statements. - The = assertion \- that we live in an information age and that our whole economy is \-based = upon it, is very popular. But you cannot eat information or readily = exchange it for edibles in the local supermarket. Just \- try to do so. If you are a sufficiently skilled or strong bio-robot they = \-might use you as a packer or stacker. If you are better educated\- you = might be employed as a cashier or even as a supervisor. But, \- try to sell other information there! Or anywhere! An Ideas\- Archive and = Talent Centre or Genius Employment Agency does not\- yet exist. The = wisest men do not rule and are not used as\- advisors of those that do. = Information to prevent war, poverty, \- unemployment, inflation, deflation, stagflation, despotism, or to\- end = them, does exist - but just try to publicise it or sell it to\- someone. = I offer lots of freedom, peace and justice information\- on over 1400 microfiche - but there is hardly any demand for it. \-- = Naturally, one has to distinguish between information that is \-popular = or fashionable or amusing or part of a game or bet, and\- misinformation = that a mounts to prejudices, errors, false dogmas \-etc., but that may still be = very popular. So far, the new\- Information sources have not promoted = all the old and new truths \-sufficiently nor refuted all the old and = new errors sufficiently.\- Instead, they have added more errors and prejudices and left them = \-unquestioned, too and even very popular or predominant, like this\- = one, regardless of its truthfulness, merit or lack of it. - See: = SYMBOLIC \- MONEY, ELECTRONIC MONEY. - What is transferred with these is not \-just = information but the information that consists in claims or \-rights to = ownership. And these claims are a form of money. -\- J. Z., 29.4.97. \par }\pard\plain = \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INFORMATION EXPLOSION, COMPUTERS, = INTERNET, WEBSITES: We talk about the information explosion, with all = the satell ites, computer nets, and so on, but Eva used to say it's a = misinformation explosion. - James P. Hogan, The Mirror Maze, 275/276.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INFORMATION EXPLOSION: We are over-fed with information = - mainly the wrong type of information - and overwhelmed by so many ev ents around us and conscious of so little decision-making power = remaining in our hands that a large degree of apathy inevitably results. = - J.Z., 19.7.87. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INFORMATION MUST BE WANTED TO BE SHARED, CIVILITY, = POLITENESS, CONSIDERATION, GENTLEMEN: Imposing unwanted information on = others is not truly civil. - F.M. Busby, Getting Home, 27. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INFORMATION REVOLUTION, MASS MEDIA, PRESS, = BROADCASTING, NEWS, IDEAS, IDEAS=20 \par INFORMATION REVOLUTION: \'85 modern societies are essentially = information-based. - Peter Robinson, THE=20 NATIONAL TIMES, 23.9.82. - Libertarians should be largely information = based, much more so than they are now, and thus enable themselves to = gradually influence the whole of society. - J.Z., 4.11.82. - Even the = cavemen could survive only long enough by accu m ulating and applying some knowledge. To that extent the advance of man = from animal to a semi-civilized being was always information-based. The = best, the most creative computers, are still our heads - and, like most = computers, they remain largely unused or =20 under-utilized. We haven't even explored all the potential of = photocopiers for preserving and multiplying texts, far less e.g. = microfilms, floppy disks and CD-ROMs and DVDs. Libertarians have still = not compiled for themselves a comprehensive encyclopaedia , bibliography, directory, index, abstracts and review compilation, not = even a single comprehensive libertarian library in all the world. = Mouthing such phrases and hoping for the best from the still all too = limited services of the Internet, is just not goo d enough. - J.Z., 24.10.02.=20 \par INFORMATION REVOLUTION: A new generation is on the state, = ill-acquainted even with the facts of forty years ago. - John Bright, = 1879. - We need a new generation, one with access to all the facts, = ideas and opinions, and interest ed and prepared to look them up whenever they require them. - J.Z., = 5.7.86, 24.10.02. \par INFORMATION REVOLUTION: Be part of and win thus the information = revolution - if you have any truths to spread. - J.Z., 15.5.78. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INFORMATION SOCIETY VS. INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY? \'85 transform America from an industrial society into an information = society. . - Newt Gingrich, Window of Opportunity, A Blueprint for the = Future, 111. - One cannot eat information, live in it, clothe in it, = travel in it, one can only trade it for what o ne needs to survive. - J.Z., 3.6.00 & 23.1.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 INFORMATION, EXPRESSION, FREEDOM, OPINIONS, ATROCITIES, TORTURE: After = all it is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women = alive on account of them. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 INFORMATION, IDEAS, BORDERS: Information is the oxygen = of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it = wafts across the electrified borders. }{\i\cf1=20 - Ronald Reagan.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INFORMATION, IDEAS: Information is = not good enough if it is not complete and truthf ul enough. On social problems most people have only a fraction of the = total information - and most of this is not true. - J.Z., 27.10.00. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INFORMATION, INTEREST, ATTENTION, = INFORMATION REVOLUTION: What information consumes is rather obvious: It = consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a = poverty of attention. - Herbert Simon. - Broadcasts require receivers. = For ideas, talents and many facts special archives and information = services are required where supply and demand can freely meet and the distribution costs for information can be = minimised. - J.Z., 30.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE, LIGHT, = EDUCATION, ENLIGHTENMENT, IDEAS ARCHIVE: Give light and people will = find their own way. - Author Unknown. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INFORMATION, MARKET: Th e whole market process then became understood as a process of transfer = of information enabling men to use, and put to work, much more = information and skill than they would have access to individually. - = Hayek, The Fatal Conceit, 97.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INFORMATION, TRUTH, FACTS, GIGO, RED: False = information - false results. - Frank Herbert, Dune, Complete & = unabridged edition, 222. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INFORMATION: Good information is hard to come by. = - QUANTUM, 12.8.96. - And even harder to clearly distinguish from masses = of flawed or invalid information. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN FREEDOM: Necessity is the plea for every = infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the = creed of slaves. - William Pitt, November 18, 1783 \par INHERITANCE AS A RIGHT & OPPOSITION AGAI NST IT: Those opposing inheritance do really aim at inheriting property = from strangers, which has not been willed to them, to which they have no = claim but their own envy and greed, camouflaged by egalitarian = sentiments. - J.Z., 21.12.95. - If they bothere d to make free use of the best ideas they have inherited from mankind = then almost all of them could soon become prosperous by their own = productive efforts. Alas, they ignore these options or even despise them = and run them down! - J.Z., 20.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INHERITANCE OF FREEDOM: The great German poet, Goethe, who also lived through a = crisis of freedom, said to his generation: "What you have inherited from = your fathers, earn over again for yourselves or it will not be yours." = We inherited freedom. We seem unaware that =20 freedom has to be remade and re-earned in each generation of man. - = Adlai E. Stevenson, "Politics and Morality," Saturday Review, February = 7, 1959, p. 12. - He quoted Goethe's Faust, act I, scene i, "Was du = ererbt von deinen Vatern hast, / Erwirb es, um e s zu besitzen." In Randall Jarrell's translation, "That which you inherit = from your fathers / You must earn in order to possess. " - Goethe's = Faust, p. 35 (1976). - Freedom must be appreciated and earned, like a = child does, when growing up, gradually, to c omprehension and responsibility. - J.Z., 24.11.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INHERITANCE, TESTAMENTS, HEIRS, PROFIT, WEALTH: My dear = Daddy knew how to make money, that's all. I don't suppose I deserved any = of it, but it doesn't follow that if I }{ \i\fs24\lang1033 didn't }{\fs24\lang1033 deserve it, then all those = other people }{\i\fs24\lang1033 did}{\fs24\lang1033 . - David Houston, = Substance X, 18. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 INHERITANCE: One should distinguish between dependent and independent = heirs when determining any obligatory inheritance share. Only the former = correspond to the duties of the deceased. However, to each and t o any voluntary community their own preferred laws or customs for = inheritance. - J.Z., 15.4.93. \par INHUMNANITY & TERRITORIAL STATISM: To speak of man's inhumanity to = man is misleading. What is involved is rather man's coercive = collectivism or statism towards=20 man, which means, his coercive and organized dehumanization, the = coercive prevention of natural human actions towards other people. - = J.Z., 26.7.87. \par INITIATION OF FORCE: No one is permitted to seek values from others = through the initiation of physical forc e or by fraud. - Once we accept the principle that man is an end unto = himself and should not sacrifice himself for the good of another, by = analogy it follow that other human beings should not be forced or = deceived into serving our purposes. The initiation of force (or the threat thereof), as well as the concept of fraud, are = totally foreign to our system and cannot be tolerated by any truly = rational person towards any truly rational person. - Glen G. Cooper, = Contemporary Realism, 23. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INITIATIVE AND = BUREAUCRACY: What must be realized is that the straitjacket of = bureaucratic organization paralyzes the individual's initiative. - = Mises, in Greaves' bibliography, 92. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INITIATIVE, ENTERPRISE VS. FATE: I do not believe in a = fate that falls on men however they act; b ut I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. G. K. = Chesterton, Generally Speaking, chapter 20, p. 137 (1929). \par INITIATIVE, FREE ENTERPRISE & OPPORTUNITY: A sign on the door of = Opportunity reads "Push." - Author Unknown. \par INITIATIVE, FREE ENTERPRISE & OPPORTUNITY: All the days seem alike = as they come to us, but each day comes with its own opportunities, its = own calls to duty, its own privileges\emdash=20 holding out hands offering us radiant gifts. The day passes and never = comes again. Other days as bri ght may come, but that day never comes a second time. If we do not take = just then the gifts it offers, we shall never have another chance to get = them, and shall always be poorer for what we have missed. - J. R. = Miller. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INITIATIVE, GRASSROOTS: I confess th at I am one of those who think that the choice, the impulse, should come = from below, not from above, from the citizens, not from the legislator; = and the contrary doctrine seems to me to lead to the annihilation of = liberty and of human dignity. - Bastiat,=20 in Roche III, Bastiat, A Man Alone, 247. \par INITIATIVE, PANARCHISM, FREEDOM, ENTERPRISE, CREATIVITY, = EXPERIMENTATION, INNOVATION: Freedom is the opportunity for continuous = initiative. - Graham Wallas. - Rightful and required is not merely = coercive, centralisti c, monopolistic, collectivistic - because territorial - freedom and = initiative but full exterritorial autonomy for all voluntary communities = and their experiments. - J.Z., 6.4.89, 26.10.02.=20 \par INITIATIVE, START-UPS, BEGINNINGS, THOUGHT INTO ACTION: If you = think you can do something - begin it. - Goethe.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INITIATIVE, SUCCESS, BEGINNINGS, START-UPS, = EXPERIMENTS, HOPE, RESISTANCE, DUTY, OBLIGATION, PERSISTENCE: It is not = necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to = persevere. - Charles The Bold. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INITIATIVE: Initiative is like a muscle: unless = you are allowed to use it, it atrophies. - from TV series: Hawai Five O, = 26.10.89, WIN, Channel 9. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = INITIATIVE: Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, = and never make an effort to get up. -- Henry David Thoreau. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 INITIATIVES & REFERENDUM, DIRECT DEMOCRACY, SELF-GOVERNMENT, PANARCHISM: = Democratic initiatives must not kill of private initiatives - but rather = liberate them.- J.Z., 4.8.92. - Except within volunteer communities a = referendum should not be authorized to infringe individual rights but only to = protect them. - For that reason referendum decisions should be = frequently made on the height and kind of taxes and on the continuance = or liquidation of existing bureaucratic organizations . Each presently assumed or usurped or legalized power of a president or = federal government should be subject to referendum repeal. And the = people should not only be "armed" with voting rights for all referendum = proposals but also armed and militarily orga n ized and trained, in autonomous volunteer militias for the protection of = individual rights, quite independent from any government. - Add to this = individual secessionism and the transformation of territorial = governments into diverse volunteer communities t hat are only exterritorially autonomous and we would come close to = genuinely democratic self-governments and free societies, all as free or = unfree as their members want to be. - J.Z., 24.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24\lang1033 INJURIES, HAPPINESS, ZERO SUM = GAMES, ALTRUISM: The moral cannib alism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that = the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another. - Ayn Rand. \par }{\f0\fs24 INJURIES, HARM, GOVERNMENT, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: The = legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as ar e injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say = there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks = my leg. - Thomas Jefferson. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INJURY, AGGRESSION, DEFENCE, = SELF-DEFENCE, FORCED, RETALIATION, CRIME: It is better to suffer an injury than to do one. - Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes, = V, 45 B.C. - It is better still to hold the culprit individually = responsible and best to prevent an injury in the first place or to = injure only the aggressor. Self-defence is a right to which the rights of the aggressor are quite subordinated. It permits = armed self-defence & even the use of deadly defensive force, but not = retaliation once the offender is rendered harmless. - J.Z., 17.10.85, = 24.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INJURY, CRIME, = RESPONSIBILITY: It is more wretched to commit than to suffer an injury. = - Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucillium, Epis. xcv, 52. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INJURY, HARM, WRONG, INJUSTICE: Mr. Mill limits the = province of the civil magistrate to the repression of acts that directly = and immediately injure others=20 than the doer of them. - John Morley, On Compromise, 271. - If I offer = yoru previous customers better or cheaper shirts than you could, I would = injure your trade but not your rights. - J.Z., n.d. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INJURY: No one = should be injured. - Phaedrus, Fables, book o ne, fable 26. - Losses suffered in free competition are not a wrongful = injury. On the contrary, they prevent unnecessary costs or harm to = consumers and help to induce the loss-maker to convert to a service = where he can still serve the consumers, through=20 making a living or profit for himself. - John Zube, 1.4.99. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 INJURY: The best remedy for an injury is to forget it. - Publius Syrus, = Sententiae, c. 50 BC. - That is a bit hard to do when the injury = consists in having become enslaved, although innocent or hav ing been deprived of a beloved, by a murderous attack or when one has = lost an arm or a leg. - J.Z., 24.10.02. \par INJURY: The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighted in = the same scales. - Aesop, Fables, The Partial Judge, c. 600 B.C. - Not = by ourse lves. That's the reason why civilized people do not always act as judge, = jury and executioners in their own cases. - J.Z., 24.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INJUSTICE & = INDEPENDENCE: Injustice in the end produces independence. - Voltaire, = Trancrede, III/2. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INJUSTICE & LAW: An unjust law is no = law at all." - Saint Augustine. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INJUSTICE & LAW: The strictest law = sometimes becomes the severest injustice. - Terence. \par INJUSTICE, CRITICISM, IRRATIONALITY, IMMORALITY, TRIVIAL ASPECTS, = MARGINAL ISSUES: It would be ridiculous to ask about the irrationality = of one aspect when the entire procedure was an injustice. - A. E. van = Vogt, The Battle of Forever, 50. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INJUSTICE, FOREIGN AID, MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE, = ABUSES, REPESSION: Injustice to one is injustice to all; every man = should resent it as if it happened to him; it di. - Jack Williamson & James E. Gunn, Star = Bridge, 149. - In a philosophical sense it does. - But the world is = presently so filled with injustices done to individuals and groups that = to take note of all of them and get upset over=20 a ll of them would overwhelm us and stress us so much that we might become = incapable of sensible thought and action. I would rather consider these = numerous cases as symptoms of our times, indicators of many large wrongs = in our thoughts, actions and institut i ons and contemplate the basic and root causes of these and how they = could be changed or ended. One cannot feed each starving child but one = can see to it that conditions are established under which parents and = even children can earn enough to end starvatio n . If, as charities advertise, a dollar a day per child would be enough = for essential aid, then it becomes obvious that conditions must be = changed so that each child (apart from babies and small infants) can = freely earn at least a dollar a day with a few h o urs of productive labour. That is, obviously, not an impossible task. = But the kinds of dollars to be earned are also to be considered. = Obviously, those under-supplied or over-supplied by the central banks of = governments are not good enough and everywhere=20 sufficiently supplied. A competitive supply of sound local currencies = must be considered - and also freedom of movement for the victims. - = J.Z., 21.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INJUSTICE, GOD: We must be greater than God, for = we have to undo His injustice. - Jules Renard. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INJUST ICE, INDIVIDUALS, INFLUENCE, LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE, OPTING OUT, DOING = ONE'S OWN THING, PANARCHISM, SECESSIONISM, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM: Thoreau = recognized the importance of civil disobedience, both as an individual = moral statement and tactical postion.=20 Referring to his own short imprisonment and his influence, Thoreau = wrote: "If any think that their influence would be lost (in prison), and = their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, \'85 they do not know how much truth is stronger than error, nor ho w much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has = experienced a little on his own person." Source? - The dozens of = millions of victims of concentration and extermination camps and of = other mass murders would not quite agree. Their suf f ering, their mass murder examples, haven't stopped all further genocide = attempts. Even the surviving victims have not yet learned from the = undeserved collective responsibility punishments that they themselves = suffered under, not to apply this "principle"=20 t hemselves. E.g., Israel, too, is armed with nuclear weapons and its = policing actions intended against terrorists have all too often killed = or wounded many innocents. Likewise, the surviving victims of = indiscriminate air raids still favour, all too often,=20 i ndiscriminate air raids or even ABC mass murder devices against others. = Nor have enough victimized people learned their lessons to demand = independence from centralized and wrongful decision-makers, by depriving = them of their decision-making monopolies. Al l suffer from the effects of monetary despotism and still most remain = blind or indifferent towards it. All suffer from the employer-employee = relationship and still only few want to replace it by various = self-management options. Man seems to learn from hist ory only how to repeat his mistakes: "The king is dead! Long live the = king!" - Let the dissenters opt out of these messes to produce their own = or sound alternatives for themselves - and as shiny examples for others. = - J.Z., 25.10.02.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INJUSTICE, INSECURITY, FEAR, OPPRESSION, FREEDOM, = DEFENCE: Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours = only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain = its possession\emdash=20 to defend it against every thrust from within and without. - Dwight = David Eisenhower. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INJUSTICE, INTELLIGENCE, LAWS: No = intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. - Robert Heinlein. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INJUSTICE, JUSTICE, LAW: The = strictest administration of the law works the greatest injustice. = (Summum jus, summa injuria.) - Legal Maxim . - Because of and to the extent that the law itself is unjust. = Instances: The law against drugs, the taxation laws and those imposing = monetary despotism. That is the main sense of the maxim. Otherwise the = enforcement of real justice, as opposed to legal=20 d ecrees and regulations, is the very definition of justice. Naturally, = the penalties or indemnifications must be proportional to the wrongs and = damages done. The execution of a child for stealing a lolly would hardly = be justice, even if it were legalized.=20 I f all the numerous wrongful and absurd laws and regulations were = strictly enforced, then much of our civilization and progress would come = to a stop. Most of us would become inspectors, policemen, bureaucrats, = warders or prisoners - and there would be hard l y any productive taxpayers left to support these parasitic crowds. The = whole thing is so unrealistic and absurd, that we would not even have = the time, energy and money to purchase or otherwise access and read and = try to comprehend, far less to try to stri ctly obey, all the laws which our law-making automated political = machines have mass produced, always under the pretence of helping, = protecting and guiding us. - J.Z., 10.7.86.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INJUSTICE, LAW: "An unjust law is no = law at all." - Ralph Nader. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INJUSTICE, OMI SSIONS, DUTY, MUTUAL AID, ASSISTANCE, SOCIAL CONTRACT, PROTECTION, = OBLIGATIONS: There are two kinds of injustice: the first is found in = those who do an injury, the second in those who fail to protect another = from injurty when they can. - Cicero, De Off., I, VII.=20 \par INJUSTICE, PANARCHISM: Whoever does injustice does injustice to = himself, for to that extent he makes himself bad. - Marcus Aurelius, = Meditations, IX, c. 170. - That would be more likely to happen under = panarchism. Territorial States permit the unj ust to profit at the expense of the just. - J.Z., 10.7.86, 25.10.02. \par INJUSTICE, RIGHT, WRONG: Nobody commits a greater wrong than the = one who commits it camouflaged as a right or as justice. - Plato. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INJUSTICE, RIGHTS, CONSENT, VOLUNTARISM, = TOLERANCE, FREE EXPERIMENTATION, RIGHT TO MAKE MISTAKES: Volenti non fit = iniuria. - To a person who consents no injustice is done. - Anonymous = Latin Legal maxim. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INJUSTICE, SELF-HELP, SELF-DEFENCE, RESISTANCE, = VICTIMIZATION, SUFFERING WRONGS, HUMILITY, SLAVE MENTALITY, S TATISM, VICTIM DISARMAMENT, GUN CONTROL, RIGHT, JUSTICE: Ein Unrecht = hinnehmen zieht ein anderes nach sich. - German proverb. - To accept one = injustice leads to another.=20 \par INJUSTICE, SMALLNESS, TRIVIAL, SIZE: However small the object of an = injustice may be, the injustice itself may be very great. - Immanuel = Kant, Perpetual Peace, Appendix II, 1795.=20 \par INJUSTICE, SWEARING, CURSES, ELOQUENCE, CONDEMNATIONS: Injustices = improve your vocabulary. - Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms, 509. \par INJUSTICE, UTILITARIANISM: Injustice is a great mistake. - Robert = Own. \par INJUSTICE, VICTORY: Injustice is too high a price for victory. - = J.Z., 15.11.85. - The absence of justice in one's war and peace aims is = already a large step toward defeat or at best towards a very expensive = victory. - J.Z., 23.10.02. - See: War Aims.=20 \par INJUSTICE, WRONG, FEAR: Fuerchte dich, unrecht zu tun - und du = brauchts nichts weiter zu fuerchten. - Franklin. (Translated back: Fear = only doing wrong and you don't have to be afraid of anything else.) \par INJUSTICE: \'85 when once the work of injustice is begun, it is = impossible to tell how far it will proceed; \'85 - Oliver Goldsmith, The = Citizen of the World, Letter LXXX, 223. \par INJUSTICE: Es gibt nur etwas, das schlimmer ist als = Ungerechtigkeit, und das ist Gerechtigkeit ohne=20 Schwert in der Hand. Wenn Recht nicht Macht ist, ist es Uebel. - Wilde. = - (Retranslated: There is only one thing that is worse than injustice, = namely, justice without a sword in its hand. When right is not power, = then it is evil.) - Rather, then it leads=20 t o almost unbearable frustration which, incombination with notions of = collective responsibility and in the absence of the right to secede and = join or establish one's own panarchy, leads all too many people to acts = of indiscriminate terrorism. - J.Z., 4.7.9 2, 25.10.02. \par INJUSTICE: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - = Martin Luther King, ATHLANTIC MONTHLY, August 1963. \par INJUSTICE: One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to = anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them. - = Sokrates, in Plato's Crito, 4}{\fs24\lang1046\super th}{\fs24\lang1046=20 c. B.C., tr. Lane Cooper. - However, insistence upon a deterrence, = reform, indemnification and a penalty for aggressive actions do hardly = constitute an injustice and an evil, compared with the original = aggressive act ion. Since ideas on crime and punishment vary greatly, we should let the = various systems, that are resulting from them, compete quite freely - = among those who subscribe to them and against those who interfered with = the systems of others. - J.Z., 24.10.02. =20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INJUSTICE: To do = injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. - Plato, Gorgias, sec. = 489. \endash It is better to suffer injustice then to do it. - Emerson, = Representative Men: Plato. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INJUSTICES, TYRANNY BY LAW: There is no crueler tyranny = than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name = of justice. - Baron de Montesquieu. \par INNOVATION & GOVERNMENT, CHANGE: Incessant change, everlasting = innovation, seem to be dictated by the true interests of mankind. But = government is the perpetual enemy of change. - William Godwin (1756-1836), An Inquiry Concerning = Political Justice and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness = (1793), Bk. III, ch. 7 - Correct for territorial governments, incorrect = for exterritorial ones. - J.Z., 11.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INNOVATION , IDEAS, CHANGE, EXPERIMENTATION, TRY: If you always do what you always = did, Then you'll always get what you always got.- Richard Boddie, = Libertarian candidate for US Senator, CA, 1992 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INNOVATION, POLITICIANS, = DISCOVERIES, INVENTIONS, CREATIVITY: Whoever could make two ears of = corn\'85 grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve = better of mankind\'85than the whole race of politicians put together. - = Jonathan Swift. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INNOVATION, REFORM, IDEAS: There is = nothing more difficult to take in hand , more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to = take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. - Niccolo = Machiavelli (The Prince, 1513) \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INNOVATION, REFORMS, REVOLUTION, A = NEW BEGINNING: We have it in our power to begin th e world over again. - Thomas Paine, "Common Sense," conclusion, The = Complete Writings of Thomas Paine, ed. Philip S. Foner, vol. 1, p. 45 = (1945). Originally published in 1776. - President Ronald Reagan quoted = these words in a televised presidential campai gn debate with Walter F. Mondale, October 7, 1984. - Yes, but not on the = wrongful, rotten, monopolistic, centralist and war promoting foundation = of territorial States. - J.Z., 27.11.02. \par INNOVATION, SUCCESS: The reward of a thing well done, is to have = done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. \par INNOVATION, SUCCESS: There is no limit to what can be accomplished = if it doesn't matter who gets the credit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INNOVATIONS, FORCE, COERCION, COMPULSION, = INTOLERANCE VS. TOLERANT PANARCHISM: Great innovaitons h ould not be forced on slender majorities. - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to = General Kosciusko, 1808. - Even great innovations should not be forced = upon anyone who is not a criminal or other aggressor. - J.Z., 7.10,85, = 25.10.02. - But all innovators and dissen t ing minorities should get experimental freedom or freedom of action = chance, organized in exterritorially autonomous communities or other = experimental and self-managing groups. Free enterprise or laissez faire = also for such competing governments and free s ocieties, all of them likewise limited by individual secessionism and = respect for the individual rights and liberties which outsiders claim = for their own voluntary relationships. - J.Z., 10.7.86, 24.10.02. \par INNOVATIONS, IDEAS: Who would want to live in a wor ld that does not generally encourage and welcome innovations but rather = monopolizes opportunities for them? - J.Z., 5.2.88. - That is the very = essence of territorialism and of political "representation" and = "guidance" or legislation. - J.Z., 26.10.02. \par INN OVATORS, GENIUS, TALENTS, EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE, INEQUALITY, SUPERIORITY, = INFERIORITY, EQUALITY: All evolution theories concur that the least = advanced form of life must exist in the greatest abundance - uncountable = trillions, for Earth's bacteria - with high e r forms of being scarcer and scarcer, until 'man' is reached, numbering = only in the billions. Simple extension of the principle reveals that = there must be a handful of humans who are as advanced beyond most of = these billions as those billions are beyond,=20 say, a typical rodent. - Joe Fischetti, The I of the Beholder, ANALOG, = 10/87, p. 112. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INNOVATORS, GENIUS, TALENTS, IDEAS, IDEAS ARCHIVE: = When a true Genius appears in the World, you may know him by this sign, = that the Dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Swift, Thoughts on = Various Subjects. \par INNOVATORS, IDEAS ARCHIVES, TALENTS: Whoever tries for great = objects must suffer something. -Plutarch, Lives. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INNOVATORS, REFORMERS, PANARCHISM, AUTONOMY: All = innovators need full autonomoy - at their own expense=20 and risk. Then all others would sooner or later, directly or indirectly = benefit from this autonomy as well. The innovators would be helpful as = well by demonstrating false systems as well as by successful ones. - = J.Z., 8.7.93, 22.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 INNOVATORS: Great spirits have always encountered = violent opposition from mediocre minds. }{\i\cf1 - Albert Einstein. = }{\cf1=20 - High time for them to organise themselves, establishing a proper = market for ideas and talents. - J.Z., 1.7.00. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INSIDER TRADING: Insider trading = and dishonest and irr esponsible management and take-over "raids" are tied in with the = inherent flaws in share companies that can be overcome by various = self-management, partnership and cooperative ownership, production and = distribution schemes. - J.Z., 19.12.93, 21.10.02.=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INSIGHT & = EXPERIENCE: A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. - = O.W. Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast Table, Ch 10. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INSIGHT VS. EXPERIENCE, IDEAS, COMPREHENSION, = UNDERSTANDING: A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's = experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes.=20 \par INSIGHT, IGNORANCE, UNDERSTANDING, ACTION, MINDLESS VIOLENCE OR = ACTIVITY: Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. - = Thomas Carlyle. - Compare the similar remark by Goethe. \par INSOLUBLE PROBLEMS? DIS: Some problems are crushingly large - but = they are never solved by those who dismiss them as insoluble. - Eric = Vinicoff, The Politics of Plenty, 88, in ANALOG, Feb. 2, 81. \par INSPECTORS, BUREAUCRATS LICENSING, REGISTRATIONS, PERMITS: = Government inspected: At a terrific expense to consumers and taxpayers = this item has been personally pawed over by an official U.S. bureaucrat. = - Simon Jester Sticker. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = INSTINCT AND REASON, MISTAKES, PANARCHISM, FREE EXPERIMENTATION AND = TOLERANCE: Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason. - = Latin Proverb. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 INSTITUTIONS & INDIVIDUALS, PANARCHISM: First we shape our institutions = and then they shape us. - Alexis A. Gilliland, The Man Who Funded the = Moon, ANALOG, 10/89, p. 140. - Since territorialism has become = predominant in practice and theory, we no longer, as individuals and outvoted minorities, have = much chance to shape our institutions in accordance with our rights and = preferences. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par INSTITUTIONS & MAN, PANARCHISM: Den Menschen muessen wir hinnehmen; = die Institutionen koennen wir gestalten. - Erika Herbst: Alle suchen = nach Loesungen - wir haben sie. 115. - (Man we have to accept. His = institutions we can change.) - "\'85 accept people as they are. You will not get any better ones." - = Ascribed to Konrad Adenauer, as a remark to Staatssekretaer Globke. - = Ibid. \par INSTITUTIONS & MAN: Man's basic nature cannot be improved, not even = by better institutions, but better institutions would tend to improve = man's behaviour. Man can and should try to change and improve his = institution s, not those of others. Apart from self-defence and enforced = indemnifications, he should not try to coercively change other people or = the institutions that they prefer for themselves. Moreover, he should = give them every right and opportunity to set up the ir systems and institutions for themselves. - J.Z., 25.10.02, trying to = sum up some views by Ulrich von Beckerath, 1882-1969.=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INSTITUTIONS AND = PANARCHISM: If it were true that institutions did only reflect and = promote all personal interests, there could be no real objection to our deciding upon alternatives to present = institutional practices.- Butler D. Shaffer, Calculated Chaos, 305. - = Panarchies are such institutions. - John Zube, 5.3.99. \par INSTITUTIONS AND PANARCHISM: Indeed, people do seem to be experienc ing a growing disenchantment with institutions. But if there is any = "crisis" in this, it is only a threat to the propositions that = institutions enjoyed over people. Rather than joining with the voices = of social control to lament this disillusionment, ho wever, we would be better advised to regard the situation as an = opportunity for us to reassert personal control over our own lives... - = Butler D. Shaffer, Calculated Chaos, 305. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INSTITUTIONS, CORPORATIONS, SIZE: \'85 large = institutions, such as exist in both=20 our countries, do not willingly acknowledge or correct mistakes. - = Alexis A. Gilliland, The Man Who Funded the Moon, ANALOG, 10/89, p.163. \par INSTITUTIONS, ESTABLISHMENTS, TRADITIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, TRUTHS: = Institutions rise when truth is lulled to sleep. However, truth blows = over institutions and finally blasts them away. - Thoreau. - = Retranslated from the German version: \'85 so entsteht eine Institution, ween sich die Wahrheit has einlullen = lassen; doch die Wahrheit blaest ueber die Institutionen hinweg und = blaest sie schliesslich fort.=20 \par INSTITUTIONS, MAN, CHARACTER, INHERITANCE, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIALISM, = VOLUNTARY SOCIALISM, FREE MARKETS, FREE CONTRACTS, PROPERTY: That = institutions and conditions do not altogether "make" man's character can = no longer be denied b ut that they do have a great influence upon our behaviour, for better or = for worse, was clearly seen by Robert Owen and should also not be = denied. Voluntary socialists as well as free marketeers can expect great = results from forms of voluntary socialism a n d from a complete laissez faire or free market environment, to the = extent that voluntary socialists are also propertarians and = contractarians and free exchange practitioners, i.e., to the extent that = they are also free marketeers and correspondingly self- responsible, businesslike, peaceful and tolerant. - J.Z., 10.4.93, = 22.10.02. \par INSTITUTIONS, MAN, GOODNESS: \'85 man is by nature good, and that = only our institutions have made him bad. - J.J. Rousseau, letter to = Malesherbes, Jan. 12, 1762. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INSTITUTIONS, = ORGANIZATIONS AND THE STATE: In the most realistic sense of the word, = institutions exist only in our heads. - Butler D. Shaffer, Calculated = Chaos, 88.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, VOLUNTARISM, = EXTERRITORIALISM, TERRITORIALISM, POWER URGE, LEADERSHI P, PERSONALITY CULT, HERO WORSHIP: He felt that institutions such as = schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort = all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the = perpetuation of their own functions, and for the=20 c ontrol of individuals in the serve of these functions. - Robert M. = Pirsig, Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974, 114. - Compare = Butler Shaffer: Calculated Chaos, & "No institution can help being an = institution." - Perhaps one should simply say=20 t hat every organization or institution has its power addicts but that = voluntaristic institutions, from which individuals can freely secede, = and which, moreover, are only exterritorially autonomoy, do not give as = many opportunities to power addicts to do wr ong and harm on a large scale.=20 \par INSTITUTIONS, PANARCHISM, CORRUPTION, POWER, ABUSES, AUTHORITY, = GOVERNMENT, STATE: There is no human institution, any more than any = human-made machine, which is not libable to become disarranged. The more = delicate the machine , the more it needs care and attention. The more important the = institution, the more is watchfulness needed for the maintenance of its = healthy working. - J. Toulmin Smith, Local Self-Government & = Centralization, 2. - Watchfulness is not enough. Confinemen t to exterritorial autonomy and voluntary membership is required, = enforced by individual secessionism. (He favoured autonomous local = government and autonomous juries. I microfiched this very rare work and = seek others by him.) - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par INSTITUTIONS , PANARCHISM, MAN: Man largely makes his institutions and is largely = made by them. - J.Z., 16.9.87. - There should be no interference with = this process but, rather, free choice for individuals between = institutions and free competition between them. No lim it to freedom of association and disassociation. - J.Z., 7.12.87. \par INSTITUTIONS, PANARCHISM, VOLUNTARISM, EXTERRITORIALITY, INDIVIDUAL = SECESSIONISM: Every institution has some tendency to deteriorate. But = one can counter this by instituting also a tendency t o renewal or replacement by fission, schism or competition. - J.Z., = 10/87. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INSTITUTIONS, POPULARITY, PROPERTY, PRIVILEGES, = TAXATION, CORPORATIONS, CLASSES: Show me one instance where popular = institutions have violated the rights of property, and I will sho w you a hundred, nay a thousand instances, where the people have been = pillaged by the greedy cupidity of a privileged class. - George = Bancroft, To the Workingmen of Northampton, Boston Courier, October 22, = 1834. - As if privileged classes or institutions or authorities etc., were not also public and all too popular = institutions, for all too long. The best and the most competitive and = free institutions were and are still largely unpopular. - J.Z., = 25.11.02. \par INSTITUTIONS: "\'85 no institution can be placed above the man or = the woman, \'85 " - A. J. Nock, letter, April 23, 1914. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INSTITUTIONS: Unions and class warfare notions = make people act violently and destructively. Cooperatives and other = industrial experiments pacify and enlighten. Industrial warfare, too, = makes more bad men than it kills. - J.Z., 16.9.87, 26.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INSULTS, SLANDER, OFFENSIVE REMARKS ETC.: "\'85 = such thrusts were for him a sure sign that his current opponents had run = out of pertinent things to say. - James Blish, Cities in Flight, 373. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INSURANCE &=20 GOVERNMENT, PANARCHISM: The best that could be said about any government = is that it is an insurance business. As such it should have only = voluntary members and should possess no territorial monopoly but, = instead, be exposed to free competition from other=20 protective associations that are, likewise, only exterritorially = autonomous. And, obviously, secession or withdrawal from it should be = free. - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par INSURANCE & INFLATION: All insurance advertisements, leaflets and = pamphlets and contracts are fra udulent to the extent that they ignore the inflation risk. - J.Z., = 23.4.89. - Only insurance on the levy principle avoids the inflation = risk imposed by monetary despotism. - J.Z., 26.10.02. \par INSURANCE, COMPULSORY: Compulsory insurance means compulsory loss es, at least of the insurance premiums, in many cases and also due to = inflation and taxation. - J.Z., n.d., 26.10.02. - Turn States and = insurance companies into private insurance companies, subject only to = their own rules, as determined by their members.=20 - J.Z., 26.10.02. \par INSURANCE, PRIVATE, FREE ENTERPRISE? Under governmental investment = and interest rules, like e.g. the Trustee Acts, inflation, deflation, = stagflation, coercive and exclusive paper currencies, coercive and = exclusive value standards, compulso ry licensing, foreign exchange controls, protectionism, central banking = etc., there is no such thing as a completely private (or cooperative, = fraternal or mutual) and competitive free enterprise insurance business. = - J.Z., 15.3.95.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INSURANCE: Compulsory insurance means = also compulsory losses. - J.Z. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INSURANCE: Only private insurance is ensuringly insuring - provided it = is not under interst & investment regulations, tributes, deflaiton = inflation risks, all imposed by governments. - J.Z., 27.1.94. - Alas, th e present "private" insurance companies do not fight these impositions. = - J.Z., 22.10.02. \par INTEGRATION, SEGREGATION, VOLUNTARY, NEVER COMPULSORY: Private and = voluntary vs. public and compulsory segregation or integration. To all = who agree upon them - their=20 own ideals, practised among them and at their own risk and expense. - = J.Z., 1990 & 24.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INTEGRITY & CHARACTER, PERSONALITY, INDIVIDUALISM: = Every person of any character, I think, wants above all to keep the = integrity of his personality intact. - Lette rs From Albert Jay Nock, 1924-45, to Mr. & Mrs. Edmund C. Evans & Ellen = Windsor, Caxton, 1949, 213. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTEGRITY, PREJUDICES, ERRORS, MYTHS: They teach = you early how to wash your face and body, in school and home, but how to = cleanse your mind of putrid ideas=20 and prejudices, that is left unsaid and thus undone. I am afraid that = even the occasional ablutions in the church are scarcely purifying, no = more than face-saving. They walk about with shining faces and decaying = souls. - Dagobert D. Runes, A Book of Conte mplation, 71. - Also in A Dictionary of Thought.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INTEGRITY: Monetary despotism can = claim integrity only when applied among volunteers only. - J. Z., = 11.5.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 INTELLECT AND ACHIEVEMENT, THEORY AND PRACTICE: The hand = that follows intellect can achieve. - Michelangelo, The Artist. = Translation by Longfellow. =20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033=20 INTELLECT, RELIGION, FAITH, PRAYERS, WILL, CHURCHES, SECTS, BELIEFS, = MENTAL DISEASE, PREJUDICES, MYTHS, THEOLOGY: As men's prayers are a = disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect . - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Essays: First Series (1841). \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTELLECTS, TRUTH: ...the truth of things is the = chief nutriment of superior intellects. - Leonardo da Vinci. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY: Curiosity is = one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous = intellect. - Samuel Johnson. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INTELLECTUAL HONESTY, HONESTY, TRUTH, VESTED INTERESTS, PRECONCEPTIONS: = Intellectual honesty requires an ability to admit one is wrong and a = desire to see and express the truth apart from intellectual=20 vested interests or preconceptions. - Diogenes of Panarchia, TC135p23. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INTELLECTUALS & VIOLENCE: \'85 intellectuals are = chronically fascinated by violence as an instrumentality - drawn, = repelled, drawn back, \'85 - Poul Anderson, The Avatar, 221. - Think of = how many intellectuals favored Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Castro - and for how = long. The average man in the street was often more sensible in this = respect and had less rationalizations for such a support. - J.Z., = 9.2.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTELLECTUALS & IDEAS ARCHIVE: " \'85 der = Lebensunterhalt der Intellektuellen auf dem freien Markt (as if it = already existed - J.Z.) ist generell nicht allzu abgesichert \'85 Der = Staat \'85 ist bereit, den Intellektuellen ein warmes, sicheres Plaetzchen in = seinem Apparat mit einem festen Einkommen und dem Ru estzeug fuer Prestige zu sichern." - Murray N. Rothbard, For a New = Liberty, 1978 edition, quoted by Ulrike Heider, Die Narren der Freiheit, = S. 175. (\'85 the living of intellectuals on the free market is = generally not very secure. \'85 The State is prepared to s ecure intellectuals a warm and safe place in its apparatus, with a fixed = income and the arms for prestige.) With a proper market for every = genuine intellectual effort established, by an Ideas Archive and Talent = Centre, intellectuals would perhaps be much=20 l ess likely to become paid statists. - I represent many freedom ideas = and offer them very cheaply, on microfiche. But so few are willing to = purchase this bargain-priced literature, that not even my costs of = producing and expanding the PEACE PLANS series a r e covered thereby. Luckily, the production costs are so low that I can = afford to go on expanding it. The production costs for libertarian = literature on floppy disks may be and and CD-ROMs certainly are still = lower per book and, nevertheless, an avalanche=20 of such libertarian literature offers has not yet been provided. - J.Z., = 23.10.02. \par INTELLECTUALS & POWER, IDEAS ARCHIVE & TALENT CENTRE: Power still = comes first in Eurasia's nations, with scholarship a stumbling, = rationalizing second. (Famous entertainer us ually earn more! - J.Z., 26.10.02.) After the ugly deed is done, theory = is called to contrive justification. - D. Runes, A Dictionary of = Thought. - Those in power can offer better jobs. - J.Z., n.d. - = Intelligent people would so change conditions that the productive and creative intelligent people would reap the highest = rewards because they would then be the most productive and appreciated = people. - J.Z., 26.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INTELLECTUALS & SLOGANS FOR LIBERTY: To = Eisenhower, an intellectual is "a man who takes more words than are = necessary to tell more than he knows." - Eric Hoffer, Before the = Sabbath, Harper, 1979, 68. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTELLECTUALS & SOCIALISM: Socialism in general = has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could = ignore or evade it. - Thomas Sowell \par INTELLECTUALS & STATISM, POWER, IDEAS ARCHIVE, LMP, CD-ROM PROJECT, = PUBLISHING: Intellectuals have not yet succeeded to make their = intellectual efforts pay them handsomely in the existing markets (and = failed to establish special, suitable and powerful ma rkets for themselves) and thus they attached themselves to territorial = powers and their tax revenues. In other words, they have not yet = considered their basic problem intelligently enough - just like the = other unemployed or under-employed. - At least they should have been intelligent enough to perceive the need for a special = market for ideas and talents - and, in their own interest, should have = established it. - J.Z., 26.7.92, 26.10.02. \par INTELLECTUALS & THE MARKET, LAISSEZ FAIR, FREE EXCHANGE, = CAPITALISM, PR OPERTY, ANTI-CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM: Der Intellektuelle geniesst es, die = Hand zu beissen, die ihn ernaehrt, aber er beisst sieniemals ganz ab. - = Griffith. - The intellectual enjoys biting the hand that feeds him, but = he never bites it off.) \par INTELLECTUALS &=20 THE STATE, UNIVERSITIES, STUDENTS, LECTURERS: Intellectuals are largely = on the payroll of the State and thre and thus tend not to criticize it = radically. - J.Z., 9.6.89. - I would trust university lecturers more if = they were paid for by the students or ot hers who believed in them. Finance to poor students could be provided by = credit unions that are established, funded and run or supervised by = academics in the middle of their profitable careers, inside or outside = of universities. - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INTELLECTU ALS ARE OFTEN NOT VERY INTELLECTUAL: Despite thousands of witnesses, the = Western intellectual community did not accept the truth about Stalin's = empire for decades, and was slower yet to acknowledge it about the = Maoists. - Poul Anderson, The Avatar, 102. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 IN TELLECTUALS, AGITATION, PROPAGANDA, PREJUDICES: Was ist ein = Intellectueller? Ich wuerde antworten: Ein Mann, der mehr als einer = einzigen Gedankenassoziation faehig ist. Wer nur der ersten, = unmittelbarsten, primitivsten Assoziation faehig ist, ist kein Int e llektueller; ein Intellektueller aber, der nur an die erste, = unmittelbarste, primitiveste Reaktion seiner Mitmenschen appelliert, = macht sich der geistigen Unredlichkeit schuldig. - Hans Habe, Leben fuer = den Journalismus, Bd. 4, 220. - (Who is an intellect u al? I would say: A man who is capable of more than a single thought = association. Whoever is capable only of the first, most direct and = primitive association, is not an intellectual and an intellectual who = only appeals to the first, most direct and immedia te reaction of his fellow men is guilty of intellectual dishonesty. - = Intellectuals, like chessplayers, come in different grades of = competency. Grand masters are rare. - J.Z., 20.6.92. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INTELLECTUALS, ELITE, LEADERSHIP: There are three = classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others = comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the = showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, = the third is useless. - Niccolo Machiave lli, The Prince, ch. 22. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTELLECTUALS, IDEAS & VALUES, INTOLERANCE: = Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance = than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values. = - Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season, 1979. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INTELLECTUALS, INTELLIGENCE, MIND, IDEAS, SPIRIT: = The decisive events of the world take place in the intellect. - Henri = Frederic Amiel. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTELLECTUALS, INTELLIGENTSIA, DICTATORSHIP, = ELITISM: I disbelieve in bunk and despotism, even in dictatorship of the = intelligentsia. - Richard Aldington, introduction to Death of a Hero.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INTELLECTUALS, PEOPLE, IDEOLOGIES: The power and = salvation of a people lie in its intelligentsia, in the intellectuals = who think honestly, who feel, and can work. - Anton Chekhov, N.Y . TIMES, December 30, 1956. - Somebody wrote a book: The Treason of the = Intellectuals, pointing out how many of them, and for how long, fell for = all the fallacies, lies and propaganda of State socialism. - = Intellectuals are a threat to liberty, too, when=20 t hey are permitted to decide policies for whole territories and their = population. They, too, should be confined to voluntarism and = exterritorial autonomy. Then all their flaws would be revealed much = sooner and at less costs in lives and liberties. - J.Z.,=20 26.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTELLECTUALS: I'm anti-intellectual: I prefer = people who think. - Poul Anderson, in ANALOG 9/83, quoting one of his = characters. \par INTELLIGENCE & CHRISTIANITY, BIBLE: So far as I can remember, there = is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. - Bertrand = Russell. \par INTELLIGENCE & COLLECTIVISM: Realizing also that intelligence is = non-collective, I put everything I had into the kind of work that didn't = depend quite so much on cooperation from others. - L. Neil Smith, = FREEDOM NETWORK NEWS, N o. 51. - Well, he did and does depend upon free and voluntary = collaboration and cooperation with his publishers and his readers. A = free market is also a collective, but not an authoritarian one and one = that insists upon uniformity. - J.Z., 20.10.02.=20 \par INTELLIGENCE EXPANSION: The more intelligent you become, the more = you see the advantages in becoming more intelligent. - Timothy Leary, = quoted by R. A. Wilson, in NEW LIBERTARIAN, 5/6, 1978/80, p. 17. \par INTELLIGENCE SERVICES, ESPIONAGE, AUTHORITIES, LEADERSHIP, POLITICIANS, STATES, WAR, SECRET SERVICES: Only intelligent men can = make use of intelligence. - J.Z., 28.6.88. - Intelligence services are = thus wasted on most political and military leaders. - And to the extent = that the secret services are government run , even these services are not conducted very intelligently and = efficiently. - J.Z., 26.10.02. \par INTELLIGENCE VS. INSTINCT: The value of intelligence \'85 is that = it can overrule instinct when instinct is wrong. - Stanley Schmidt, = Pinocchio, ANALOG 9/77, p. 96. \par INTELLIGENCE, COMPLICATIONS, COMPLEXITY: \'85 the greater the = intelligence, the higher the degree of complication whichit detects. - = Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles, 16. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INTELLIGENCE, GREATNESS, MINORITY, = INDIVIDUALS: Everything great and intelligent is in the minority. - = Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INTELLIGENCE, INTELLECT: Remember the giant reptiles flourished flor = forty million years. Man will have to better that record before he can = truly say that intellect is superior to massive bulk and a thick hi de. - Mark Clifton & Frank Riley, They'd Rather Be Right, 127.=20 \par INTELLIGENCE, KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION: Intelligence is the ability = to generalize knowledge from specific information input. - John Charles = Baker, ANALOG, Nov. 77, p. 148. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INTELLIGENCE, LEARNING, SCHOLARSHIP, JUDGMENT, = WISDOM, INSIGHT: Much learning does not teach a man to have = intelligence. - Heraclitus. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 INTELLIGENCE, PEOPLE, PUBLIC OPINION: There is no = underestimating the intelligence of the American public. }{\i\cf1 - H. = L. Mencken.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INTELLIGENCE, RELIGION & MAN: The = world holds two classes of men\emdash=20 intelligent men without religion, and religious men without = intelligence. - Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri.=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INTELLIGENCE: All = things are slaves to intelligence. - Menander, Fragments, No. 769. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INTELLIGENCE: Intelligence would not be intelligence if = it wouldn't, finally, come out the winner. - J.Z., 16.9.76. \par INTELLIGENCE: The critical factor for a nation is not the number of = people it contains, nor even its population density: the critical factor = is the amount of intelli gence the poeple bring to bear on their institutions, especially in the = way they organize agriculture and industry. - Edmund A. Opitz, THE = FREEMAN, Oct. 77. - Even very intelligent people often lack enough = judgment to appreciate new ideas sufficiently. Th e few who do, or who offer them, have not yet organized a special and = world-wide market for themselves. See under Ideas Archive. - J.Z., = 26.10.02. \par INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH: Gibt es intelligentes Lebe auf der Erde? = - Ja, aber ich bin nur zu Besuch hier. - (Is there intelligent life on = Earth? - Yes, but I am only here on a visit.) - Graffiti \par INTELLIGENT SELF-INTEREST & ALTRUISM: \'85 altruism and intelligen = self-interest may be synonymous terms. - Robert R. Chase, Transit of = Betelgeuse, ANALOG 5/90, 29. - Only=20 to the extent that altruism is also intelligent. No intelligent being = would live "his" life only for others. - J.Z., 22.11.02.=20 \par INTENTIONS, GOOD & GOOD WILL, FRUITS, RESULTS: Evaluate the action, = not the actors. That is, the results, not the intentions. - Michael F. = Flynn, A Rose by Other Name, ANALOG, 5/90, 132. \par INTENTIONS, GOOD INTENTIONS, GOOD WILL: A good intention takes = account not only of your own intention but those of others as well. It = respects the equal liberty of others and abides by Kan't Catego rical Imperative or the Universalizing Law. - J.Z., 14.1.97. \par INTENTIONS, GOOD WILL, ALTRUISM, SELFISHNESS, ENDS & MEANS: "'But = it's results that count' - 'In other words, the ends justify the means?' = - 'Non sequitur. Intentions are a third category, entire ly separate from means or ends.' (? Ends, by definitions, are the = intended results. - J.Z., 27.10.02.) 'And they usually don't have much = at all to do with what eventually happens, anyway. Look at the market, = for example, People seeking a profit help other s because they inevitably must. Those with an altruistic bent invariably = do enormous damage; their focus is on intentions, rather than results, a = severe dissociation from reality whichother people usually have to pay = the consequences for.'" - L. Neil Smith , Tom Paine Maru, 192. - Good will or good intentions are not = necessarily and causally connected with means or with rightful and = rational ends, unless that "good will" is very much qualified, as was = done e.g. by Kant. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par INTENTIONS, GOOD WILL , EMOTIONS, BRAINS, REASON: Their hearts are in the right place, even if = their brains aren't. It's brains that solve problems. Agreed, but it's = the heart that tells you the problem must be solved. - Michael F. Flynn, = The Washer at the Ford, ANALOG, 6/89,=20 54. - So does reason. - J.Z.=20 \par INTENTIONS, LEGISLATION, LAWS, GOVERNMENT MEASURES, PROGRAMS, = POLITICIANS, BUREAUCRACY, GOVERNMENTS, ACTION, DIRECT ACTION: \'85 = direct action seldom achieves its alleged objectives. Sometimes it = achieves the exact opposite. - Mic hael F. Flynn, A Rose by Other Name, ANALOG, 5/90, 132. \par INTERCONNECTEDNESS, INTERRELATIONSHIPS: You can't do just one = thing. - Don Werkheiser, Dec. 90.=20 \par INTERDEPENDENCE: Thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling = of a star. - Francis Thompson, The Mi stress of Vision, 1897. - "All truths are inter-connected and so are all = lies and errors." - When a leaf moves a whole tree may tremble. - = Chinese proverb. - The flutter of a butterfly's wings can affect the = whole world. - One of the assumptions of Chaos =20 Theory. - Although the Sun is ca. 150 million kms away, we exist in its = gravity field, electromagnetic field, the thin gas it hurls away and = also in its various radiations. All matter and energy in the universes = are somewhat interlinked. So are all life f o rms on this earth, certainly all humans, and perhaps even all life in = the universe is, and be it only by the laws of biological development. - = One reasonable and rightful action can start numerous others. One candle = could directly and indirectly light a m illion others. Light may take lightyears to reach distant places - but = finally it gets there. - J.Z., 24.10.02. \par INTEREST & FREE BANKING: Those who want interest-free or low = interest bearing loans have no right to demand them from others but only = the right=20 to organized themselves for the supply of such a service - if and to the = extent that they can and want to supply it. - J.Z., 10.8.87. \par INTEREST & FREE BANKING: If debts and interest would worsen one's = conditions, in the average, why would anyone in his righ t mind be willing to take up a debt and to pay interest for it? - J.Z., = 10.8.87. - What makes debts and interest often hard to bear are the = condition prevailing under monetary despotism, combined with fixed = interest rates. Under monetary freedom a debtor=20 c ould come to pay with clearing certificates redeemable in his own goods = and services and interest rates could be contracted as floating ones, = that amount only to fair shares in the additional earnings he manages to = achieve through a credit. - J.Z., 26.10. 02. \par INTEREST & FREE BANKING: Money that is not used for credit but for = clearing purposes only, i.e., to facilitate the exchange of goods and = services now, need not bear a time-element interest charge, plus a = scarcity factor, plus a fair return for the provi sion of capital, considered to be pre-done labour, nor a high risk = charge, but mainly only a small administrative charge. That could amount = to a very low charge. To that might be added and incentive charge to = speed up the repayment of the short term loans involved. - J.Z., 8.9.87, 26.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INTEREST & MONETARY FREEDOM: Monetary = Freedom would abolish \-interest at most in all turnover credits - apart = from a small\- service and insurance charge. Even this might be absorbed by the = \-issuers, if they are e.g. a cooperative shop association that is = \-more interested in assuring and increasing its sales than in\- recovering all its costs of its issue department. Thus it might = \-include these small costs in its prices as it does its\- advertising = costs. - J. Z., 20.3.97. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 INTEREST GROUPS, LOBBIES, PRESSURE GROUPS, POLITICS & = PRINCIPLES: Politics: Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of = principles. - Ambrose Bierce.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INTEREST IN FUTURE, FUTURISM, = UTOPIAS, IDEALS, AIMS, PURPOSE: The only part of time that's of intere st to me is the future. That's where I'm going to spend the rest of my = life. - Charles F. Kettering. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INTEREST IN MONETARY FREEDOM OPTIONS = IS STILL ONLY MINIMAL MONETARY FREEDOM NEWSLETTERS: My \- small monetary freedom newsletter plus microfiche, did not even\- reach = a dozen subscribers for its total of 4 issues over several\- years. So = far probably not even one person in a million is\- seriously interested in monetary freedom options - and how can\- one = reach these? And these few have also many other involvements that = prevent them from advancing the cause of monetary freedom as \- much as they could or should. And with most of the few their \-interest = is not even deep enough to let them overcome the small \-barrier posed = by most such writings presently being only\- available on microfiche = through my LMP - PEACE PLANS series. - I\- believe Siegfried Schwenke had also only a few dozen subscribers \-to = his Monetary Freedom Network Newsletter. Various projects for\- = quarterlies came to nothing and the DURRELL JOURNAL rapidly \- deviated from the its initial monetary freedom path, especially \-after = a change in management. - Financially, a newsletter on free\- banking = etc., produced only on microfiche, floppy disk, on a website or = distributed by e-mail, would be no problem at \- all. But who is interested? - J. Z., 9.4.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INTEREST IN THE OWN PROBLEMS, APATHY, DISINTEREST, INDIFFERENCE: If most = people took the same interest that they take in music or sports or = tourism - in social, economic and political problems, then the latter = would have been solved long ago. Think merely of the time they spend on = listening to the radio, records or tapes or CDs or watching shows or = sports events and the money they are prepared to spend for such = entertainments and distractions - while major problem s go on and on, largely ignored but, anyhow, unsolved. - J.Z., 13.5.93, = 23.10.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INTEREST RATE POLICY AGAINST = INFLATION? - Could any other policy \-be more absurd in situations = wherever and when the government's \- note printing presses continue to churn out legal tender paper \-money? = An artificially increased interest rate would then merely \-mean that = all economic activities not favoured and subsidised by \- a government are restrained through lack of affordable credit,\- while = the bureaucratically mismanaged public sector, e.g. the \-public works, = national defence and welfare sectors continue to be \- expanded via the note printing presses. I remember periods as a\- public = servant when I was still paid in cash and the notes I \-received were = fresh from the printing presses and still in\- consecutive numbers. Such = attempts to restrain inflation through=20 \-irrelevant "measures" or to "balance" coercive over-supplies in\- one = sphere through coercive under-supplies in other spheres, remind me of = the hypothetical case of a Mafia gang pretending to fight \- crime. It certainly fights crimes committed by its competitors. \-And it = does seem to fight crime when it, unofficially, favours\- even more = severer "wars against drugs", which may harm the small\- producers and = distributors but=20 boost the profits of the large\- drug entrepreneurs. The government = "measures" against inflation \-leave its own criminal inflationary steps = its taxation and\- redistribution policies untouched but do intervene = with free \- production and free exchanges, instead, via credit, price- and\- wage = controls etc. - Inflation presumes an exclusive and forced\- value = standard, one that is elastic and can be manipulated like a rubber \- band. One that is not even properly defined but is just given an = \-abstract name. Only when this "standard" is imposed upon a whole = \-country can the exchange medium using it, the government's = monopolistic paper money and currency, be imposed upon all \- transactions, i.e., can it inflate or deflate all transactions. \-Giving = them a monopoly status means that they cannot be refused \-by anyone = depending upon monetary exchanges. Giving them legal \-tender status = means that their compulsory acceptance at a=20 \-compulsory value, at par with their paper standard, even though \-this = standard is continuously manipulated and, usually inflated. \-Such a = forced currency can be forced into the market beyond its\- requirements. It can force up all prices, wages & fees etc.,\- which = have to be marked out in it. This is the only avoidance \-option left to = those to be paid i mmediately or very soon. Those under medium and long-term contracts, = when they were not foresighted enough or allowed to include = value-preserving clauses, have no such escape option. They can be "paid = off" ultimately in scrap paper. Even share prices and=20 their dividend and\- interest rates are not upwardly mobile enough to = make up for the \-all the degrees of inflation that can occur during a = rapid \-inflation, as was experienced e.g. in the last stages of the \- Great Inflation in Germany, which ended in 1923. - Without legal = \-tender and the issue monopoly, competing exchange media would be = \-issued, in accordance with the requirements of the market. These could = \- not be over-issued as a whole and drive up all prices expressed\- in = sound and competing and freely chosen value standards. Thus not too many = exchange media could come to chase too few goods. On the other hand, any = \- under-supply of exchange media could be countered by new and sound = issues, fully\- covered by the goods, services, debts and labour with = which their \- issuers would cover and redeem them at any. Only such currencies can = remain stable enough to promote free exchanges under permanent \-boom = conditions. Without them the law of supply and demand is not\- = completely realized but monetarily distorted. Sou nd alternative \-exchange media and value standards are not impossible = but just \-outlawed. We have so far put up with this, mostly even\- without protesting. I have never seen e.g. a demonstration against = legal tender and the issue monopoly. Against their\- consequences, = unrealised as such, there were and are demonstrations aplenty. - J. Z., = 19.12.89, 29.4.97. \par INTEREST RATE RETURNS OF BANKS AS REGULATORS FOR CURRENCY ISSUES?\- = - The free market rating of notes\- against their own standards will = regulate issues and acceptances,\- i.e. circulation, much more = regularly, rapidly and reliably than \- interest rate fluctuations or manipulations among note-issuing\- banks = would. - J. Z., 3.7.91 & 12.4.97. - See: DISCOUNT RATE, DISCOUNT = POLICY, INTEREST, TANDY,\- Voluntary Socialism, p. 122. \par INTEREST RATES & CLEARING MONEY: See: APHORISMS ON THE MONEY = \-PROBLEM. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 INTEREST RATES ARE PRICES: Interest rates are just prices, indicating, = like all other prices, supply and demand conditions. They are determined = for short-term turn-ov er credits by monopolies like the note issue monopoly of the central = bank and the degrees of its abuses of its monetary powers and for medium = and long term credits for conditions on the capital market. And these, = in their turn, are influenced by taxation, =20 regulations, protectionism etc. and also by monetary conditions like = deflation, inflation and stagflation, i.e., symptoms generally = associated with monetary despotism, which greatly influence the = availability of capital and the ability of debtors to repay , as well as the interest rates. Monetary despotism, legislative = interventions, protectionism, taxation, regulations, prohibitions and = their degrees and risks influence profit and interest rates and the = readiness to accumulate and make available or to seek =20 and accept capital investments. And no capital investments can be = regularly profitable if the sale of the services, goods or information = that they supply is not assured because of the absence of monetary = freedom. And the arbitrary nature, i.e., the non-ma r ket nature of interventionism cannot always be sufficiently calculated = or estimated and certainly increases the risk factor part of all = interest rates. An unqualified opposition to all interest rates or their = regulation just indicates economic blindness a n d is as absurd as are price-, wage- and rent controls. Once markets and = contracts are all set free then we would only get competitive free = market rates (prices) in all spheres and these, by their nature, will = be optimal for all traders and exchangers, as =20 are free prices in all other spheres. For competitive note issues or = turn-over credits granted via clearing or non-cash payments, the = interest rates could come close to the administrative costs only, like = with the issuance of tickets for the attendance to =20 various performances. In spheres with high returns for capital = investments (especially when no longer subjected to regulations, = prohibitions and tributes) they might rise as justified shares in the = additional productivity and profits achieved through an i n vestment. Those who want to assure the supply of exchange media by the = acceleration of the existing monopoly exchange media, do only think in = terms of monetary despotism, with its limited, exclusive and forced = exchange media and value standard, of monopol y money that is usually centrally mismanaged by the central bank, = according to its dogmas and wrong assumptions, remaining blind to the = free note issue options and possibilities, blind to sound alternative = value standards, blind to free market rating and v o luntary acceptance for both, blind to the sound tax foundation options = for "fiat" money and to the right of free choice of value standards and = the right of banking, including the issue of banknotes and clearing = house certificates. The wrong definitions an d notions about "capitalism", "profit" and "interest" go on and on. All = economic systems are capitalistic, from the stone hammer to automatic = factories. The all require capital, at least that of living and = all-purpose as well as conscious and self-determin i ng robots, existing in self-ownership and constituting, in somewhat = developed countries, over a normal working-life, a large productive = capital. They are all the less capitalistic the more they are = monopolized, regulated and legislated about, away from fr e e contracts, free exchanges, property rights and free market and free = trade conditions. The only rightful actions for dissenters are tolerant = and free experiments among them, practising their beliefs among = themselves, at their own expense and risk. Even w hen such experiments are successful, they should not be adopted and = imposed by any territorial State against those who still disagree with = them. - J.Z., 21.8.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INTEREST RATES, DISCOUNT RATES & = INFLATION: Interest rates should be raised to fight inflation. - Popular opinion. - They would have to be somehow increased, anyhow, = just to somewhat make up for the degree of depreciation of the capital = and interest paid, due to inflation. Alas, one cannot increase interest = as easily and to the same extent that one =20 can multiply a forced currency through the printing press. When the = value of a currency is e.g. halved from day to day, then even 500% p.a. = interest cannot make up for it and I believe it never rose above that = rate during the Great German Inflation of 191 3 -1923. During 1923 even a 500% interest rate was rightly considered as = very moderate by borrowers. Moreover and rather obviously, no rate of = interest increase does automatically stop the government's note printing = presses and legal tender powers and the e f fects of its note issue monopoly for all depending upon monetary = exchanges. - Moreover, it is wrong to arbitrarily increase or decrease = the interest rate for all transactions. They should be variable prices = for variable services. - J. Z., 2.4.97. - "Incre a sing interest rates or tightening money supply can actually do more harm = than good if all it achieves (as was the case with last year's measures) = is a period of stagnation in some areas, followed by even greater = inflation. Last year is was the home buyers =20 who were hurt by the drying-up of funds." - J. Z.: Credits for daily = turnovers of goods and services for consumers should never be = artificially restricted, just because excessive credits were granted = before - for speculations or take-over bids, that led =20 to cash shortages or illiquidity - unless one wants to create mass = unemployment in one's cover-up attempt for a careless loan policy. Sound = loans should not be restricted to make up for unsound loans.) "... In = any case, it can be very harmful to increase=20 a ll interest rates, or staunch the flow of money in essential projects. = While it might be highly desirable to curtail high-rise office = developments in Sydney and Melbourne, it is most undesirable to restrain = the flow of capital to mining operations and dev e lopments or to the establishment of industry in country areas. A squeeze = here would really handicap growth..." - Colin Chapman, THE BULLETIN, = 13.2.71. - While high interest rates reduce the incentive to borrow, = this does not matter much when much more inf l ation is expected. - A government might even be inclined to lend more of = its forced and exclusive currency, straight from the printing press and = earn more interest thereby - if and to the extent that it can find more = borrowers. And the borrowers may be re a dy to pay the high interest because they expect to be able to repay the = capital and the interest with depreciated money from much higher = earnings in depreciated money. - Moreover, a higher interest rate might = induce more potential savers to save, thus in c reasing e.g. bank term deposits and the sale of securities, and the = higher savings will lend to higher lending by the banks so that at least = the capital market will not be squeezed but rather expanded. - All = interference with the market or any of its pric e s, including the interest rates, has undesirable effects and usually = effects contrary to associated hopes and expectations. I do not know of = any government policy that is 100% effective and non-destructive or = preventative for many productive or creative a ctions. - J. Z., n.d. & 2.4.97. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\f0\fs24 = INTEREST RATES. ARE LOW INTEREST RATES A PRIMARY CONDITION FOR AN\- = ECONOMIC BOOM? The easy availability of credit and the ease in\- achieving sales of labour, other services and goods, are probably = \-more important to achieve a boom condition and to maintain it\- than = low interest rates are. Likewise, a stable enough currency\- or stable enough currencies are more important for prosperity \-than = low interest rates. During inflations even a negative\- interest rate, = with the nominal interest rate below the inflation \-rate, cannot boost = an economy sufficiently. - J. Z., 6.11.96. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INTEREST, ABOLITION OF INTEREST? Harvey Norman, in TV advertisement, = offered bargains on interest-free terms for 2 years. - Interest-free = terms for up to 6-12=20 months are quite common. - J.Z., 30.9.97. - Alas, payments and = repayments are still to be made in the money of monetary despotism, = which is hard for the unemployed and for low-income earners. - J.Z., = 21.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INTEREST, ENEMIES OF: Enemies of = charging interest should secede\-- and do their own things among = themselves and to themselves - like \- any other sectarians and true believers. - J. Z., n.d. & 29.4.97. \par INTEREST, FIXED INTEREST RATES: It is wrong to imposed centrally\- = fixed interest rates under changing and different business\- conditions = upon a whole community. They should be adapted and\- haggled out between = free debtors and free creditors in every\- case, in accordance with the business risks and expectations and\- only = guided by average interest rates of the general free market\- but allowing every required deviation from them. It is wrong and = misguided to impose interest rates as a means to counteract some\- of = the results of monetary despotism, like inflation, deflation \-and = stagflation. It is wrong to art ificially raise or lower interest rates, e.g., through inflation or = through deflation. Interest\- rates should be freely determined on a = quite free market, not\- through the various despotic policies of = monetary despotism or their effects. \- Inded, inflation can raise interest rates somewhat and can also = \-somewhat lower them, in certain situations or as a result of\- certain policies. (At a 3% inflation rate an interest rate of 6% = becomes effectively an interest rate of 3% only.) The same applies to = deflation. A rational and \-just allocation of scarce resources and = reward to those who\- supply them and use them, thus becomes close to impossible in all\- too = many cases. It is even more wrong and absurd to impose }{\b\f0\fs24 = fixed}{\f0\fs24 \-interest rates upon farmers and graziers than upon = industrial\- debtors, since the agricultural returns, much more so than \-industrial = returns from production, are variable with the weather.\- Instead, here = and in most other cases, interest should become - a\- freely agreed upon = - percentage share in the additional \- productivity achieved through an investment, with capital perhaps = being considered as pre-done labour, that is also entitled to its\- just = rewards for the values it added, once it is properly \-employed. Thus = interest returns should be high when profits are \-high and low when profits are low and nil when there were = zero\- profits. (To the extent that this can be practised without penalising = efficient debtors while letting off inefficient ones. - J.Z., 8.9.02.) = The best way to achieve this would be via shares, bonds \- or partnerships, with fluctuating dividends, dependent upon\- = productivity - provided they are run really democratically, in\- the = interests of the shareholders, not of the managing directors,\- whose = authoritarian position now allows them all kinds of perks\- and the abuse of their position, to reinvest too = much of annual company \-earnings in their own kind of empire building, = profitable mainly \-to themselves, rather than to their shareholders, = now often\- almost as helpless as the political voter is towards his\- "representatives". - J. Z., 2.12.94, 25.4.97. - Thus not only = wide-spread shareholding should be considered and extensive shareholding = by employees in their own companies but all kinds of other = self-management organisational forms, e .g. partnerships and cooperatives, as well as autonomous work groups. - = J.Z., 8.9.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INTEREST, PRICES, WAGES, INTEREST THEORIES, SUBJECTIVE VALUE THEORY, = PANARCHISM: The subjective value theory applies to interest theories as = well. Most interest theories=20 have no objective value at all but merely a subjective value. Interest = rates, like prices and wages, when freely determined, do also indicate = merely subjective values. Fixed interest rates, controlled prices and = wages and those depending upon legal monopo l ies are, naturally, another matter. These artificial rates, prices and = wages must be abolished or there must be opportunities for those who = despise them to contract others for themselves. - Mises and the other = Austrians still believe too much in "objectiv e " interest rates. But even those determined by a free market are = expressing subjective values. - Each is entitled to his kind of utopia = regarding interest rates, prices, wages, rents, fees, taxes, voluntary = contributions and insurance rates - among likemi nded people, in their own payment and other voluntary communities. - = J.Z., 5.11.92., 23.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INTEREST: ... = interest spread too wide lies thin on the ground. - Rosalie Glynn = Grylls, William Godwin and his World, 137. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INTEREST: As long as interest comes, in sum, to merely a fraction of the total of the additional productivity = achieved by an the debtor of an investment, it is not a burden to him, = as a debtor, unless he has to pay it in an exchange medium that has been = monopoolized and made artificially scarc e. - J.Z., 1.7.94. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INTEREST: Even under degrees of = monopolism and regulations for \-productive capital and their capital = issues, interest\- arrangements for them do rather help than hinder making more\- capital = available for production. Not only the capitalists profit\- but all = their employees and all consumers. But the system would\- work with much less friction and often much cheaper without any\- legal = monopolies and regulatory interventions and "safeguards", = \-"guaranties", subsidies, prohibitions, compulsory licensing,\- officially imposed controls and supervisions, and interest-rate = regulations, at its optimal capacity when fully free pricing and free = contracts are introduced in this sphere as well. That would also require = the abolition of all compulsory taxes, which simply confiscate capital from their victims. Moreover, capital = securities or, rather, seeing the inflation risk, capital insecurities = of governments should also be done away with, because they are part of = the compulsory tribute system and amount m erely to investments in tax slaves. - See: CAPITAL\- MARKET, SECURITIES = MARKET, FINANCIAL FREEDOM, ISSUE OF\- SECURITIES, OWNERSHIP OF CAPITAL = SECURITIES, TRANSFERABILITY,\- RIGHT TO ISSUE SECURITIES. - J. Z., = 1.2.90, 29.4.97, 9.9.02. \par INTEREST: Even with regard to interest rates "the trees can't\- = grow far into the sky". - J. Z., 24.9.89. - Enemies of interest\- have = often calculated how much a cent, invested for 2,000 years,\- would have grown as money capital through an interest of, e.g.\- 5%. = But does it correspond to human experience that heirs will\- forever = leave their heritage untouched or that governments and\- private criminals will? Almost all investments have time limits \-and = investors sooner or later want to enjoy somewhat the benefits\- from = their investments, even if only by establishing a new \-benevolent = foundation. - J. Z., 26.4.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INTEREST: I do not see my task in attempting to blame or abolish or = defend and maintain interest but to see to it that it is only = voluntarily offered and taken and this under mutually agreeable conditions, i.e., never should anybody be forced to = pay it or forced to accept it - unless he has freely contracted to do = so. That requires the abolition of monetary and financial despotism, = which impair freedom of contract and free de c ision-making. Once competition in this sphere is quite free then = interest rates will rise as high or fall as low as is determined by = market conditions in their particular segments of the economy. E.g., = venture capital interest will always tend to be highe r than that for for safe bet investment in blue chip companies. Should, = one day, not only turn-over credits (notes and clearing certificates or = accounts) but also long term and medium term capital offers become quite = abundant, then this capital would tend=20 t o be offered at very low interest rates as well, for all secure capital = investments. But as long as capital remains somewhat scarce and = investments of capital in production can bring high returns to the = borrowers, these creditors, providing pre-done labou r in form of their savings etc., are also entitled to their fair share = in the additional values thus achieved. - J.Z., 11.9.87, 26.10.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INTEREST: If the enemies of interest = paying and taking took \-themselves serious, instead of merely thinking = like autho ritarians, then they would establish an interest-free \-savings and loan = association for themselves, at their own expense \-and risk. Alas, just = like communists, they want to share the \-property and earnings of = others - without paying for them. Most\- of the opponents of "usury" and interest have also not made any\- = distinction of the interest rates for turnover credits and that \-for = capital investments. The former can be reduced to the \- administrative costs and the small risk cover costs involved. The\- = latter have to cover the time differential and to reward\- investors for = their pre-done labours, embodied in the capital they \- lent out. Pre-done labour is also entitled to just rewards. Fixed = interest rates do not sufficiently adjust to the \-additional = productivity of pre-done labour nor account for the possibility of = losses. Via partnership arrangements the fixed \- rates could and should be replaced by fluctuating rates,\- corresponding = to the returns, unless the borrowers act\- dishonestly, stupidly or = negligently. Then the losses should all\- go at their expense. - See : = USURY. - J. Z., 13.4.93.=20 \par INTEREST: Interest under the money monopoly should be = \-distinguished from interest under full monetary and financial = \-freedom. Only once money supply monopolists can no longer extort\- = monopoly interest rates for their exclusive and forced currencies -=20 \-can real market interest rates freely develop and fulfil their\- = pricing functions, just like any other freely haggled-out prices.\- - J. = Z., 30.3.95. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INTEREST: There is no suc h thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can = exist is an uninterested person. - G. K. Chesterton, HERETICS, 1905. \par INTEREST: Under the Beckerath system of replacing "unearned = interest" in Cooperative Building and Loan Associations, the richest people pay much in interest and the poorest receive much in = interest. Consequently, and at the extremes of their savings and loan = arrangements, the high income people do not have to wait at all for a = loan, but pay a high interest for it, whil e the low income people get the benefit of high interest on their savings = so that finally they could have the full building costs together. In = between and in the middle are those savers who first gain much in = interest, then gain their building loan and pay =20 for it as much in interest as they had before gained for their savings. = To that extent their savings and loan arrangement is "interest-free" in = balance, although the interest incentives to save and repay remained. = The interest rate in such savings and loa n associations is largely a premium to be paid for not having to wait for = a loan and also a premium paid for waiting for a loan or postponing = building until savings plus interest can paid for it. Prohibition of = interest or low interest regulations would pr event the benefits for all that can be derived from such institutions = and their interest arrangements. - J.Z., 21.10.02.=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INTEREST:... = interest is an eternal category of human action and not the wicked = device of usurers. - View ascribed to Mises, bibliography, 118. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INTEREST-FREE CLEARING: See: APHORISMS = ON THE MONEY PROBLEM. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INTERESTS & HARMONY, RIGHTS: = Rightful interests don't clash but harmonize. - J.Z., 2/75. \par INTERESTS, COMMON & DIFFERENT, OR INDIVIDUAL INTERESTS: A general = principle in the world is that=20 there are no two people so close together that their interests are = always identical, nor are there any people so far apart that they don't = have some common interests. - Erwin S. STrauss, How to Start Your Own = Country, p. 30. \par INTERESTS, SELFISHNES, MORALITY, HARMONY, UTILITY, HARM, RIGHTS, = PROFIT, JUSTICE: Assume the complete diffusion of }{\b\fs24\lang1046 = defensive morality}{\fs24\lang1046=20 , it resolves itself simply into the conviction that men's interests, = rightly understood, are always in accord with justice and general = utility. - Bastiat, Economic Sophisms, 134. \par INTERESTS, SPECIAL, VESTED, VOTING, GOVERNMENT, ELECTIONS, PARTIES, = POLITICS, POWER, POLITICIANS, CONGRESS, ELECTION, REPRESENTATION: = Decades of recent history have shown that Congress has become a = plaything of massive special int erests. The common man has no real voice. Is it any wonder that less = than a third of those eligible actually vote? Why bother? Everyone we = elect goes off to Washington and proceeds to ignore the voter from then = on, listening only to those with money or in fluence to help them get re-elected. - W. T. Quick, Safe to the = Liberties of the People, ANALOG, 6/87, 142. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INTERESTS: Rightful interests don't = clash but harmonise. - J., 75. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INTERFERENCE, FREEDOM & DEFENCE: = For it is only when freedom is violated, accordin g to Kant, that legal interference with people is justified. - Jeffrie = G. Murphy: Kant: The Philosophy of Right, 144. - Defence is an action = against interference. - J.Z., 26.7.92. - Right is accompanied by the = authority to enforce it. - Kant. \par INTERFERENCE, FREEDOM, PROGRESS: Once they're out there, they'll be = free to flourish, with no interference from Earth." - James Blish, = Cities in Flight, They Shall Have Stars, 171/72. \par INTERFERENCE, GOVERNMENT, SUBSIDIARITY PRINCIPLE, LIMITED = GOVERNMENT: The difference=20 between a free Government and a Government which is not free is = principally this - that a Government which is not free interferes with = everything it can, and a free Government interferes with nothing except = what it must. A despotic Government tries to mak e everybody do what it wishes, a Liberal Government tries, so far as the = safety of society will permit, to allow everybody to do what he wishes. = \'85 - Sir William Vernon Harcourt, 1873. - Quoted in S. Hutchinson Harris, = The Doctrine of Personal Right, 124/125 . - Necessity and security were always the excuse of tyrants. - Compare = how illiberal the Liberals became once they got the power to rule. - = J.Z., 3.7.92, 25.10.02. \par INTERFERENCE, LAISSEZ-FARE, UTOPIAS, ENVIRONMENT, SYSTEMS, = PANARCHISM, FREEDOM TO EXPERIMEN T, FREEDOM OF ACTION FOR ALL, NOT JUST TERRITORIAL RULERS: "Ah! = Laissez-Faire. You're like right-wing businessmen or left-wing = environmentalists. You believe humans should not interefere with the = System." - Michael F. Flynn, In the Country of the Blind, c o nclusion, ANALOG, 11/87, 159. -- No, rather than trying to run any sytem = monopolistically, centralistically, coercively, collectively and = territorially, which is almost a prescription for failure, all should = only be attempted voluntarily, under personal l a ws, exterritorial autonomy or panarchism - for and by their supporters, = which means also, at their own risk and expense only. Then we could = learn much - not only from a few successes but also from the many = failures that would occur. We are successful with =20 this approach in science and technology and in private lifestyle = preferences as well as in religion. We could also supply it successfully = in the three spheres so far preempted by territorial governments: = political, economic and social systems. - J.Z., 30. 10.02. \par INTERFERENCE, MARKET, LAISSEZ FAIRE, GOVERNMENT, MIDDLE WAY, = COMPROMISE: There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain = from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the = entire management of production and distributio n to the government \'85 there exists no middle way. - Mises, = Liberalism, 79. \par INTERFERENCE, PANARCHISM: J. S. Mill insisted that the State should = never interfere with an adult civilized person for his own good; the = pluralists adapted this dogma and applied it to the group: the state should not interfere with the life of a group = for the good of the group itself 9or for the good of the individual = members). - David Nicholls, The Pluralist State, 92. \par INTERFERENCE, PUBLIC OPINION, LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS, CONTROLS : There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion = with individual independence, and to find that limit, and maintain it = against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human = affairs, as protesters against political d e spotism. - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty. - Before presuming the = existence of a legitimate kind of interference, based on public opinion, = one should at least state its kind of authorization and all the = instances which it supposedly authorizes. I would not=20 e xpet to encounter agreement on it in principle and in applications. = "Public opinion" is as vague and inconsistent as are "public welfare", = the "common good", "national security", "national interest" and the = "public interest". They cannot be used as rightf ul excuses for wrongful interferences with individual rights and = liberties. - J.Z., 6.4.89, 26.10.02. \par INTERFERENCE: \'85 interference with freedom always stands in need = of justification. \'85 interference with freedom, bad in itself, is = always open to challenge. - Jeffrie G. Murphy: Kant: The Philosophy of = Right, 48.=20 \par INTERFERENCE: Interfere against the interferers! - J.Z., 10/72. \par INTERNAL AFFAIRS, INTERVENTION, INTERFERENCE, AGGRESSION, = LIBERATION, PANARCHISM, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY, TERRITORIALISM: On our = crowde d planet there are no longer any internal affairs. The Communist leaders = say, "Don't interfere in our internal affairs. Let us strangle our = citizens in peace and quiet." But I tell you: Interfere more and more. = Interfere as much as you can. We beg you to=20 c ome and interfere. - Solzhenitsyn, Words of Warning to the Western = World, 28. -- The supposedly internal affairs of territorial States are = the external affairs of all freedom lovers. Only the internal affairs of = exterritorially autonomous communities of=20 v olunteers are their own affairs. - J.Z., 1.7.92. - But don't interfere = with ABC mass extermination devices, indiscriminate air raids or by = trying to impose your kind of territorialism and monetary despotism. = "Peace to the cottages, war to the palaces!" -=20 J.Z., 23.10.02. \par INTERNAL AFFAIRS, INTERVENTIONISM, INTERFERENCE: Was wird Pilatus = eigentlich vorgeworfen? Das er sich nicht einmischen wollte in die = inneren Angelegenheiten eines fremden Landes? - Brudzinski. - (What did = one blame Pilatus for? That he did n ot want to interfere with the internal affairs of a foreign country?) \par INTERNAL AFFAIRS, PANARCHISM: The only "internal affairs" not to be = interfered with (in order not to interfere with individual rights and = liberties) are those of individuals and of their voluntary communities. - Territorial monopoly claims are not be = respected and their institutions ought to be demolished, largely via = individual secessionism and rightful liberation and revolution efforts = by a world-wide federation of minorities that favo urs full exterritorial minority autonomy and of rightful militias for = the protection of individual rights and liberties. Territorial = governments, by their very nature, cannot be genuine liberators. - J.Z., = 20.9.88, 26.10.02. \par INTERNAL AFFAIRS: Infernal affairs is a more apt expression for all = territorial politics. - J.Z., 24.10.02.=20 \par INTERNAL AFFAIRS: Reject all claims to "internal affairs". We must = not regard any nation's affairs as exclusively internal or domestic. We = want more and more involvement in intern al affairs of other nations. This is out planet - anything occurring = anywhere is everybody's affair. - F. M. Esfandiary, Up-Wingers, 1973, p. = 92. - One should distinguish between territorial and non-territorial = "internal affairs", coercion used against no n -aggressors and voluntary restrictions upon oneself and like-minded = volunteers, affiliations with likeminded people across borders from = usurpations over the "own" territory and its population and invasions of = other lands and aggressions against other peo p le. Only volunteer communities have a right to exist, not States = established upon conquest and maintained by more or less despotic = territorial rule. Rule over involuntary subjects, that are not convicted = criminals with victims, is never an "internal affai r" to be regarded as such by outsiders. It justifies, nay, demands, = intervention in one form or the other, as non-violently as possible but = also forcefully, when necessary, against the oppressors and victimizers. = - J.Z., 8.8.86, 24.10.02. \par INTERNAL SECURITY: The greater the internal security of a = government the smaller the internal secruty of its subjects and also = their external security. - J.Z., 23.11.96, 20.10.02. \par INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: International affairs are our internal = affairs! - J.Z., 20.10.76. \par INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Things happening 2,000 miles away - happen = on our doorsteps. - J.Z., Comment to the book: The = 25}{\fs24\lang1046\super th}{\fs24\lang1046 Hour, by Giorghieko (?). \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS, TREATIES, CONVENTIONS: = Should government to government treaties be binding upon their su bjects? - JZ. 3.7.99. - This in spite of the fact that they had no = direct say in the matter but were expressly and monopolistically = excluded from the negotiations and these contracts? To speak of consent = of the governed in these cases is rather absurd, es pecially when taxation and military obligations are thus determined for = them. - J.Z., 28.4.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTERNATIONAL CLASHES OR WARS UNDER TERRITORIALISM = VS. PEACE THROUGH EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY FOR VOLUNTEERS OR PANARCHIES: = Ole Olson describes the international si tuation as a case of the irresistible evil force colliding with the = immovably stupid object. - Poul Anderson, Wildcat, in Conquests, 54/55. \par INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION, FREE TRADE, INTERNATIONAL FINANCE, = CORPORATIONS VS. GOVERNMENTS: Some of our governments=20 don't know it yet, but competition between governments is here to stay = and it is no longer mining companies who are on trial, it is governments = who are on trial today, as the pace of international bidding for = investment and development dollars intensifies . - Ron Manners, The Mining Industry - A Global Community, From An = Australian Point of View, p. 24. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS, MULTINATIONALS, = GOVERNMENT & CORPORATIONS, POWER: But, sir, I have said I do not dread = these corporations as instruments of power to destroy this country, because there are a thousand agencies which = can regulate, restrain, and control them; but there is a corporation we = may all well dread. That corporation is the Federal Government. - = Senator Benjamin H. Hill, remarks in the Senate on the Pacific Railroad funding bill, March 27, 1878, Congressional = Record, vol. 7, p. 2067. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS, MULTI-NATIONALS, = PANARCHISM: Full exterritorial autonomy for multi-nationals - but also = for all minorities and individuals desiring it. - J.Z., 20.4.89. \par INTERNATIONAL LAW: An international law that is based on individual = rights will end wars. An international law that is based on ignorance & = oppression, on territorialism, conquests and sovereignty for = dictatorships, and upon decision-mak ing privileges for governments, will assure the continuance of wars. - = J.Z., 19.7.87, 26.10.02. \par INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, PANARCHISM: Es gibt nicht notwending und = fortdauernd unmittelbare Verhaeltnisse der Staaten, als solcher, zu = einander, ueber die sie i n Streit geraten koennten; es gibt in der Regel nur Beziehungen der = einzelnen Mitbuerger eines Staates auf die einzelnen Mitbuerger des = anderen; nur in der Person eines seiner Buerger koennte ein Staat = verletzt werden; aber diese Verletzung wird auf der S t elle ersetzt, und so der beleidigte Staat befriedigt. - J. G. Fichte, = Die Bestimmung des Menschen, 134. -- (There are not necessarily and = continuously direct relations of States, as such, with each other, about = which they might come to struggle. As a rule =20 there are only the relations of single members of a State with single = members of another. Only in the person of one of his citizens can a = State be hurt. But this kind of injury can be immediately indemnified = and the offended State can thus be satisfied.)=20 - - International relations are to be as far as possible turned into = internal relations between free, i.e., individually sovereign, = individuals and their exterritorially autonomous voluntary protective = communties, operating under the limitations enforced by =20 rightful international laws, highly developed individual rights = declarations (whose rights may be claimed but need not be claimed by = these volunteers) and by ideal volunteer militias for the protection of = individual rights and panarchistic organizations.=20 - J.Z., 6.4.91, 13.1.93, 23.10.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: "Peace, commerce, and honest relations with all = nations; entangling alliances with none." - Thomas Jefferson, First = Inaugural Address. \par INTERNATIONAL TRADE, FREE TRADE & PROTECTIONISM, EXPORTS & IM PORTS, BALANCE OF TRADE, BALANCE OF PAYMENT, INTERNATIONAL TRADE & = PAYMENT DEFICITS, FOREIGN EXCHANGE CONTROL, FREELY FLOATING = INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE RATES, INTERNATIONAL CLEARING: On the unfounded = and even irrational fear that we might persistently impor t more than we export. - Somehow most people seem to think that national = accounts, budgets, credits and debts would be something entirely = different, in principle, from those of individuals or family households. = Most individuals and families can manage to p a y their way, through their own productive efforts, without government = assistance and protectionist policies, as long as they are not hindered = or exploited by governments. Looking at the imports and exports of = individuals: Would it not be nice if other peo p le were ready to supply you with what you want, for your whole life, and = you would not have to give them as much in return, through your exports, = as they gave you, through your imports? Would you have any reason to = complain? - What we export are our surpl u s items. We sell them at surplus and wholesale prices, i.e., rather = cheaply, overseas, because we cannot sell them internally. Thus, what we = receive for them, as statistically measured at the border posts, amounts = coming to less than normal internal retai l prices for the same goods. At the same time, what we import, are = largely items we are short of. Therefore, for these, we are willing to = pay relatively high prices. There is at least a tendency in this = direction. It is, naturally, mitigated by bargains, w e can achieve through overseas purchases. But let us forget about these = for a moment and think rather of the expensive luxury items: perfumes, = liqueurs, expensive watches, fashions, wines, flashy cars etc. Thus, = likewise, measured through the prices at the =20 borders, what we import seems rather expensive. This basic flaw in the = calculation of the trade balance is then interpreted as a trade deficit: = We seem to pay altogether more for imports than we make from our = exports. - If that really were the case, the e x change rate would fall, against our currency, and under the new exchange = rate the parity between total exports and imports would be achieved = again, apart from the temporary movements of capital, profits and = interest and dividends and apart from permanent=20 i nvestments which foreigners make with us and the capital assets which = our citizens are prepared to sell them for fair market prices, as is = their basic right. - In the long run imports and exports are always in = balance. They pay for each other. The same ap p lies to the payment balance, nicely balanced out through freely floating = exchange rates. - This is to be expected. Neither goods nor service nor = foreign exchange traders are in business to lose nor do they lose in the = average. On the contrary. On both sid e s they win from the exchange, benefit their customers and make a profit. = On balance, we have always a win-win situation, even if the official = statistics do not show it. - Obviously, they do not show the value of = smuggled items nor the values of smuggled c u rrencies. Moreover, to evade custom duties the values of imported goods = are often understated or overstated when subsidies are paid, e.g. for = exports. I never forget one experience with custom officers in Berlin. I = had looked up the law on custom duties o n coins. Legally a duty was payable on them. I had a few small coins and = declared them to be subject to duty. The custom officer was not aware of = that duty and did not charge me anything but waved me on. There is also = a lot of bribery involved. Once, with=20 m y car under repair in Sydney, I got a lift back to Berrima in a = beautiful new Porsche. The owner was a customs officer in NSW and he = confessed to me in conversation, after he had discovered that I was a = radical free trader, that he had financed this expen s ive car entirely with bribes received for letting items go through = customs. Now, how correctly were his contributions towards Free Trade = registered in the international trade statistics? He made once = exception, he asserted: He never took bribes to let dru g s through customs. - I think that we can safely ignore the official = statistics on international trading. Instead, if we wanted to, we should = rather compare not the prices for goods at the border but the prices for = the imported and exported goods when sold =20 to their consumers. Then, when added up, and compared through the = exchange rate, they would tend to balance, as one could easily predict = simply from the basic observation of what trade means to two trading = partners. To speak in the most general terms of a l l trading: All debts are as high as all credits. They cancel each other. = National borders do not make a difference. Nor do different currencies. = But government intervention with free trade does. It prevents much = trading, makes goods and services more expe n sive and wrongly transfers earnings from some to others, wasting much in = the process and sending wrong price signals to all concerned. - Now = imagine a monetary freedom system where either a single national = clearing house (or a federation of free clearingh o uses, cooperating with each other) were to exist and negotiate = international trade in international clearing certificates backed up by = all the goods and services (including information and labour) that we = have ready for exports. These would be clearing ho u se certificates issued by our exporters, based on their export goods and = sold by them to our importers. The prices of these export goods and the = values of these clearing certificates would e.g., be expressed in gold = ounces. They would thus tend to be acce p ted & used by our importers and accepted by the foreign exporters like = their amounts in gold weight values, as if these paper certificates were = metallic gold ounces of the total value involved in any such deal. Like = a shop currency with shop foundation, t h e international clearing certificates would tend to become issued by our = exporters, with ready for sale export goods, bought from out exporters = by our importers and then used by our importers to pay foreign exporters = for our imports. Assume further, that=20 o ur importers would use only these certificates in payments for all our = imports. Moreover that, to assure a rapid reflux of the clearing = certificates thus spent for our imports, the clearing certificates would = be given only a limited circulation period: 3=20 t o 12 months. All would be expressly & quite freely transferable and free = of all protective duties. (Let us assume that small financial duties = would still be levied and leave these out of consideration here.) Then, = and quite naturally and inevitably, expor t s and imports, so mediated or paid for, would automatically balance. = Unless, of course, foreign exporters would be so foolish to throw away = or burn the clearing certificates received in payment from us or the = foreign government would buy them from these e x porters, at the expense of the taxpayers, to destroy them or keep them = unused until they have expired and thus become valueless. In these cases = we would have received imports without having to pay for them with our = exports. To the extent that non-perishab l e goods were involved, and that those certificates, that were not = returned, would have expired, we could then issue clearing certificates = upon them again, and use them to pay for imports. - In many ways the = present government paper monies, likewise having =20 no legal tender value or monopoly status overseas, would act like the = above hinted at clearing certificates used for international trading. - = Apart from foreign central banks being foolish enough to hoard our paper = money as foreign exchange for a currency =20 "reserve", perhaps because it is aware that it is less inflated than the = own paper currency is, also apart from foreign citizens doing the same = because they have reasons not to trust the paper currency of their = governments, our own paper money in foreign=20 c ountries, having been used to pay for imports, would act like the above = described private clearing certificates, too. It would have to return to = us, directly or indirectly, to pay for our exports. But there are = differences: Our paper money has not a limit e d period of circulation and it is not merely a clearing certificate = acceptable in payment for our exports only, nor is it one that uses a = stable value standard and one that is market-rated and accepted as if it = were legal tender only by our exporters, who =20 issued it. Our paper money is also not issued by providers of goods and = services. Another difference might occur in practice: Since such = clearing certificates are so obviously useful to balance exports with = imports, they might be exempted from all foreign =20 exchange restrictions. - The job of exporting would then largely = facilitated by selling the clearing certificates to importers, using = them as means of payment, all over the world and then letting them find, = with the help of an international clearing house =20 or network, those foreign importers who could use them to pay for our = exports to them. These certificates would be our trade representatives. = Further trade negotiations and treaties would not be required. Their = holders would induce their governments to le t them use these clearing certificates freely as means of payment against = us. - Thus, instead of appearing on the world market first as sellers, = seeking payment in a more or less scarce currency, we would appear on it = first as buyers, with our own clearing =20 means of exchange, optional and free market rated against their sound = value standard, and backed by our goods and services ready for export. = Buyers are more welcome than sellers are overseas, under present = conditions. Moreover, foreign central banks are l e ss likely to hoard these short term and merely privately issued clearing = certificates. - In this whole international exchange process, the law of = comparative advantage, a lower tax burden upon our production and = minimal to no regulations, freedom of issue =20 and clearing, freedom from government guarantees, free choice of value = standards, the absence of coercive unionism and of legally established = monopolies, of all compulsory licensing & of quotas upon foreign trade = and under at most merely some financial im p ort duties (minimal to maximise turnovers and total receipts from them, = rather than high, prohibitive and hardly covering the costs of raising = them) would give us an advantage in freely trading with the world, even = if that trade were only unilaterally fre e , from our side. - Seemingly, we would still be at a disadvantage: The = world has so much to offer to us and we have to offer so relatively = little to the world. Would that lead to overspending upon imports and = difficulties in paying for our imports through =20 our exports? Precisely to overcome this imagined and other imagined = difficulties, Prof. Edgard Milhaud, in several books, advanced the idea = of international clearing certificates. - To seek out whatever trades = are to mutual advantage, cannot be decided by =20 outside observers, writers and thinkers, politicians and bureaucrats, = not even by trained economists as advisors. It is the job of = professionals, who have made it their life-long study. Let them do the = job: namely, the exporters and importers. Between the m they will arrange all the mutually beneficial trades that are possible, = benefiting themselves and us. We should simply not interfere with them = in anyway. Their Free Trade exchanges, combined with Monetary Freedom, = can and will do the job for us, much bet t er than any coercive and monopolistic authorities could. - There will = be, as usual, some more or less sudden shifts in employment and in the = use of resources. - Even if foreign exporters received subsidies and = "dumped" their goods upon us, we should not p r otest against this and try to prevent it. Instead, we should rather = welcome such discounts as gifts to us from foreign taxpayers. Under full = monetary and financial freedom the adaptation to these changes will be = rapid and complete. (I have intentionally a voided here dealing with trades in drugs, weapons and other hazardous = goods but believe that territorial governments cause most of the = problems associated with them in the first place.) - J. Z., 5/97, = 14.9.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INTERNATIONALISM, MANKIND, = PATRIOTISM, NATIONALISM, COSMOPOLITANISM: My country is the world; my = countrymen are mankind. - William Lloyd Garrison. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTERNATIONALISM, SELF-DETERMINATION, = INDEPENDENCE, TERRIOTORIALISM VS. EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY & INDIVIDUAL = SOVEREIGNTY: True internationalism, he insisted , rests on self-determinatiion: 'each individual, each association, = commune, or province, each region and nation, has the absolute right to = determine its own fate, to associate with others or not, to ally itself = with whomever it will, or break any allianc e , without regard to so-called historical claims or the convenience of = its neighbour.' Only in this way would nations cease to be the products = of conquest and historical and geographical distortion. In the long run, = however, Bakuning believed that the nati o nal question is secondary to the social revolution and the social = revolution should become a world revolution. - Peter Marshall, Demanding = the Impossible, 34. - By accepting the notion of provinces, regions and = nations he opposes the self-determination of individuals in these territories. They become victims of territorial = majorities. Did he anywhere contemplate full exterritorial autonomy for = volunteers and the absence of any territorial organization? - J.Z., = 22.10.02. \par INTERNET & CD-ROM: While it might be=20 easier to find and download one to a few books from the Internet, if = they are already offered there, I belive that for a long time it will be = easier and cheaper and maybe even faster to order a special whole = library on a CD-ROM than to download it from on e or x sites on the Internet. - J.Z., 30.10.02. \par INTERNET & INFORMATION EXPLOSION: Has the Internet explosively = spread sound information much more so than misinformation? Has it still = all too many common features with the mass media? - J.Z., 19.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INTERN ET, COMPUTERS, WEBSITES, E-MAIL ETC.: When the technologies that are = shaping the new millennium are considered, it is far more likely that we = will see not one world government, but microgovernment, or even = conditions approaching anarchy. - James Dale Dav i dson & William Rees-MOGG, The Sovereign Individual, MacMillan, & Simon & = Schuster, 1997, 32. - Technologies do not automatically demolish well = established myths, errors and prejudices and the institutions based upon = them. - Territorial governments don't g i ve up as easily. If the Internet really threatened them that much and = obviously, they would rather outlaw and destroy all computers & = electronic linkages. Compare the monopolies & controlling powers they = claimed and held regarding postal services, telepho nes, radio and television. - How much genuine enlightenment has the = Internet spread so far? How much have mass media and free libraries = achieved? Just another mass medium is not necessarily promoting truths = more than lies. - J.Z., 23.4.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTERNET, PANARCH ISM, FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT: Freedom of = information is not enough without freedom to experiment. Can freedom to = experiment be sufficiently spread via the Internet? Or is it there = neglected as much as it is in the mass media, togethe r with many other significant ideas and practices? I get disgusted when I = see how many people use their computers and the Internet e.g., only to = design and send each other greeting cards rather than to develop and = convey important ideas. - J.Z., 14.2.99, 2 1.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1=20 INTERNET, PRIVACY, FBI: Did You Know: Glen Roberts, a publisher of = books, magazines and newsletters oriented toward privacy and = surveillance, says that the FBI has become involved with the casual = monitoring of many BBS systems. - Secrets of the Sentient. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 INTERNET: The Internet is "in" - but does it, as yet, catch sufficient = sound ideas, facts and talents in its net and does it sort them out = sufficiently, or does it spread significant titbits of information as = widely and largely inaccessibly, as do m ass media and libraries? The automatic search engines are somewhat = helpful, but sometimes too helpful, by e.g. digging up too much garbage, = repeatedly, so that significant and wanted bits of information are again = more or less buried. The art of automated=20 s earch engines can be refined and is being refined. But even that should = not be necessary, if the wanted information were already assembled in = sufficiently ordered and combined form on the Internet. That is no more = the case than it is in large bookshops or =20 libraries, in spite of professional attempts to do so. For instance, few = bookshops have special sections on e.g., peace writings and anti-aging = research. On the Internet, on special subjects, the tendency remains = strong to display, repeatedly, rather the=20 popular errors, myths and prejudices on them than the real insights and = solutions. - J.Z., 21.10.02. \par INTERPRETATIONS, WORDS, LANGUAGE: As was observed by Josiah Warren, = a contemporary and friend of Spooner, men are governed not by principles = or even by laws , but by interpretations: the words can have different meansings = according to the reader. (6) The citizen thus always remains uncertain = before the law and awaits with anxiety the verdict of the court. - M. R. = Creagh, Lysander Spooner \'85 in: Holterman, Law in Anarchism. - (6) A Brush at Old Cobwebs, PEACEFUL = REVOLUTIONIST, Cincinnati, I, April 3, 1833, Cf ibid I, Febr. 5, 1833, = 5: Of our State Difficulties. \par INTERVENTION, INTERFERENCE, WASTE, GOVERNMENT: Whenever, wherever = and however government interferes was te results. Under laissez faire economics, i.e., free pricing, free = work, profit incentives for all and the great varieties of free = contracts, savings, efficiencies and relative abundance result, almost = automatically, as by the efforts of an "invisible ha nd" or by a force towards "natural harmony". Each gets non-authoritarian = feedbacks on his actions in order to correct or optimize them. - J.Z., = 11.6.99, 21.10.02. \par INTERVENTION, ISOLATIONISM, APPEASEMENT, STATUS QUO, D\'c9TENTE, = FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY, DICTATORSHIP S, TYRANNIES, TOTALITARIANISM, DESPOTISM, LIBERATION: What we have to = consider today while time remains is the permanent prevention of war and = the establishment of freedom and democracy as rapidly as possible in all = countries. Our difficulties and dangers will not be removed by closing our eyes to them \'85 They will not be = removed by a policy of appeasement. - Sir Winston Churchill, Sinews of = Peace - Postwar Speeches. \par INTERVENTION, NON-INTERVENTION, INTERNAL AFFAIRS, DICTATORSHIPS: We = respect personal rights but we don't respect suppression. - Lee Goodloe = & Jerry Oltion, MOONSONG, ANALOG 7/89, page 37. \par INTERVENTION, STATE: Acts of intervention by the State, which only = two generations ago would have been regarded as the most heinous = injustice, are today commonplace occurrences. - Otto von Habsburg, The = Social Order of Tomorrow, 30.=20 \par INTERVENTION: An intervention only among volunteers is not an = intervention but a reform that they do agree with. And an intervention = against a coercive intervention isn't an interven tion, either. - J.Z., 8.6.92. - Compare: Aggression, Defence, = Self-defence, Resistance, Revolution, Gun control. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INTERVENTIONISM & = CAPITALISM: But this is not a crisis of capitalism. It is the crisis of = interventionism, of policies designed to improve cap italism and to substitute a better system for it. - - Ludwig von Mises, = Planned Chaos, 21. \par INTERVENTIONISM & FREE CHOICE: Because political institutions are = allowed to intervene in economic matters, legislative hearing rooms = brawl administrative agencies h ave become little more than battle-grounds in which producers battle = other producers, sellers war with buyers, landlords fight with tenants, = one industry encounters another industry, employers brawl with = employees, racket all with the consumers bearing th e brunt of casualties. Even though this racket costs people billions of = dollars annually, creates high unemployment rates, stifled innovation, = discourages people from entering particular industries, causes other = economic hardships and help secure the bles s ings of conflict to the political State, it continues. Business and = professional groups, labor unions, and other economic interests, = continue penetrating their fraudulent schemes to protect the public from = the consequences of free choice! - Butler D. Shaf fer, Calculated Chaos, 145. \par INTERVENTIONISM & THE CONSUMERS: What the interventionist aims at = is the substitution of police pressure for the choice of the consumers. = All this talk: the state should do this all that, ultimately means: the = police should forc e consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously.- = Ludwig von Mises, Planned Chaos, 27. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INTERVENTIONISM, CAPITAL: What must be the consequence = of all this intervention? \'85 Capital, under the impact of such a = doctrine, will hide, flee, be destroyed. And what will become, then, of the workers, those workers = for whom you profess an affection so deep and sincere, but so = unenlightened? Will they be better fed when agricultural production is = stopped? Will they be better dressed when no one dar es to build a factory? Will they have more employment when capital will = have disappeared? - Bastiat, Essays, 109. \par INTERVENTIONISM, DEMOCRATY, STATISM, PEOPLE: The State tends to = expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its = means, an d these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the = people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the = State! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, = personal dignity, all vanish. - Bastiat, Sophi sms, 141. - Quoted in: Bastiat on Liberty, 60. \par INTERVENTIONISM, FARM POLICY, PLANNING, CENTRALIZATION, DIRIGISM: = If centralization worked all that well, Russia would export wheat. - = Michael F. Flynn, In the Country of the Blind, part I, ANALOG, 10/87, = 36. - Bureaucratic "planning" is sometimes good enough to produce UNWANTED & = UNSALEABLE surplus products, e.g., through subsidies or price supports. = It is not so good in producing wanted things and services. - J.Z., = 30.10.02. \par INTERVENTIONISM, FORCE, WELFARE, CO MMON GOOD, PUBLIC WELFARE, PUBLIC INTEREST: By misnaming what they are = talking about, interventionists create an illusion that they are = ministering to economy when they are really using force on people. - = Clarence B. Carson, THE FREEMAN, 7/76. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INTERVENTION ISM, KNOWLEDGE AND BOOK BURNING: Thus, for Hayek, interventionist = politics deserves the special odium which is incurred by book-burning = regimes: it destroys knowledge. Prices...- Geoffrey Sampson, AN END TO = ALLEGIANCE, 175. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INTERVENTIONISM, MEDDLING, ISOL ATIONISM: I only hope our meddling fools down in Washington will conquer = the itch for sticking their nose (J.Z.: Have all fools only one nose = between them?) in other people's business, and keep quiet. If they do, = it will be a miracle, but miracles sometim e s happen. - Albert Jay Nock, Journal of Forgotten Days, May 1934 - = October 1935, Regnery, 1948, 122. - Among the things that they could and = should have done is discuss & publish rightful war and peace aims, = recognize all governments in exile do recognize=20 t hese aims, want to rule only over volunteers and do this already, as far = as is rightful and possible. Furthermore, the borders should have been = opened for all refugees and deserters. They could and should have = developed and published programs for rightful =20 warfare & resistance & liberation actions, for rightful military = insurrections and revolutions, how they could be best organized and = financed. They could have popularized again the old theory of = tyrannicide. With such steps and much less blood, property a nd earnings sacrifices than were used e.g. in WW II by the U.S. = government, they could have achieved much more, much sooner and much = more lastingly. But, naturally, as territorial governments, they did not = do this. - J.Z., 28.4.00, 3.5.00. \par INTERVENTIONISM, MIXED ECONOMY, WELFARE STATE, CORRUPTION, = POLITICS: \'85 the only way to deter corruption is to reduce significantly the scale = of public intervention. - Vito Tanzy, in his essay on corruption. - As = long as political favours are possible they will be offered a nd bought. In a free economy no political favours will be available for = sale to businessmen. But an economy is not free while, under compulsory = taxation, all too much of its productivity will be confiscated into = governmental slush funds. Then, to obtain f avourable treatment in government contracts, contractors will again make = bids for these favours. Governmental decision-making and compulsory = taxation are inseparable from corruption. - J.Z., 24.4.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTERVENTIONISM, ROGUE STATES, DICTATORSHIPS, = DESPOTISM,=20 TOTALITARIANISM, RIGHTS, PEACE, JUSTICE, CONSTITUTIONS, FREEDOM: Kein = freier Staat kann Verfassungen, deren Oberherren Vorteile davon haben, = wenn sie benachbarte Voelker unterjochen, und die daher durch ihre = blosses Dasein die Ruhe der Nachbarn unaufhoerl i ch bedrohen, vernuenftigerweise neben sich dulden.; die Sorge fuer ihre = eigene Sicherheit noetigt alle freie Staaten, alles um sich herum = gleichfalls in freie Staaten umzuschaffen, und so um ihres eignen Wohls = willen das Reich der Cultur ueber die Wilden, =20 das der Freiheit ueber die Sklavenvoelker rund um sich her zu = verbreiten. Bald werden die, durch sie gebildeten oder befreiten = Voelker, mit ihren noch barbarischen oder sklavischen Nachbarn in = dieselbe Lage geraten, in welcher die frueher freien vor Kurze m noch mit ihnen selbst waren, und genoetigt sein, dasselbe fuer diese zu = tun, was so eben fuer sie geschah: und so wird denn, nachdem nur einige = wahrhaft freie Staaten entstanden, notwendig das Gebiet der Cultur, und = der Freiheit, und mit ihm des allgmein e n Friedens, allmaehlich den ganzen Erdball umschlingen. - So erfolgt = notwendig aus der Errichtung einer rechtlichen Verfassung im Innern, und = aus der Befestigung des Friedens zwischen den Einzelnen Rechtlichkeit im = aeusseren Verhaeltnisse der Voelker gege n einander, und allgemeiner Friede der Staaten. \'85 - Fichte, Die Bestimmung des Menschen, 138. - ( No free State can = reasonably tolerate, aside of itself, any constitutions whose rulers = derive advantages from subjugating peoples in their neighbourhood and w ho, thereby, perpetually threaten the existence of their neighbours. = Care for their own security forces all free States to transform all = those around them likewise into free States and so, in their own = interest, to spread the empire of culture over the sa v ages, that of freedom over the enslaved peoples. Soon after, the peoples = formed and liberated by them will get into the same situation with their = still barbaric and enslaved neighbours, in which the previously free = States were shortly before with them. Th e y will then be forced to do the same for these, what had just been done = to them. Consequently, once some truly free States developed, inevitably = the territory of culture and freedom, and with it that of general peace, = will gradually embrance the whole pla n et. - Thus follows, necessarily, from the establishment of a rightful = constitution in the interior and from the assurance of peace between = individuals, rightful external relations between the peoples and general = peace between States.) - Interventions by=20 e xterritorially autonomous volunteer communities, striving to provide the = neighbouring captive peoples, nations and minorities with the same = exterritorial autonomy, are likely to be more justified, efficient and = less bloody. Already their mere examples cou l d set off liberating revolutions and military insurrections in = despotically ruled countries. Territorial States are not and cannot be = fully free States. They will always have more or less suppressed or = outvoted individuals and minorities. Their dictatorsh ip over dissenters, however democratic in forms, varies only by degrees. = - J.Z., 4.6.91, 24.10.02. \par INTERVENTIONISM, SECESSIONISM, PANARCHISM, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY: = Promotion of individual secession and exterritorial autonomy for = volunteer communities isn' t "intervention" in the affairs of those who do agree among themselves. = For them it means rather liberation, so that in future they can run = their own affairs as they please, independent from majorities and = experts and rulers with whom they disagree. It am o unts rather to intervention with coercive interventionism to achieve the = abolition of this kind of wrongful interventionism via liberating = interventionism. - J.Z., 21.11.93. - Like any use of forced it is not = inherently bad. It simply depends for what pur pose it is used - do defend rights and liberties or to offend against = them. - J.Z., 21.10.02.=20 \par INTERVENTIONISM, STATISM, BUREAUCRACY, LEGISLATION, PROTECTIONISM, = REGULATIONS, LAWS, GOVERNMENTS, STATE: With the best intentions coercive = interventions achieve, as a rule, the opposite of the intended result. It enchains rather than = liberates creative energies and does not sufficiently restrict or = prevent crimes with victims. Drug and gun laws are typical examples. So = are monopoly police and defence forces and g o vernmental armaments, public health measures and governmental insurance = schemes, banking institutions arbitration system etc. Have territorial = governments any successes to present or only failures? I do not know of = any successes. Do you? - J.Z., 24.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0=20 INTERVENTIONISM: " he suddenly grew sick of all the thousands of = artificial modes of behavior conjured up by representatives of = government, by military men, by patriots and traitors and fighters and = -- Greg Bear, Eon, 202. =20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INTERVENTIONISM: \'85 interventi onism is the market-meddling and privacy-invading methos of the = so-called middle-way, welfare-state, mixed economies of North America, = Western Europe and Japan. - William H. Peterson, THE FREEMAN, 8/76. \par INTERVENTIONISM: Every government intervention into peaceful = private activities tends to make things worse rather than better. - = Postulate of a planned book, by William H. Peterson, THE FREEMAN, Aug. = 76, p. 454. \par INTERVENTIONISM: Government intervention makes the situation worse, = and only leads to calls for further government intervention. - Carl = Watner, TV, 8/99, page 6. \par INTERVENTIONISM: Interventionism is a human tendency with inhuman = results. - J.Z., 2.10.86, 24.10.02. \par INTERVENTIONISM: When you get into trouble 5,000 miles way from = home, you've got to have been looking for it. - Will Rogers, = Autobiography, 274. \par INTERVENTIONISM: Why rely "upon more intervention in the lives of = \'85 citizens to deal with problems originally caused by intervention"? = - G. C. Roche III, Bastiat, 158. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = INTERVENTIONISM:... at first pr ice control, then forced sales, then rationing, then regulation of = production and distribution, and finally attempts at central planning of = all production and distribution. - Mises, quoted in: Greaves, Mises = bibliography, 97. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INTERVIEWS: Mostly they amount merely to the ignorant and prejudiced interviewing the ignorant and = prejudiced. Sometimes there is foolishness only on one side. All too = often it is shown on both sides. - J.Z., 20.7.87, 26.10.02. \par INTOLERANCE & COMPASSION OR LACK OF IT: "'You wanted them=20 to live', I challenged, 'but only if they lived like you!'" - Marie = Jakober, The Mind Gods. - All the mass murderous ideologues still act on = the ancient maxim: "Do not allow a witch to live!", even when they = pretend to fight superstition and religion. - J .Z., 24.10.02. \par INTOLERANCE & EDUCATION: \'85 intolerance is the first sign of an = inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant = impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. - = Alexander Solzhenitsyn, August 14, 473. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24\lang1033 INTOLERA NCE & RELIGION: To know a person's religion we need not listen to his = profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. - Eric = Hoffer. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INTOLERANCE, BARBARISM, WARS, CIVIL = WARS, VIOLENCE, TERRORISM: We only got one life and most of us use it = like=20 a knife to cut up others with. - From film: The Wild and the Willing, = 1962. \par INTOLERANCE, BLAME, ANGER: Be not angry that you cannot make others = as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to = be. - Thomas A. Kempis. \par INTOLERANCE, CIVIL WAR, TERRITORIALISM: "Civil war's civil war," the judge reminded him. = "It always has been and always will be. Intolerance brings it on, and = intolerance is the greatest curse of every land, though every man likes = to think his own land is free of it." - Ke nneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell, 218. \par INTOLERANCE, COMPULSION: Trouble is, society won't function without = some measure of intolerance and compulsion. - Poul Anderson, The Best of = Poul Anderson, p. 174. (Towards end of part 4 of the story: The Fatal = Fulfillmen t. - The only justifiable intolerant and coercive measures are those = directed against intolerant people and coercers. - J.Z., 26.1.00, = 20.10.02. \par INTOLERANCE, CRUSADES, PROSECUTIONS, WITCH-HUNTS, HOLY WARS: Immer = noch werden Hexen verbrannt // auf den Schei ten der Ideologien. // Irgendwer ist immer der Boese im Land, // und = dann kann man als Guter // und die Augen voll Sand // in die heiligen = Kriege ziehn! - Konstantin Wecker, Im Namen des Wahnsinns, 82. \par INTOLERANCE, DREAMS: I don't like making the rest of the world live = in my dreams but I certainly don't want to live in yours. - Ursula Le = Guin, The Lathe of Heaven, 125. \par INTOLERANCE, EXTREMISM, RADICALISM: What is objectionable, what is = dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they = are intolerant. - Robert F. Kennedy, The Pursuit of Justice. - As a = territorialist, he too was extremely intolerant. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INTOLERANCE, FANATICISM, RELIGION: It is certainly = no part of religion to compel religion. - Quintus Septimius Tertullian,=20 Ad Scapulam, 2. - But since religions are based upon irrationality and = include many immoral dogmas, one has to expect irrational and immoral = actions from many of their believers. - J.Z., 27.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTOLERANCE, FANATICS, IDEOLOGUES, TRUE BELIEVERS, = STIRNERI ANS, EGOISM, UTILITARIANS, MORALISITS, HUMAN RIGHTS, PANARCHISM: These = neo-puritans refuse to acknowledge any moral code or belief system but = their own. - Joe Fulks, TC138p26. - They are right to do so - but only = for the relations among themselves, in th e ir own volunteer communities, in which they should be exterritorially = autonomous. In their relations to members of other communities they will = have to pay attention to their traditions, customs, contracts and = ethical or moral codes, if they do not want to be treated as aggressors. - J.Z., 20.10.02. \par INTOLERANCE, FAULTS, CRITICISM: Wir sind gegen keine Fehler an = anderen intoleranter , als welche die Karikatur unserer eigenen sind. - = Grillparzer. - (We are most intolerant against those faults & mistakes = of others which are the caricature of our own.) \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INTOLERANCE, GENOCIDE, RELIGIOUS FANATICISM, MASS = MURDER, COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY: Kill them all. God will easily = recognize His own. - Amalric, To Simon de Montfort, at the massacre at = Beziers, 1209.=20 \par INTOLERANCE , IMMIGRATION, LIBERTY VS. DESPOTISM: If the fires of freedom and civil = liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our = own. If ill other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds = are censored, we must redouble our efforts =20 here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past = are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their = perpetuation. - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, address to the National = Education Association, New York City, Ju ne 30, 1938. - The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, = 1938, p. 418 (1941). - True, but did he follow his advice? - J.Z., = 11.10.02. - Did he decrease or increase liberty in the US? - J.Z., = 23.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTOLERANCE, PANARCHISM, POWER: When you and ours have it in our power to do for you and yours what you and = yours have done for us and ours, then we and ours will do for you and = yours what you and yours have done for us and ours. - Old English toast. = - That can be conceived either as an express i on of gratefulness, mutuality, or free exchange, as well as a threat of = revenge for wrongs done to oneself. Drinking and drunk people are not = likely to ponder much about this difference. It can be a toast for one = nation only or for a peaceful competition=20 b etween numerous competing governments and free societies or communities. = - Intolerance should not be generalized, e.g. territorially practised = by States of the present kind, but rather abolished and replaced by = tolerance, for tolerant actions and experim ents, made possible through exterritorially autonomous communities of = volunteers, under personal laws - with all of them originally = established via individual secessionism. - J.Z., 12.7.86, 25.10.02. \par INTOLERANCE, POLITICS & RELIGIONS, TERRITORIALISM: Intole rant politics is as bad, if not worse than were and are (still in some = countries) intolerant religions. - J.Z., 25.8.98. - Politics will be = generally as intolerant as religions were - as long as as it remains = territorial, as territorial as intolerant reli gions were and in some places still are. - J.Z., 25.8.98, 21.10.02. \par INTOLERANCE, POLITICS AS USUAL, TERRITORIALISM, ENEMIES, FRIENDS, = ALLIES, WEAPONS, WARFARE, FOREIGN POLICY, COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY, AIR = RAIDS, NUCLEAR "DEFENCE": Many people seem to act=20 under the "principle": Any excuse to make an enemy, even out of a friend = or ally. - J.Z., 28.7.96. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INTOLERANCE, RELIGION & FANATICISM: To be furious = in religion is to be irreligiously religious. - William Penn. \par INTOLERANCE, RELIGION, FAITH, BELIEF: Men can be attracted but not = forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, you won't move = them one step further to religion. - Alcuin (Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus). \par INTOLERANCE, RELIGIONS & CHURCHES, PRIESTS, SUPERSTITION, FAITHS: = The miseries derived to man kind from superstition under the name of religion, and of ecclesiastical = tyranny under the name of church government, have been clearly and = usefully exposed. We begin to think and the act from reason and from = nature alone. - Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society, 1756. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTOLERANCE, REVOLUTIONARIES, TERRITORIALISM, = PANARCHISM: All conventional (i.e., intolerant, territorial, coercive, = centralizing and monopolistic) revolutionaries tend to dig their own = graves. - J.Z., 8.3.85. - "The revolution swall ows its own children." Even if their movement survives and wins, it will = lose its impetus in the long run and lead only, after numerous = sacrifices, to almost total failure. Just like most peaceful and = gradualist territorial reform movements. There is no j u st and sound territorial substitute for self-government of individuals = under personal laws and exterritorial autonomy for their volunteer = communities or societies. Under territorialism mutual intolerance goes = on for centuries and demands its daily victims . - J.Z., 25.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INTOLERANCE, RIGIDITY, HATREDS, STAGNATION, = CHANGE, FUNDAMENTALISM, TERRITORIALISM, DOMINATION, TOLERANCE, = PANARCHISM: For no isolated, static culture wants the stimulus of a more = active, wider-ranging culture changing its rigid ways. -=20 James Blish, Earthman Come Home, ASTOUNDING SF, Nov. 1953, p. 86. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INTOLERANCE, = STATES, MINORITIES AND TERRITORIALISM: The essential point is that such = intolerance to minorities is a mere reflection of the State monopoly... = The evil thing about it is that i t is always an attack on innocent people, who happened (normally through = no-fault of their own) to have darker skins or longer noses, to speak a = different language, or to practice a different religion from the = majority. - J. D. Mabbott, THE STATE AND THE=20 CITIZEN, 168. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 INTOLERANCE, SURVIVAL, TOLERANCE, DOGMATISM, NUCLEAR = WAR: Either intolerant dogmatism or man will have to die. - J.Z., = 16.3.76. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INTOLERANCE, = TERRITORIALISM, NATIONALISM, RACISM, RELIGIOUSLY TOLERANCE: But the = Denebs had one great shortcoming - they could not abide the notion of sharing the cosmos with a life form = equal to themselves - or higher. - Eric Frank Russell, Sentinel's from = Space, 225. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INTOLERANCE, TERRITORIALISM: Cuius regio eius religio. - = He who controls the area controls the religion. -=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTOLERANCE, TOLERANCE, PANARCHISM: Whoever = kindles the flames of intolerance is lighting the fire underneath his = own home. - Harold E. Stassen, ANALOG, 1/91, 267. \par INTOLERANCE, UTOPIANS, IDEOLOGUES, TRUE BELIEVERS, STATISTS, = TERRITORIALISTS: They seem not to care how many people they trample on = to bring about their golden utopia. - Jim Stumm, TC133p69. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INTOLERANCE, ZEALOTS, FANATICS, = REFORMERS, REVOLUTIONARIES: Those who are convinced they have a monopoly = on The Truth always feel that they are only s aving the world when they slaughter the heretics. - Arthur M. = Schlesinger, Jr. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INTOLERANCE: \'85 wir haben die = Intoleranz fuer vogelfrei erklaert. - Hans Habe, Leben fuer den = Journalismus, Bd. 4, 23. - (\'85 we have outlawed intolerance.) Not yet sufficiently,=20 until we have subscribed to it in the political, econmic and social = spheres as well, for all kinds of exterritorially autonomous = experiments of volunteers. - tolerance merely for freedom of expression = and information, styles and fashions etc. is by far n ot enough. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 INTOLERANCE: Either intolerant = dogmatism or man will have to die. - J., 76. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 INTOLERANCE: Nothing dies so hard, = or rallies so often, as intolerance. - Henry Ward Beecher. - Before = consistent tolerance, for all tolerant people, ev en in the spheres of actions now pre-empted by governments, it would = tend to melt away and stay away forever. - J.Z., 14.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTOLERANCE: Taxation is an extreme feature of = intolerance. - J.Z., 29.12.76, 26.10.02. \par INTOLERANCE: Territorial archists, autho ritarians, dogmatists, egalitarians and intolerant anarchists are a = problem, not the solution. They will definitely not lead us towards = free, voluntaristic, competitive, peaceful, secure, progressive and = prosperous societies - but will contribute to the c ontinuance of the present messes. - J.Z., 18.1.95, 19.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INTOLERANCE: The devil loves nothing better than = the intolerance of reformers, and dreads nothing so much as their = charity and patience. - James Russell Lowell. - They do not have to be = charitable and patient when they enjoy full exterritorial autonomy for their = reforms among volunteers. - J.Z., 25.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INTOLERANCE: The end of thought - ideas in = uniform. - Roger McDonald, "1915", page 220. \par INTOLERANT ANARCHISTS: Anarchist movement people are lar gely people who tell each other that they are not "true blue" or "true = black" anarchists. Only the members of the own small anarchist sect = would be true anarchists, or so they believe. - J.Z., 10.2.94. - Being = as intolerant as they are to other anarchists =20 and libertarians, they are even more intolerant towards the vast = majority of people who are still statists. Since most of the anarchists = and libertarians are still territorialists, they do thus ignore the = fastest road for everyone to the government or non -governmental society of their dreams. - J.Z., 21.10.02.=20 \par INTUITION, REASON: Intuition ist Vernunft in Eile. - Jackson. - = (Intuition is reason in a hurry.) \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INVADER, AGGRESSION, RESISTANCE, LIFE, = SELF-DEFENCE, VIOLENCE, KILLING, EXECUTIONS, RIGHT TO LIFE: \'85=20 there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader. - Tucker, LIBERTY, = August 30, 1890, p. 4. - At least not while he is threatening to attack = or actually doing so. Once he is rendered harmless, it becomes another = matter. Some protective associations would =20 merely physically recycle him, e.g., utilizing those of his organs still = useful to others. Others would attempt to rehabilitate him mentally and = then extract a sufficient indemnification plus all costs out of him. And = some would hold him also collectively responsible for similar crimes of others who were not caught and = convicted. - J.Z., 1.2.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INVASION: The muddled thinking of the Allied = Governments in WW II is e.g. shown by them calling the D-Day operation = an "invasion". It was certainly not an invasion=20 for their Free French and Free Poland allied forces and would not have = been one for Germans who would have liked to be their allied German for = a free Germany. Liberation and Deliverance should be distinguished from = invasions and other aggressions. - J.Z., 24.2.88. \par }{\fs24\lang1033=20 INVASIONS OF LIBERTY, RESISTANCE, RIGHTS: It behooves every man who = values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in = the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, = become his own. - President Thomas Jeffer son, letter to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803. - The Writings of Thomas = Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 8, p. 224, footnote I (1897). \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 INVENTIONS, = INNOVATIONS, IDEAS & PERFECTION: Nothing is invented and perfected at = the same time. - Latin Proverb. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 INVENTIONS, INNOVATIONS, IDEAS, MAN, PESSIMISM: \'85 with all man's marvellous ability to invent things which are = potentially good, he can always be counted on to make the worst possible = us of what he invents; as witness the radio, printing-press, aeroplane = and the internal-combustion engine. - Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous = Man, Harper, 1943, 214/215. - Did Nock make the worst possible use of = e.g. printing presses, railways & steamships? Without technology he = would have visited few of the places he did=20 a nd read little of the literature he did. - Worse still, man might make = NO or all too little use of them, like e.g. most "freedom lovers" make = no or too little use of floppy disks, microfiche, audio- & video tapes, = CD-ROMs and online options for freedom li t erature. I for one appreciate the personal freedom that e.g. cars and = planes give me, even under the restrictions and costs imposed upon them = by governments and in spite of the abuses of both of them e.g. during = wars and by some drivers and pilots. - J.Z. , 215. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INVENTIONS, INNOVATIONS, REFORMS: All progress is based upon a universal = innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. - = Samuel Butler (1835-1902), English author. Notebooks, ch. 1 (1912). - = This I deny. Many do live below th eir income, giving much of it away e.g., to sponsor research that does = not yet pay for itself. - Some do also prefer more leisure to working = more for a still higher income. They rather reduce their bread-earning = working hours. There is some truth in all g eneralisations but certainly not all the truth. - J.Z., 29.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 INVENTIONS, MACHINES, TOOLS, AUTOMATION: A tools is but an extension of = a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a = machine augments the power of a man and the we ll-being of mankind. - Henry Ward Beecher. - But Doomsday Bombs, fission = or fusion bombs are more than mere inventions. They are mass murder = devices and as such belong into nobody's hands. - J.Z., 25.11.02.=20 \par INVENTIVENESS, REFORMS, INITIATIVE, CREATIVENESS , HONESTY, FREEDOM OF CONTRACT & SELF-OBLIGATION SHOULD NOT BE OUTLAWED, = RESTRICTED OR REGULATED IN THE SPHERES OF ALTERNATIVE MONEY ISSUES, = REFLUX, ACCEPTANCE, MARKET RATING, REFUSALS, USAGE & VALUE STANDARDS, = FINANCE, CLEARING, INSURANCE & GUARANTEES, E I THER: One size fits all is no more apt here than it is in other spheres. = We need no more a standardized and uniform means of exchange and value = standard for all than we need a single and standardized kind of tooth = brush, tennis racket, head cover or pair=20 o f shoes. On the contrary, the supply of needed and wanted exchange media = and value standards as well as the refusal of unnecessary and unwanted = exchange media and value standards, should be as free as possible. Money = is much too important to be left to th e ignorance, prejudices and vested interests of politicians, bureaucrats = and their "expert" advisors. History has supplied more than enough = proofs for that. Neither money, nor peace nor the provision of capital, = of roads, research, education, health servic e s, postal services, defence forces, liberation or revolution or the = defeat of terrorism can be confidently left to the knowledge and = abilities of governments. Indeed, there is nothing that territorial = governments have proven they are quite able and effici ent to supply as cheaply and well as possible. - J.Z., 27.8.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 INVESTMENT SPENDING, CONSUMER SPENDING & INFLATION: At the moment = investment spending, not consumer spending, is the major factor in the = present inflationary crisis on the expenditure side. - R etail sales are only growing at an annual rate of 8 % at the moment, = compared with about 20% for investment... - THE AUSTRALIAN, 11.2.71. - = Neither can grow, out of nothing, under monetary despotism, without the = central bank making more of its legal tende r available. - Inflationary effects are always uneven upon different = parts of the economy. Those spheres whose prices or wages grow fastest = do not cause an inflation but merely show its effects earlier. The other = sectors follow, sooner or later, sometimes a year or even two later. The fever symptoms do not cause the fever. = The inflationary price rises do not cause the inflation. They do not = even make inflation worse but are merely part adaptations to it. - J. = Z., 2.4.97. \par INVESTMENTS VS. CHARITY, CAPITAL, FO RGOTTEN MAN: There is an almost invincible prejudice that a man who = gives a dollar to a beggar is generous and kind-hearted, but that a man = who refuses the beggar and puts the dollar in a savings-bank is stingy = and mean. The former is putting capital wher e it is very sure to be wasted, and where it will be a kind of seed for a = long succession of future dollars, which must be wasted to ward off a = greater strain on the sympathies than would have been occasioned by a = refusal in the first place. Inasmuch as th e dollar might have been turned into capital and given to a laborer who, = while earning it, would have reproduced it, it must be regarded as taken = from the latter. ... - W. G. Sumner, What Social Classes Owe To Each = Other, 109. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 INVESTMENTS, GOVERNMENT SECURI TIES OR GOVERNMENT INSECURITIES: Take stock in America, i.e., do not = invest in government bonds and treasury notes but, rather, in private = industrial and agricultural bonds. - J.Z., 5.6.92. - But as long as the = government's central banking system remains=20 e mpowered to systematically depreciate its monopolized and forced = currency, try at least to get suitable and acceptable value preserving = clauses inserted in your private securities. Often, like in Germany, = they are outlawed, too, to make the legal tender p aper money robbery even more comprehensive. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 INVESTMENTS, INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS, = MULTINATIONALS, FREE ENTERPRISE, TAXATION, REGULATIONS: Business will = continue to go where invited and remain where appreciated. - Author = Unknown. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 INVESTMENTS, PROFIT: Private investments must make = profits, thereby serving people with what they want at prices they are = prepared to pay. - Ronald Kitching, 2/95 AVS - PPNL, Feb/March 95.=20 \par INVISIBLE HAND & IDEAS ARCHIVE, PREJUDICES: The "invisible hand" = does not work very well for innovations - as long as there is no proper market = for them. In other words, consumers of economic, politicial, social, = technical and scientific services, in their ignorance and prejudices, do = often ignore what would be best for themse lves and what, if fully informed, they would like most. When prejudices = rule the invisible hand can't. - J.Z., 27.8.85.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 IOU'S OR ASSIGNMENTS UPON ONESELF: = Free banking means freedom to \-issue, refuse, accept, discount exchange = and trade private or\- coopera tively issued assignments, IOUs, certificates, notes,\- tokens, etc., in = as convenient forms as possible, i.e. in\- standardised monetary = denominations, but otherwise distinct from\- all other monies - that = make them suitable for at least local \- circulation. Each may thus freely offer, in transferable\- symbols, in = private coins, notes or electronic messages, all his\- ready for sale = goods, services and labour and he may also make a \- business out of facilitating private and cooperative issues for \-others = and to manage them. To so assign one's ready for sale \-properties and = services, including labour, and to do so in \-suitable associations with = others, is a basic right and liberty, \- part of the total freedom to own property, make contracts, trade = \-and exchange freely and associated with the right and duty to as\- far = as possible support oneself by one's own efforts and \- property. It is obvious that such a freedom is rightful and \-harmless = and that at least potentially it can be very beneficial\- if fully = realized. - J. Z., 11.1.96, 20.3.97. \par IOUs: All producers and service providers could freely exchange\- = all their products and services via IOUs freely issued by them\- and = then cleared against each other. - J. Z., 16.5.96. - To\- facilitate the = issues and that clearing process and make that=20 \-clearing appear much more on a monetary way, the IOUs should\- become = standardised in form and appear in numbered and certified \-money = denominations, using any value standard attractive to the \-issuers and = the users of these cleari ng certificates. - See :\-Clearing House Certificates, Clearing. - J. = Z., 19.3.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 IRAQ, WAR, TYRANNY, MASS EXTERMINATION DEVICES, DICTATORSHIPS: Why do = they rather talk and write about a war against Iraq, the bombing of = Bagdad, of fighting a whole people o r nation, rather than internationally outlawing a ruler like Saddam = Hussein and putting a large enough price on his head, perhaps doubling = the price if he is delivered alive to an international court of justice? = Would they rather see millions of his subje cts killed, as conscripted soldiers or non-combatants, than him and a = few of his henchmen? Would the promises prize have to be as large as the = estimated costs of such a war, namely ca. US $ 200 billion? - J.Z., = 30.8.02, 30.10.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 IRELAND & ANTISEMITISM: Ireland has the honor of being = the only country which never persecuted the Jews. }{\i\cf1 - because we = never let any in. - James Joyce. -}{\cf1=20 True or false? }{\i\cf1 }{\cf1 Or were rights and liberties and = opportunities in Ireland so restricted that few rational Jews wanted to = migrate there? - J.Z., 29.6.00. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 IRELAND, PANARCHISM, RIGHTFUL WAR AIMS & CILIL WAR OR REVOLUTION AIMS: = Are there any rightful Irish war aims? What war aims could be rightful = enough in they eyes of both parties, so that they both could come to = agree upon them and a void further fighting? - J.Z., 27.5.86. (Compare Pan Slogan notes under = No. 351 of 12.5.87.)=20 \par IRELAND: Without civil order there can be no civil liberty. This = they know full well in those parts of Northern Ireland terrorized by = private armies and their pro tection rackets. Anarchy is the enemy of freedom. - John Biggs-Davidson, = address to Loughton Conservatives, March 14, 1976. - Each of them, like = every territorial government, is trying to impose its order, instead of = being satisfied with full autonomy but =20 only for itself and for all others who want their kind of autonomy for = themselves. Genuine anarchy or self-government or self-management is the = ultimate of freedom of choice - for all individuals, not just for some = territorial rulers, or for statists only =20 or anarchists only. I can be introduced only as an exterritorial option. = The competion by different groups for exclusive rule over the same = territory, i.e., multiple territorial governmentalism, not anarchism, is = causing most civil disorders. Even all too =20 many of the diverse anarchists attempt to intolerantly introduce their = favourite form of anarchism exclusively over whole territories, although = only smaller and "decentralized" local territories. Seeing that they = still form only various tiny minority grou p s, while most other groups, the various statists, are much larger, this = means that their "anarchistic" attempts to realize anarchy for all is = even more despotic - because it tries to impose their ideals upon a much = larger number of people. To that extent=20 these "anarchists" try to dominate non-anarchists, instead of letting = them do their things to and for themselves. - As for the first sentence = of JBD: Without civil liberty there can be no civil order. - J.Z., = 12.11.82, 8.4.89, 26.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 IRON CURTAIN, SOVIET EMPIRE: From Stettin in the Baltic = to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the = Continent. - Winston Churchill.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 IRRESPONSIBILITY, RESPONSIBILITY, = SOCIALISM, GOVERNMENT SPENDING, TAXATION: We have, in fact, brought into = being a sort of imitation, synthetic, substituted world in which everything is = impersonal and everybody irresponsible, and for this we are largely = indebted to our Socialist thinkers and talkers, for Socialism, of = course, denies the need for responsibility. We are all arranging somebody else's work and spending somebody else's money, = nobody can be blamed for anything, and we all go out of work "through no = fault of our own." - Ernest Benn, Honest Doubt, 214/215. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 IRS, TAXATION: Join the IRS. Are you a thief out = of work? B etween jobs? Consider the benefits of joining the IRS. Steady Pay - We = Pool and Divide the Booty. Low Risk - The Law Is On Your Side. Job = Security - As Sure As Death & Taxes. - Simon Jester Sticker. \par IS, CHANGE, REALISM, POWER, REALITY: \'85 you can't turn against = what is. - \'85 Sometimes, you gotta\'85 if you're gonna reach what can = be. - Lee Correy, Amateur, ASTOUNDING SF, July 1954, British edition, p. = 78. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 ISMS, TOLERANCE, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY, = VOLUNTARISM, PANARCHISM, IDEOLOGIES, HARMONY, PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE, TO = EACH HIS OWN: To each the ism of his choice - and its practice, at the = own expense and risk. - J.Z., n.d. \par ISMS, TOLERANCE, PANARCHISM, IDEOLOGIES, NICE PEOPLE: Nice people = prefer all kinds of isms - but only for themselves. - J.Z., 18.1.95. \par ISOLATION O F INDIVIDUALS WITH RARE INTERESTS, IDEAS & TALENTS: Sometimes = like-minded individuals seem almost as rare, distant and inaccessible as = other habitable planets are or acquaintance with them is as rarem = distant and fleeting as are falling meteorites. - J.Z. , 3.6.94. \par ISOLATION, ALONE, INDIVIDUALS, MAN, SOLITARY CONFINEMENT: We're all = of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins. - = Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1956.=20 \par ISOLATIONISM, INTERNATIONALISM & PROTECTIONISM, FREE TRADE, = GOVERNME NTALISM, STATISM: One of the great anomalies of our time is the urgency, = on the one hand, for political One-World-ism, and, on the other, for = economic isolationism. - Frank Chodorov, One Is A Crowd, 129/130. - The = common feature of both is territorial sta tism. - J.Z., 26.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 ISOLATIONISM, NEUTRALITY, RETREATISM: "\'85 hoping = your are both well, and that you can successfully isolate yourselves = from what is going on in the world of war and politics. - Letters From = Albert Jay Nock, 1924-45, to Mr. & Mrs. Edmun d C. Evans & Ellen Windsor, Caxton, 1949, 125. - Under territorialism = this is difficult to impossible in many cases. Under exterritorialism, = based upon individual secessionism, it would be a common way of life. = Better still, few military and political pro blems would remain. - J.Z., 4.5.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 ISOLATIONISM: Isolationism is a good policy for = governments - but not for individuals. - J.Z., 7.10.74. \par ISRAEL, PANARCHISM: Exterritorially ther is enough "space" in = Israel etc., for Zionists and other Jews of all kinds,=20 as well as for Arabs of all kinds, Christians of all kinds and = Ideologues of all kinds, all living autonomously under personal laws, in = volunteer communities that are only exterritorially autonomous. Only as = territorialists do they clash. - J.Z., 26.4.88, 26.10.02. \par ISRAEL, PANARCHISM: One or several exterritorially autonomous and = personal law Israels for all voluntary Zionists and other Jewis groups = and one or several Arab and Palestinian volunteer communities, with the = same independence, for all kinds of P alestinians and other Arab groups. - J.Z., 28.3.89. - None of them to be = confined to any national or State borders. - J.Z., 26.10.02.=20 \par ISRAEL, SECESSIONISM, PANARCHISM: Let the Jews secede from Arab = domination and the Arabs from Jewish domination - }{\fs24 in a return = to the rightful traditions of both - }{\fs24\lang1046=20 and there will be peace in and around Israel or Palestine. - J.Z., = 26.5.74. - To be completely realized this requires full exterritorial = autonomy under personal laws - for all their volunteer communities as = well=20 as for all other volunteer communities. - J.Z., 26.10.02, 3.11.02. \par ISRAEL: Because I like Jewish people more than most other people, I = dislike to see them organized in another territorial State, which which = tends, like all other such States, to draw out th e worst in all of us and to give the least scope for creative endeavors. = - J.Z., 30.6.87. \par ISRAEL: The establishment of a territorial Israel was not the = solution of the Jewish problem or of the problem posed by Antisemitism - = in the face of Antisemitism or, rather, of the problems posed by Christians and other non-jewish = believers and of other kinds of ethnic and national traditions but, by = its very attempt to impose an exclusive Jewish State, a territorial one, = with exclusively Jewish laws, administrations =20 and jurisdition, a perpetuation of the problem. So much so, that one of = my early correspondents, Emmanuel Levin (who also claimed that he = invented the phrase: Make love, not war!), called them the Jewish Nazis. = The various Jewish people there assembled ma y be more democratic, more individualistic, less racist and authoritarian = than the Nazis were, but they do still have all too many features and = practices in common with them. That may also be one of the reasons why = most of the Jewish people in the world fe l t under no obligation to migrate to and settle in Israel. The statist = "solution" of "blood and soil" notions is not a real solution for any = people, anywhere. It represents an outdated philosophy that we will = either have to give up or that will destroy us. =20 How many hydrogen bombs could destroy all of Israel? It has set itself = up as a target or its territorialist opposition and has ignored the = degrees of peaceful and tolerant as well as exterritorial traditions = that exist in Jewish and Arab history in favour =20 of the religion of territorial nationalism and statism. So have their = Arab and Muslim opponents - and the Christians. All express their "love" = for their "enemies" with mass murder devices or terrorism upon the = "principle" of collective responsibility for =20 innocents. With territorialism their targets will become dissolved. With = exterritorial autonomy for all volunteer communities their enemies will = disappear or, rather, become habitually ignorable. When will the first = Jews and Arabs set up their first organ izations aiming at full exterritorial autonomy for all of them and all = other minorities in the world and all suppressed majorities? - J.Z., = 22.12.92, 23.10.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 ISSUE OF MONEY, MONEY MONOPOLY, = MONETARY PREROGATIVE, FREE BANKING & INFLATION: If everyone were free to issue banknotes then everyone could cause an inflation, i.e., = inflation would be inevitable. Thus money issue must be monopolised and = centrally regulated by a sound monetary policy. - Dogma of the popular = religion on money. - If you could issue y o ur IOUs only at 10% discount and would have to accept them, immediately, = from anyone, at 100%, would you issue many more of them? Moreover, I = would no more be likely to accept your IOUs at all than you would be = likely to accept mine at all. Both our IOUs=20 o r notes or certificates would not have legal tender. If everyone could = issue legal tender notes then and only then could everyone cause an = inflation. Our cheques are not legal tender. Thus neither of us can = cause an inflation with them. And apart from the =20 regulations of the Securities Exchange Commission, everyone of us could = issue shares, even in small denomination, 10 cents to $ 1 each. Their = issue and even over-issue could only depreciate these shares, not the = shares of others. Our depreciated shares, i f we tried to use them as money, could be freely refused or discounted. = They could not drive up the prices of any consumer goods. The same = applies to any competitively issued currencies. What made inflations = possible, likely and frequent is precisely the i s sue monopoly and the legal tender privilege. They must be repealed or = effectively ignored. Only towards the issuer must legal tender still be = applied. Then over-issuers may dirty their own nest, to a limited = extent, but will not be given a chance to dirty the nests of others. Self-help and self-responsibility in monetary = matters, too. - J. Z., 2.4.97. \par ISSUE PRINCIPLE & FREEDOM: Under monetary freedom any owner of = wanted goods and services can issue his kind of money based upon them. = Now, the issuer issues h is competitive money to buy goods or services from someone else. That = someone else could have issued his own money. He might insist in being = paid rather with his own money. Both monies could be fully covered by = goods and services. - If they really want to =20 trade, they will come to an agreement. Which of the two monies will be = found more acceptable? That is a subjective and individual evaluation = and decision. When many local people decide in favour of only one local = currency or of only, lets say, half a doze n local alternative means of payment, then that is that for them. No one = can rightly prescribe to them that they should have made another choice. = At most another potential issuer, disagreeing with them, can try to = establish a local circulation for his own=20 i ssue, too, in addition to the others or, perhaps, replacing one of the = others. The common principle for all issuers and acceptors is: Between = us we will drive out the bad and not good enough currencies by the = better ones. But one could predict that e.g. t h e private currency of a single local baker or shoemaker of butcher = would, on its own, have a hard stand against the shop currency of a = local shop association or department store or supermarket. Thus they = ought to join the gang, becoming a member of the lo c al shop association bank of issue, or get their own short term IOUs = discounted by it, or be satisfied with a much reduced trade, or simply = accept the currency provided by the others, to the extent that others = buy from them with it, and use it for the own=20 e xpenditures, too. Most will come to declare, by big signs in their shop = windows and at their cashiers, which other currencies they will readily = accept, for the time being, at par, because they do stand, presently, at = par on the local markets. - Since acce p tance is voluntary, except for the issuers and, by contract, for his = debtors, no locality will accept more different exchange media than it = finds sound & convenient enough to use. Nobody has to plan and direct = the local circulation. It is self-regulating. - J. Z., 5/97. \par ISSUE PRINCIPLE IN THE MONETARY SPHERE & IN THE CAPITAL MARKET: = \-The right to issue and its principles can be applied not only in the = monetary sphere but also in the capital market. There it can \-finance = e.g. a libertarian take-over of a bur eaucratic democracy, \-a libertarian revolution in a dictatorship, = education, innovation and research, desert irrigation, even space = exploration. Its\- monetary application is essential for the financing = of a rightful\- defensive war and of a rightful revolution. - J. Z., 77 & 97. \par ISSUE PRINCIPLE: Allow the producers and owners of goods and the\- = providers of services to also produce and offer vouchers,\- warrants, = purchasing and clearing certificates (in convenient \-money = denominations but distinct from other monies) - BASED UPON \- THEIR READINESS FOR SALE OFFERS. Such notes would only oblige THEM to = accept them at any time from anyone at par with their \-nominal value, = in payments. A huge daily demand or reflux for \-such notes can thus be = achieved, quite freely and honestly, \- naturally and beneficially, for the issuers and acceptors. The \-balance = between all the goods and services offered for sale and\- the purchasing = power to sell and buy them, could thus be achieved quite easily, almost = as part of the process of=20 production and as a \-result of the readiness to sell. By rights no one = but the \-producers and owners of goods and providers of services = (\-including labour) have the RIGHT to issue money tokens to \-purchase = them with. - J. Z., 20.9.91. \par ISSUE PRINCIPLE: Assets like consumer goods and services or \-debts = very soon due can be coined into at least locally somewhat \-acceptable = media of payment: e.g. petrol money, ticket money,\- railway money, shop foundation money, canteen money, electricity\- = money. Capital assets like buildings, machines, real estate can be used = \-for issues, too, but only for issues of capital securities, not\- currencies. These capital securities and their capital assets are = \-interchangeable, like currencies are with the goods and services = \-they are based upon. When an attempt is made to turn capital\- assets into currency then the current cover of such a currency in = \-daily wanted consumer goods and services is missing. No one is\- = obliged to so redeem it. Thus such "currency" is not current and\- wil l depreciate. Legal tender for it may seem to give it a value \-- but = only an artificial one, as long as the legal tender lasts \-and at the = expense of the providers of the goods and services and\- of their right to issue their own currencies instead. The least = \-suitable "assets" to issue any currency upon are government = \-securities or insecurities, i.e. investments in tax slaves, and\- = quite at their expense. - All assets become more easily \- transferable through standardised certificates based upon their\- = values. Issues upon consumer goods and services and issues upon\- = capital assets have that much in common. - Comparisons between \- turnover-credit or clearing certificates or banknotes and "asset = \-currencies" have at least one value: They can help judge the\- dangers = and risks of imparting any legal tender power and any \- exclusive status to a currency, which is intended to promote the sales = of \-goods and services and to be safe from abuse and mismanagement. One = can, as a thought example, apply the exclusive status and legal tender = to one form of\- shares, bonds or mortgages or the other. Obviously, if one issuer \-of = capital securities were given a monopoly for the issue of\- capital = securities in a whole country and if, moreover, his\- securities were = given legal tender power, then he could\- over-issue and cause an inflation with his shares, bonds or = \-mortgages. Moreover, with them he could lay a claim to all the real = capital assets in a country, as legal tender currency does now to all = its consumer goods and services . Moreover, by under-issuing his securities, needed for \-financial = transactions in this system of financial despotism, he\- could cause a deflation in capital securities. And if they were to be = used as well as exclusive and forced exchange media, then, with his = powers and in the absence\- of all natural limits and pricing and = evaluation of his asset \- currency he could, by his measures, bring about inflation, deflation and = \-stagflation. In the absence of legal tender and an exclusive = \-currency status or issue monopoly, he could not do so. - What he also = \- could not do, in spite of his great power and privilege is to \-supply = all capital owners with just right number of sound\- securities to make = all their capital assets optimally\- transferable. But with his powers = he could expropriate all of\- them. By analogy, by this applications of monetary despotism to\- the = issue of capital securities, one can learn about the effect of\- = monetary despotism upon currencies, which are basically intended mainly = to promote the daily\- sale of consumer goods and services and labour. Such analogies are the = \-greatest service that any "asset currency" can supply. They can teach = us \-what not to do to and with our exchange media. - J. Z., = 7.12.92,\-29.4.97. \par ISSUE PRINCIPLE: No issue without clear, sound, honest,\- immediate = and well enough expressed and publicised reflux \-arrangements to the = issuer - and legal tender power towards him. \-- J. Z., 13.11.93, = 1.5.97.=20 \par ISSUE PRINCIPLE: Only readiness to sell and willingness to buy = \-can form the basis for a corresponding quantity of alternative = \-private or cooperative exchange media and this only for as long \- and to the extent that these conditions persist. But the offered\- and = wanted goods must be exclusively or predominantly daily\- wanted = consumer goods and services. Only these can act as the \- ultimate and most important and immediate redemption and convertibility = fund. Beyond this no other is required to maintain \-the value of an = alternative currency at par, at least locally, \-around the centre of = issue. All such assets not only could but\- should be monetised, not by a central bank, which has no right to\- = them, but, instead, by their owners, but only up to the limits set by = the par acceptance of such currency. The actual backing by consumer = goods an d services is likely to be much higher than the amount of "shop = currency" that can be issued at any time at par. Stores stock goods not = only for immediate sales but also for the sales in the near future. On = the other hand, the fact that most of their good s and services offered can be rapidly replenished, would open at least = the theoretical possibility of keeping at par a larger volume of shore = currency than could at once be covered by all the ready for sale goods = and services, if all consumers were to spen d all their shop currency immediately. So, where is the limit for such = issues? The free market rating for these media will determine it, not a = central bank. And that is determined by the self-interest of the issuers = as well as by that of the acceptors and=20 buyers. - Failure to monetise such \-assets up to the limits of one's = supply ability for goods and \- services in any short term period, and up to the limits set by the free = market rating - acceptances and refusals of such alternative currencies, = does in effect deprive other\- exchange spheres of some of their = exchange media, which they have \- issued for themselves, for their turn-overs. Here, too, each\- should = clothe himself with his own clothing rather than robbing \-the clothing = of others. Each should feed himself rather than \-steal or beg his food. = Each should become, as far as humanly \- possible and convenient, become self-reliant in this sphere, too.\- = There is no rightful and sound substitute for self-responsibility \-in = this sphere, either. The State is the worst possible \-substitute for = the assumption or rather usurpation of a \- responsibility for all traders and producers and consumers in this = sphere. - J. Z., 23.9.93, 24.4.97, 8.9.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 ISSUE PRINCIPLE: The issue of sound = exchange media by the providers of dail y wanted consumer goods and services, ought to be done in accordance = with sound banking principles, to productive debtors only, who can = shortly expect to be paid for what they have already produced, but are, = until then, in liquidity difficulties. They may =20 already have been paid with short term promises to pay, e.g., as was = traditional for a long time, with a sound commercial bill. With that = they could, indeed, pay their suppliers e.g. of raw materials, but = hardly their wage, salary and tax bill. For that p u rpose, under the soundest form of the "banking principle", they have = simply to get this large bill "cut up" or temporarily replaced by small = bills or notes in standardized money denominations, with sufficient shop = foundation. This a note-issuing bank or s h op association can do, by either buying the commercial bill or lending = upon it as a security. When the short term security falls due, it can = then be redeemed with the notes issued. To that extent it acts as a = vacuum cleaner for them, achieving a reflux of =20 them or exerting a demand for them that is corresponding to the quantity = that was issued for the bill (including the commission of the bank, = expressed in the bill discount, which the bank will spend for its = expenditures and profit in its own bills). The i s sue principle is balanced by the reflux principle, the inherent cover, = security and redemption in the banking principle practice. It does not = require rare metal redemption by the issuer. Redeemability on the free = gold market would be even better but only=20 s hop foundation i.e. goods and service redeemability would be essential. = All money is used to pay debts and to that extent it can be and should = be based on a debt foundation or obligation foundation or readiness to = accept or shop foundation or tax foundati o n. Whatever is acceptable in a payment community as a means of payment = or clearing or settlement is suitable for it as at least one form of its = kind of money. As such it can be issued by suitable members of that = community of their association or by an ou tside agency hired for this purpose. - J.Z., 27.8.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 ISSUERS, POTENTIAL ONES AND THEIR = REDEMPTION OR READINESS TO\- ACCEPT FOUNDATION: Any money that is, in = practice, and in most\- cases, to be redeemed by the holder in consumer goods and\- services, = can be issued in the first place by the providers of \-these goods and = services, i.e. by retail traders, their \-associations or agents. This = can be done even when there is not a \- single gold or silver coin or bullion bar left in a country. \-These = issues do then merely facilitate clearing or an indirect, \-multilateral = and anonymous barter exchange, almost with the ease of\- monetary transactions and sometimes make payments even easier. This = kind of "commodity money" does not\- require any other kinds of = "redemption" or "convertibility", \-"cover", "reserve" or "guaranty = fund" or "securities" or\- "backing" or "capital". (However, when they issued in short term loans, = e.g. for wage payments, then these turnover credit loans, as opposed to = capital loans, require suitable sh ort term securities, arising from the sale of goods already produced, = sold and on the road to the retailers. In these cases the notes do have = a double cover: shop foundation plus e.g. bill of exchange foundation. - = J.Z., 5.9.02.) Apart from legal restrict ions, this kind of local currency could \-always be made rapidly = available where there are wanted goods and services\- whose sale might = otherwise be difficult or incomplete, although\- the local community is = not oversupplied with them. - J. Z.,\-8.4.97.=20 \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\f0\fs24 = ISSUERS, POTENTIAL: Any centre that receives many payments and\- has = many payments to make, can act as a centre for the issue of \-bank notes = and clearing certificates. - J. Z., 20.3.97. \par }\pard \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\f0\fs24 ISSUING CENTRES FOR COMPETITIVE & OPTIONAL CURRENCIES: Any = \-payment centre, where regularly many payments are made and\- received, = is, potentially, also an issuing centre for its own=20 \-notes or clearing certificates, in convenient money \-denominations, = that are subject to voluntary acceptance or\- rejection and free market = rating and also valued by an optional\- value standard. Whatever IOUs = it would issue, would tend to \- quickly stream back to it. Its notes would have no other value. \-Its = debtors would express a demand for these notes in the local\- market, by = offering their goods, services or labour for them. -\- J. Z., 28.5.94. - = See: PAYMENT COMMUNITIES.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri55\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1=20 JAPAN, CRIME RATE: Did You Know: The real reasons Japan has a low crime = rate: * Japanese police routinely search citizens at will and twice a = year pay "home visits" to citizens' resi dences. * After arrest a suspect may be detained without bail for up to = 28 days before a prosecutor must bring him before a judge. Secrets of = the Sentient Did You Know: The real reasons Japan has a low crime rate: = * Suspect confession rate in Japan is 95% . * Suspects who insist on standing trial have no right to a jury. * = Japanese trial conviction rate is 99.91% * Amnesty International has = called the Japanese police custody system a "flagrant violation of = United Nations human right principles." - Secrets o f the Sentient. \par JAPAN, CRIME RATE: Did You Know: The real reasons Japan has a low = crime rate: * The Tokyo Bar Association has states that Japanese police = routinely "engage in torture or illegal treatment. Even in cases where = suspects claimed to have been to rtured and their bodies bore physical traces to back their claims, = courts have still accepted their confessions." - Secrets of the = Sentient. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JAPAN, DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC = MIRACLE, TAX BURDEN OF MILITARISM: Without any extensive and expensive = "defence prepar edness" Japanese people saved much since 1945. How many dollars per head = did the average Japanese save, per annum, or per decade, from 1945 - = 1995, by not being forced to contribute to any significant Japanese = "defence" preparations? That is one part-expl anation for the economic "miracle" of Japan since WW II. - J.Z., = 24.10.95, 27.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JEALOUSY & LOVE: In jealousy there is more = self-love than love. - La Rochefoucauld. - If your beloved has found a = better love with someone else than with you, you should be happy for her or him and let them go! And if you feel superior to his = or her new love then, maybe, you put up the image of your beloved too = high and should say then: good riddance of him or her, since they = weren't really what you believed them to be. - Y ou don't own people. Let them go if they want to. If there are children, = come to a sensible agreement that respects the right of children to have = access to both parents. - J.Z., 30.4.00. \par JEALOUSY, MARRIAGE, MONOGAMY, FIDELITY, SEXUAL FREEDOM & = SELF-OWNERSHIP & COPYRIGHT FOR CHILDREN: He was one of those fidelity = fanatics. His jealousy amounted to a mania - the usual disease induced = by the unnatural state of monogamy. \'85 It's the insistence on 'rights' that wrecks marriages. This devastating = possessiveness me n and women drag into their relationships with each other. As though = anybody can ever hope to hold the sole copyright in anyone else! - Ethel = Mannin, Crescendo, 1928-1937, 56/57. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JEALOUSY: A competent and = self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in a nything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. - = Robert Heinlein. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 JEALOUSY: A competent and self-confident person is not = capable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of = neurotic insecurity. }{\i\cf1 - Lazarus Long.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\cgrid0 JEALOUSY: There's more self-love in = jealousy than love. - La Rochefoucauld, Reflexionen & moralische = Sentenzen, 39. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\fs24 = JESUS CHRIST, CHRISTIANITY: And the day will come, when the mystical = generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His Father, in the womb of = a virgi n, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva, in the = brain of Jupiter. - Thomas Jefferson. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JESUS, CHRIST: Every newborn Child a Jesus Christ: = with the right to demand that we do not place it in a hell full of war, = civil war, terrorism, cr ime, inflation, deflation, despotism, mass murder devices, pollution, = etc., i.e., the right to demand that we clearn up our act - and his. - = J.Z., 4.11.94. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JESUS, CHRISTIANITY, RELIGION, CHURCHES, FAITH, = BELIEF, BIBLE, WORSHIP, PRIESTS: Many people have lo oked upon Jesus as a true theist, whose religion has been by degrees = corrupted. Indeed in the books which contain the law which is attributed = to him, there is no mention either of worship, or of priests, or of = sacrifices, or of sufferings, or of the great er part of the doctrines of actual Christianity, which has become the = most prejudicial of all the superstitions of the earth. - Denis Diderot = (1713-1784), Footnote to d'Holbach's The System of Nature (1770). \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JESUS, MIRACLES, CHRISTIANITY, BIBLICAL MYTHS: On the Jesus "miracle" of feeding 5,000 people with 5 loaves and fishes: = Travel was slow and eateries rare, so people usually travelled taking = their own food supplies along, just like picknickers and back packers do = today. Just in case, they probably took a l ong more than was really needed for the expected duration. When Jesus, = in the centre of the meeting, offered to share his few staples he simply = set and example and gave a signal. Possibly uttered a few suitable = words, too. But it was hardly necessary to " r ing a dinner bell" after a long sermon. Most others pooled their food = resources likewise and thus there was enough and more than enough for = all of them. Most likely much food was left-over, just as happens now in = many parties, to which people bring some f ood and drinks. No miracle. Just a custom, tradition and necessity. - = J.Z., 15.4.89, 28.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JESUS:" the thing = I have always had trouble understanding about that... is that God choose = such an inefficient away of spreading this vital piece of information.=20 I mean, there's Jesus Christ plonked down in a primitive society = without even a phone system. Here's this guy with this incredibly = important message -- you can only be saved if you believe in Me as the = son of God -- and then the only way He can spread t his message is on foot. Not much help to those who would have loved to = be saved but who died of natural causes before the vital message reached = their village... Not exactly very fair on them, is it? -- John = Brosnan, The Opoponax Invasion, 187. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 JEWS & ARABS: Jews are Arabs that believe in an older = religion. - J.Z., 25.8.93. \par JEWS & IDOL WORSHIP, RELIGION, ATHEISM: Whoever renounces idol = worship may be called a Jew. - Megillah, 132. - Not every Deist, = Atheist, Agnostic, Rationalist, Humanist is a Jew. - J. Z., 28.10.02. -=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JEWS, ANTISEMITISM & CHRISTIANITY: Jesus Christ = was a Jew - so how, by Christ, can Christians manage to be antisemites? = And yet all too many do. - J.Z., 25.4.00. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JEWS, = ANTI-SEMITISM: Antisemites say in essence: Since we cannot attain to the intelligence and achievements of a Jew, let us to avenge ourselves by = abusing him. - Someone else said: "Anti-Semitism is a socialism of = fools." - I would rather say: Anti-Semitism is a form of confiscatory = socialism, based on envy and held by fools and=20 under-achievers. - J.Z., 6.4.99. =20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JEWS, ANTI-SEMITISM: There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the = fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific = measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they = live. - Sinclair Lewis. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri55\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1=20 JEWS, CHRISTIANS & OTHER "CHOSEN PEOPLE": That Jews assumed a right = exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against = them & the same will it be against Christians. - }{\i\cf1 William Blake. = }{\cf1=20 - Neither Jews nor Christians have a monopoly on the myth of the chosen = people. - J.Z., 30.6.00. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 JEWS, COSMOPOLITANISM, NATIONALISM, INTERNATIONALISM, EXTERRITORIALITY, = PANARCHISM, WORLD FEDERATION, UNITED NATIONS, INTERNATIONAL FINANCE: It = is to Jews that we owe the advantages of international finance. \'85 A people without a country have escaped some of the limitations of = nationalism, and a Jew will trust a Jew more readily than a Frenchman = and Englishman or an Italian a Spaniard. The Jews may be said to = constitute a special sort of League of Nations of their own, resting not upon paper formulae but on the firmer = foundation of a natural ability to understand and trust one another. We = need go back little more than a century to find families of Jews, not = only the great houses whose names are household=20 w ords, but many thousands of unknown Jewish families spread all over the = world, serving the manufacturers and traders of the world by reason of = the credit or confidence which was and still is their special = contribution to progress. - Ernest Benn, Debt, 12. 4.30.=20 \par JEWS, HONESTY, FRAUD, JUDAISM: He who steals from a non-Jew is = bound to make restitution to the non-Jew; it is worse than to steal from = a non-Jew than to steal from an Israelite because of the profanation of = the Name. - T. J. Baba Kamma, 10:15. - To=20 cheat a Gentile is even worse than cheating a Jew, for besides being a = violation of the moral law, it brings Israel's religion into contempt, = and desecrates the name of Israel's God. - Baba Kamma, 113b. - Do other = religions contain such exhortations in fa vour of foreigners? - J.Z., 25.6.92. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JEWS, JUDAISM, ISRAEL, RACISM, RELIGIOUS = INTOLERANCE, PREJUDICES: Anti-Semitism is the Socialism of fools. - = August Bebel, Antisemitismus und Sozialdemokratie, October 27, 1893. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JEWS, PERSONAL LAWS, AUTONOMY, PANARCHISM: The Jews are a race apart. They have made laws according to their own = fashion and keep them. - Celsus: A True Discourse, c. 178. - They are = personal laws and chosen laws - for one can secede from their = communities. - J.Z., 10.7.86. - Self-chosen laws ar e much more likely to be kept. - J.Z., 28.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JEWS: A people = uncontaminated by the New Testament, but who, unfortunately, have not = escaped the attentions of those who are. - Chaz Bufe, THE AMERICAN = HERETIC'S DICTIONARY, 34. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JOB CREATION: See: FULL EMPLOYMENT, = MAKE-WORK SCHEMES, GOVERNMENT SPENDING, UNEMPLOYMENT, PUBLIC WORKS = PROJECTS. \par JOB LEVY: All job levy attempts are conceptually wrong. The money = levied does already provide jobs, the natural way. Those jobs are = provided which the consumers want. These=20 jobs are destroyed by the job levy. Moreover, these jobs are productive = and self-supporting jobs, in which the employed really earn their way = and please voluntary buyers of their goods and services. By taking these = funds from these channels, the job levy=20 f irst destroys job opportunities. Then it provides, some jobs, indeed, = but often only unproductive bureaucratic jobs and other more or less = unproductive jobs by people mostly unwilling to work hard in them and = make them their career. It is another form of=20 p yramid building. In balance more jobs and more productive efforts are = destroyed thereby than are provided. Good intentions and misleading = terms are not substitute for rightful & positive actions. It merely = expresses the all too wide-spread fallacy that m o ney spent by governments does provide jobs and that the same money, if = left in private hands and spent by them, does not. Bureaucrats and = politicians do not and cannot "create" productive jobs, not even at your = expense. They destroy jobs and severely burd e n the remaining jobs. But they do manage to get themselves fat cat jobs = at your expense. But I would not call that a creative action. - J. Z., = 17.12.93. 23.8.95, 25.5.97. - All that has been said about job levies = does also apply to unemployment "insurance " . Unemployment, being caused by government intervention, is not an = insurable list. Interventionism can rise to almost any degree. Only the = abolition of interventionism with peaceful production and exchange can = end the unemployment and other troubles that it causes. - J.Z., 17.9.02. \par JOB LEVY: Any funds forcefully levied by a governments and then = distributed by it under the pretence that it would thereby provide extra = jobs, tends to provide less jobs and less productive jobs than would = have been provided if=20 the funds had remained in the hands who rightfully earned or owned them. = Nevertheless, tax and public works proposals are going on and on, = mistaking the intention or even the name for the results and ignoring = the other side of the coin. - J. Z., 22.11.93. \par JOB LEVY: If $ 3 billion could be taken from the remaining = employed, without thereby creating new unemployment, then why not 30 = billion or 300 billion? Actually, the tax levy or penalty on the = remaining jobs could be made so large that no one could be emp l oyed any longer. However, already any tax on employment, no matter how = small, tends to destroy jobs or prevent new jobs from coming into = existence. Any job levy or other tax is a penalty upon employment and = renders labour to that extent uneconomical. Thes e wrongs and damages are not balanced out by a few more jobs for = bureaucrats and other subsidised, i.e. not self-supporting jobs. - J. = Z., 14.12.97, 25.5.97. \par JOB LEVY: In Australia, some time ago, a job levy of $ 3 billion = was proposed. As usual, at the exp ense of the tax-payers, as a result of further public debt or as a = result of further inflation of the State paper money of the Reserve = bank. In all these forms purchasing power and job opportunities would = simply be shifted but with the disadvantage that t h e thus expropriated would, to that extent, not be able to finance with = their money wanted and productive jobs but the bureaucrats would, = instead, buy with these funds, raised by tributes, less wanted and less = productive jobs, in new pyramid building effor t s. Showcases for people to gawk at and builders to boast about but with = few comprehending all their costs in lost opportunities or their = destructiveness of property rights jobs and liberties. If, instead of = this $ 3 billion job levy, the government would=20 h ave declared that the retailers of Australia and its other service = providers would between them be set at liberty to, between them, $ 30 = billion worth of shop currency, at any time, if only they could manage, = by their readiness to accept it, to keep it at =20 par with its stated sound value standard (that would exclude the paper = "standard" of the government's Reserve Bank), then it would have no = objection. On the contrary, the government should invite the retailers = to make short term loans with these notes to=20 a ll potential employers for the employment of additional employees, paid = only in this kind of private or cooperative money, at market rates or, = perhaps, even at a slight increase to make them more ready to accept = such alternative local currency in wage and =20 salary payments. Assuming that there are 10 million employed in = Australia, all at an average weekly wage, this would require a weekly = wage bill of ca. $ 5 billion. Assuming 1 million unemployed in = Australia, their additional wage bill, if employed, would=20 c ome only to $ 500 million a week. Much more exists in ready for sale = goods and services for shop foundation money. But, naturally, no more = should be issued than could be spent for ready for sale goods and = services, and upon the immediate payment for produ c tive jobs, that would continuously replacing goods currently consumed = and keep up currently wanted services. Woolworth department stores on = their own have a turnover of ca. $ 10-15 billion p.a., let us say 1 = billion per month and for Coles/Meyer the figur e s are similar. (By 2002 both have turnovers of around A $20 - 25 = billion, p.a.) The total turnover of retailers in Australia is very = roughly estimated by me to come to somewhere between $ 150 & 250 billion = p.a.. It may actually be much higher. And that wo u ld only be the basis for shop-foundation currencies, not for all the = other monetary freedom options. I am waiting for someone, like a = national retailers association, to provide me and all other Australians = with more correct figures. But for the time being =20 these hints may have to do. Under easy sales for goods and services the = total weekly and annual turnovers could soon become much larger. Shop = currency issues would not have to be the equivalents to annual turnovers = but at most only to weekly to monthly tu r novers. The same amounts, in different issues, could be issued over and = over again and increased to the extent that the shop foundation - or = other foundation - would be increased and that more sound currency would = be wanted in circulation - or its equival e nts in deposits, cheques, credit card arrangements etc. The government's = one-off job levy of $ 3 billion and the spending of this money over a = period, would be quite puny, even if it had only positive and no = negative effects at all - something that is cer tainly not the case. - J. Z., n.d. & 24.5.97. \par JOB LEVY: Just because a tax, payable in exclusive and forced\- = currency, is called a "job levy" and there may be every honest\- = intention to spend the money so taxed only upon the "creation" of \-new = jobs or their financing, does not mean that its levying and \-its spending will not = destroy existing jobs or prevent them from\- coming into existence or = from being maintained. Essentially only\- a TRANSFER is involved of potential wage payment means, from one group = of workers to another. In balance only the bureaucratic \-jobs might = become further increased in the process, and this only by\- impoverishing all people working in productive jobs. Make-work = \-schemes rarely support their costs, far less are they profitable,\- as = a rule. They are no substitutes for market supplied and needed \- jobs, paid for by the exchange media of monetary freedom. - J. Z., = 14.12.93, 1.5.97. \par JOB LEVY: Lift the job levy high enough - and you won't have any = jobs left to levy anything on. - J. Z., 28.11.93, 24.5.97. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 JOBS, EMPLOYMENT, IMMIGRANTS, LAWS, UNEMPLOYMENT, LAW REPEAL, = LEGISLATION, PARLIAMENTS, JUDGES, LAWS: Jobs for immigrants? When the = "white" man came to Australia, there was not a single paying job waiting = for him. We created the millions of jobs existing now. So could the modern immigrants, if free to do so. = - J.Z., 20.8.95. - When Australia was first settled by white immigrants, = the new settlers were hindered by many less laws restricting job = opportunities, free enterprise and free exch a nge than Australian "democratic" institutions have imposed since. - I = know of no systematic survey of all the laws of all nations which legaly = block free production and free exchange, cause unemployment, = bankruptcies, inflations, deflations, stagflation a n d all too much poverty. The ruling caste of lawyers, in their economic = ignorance and prejudices, rather passes still more wrongful and harmful = laws - and interprets them to its advantage, than repeal all of the = wrongful and harmful ones, without adding ne w ones. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JOKES ON MONEY, PAPER MONEY, INFLATION, USA, POLAND, COMPETING = CURRENCIES, CHOICE IN CURRENCIES, MONETARY FREEDOM, VALUE STANDARDS: = "Why is Poland just like the U.S.? - In the U.S. you can't buy anything = for zloties & in Poland you can't, either. In the US you can get whatever you want for dollars, = just as you can in Poland." - Source unknown. - Mind you, the zloty has = legal tender in Poland but even that does not help it enough at this = stage. It does not have only legal tender in=20 t he US but at most a low rate of exchange on the foreign exchange market, = not accompanied by readiness to accept it at all on the general market. = And the U.S. dollar, in spite of all its flaws and even without legal = tender power in Poland, is, nevertheless , the preferred currency there to the national one with legal tender. - = To that extent such jokes and practice do have something to teach about = monetary freedom, even though they do represent only a small fraction of = its potential. - J. Z., 14.5.97. \par }\pard\plain = \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 JOKES,=20 LIBERTARIAN JOKE BOOKS: There are so many and varied joke collections = around, in book-form. Why is there, so far, only one libertarian book of = this kind around, the Libertarian Lympoon, a small brochure? - Freedom = is not joking matter but that does not me an that we should not collect and publish jokes directed against the = enemies of rights and liberties. All pro-freedom jokes would probably = still not fill a single CD-ROM. - J.Z., 26.1.02.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 JOKES, LIBERTARIAN, LIBERTY, RIGHTS, JUSTICE, HUMOR, = SATIRE: Have you heard of libertarian salad? It's called: "lettuce = alone!" - Quoted by Advocates for Self-Government, 9/95. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JOKES, LIFE, HUMOR: Life is not joking matter - = but this is no reason not to joke as often as one can, as long as it is = in good taste. G. C. Lichtenberg spoke of humor as a shield to be = carried against its vicissitudes. - J.Z., 21.5.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JOURNALISM, REPORTERS, MASS MEDIA, RADIO, TV, = NEWSPAPERS, PRESS: \'85 by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it = keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. - Oscar Wilde. \par JOURNALISM: A profession whose business it is to explain to others = what it personally does not understand. - Lord Northcliffe. \par JOURNALISTS, HISTORIANS, THE PRESS, MASS MEDIA, REPORTERS: = Journalists usually miss the most important points - or their = importance. - J.Z., 13.12.95. \par JOURNALISTS, PRESS, MASS MEDIA, POLITICIANS, EXPERTS, INTERVIEWS: = Most journalists are just as empty-headed or prejudiced as the = politicians and supposed experts they interview. - J.Z., 14.4.93. \par JOURNALISTS, REPORTE RS, NEWSHOUNDS, MASS MEDIA, PRESS, TV, RADIO: First, most journalists = deceive themselves, then the public. - J.Z., 23.8.94. - However, they = are greatly aided in this by their editors and publishers as well as by = the shareholders, who make more money from=20 sensational reports than from reporting truths and ideas. Thus the = information value of the "free press" is greatly depreciated, at least = for all mass media. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 JOURNALISTS: In almost all other professions a man must = be able to observe carefu lly and report accurately what he has seen. Those qualifications are = unnecessary for journalists, however, since their job is to write = sensational stories that sell newspapers. Hence, all the incompetents = who are not capable of normal accuracy in observat i on or memory fail in most other professions and many of them eventually = drift into journalism. - George Bernard Shaw, quoted by - R.A. Wilson, = Masks of the Illuminati, 229. - G.B.S., was hardly a careful and = accurate observer and recorder of capitalism,=20 anarchism and State socialism. His prejudices led him, too, by the nose = on all too many points. - J.Z. 22.1.02.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 JOURNALISTS: The ignorance and disinterest of = journalists is an almost bottomless pit. Only news scoops count with = them and the lowest common de nominator, not principles, ideas, fundamental changes and possibilities. = Their questions remain almost always on the surface and ignore = significant details. - J.Z., 4.9.91. - After listening to another = interview by a radio jockey. - However, there are som e honorable exceptions. - J.Z., 28.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = JOURNALISTS: The journalists frequently make up their minds on the story = before they interview you. - THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, August 1, 1998, = 6s in Spectrum. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 JOURNALISTS: There is much to be said in favour of mod ern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us = in touch with the ignorance of the community. - Oscar Wilde.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 JOURNEY, GRADUALISM, STEP BY STEP, = PROGRESS, BEGINNINGS, STARTS: A journey of a thousand miles must begin = with a single step. - Lao Tse. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JOY, PLEASURE, HAPPINESS, ENJOYMENT: Ab heute wird = nicht mehr versaeumt: Wer nicht geniesst, wird ungeniessbar. - Das = Konstantin Wecker Buch, 148. - (From now on I will no longer miss out. = Who does not enjoy himself becomes intolerable.)=20 \par JUDAISM, NON-HIERARCHICAL: Bernie could not shove off = responsibility on his superiors. That was the disadvantage of a = non-hierarchical religion. And for the same reason he could not claim a = layman's lack of authority; any Jew could lead a Jewish ceremony. Bernie was stuck with it. - Ruth Berman, In Spring a Livelier Iris, = ISAAC ASIMOV'S SF Magazine, Nov. 79, p. 80.=20 \par JUDGE & JURY, TYRANNICIDE, RESISTANCE: In certain cases every = decent guy ought to be judge, jury and executioner. - J.Z., 21.4.98. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUDGE, ARBIT RATOR: No one should be judge in his own case. - Publilius Syrus, Maxim = 545. - Everybody should be the sole judge when only his own rights and = liberties are involved and those of others are not infringed or risked. = Only in the latter cases should some kin d of mutually agreeable juridical avenue be established, or agreed upon, = among the numerous ones that have been dreamed up or experimented with, = one that is, at least in the opinion of the parties concerned, much = better than that provided so far by territo rial governments - J.Z., 25.11.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUDGE, JUDGEMENT: In eigener Sache kann niemand = Richter sein. - Alter Rechtsspruch. - (In the own case nobody can be a = judge. - Old legal maxime. - While each can judge the own affairs, no = one can properly judge the affair s of others, especially when his own advantage is involved. - J.Z., = 21.7.86. - In the own case against others one is rarely a quite fair and = objective judge. - J.Z., 28.10.02. -=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUDGE: Man in black dress who often intimidates = jurors and denies justice. - Dave Wilber, Fool's Gold Is Green, 1982, = Awake America, 23. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUDGE: No one should be judge in his own case. - = Publilius Syrus, Sententiae, c. 50 B.C. - Few could. - J.Z., 10.7.86.=20 \par JUDGE: The sleazy simleton Jesus Christ said: "Judge not that ye be = not judg ed." Ayn Rand answered, "Judge and prepare to be judged." - Source? = Probably part of some discussion in THE CONNECTION. - Another version, = in TC135p60: "Judge, lest ye be judged not." - Ayn Rand. \par JUDGE: You be the judge. - James Blish, They Shall Have Stars, 17. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JUDGEMENT, CONCLUSIONS, IDEAS, FACTS: It is not the facts that are of = chief importance, but the light thrown upon them, the meaning in which = they are dressed, the conclusions which are drawn from them, and the = judgements delivered upon them. - Mark Twain. \par JUDGEMENT, FACTS, UNDERSTANDING, REASONING, IDEAS, INTERPRETATIONS: = It is not the facts that are of chief importance, but the light thrown = upon them, the meaning in which they are dressed, the conclusions which = are drawn from them, and the judgement s delivered upon them. - Mark Twain. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUDGEMENT, IMAGINATION, RED: You = can't depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus. - = Mark Twain.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUDGEMENT, KNOWLEDGE & WISDOM: There = are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom. - Democritus \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 JUDGEMENT, KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, EXPERIENCE, EXPERIMENTATION: There are = two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. = Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does = not make the conclusion certain,=20 nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of = truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. - Roger = Bacon, Opus majus, trans. by R. B. Burke, 1928. \par JUDGEMENT, KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, SCHOLARSHIP, PROFESSIONALS, EXPERT S: There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth, which hinder every = man, however learned, and scarcely allow any one to win a clear title to = learning, namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence = of custom, popular prejudice, and con cealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of = our knowledge. - Roger Bacon, Opus majus, trans. by R. B. Burke, 1928. \par JUDGEMENT, KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, WISDOM: Look to the essence of a = thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of = interpretation. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, VIII, 22. \par JUDGEMENT, WISDOM, THOUGHT, DISCRIMINATION, KNOWLEDGE: Learning = without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. - = Confucius. - Some experience and free experimentation do help as well. - = J.Z., 26.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1=20 JUDGES & CONSTITUTIONALISM: When a judge goes beyond [his proper = function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values = the framers and ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of = th eir liberty. That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is = the liberty of the people to set their own social agenda through the = process of democracy. }{\i\cf1 - Robert Bork.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUDGES & JUSTICE, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS = & LIBERTIES: Most judges are unable or un willing to judge justly - when it comes to basic rights and liberties. - = J.Z., 14.10.98. \par JUDGES & JUSTICE, INJUSTICE, HAPPINESS, LIBERTY: There is not = happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment in life, unless a = man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today. - = Daniel Webster, Speech in New York, March 10, 1831. \par JUDGES & JUSTICE, MIGHT, POWER, STATE: Where might is master, = justice is served. - German proverb. - Is it? Is power always exercis ed in the service of justice or all too often in the service of = injustice? Might may be rightly used in the service of justice but only = a fanatical statist would assume that this is always the case. - J.Z., = 28.10.02. - Thus I reworded this saying into so m ething more truthful: Where might is master, the justices are servile, = too. - J.Z., 20.10.85. I might also have said: Where justice is master, = power serves it as well. - Concise statements are often assertative and = superficially plausible but not always f actual and logical. - J.Z., 28.10.02. \par JUDGES & JUSTICE: How often are judges just? - J.Z., 30.11.96. \par JUDGES & LAW: Once the dispenser of varieties of law that only = scoundrels questioned, he is now the harassed and ludicrous dispenser of = law that only idiots approve. - H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, = 4}{\fs24\lang1046\super th}{\fs24\lang1046 Series, p. 87. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUDGES & LAWYERS: "\'85 the judges and lawyers, = whom he would not trust as far as he would a dog with his dinner; \'85" = - A. J. Nock, Jefferson, Harcourt, 1926, 117. \par JUDGES & LAWYERS: Federal criminals. Those who plot to deny justice = in federal courts, i.e. judges and lawyers. - Dave Wilber, Fool's Gold = Is Green, 1982, Awake America, 23. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUDGES AND = ARBITRATORS, EQUITY AND LAW, JUSTICE: The arbitrator has regard to = equity and the judge to law. - Aristotle, Rhetoric, book 1, chapter 13, = section 19. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046=20 JUDGES VS JUSTICE: The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. = - Source? (Cut off in my photocopy. only "Ibid" remained. - J.Z. - = Anyhow, a complete collection of all such sayings would dig up the = source again.)=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 JUDGES, ARBITRATION COURTS: Hire a judge acceptable to = all sides. \'85 - L. Neil Smith, The Probability Broach, 95. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 JUDGES, COURTS & CONSCIENCE: As he wrote in his = }{\i\fs24\lang1046 Confessions}{\fs24\lang1046 at this time, 'the true = judge for every man is his own conscience, a fac t that implies replacement of the systems of courts and laws with a = system of personal obligations and contracts, in other words, repression = of legal institutions.' - Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible, 247, = on Proudhon. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUDGES, COURTS AND = LAWYERS, B ILL OF RIGHTS: The courts reveal a chronic hostility to the Bill of = Rights, born of the fact, I daresay, that judges are also lawyers, and = hence trained in the doctrine that "law is restraint". - H. L. Mencken, = 1928. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 JUDGES, COURTS, JURISDICTION, INDEPENDE NT ADJUDICATION 7 LAWYERS: There was no court yet that didn't take = orders from the big shots who keep the fat cats fat, and lawyers are the = crookedest damn crooks in the universe. - E.E. 'Doc' Smith's classic = Lensman series: Children of the Lens, 137. Cou rts are much more independent from the citizens than they are from = governments. - J.Z., 18.4.00. \par JUDGES, COURTS, JURISDICTION, JUSTICE, JURIES: Most judges seem = unable or unwilling to judge the justice of laws or allow juries to do = so. - J.Z., 2.6.01. They=20 have reduced themselves to executioners of laws, no matter how unjust = and irrational they are. - J.Z., 29.1.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUDGES, COURTS, WITNESSES, TRUTH, TRIALS, = LAWYERING: During his whole official career a judge never talks to a = fellow-creature and no one ever t alks to him. Counsel address him, he rules for or against his old friend = at the bar, or sums up, or gives judgment against him, but he never = talks to him. \'85 The rules forbid even a witness to speak. He has to be examined or = cross-examined. But if he attemp ts to speak the truth he is at once stopped, and threatened with = penalties, and told that what he is about to say is not evidence. - = Edward Parry 9Judge of the County Court of Kent): My Own Way, 1932. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 JUDGES, ELECTIVE, COURTS: If the function of this Court is to be essentially no different from that of a legislature, if the = considerations governing constitutional construction are to be = substantially those that underlie legislation, then indeed judges should = not have life tenure and they should be made dire ctly responsible to the electorate. }{\i\cf1 - Felix Frankfurter. - = }{\cf1=20 Elective judges or "independent" and life-long judges are less important = than choice in penal laws, juridical, policing and penal systems for = individuals their volunteer groups. No justice system=20 will ever be quite satisfactory to ALL people. - J.Z., 1.7.00. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033=20 JUDGES, IMMUNITY, ACCOUNTABILITY: You can sue your doctor for = malpractice, your accountant, even your solicitor. But if your = accountable solicitor suddenly makes it to the top of the ladder, he can become a judge. He's still the same man with the same foibles, the = same frailties, the same attitude - which might be racist, bitter, = twisted, perverted. But as soon as he reaches judge status \'85 instant immunity. Same man, no accountability. - John Laws, John Law's = Book of Uncommon Sense, Pan, 1995, 103. - Nevertheless, to my knowledge, = John Laws has not asked for free competition in the supply of juridical = services. Why not? - J.Z., 18.4.00. \par JUDGES, IMMUNITY, ACCOUNTABILITY: You can sue your doctor fo r malpractice, your accountant, even your solicitor. But if your = accountable solicitor suddenly makes it to the top of the ladder, he can = become a judge. He's still the same man with the same foibles, the same = frailties, the same attitude - which might be racist, bitter, twisted, perverted. But as soon as he reaches judge = status \'85 instant immunity. Same man, no accountability. - John Laws, John Law's = Book of Uncommon Sense, Pan, 1995, 103. - Nevertheless, to my knowledge, = John Laws has not asked for free competition in the supply of juridical = services. Why not? - J.Z., 18.4.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUDGES, JUDGMENT: A man may judge impartially even = in his own case. - Lord Mansfield, Judgment in Rex vs. Cowle, 1759. - = However rare that may be, given the present climate of opinion. - J.Z., = 10.7.96. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUDGES, JURIES, JUDGEMENT, PEOPLE, REFERENDUM, = MAJORITY: Nor is the people's judgement always true: The most may err as = grossly as the few. - John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I, 781. \par JUDGES, JURY, JURIDICAL POWER AND MONOPOLY, COURTS, JURISDICTION, = TYRANNY: The direction of the judge is the first engine of tyranny. - = Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.=20 \par JUDGES, JUSTICE, COURTS, JURISDICTION, CRIME & PUNISHMENT, = COMPASSION VS. SEVERITY: It is better that a judge sh ould lean on the side of compassion than severity. - Cervantes. - = Compassion with the offender or his past and future victims? How = compassionate was the offender towards his victims? Such questions can = never be completely settled equally for all. There ar e xyz notions on and ideals of protection, deterrence, adjudication and = punishment. Let individuals make their own choices and let them beware = not to interfere with the rights and liberties of others, who have made = different choices for their protection. T h e penalties they would exact might be much higher than the ones for the = same offence when committed by the offender within his own voluntary = community. His may ignore joyrides, while another community might exact = the death penalty or a large fine or pris o n sentence for such an infringement of property rights. Technically, it = would be possible for a car that is stolen, to lock in the thief and = automatically drive him to the nearest police station and then set the = horn blaring, until he is arrested. If he w a nts wheels of his own, let him save for a used bicycle first. A car = thief steals something that may have taken the owner years of labour to = acquire and to that extent the thief, without compassion, condemns his = victim to years of unpaid or underpaid labou r. Compassion? With whom? A society that has too much compassion with = criminals rather than their victims does, indeed, breed crime. - J.Z., = 30.4.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUDGES, JUSTICE, PROHIBITION & THE WAR AGAINST = DRUGS: All that Prohibition does to them is to make brillia ntly plain, even to the meanest understanding, their lamentable = departure from that high integrity of purpose, that assiduous concern = for justice, that jealous watchfulness over the rights of man, which = simple men, at all times and everywhere, like to fin d in the judges set over them. \'85 - H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, = 4}{\fs24\lang1046\super th}{\fs24\lang1046 Series, p. 89. \par JUDGES, LAW, JUSTICE: \'85 judges must compare the positive = ordinances with the laws of justice, and apply the ordinances only so = far as they conform with these laws. - Physiocrat ic view, according to William Archibald Dunning: A History of Political = Theories, from Rousseau to Spencer, p. 60. \par JUDGES, MEN, PREJUDICES: We must remember that we have to make = judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are = not diminished and their intelligence is not increased. - R. G. = Ingersoll, Speech in Washington, Oct. 22, 1883. \par JUDGES, PANARCHISM, JUDGE IN THE OWN CASE, VICTIMS: I do not think = that the victims should also be the judges. - Martin Buber, in: Aubrey = Hodes, Encount er with Martin Buber. - a) They should have the right to self-defence, = using any rightful tool to uphold their rights. b) If they want to, they = should have a vote in the selection of an arbitrator. c) As members of a = panarchy they would have decided alrea dy in advance upon the juridical system to be applied against an = offender against their rights, whether he is a member of the own = community or that of another one. - One system of justice for all would = not be just for all. - J.Z., 5.4.89, 28.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUDGES,=20 PENAL SYSTEM, PAROLE BOARDS: Now, if you could sue the judge for bad = judgments or if you could sue the Offenders Release Board, or anybody = responsible for allowing criminals back on the street who re-offend, the = justice system would be a totally different =20 thing. - John Laws, John Law's Book of Uncommon Sense, Pan, 1995, 103. - = He presumes that there could be only one such system for all people in a = territory, instead of many and competing ones, which a consumer of their = services could have freely chosen fo r himself. Then he could have chosen a system with autonomous judges or = one with recallable and punishable ones. - J.Z., 18.4.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUDGES: Any judge is a good judge when he knows = he's being watched. - Robert Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy, 240. - = Even that does not help - if he has a sinecure - or simply shares = popular prejudices. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par JUDGES: But none are so blind as those judges who wish not to see. = - T. Schroeder, Free Speech for Radicals, 172. \par JUDGES: Contempt of court is a "crime" produced by the contemptible = behaviour of all too many judges. It is also a non-crime, since it does = not produce a victim - except the one accused of that "crime". - J.Z., = 8.11.95.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUDGES: Judges are apt to be na\'efve, = simple-minded men. - O. W. Holmes II, Speech, 1913. \par JUDGES: Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by = vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever = other name you please. - David Dudley Field. - Freedom for all = non-aggressive people to choose their own adjudication sys tem. - J.Z., 30.4.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUDGES: Judges who can not or will not judge by = the principles of natural law, and of individual rights and liberties = but merely by law and precedent, do lack judgment and thus a not judges = but imposters. - J.Z., 28.5.92. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUDGES: The judge is condemned when the guilty are = acquitted. - Publilius Syrus. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUDGES: The world has produced fewer instances of = truly great judges than it has of great men in almost every other = department of civilized life. - Horace Binney: The Life and Character o f Chief Justice Marshall, 1835. - Having been trained to enforce and = having to enforce numerous wrongful and harmful laws is not a training = for greatness. - I do not wish this fate upon anyone. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 JUDGES: To consider the judges as the ultima te arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous = doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an = oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They = have with others the same passions for party,=20 f or power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is boni judicis = est ampliare jurisdictionem [good justice is broad jurisdiction], and = their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not = responsible, as the other functionaries are , to the elective control. The constitution has erected no such single = tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions = of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely = made all the departments co-equal and co- sovereign within themselves. }{\i\cf1 - Thomas Jefferson to W. Jarvis, = 1820.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 JUDGES: Who are they to judge, rule, regulate, legislate us, the judges, = politicians, bureaucrats and partymen? - J.Z., 23.4.89. - Are they = really better than we are? Do they know more? Ar e they wiser? Are they more honest? Are they less self-interested? Are = they less corruptible? Are the best or the worst rise to the top of = these pyramids? - J.Z., 28.10.02. \par JUDGES: Would there be much "contempt of court" if all judges = always judged justly? - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par JUDGING, JUSTICE, JUDGES, COURTS, MAN, DIS: No man can justly = censure or condemn another, because indeed no many truly knows another. = - Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, 1642, 2. - So we could not rightly = judge even the worst kind of mu rderer, psychopath, mass murderer, madman, torturer, sadist and = terrorist just because we cannot sufficiently comprehend his motives? - = J.Z., 28.10.02. \par JUDGMENT & ANARCHISM: The epistemological basis of anarchism [rests = on the refusal to subordinate one's=20 won rational judgment to the assertion of another consciousness] and its = social implementation - individual rights. The corollary of independent = judgement is the rejection of any 'final authroity in ethics'. - Roy = Childs, in unpublished Open Letter to Obj ectivists and Libertarians, Nov. 30, 1969, pp. 4 & 17, here quoted in = THE VOLUNTARYIST, No. 90, 2/1998, p. 2. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUDGMENT AND = PREJUDICES: Remember, when the judgment's weak, the prejudice is strong. = - Kane O'Hara, Midas, Act 1, sc. 4. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 JUDGMENT, FACTS, KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM: \'85 facts and their combinations are infinite; that wisdom is not precisely = the accumulation of knowledge, but rather the ability to rank facts in = their proper hierarchy, and to know which 99 % can and should be = ignored. - Robert R. Chase, Transit of Betelgeuse, ANALOG 5/90, 29. \par JUDGMENT, FAITH, DOUBT, BELIEF, DOGMATISM, SCEPTICISM, RELATIVISM: = There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything = or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. - Alfred = Korzybski, quoted in ANALOG, 9/83. \par JUDGMENT, REASON VS. WISHFUL THINKING, RED: Their judgement was = based more on wishful thinking than on sound calculation of = probabilities; for the usual thing among men is that when they want = something they will without reflection leave tha t to hope, while they will employ the full force of reason in rejecting = what they find unpalatable. - Michael F. Flynn, The Washer at the Ford, = ANALOG, 6/89, 49. - Compare the response of most libertarians and = anarchists to the use of affordable, powerful and lasting media, like microfiche, floppy disks and CD-ROMs. = Rationalizing rather than reasoning is involved in the rejection of = these media. - J.Z., 1.11.02. \par JUDGMENT: Man's most valuable trait / is a judicious sense of what = not to believe. - Euripides, Helen, 412 B.C., tr. Richmond Latimore. \par JUDGMENT: Most people seem to have a selective blindness and = amnesia for every significant idea, observation and talent. - J.Z., = 29.4.93. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 JUDICIARY BRANCH & THE CONSTITUTION: The Constitution... = meant that its coordi nate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which = gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and = what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for = the Legislature and Executive also in thei r spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch. }{\i\cf1 - Thomas = Jefferson to Mrs. Adams, 1804.=20 \par }{\cf1 JUDICIARY BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT: This member of the = Government was at first considered as the most harmless and helpless of = all its organs. But it has proved that the power of declaring what the law is, ad libitum, by sapping and = mining slyly and without alarm the foundations of the Constitution, can = do what open force would not dare to attempt. - }{\i\cf1 Thomas = Jefferson to E. Livingston, 1825, on the courts.=20 \par }{\cf1 JUDICIARY,=20 SUPREME COURT: [How] to check these unconstitutional invasions = of...rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first = instance, but by a strong protestation of both houses of Congress that = such and such doctrines advanced by the Supreme Cou r t are contrary to the Constitution; and if afterwards they relapse into = the same heresies, impeach and set the whole adrift. For what was the = government divided into three branches, but that each should watch over = the others and oppose their usurpations?=20 }{\i\cf1 - Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1821.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 JURIES & LAWS: If we subjected all laws to a trial by jury, would we = find most of them guilty or innocent? - J.Z., 8.10.75. - How many votes = by free men should it take to veto the validity of any territorial law ? Naturally, the preferable system was to have only personal laws in the = first place, for voluntary communities that are exterritorially = autonomous. - J.Z., 28.10.02. \par JURIES VS. LAWS: Juries should be freed to judge or nullify all = unjust laws out of existence. - J.Z., 14.12.91. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 JURIES, COURTS, JUSTICE: When you go into court you are = putting your fate into the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough = to get out of jury duty. }{\i\cf1 - Norm Crosby.=20 }{\cf1 - To each the justice system of his own choice. - J.Z., 1.7.00. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JURIES, FREE JURIES, COURTS, LOCAL = SELF-GOVERNMENT, PEOPLE, LAW, JURISDICTION: The institution of = }{\i\fs24\lang1046 Trial by Jury}{\fs24\lang1046=20 forms one, but a highly important, practical application of the system = of Local self-Government: - that by which law is }{\i\fs24\lang1046 = administered by the people}{\fs24\lang1046=20 . Hence, like every other form of manifestation of local = self-government, it has become, in our time, the object of the insidious = attacks of the strivers after centralization. - The bastard county = courts of recent enactment must not be confounded with thi s constitutional system; they afford but another instance of the = employment of a name to smother a reality; \'85 - J. ToulminSmith: Local = Self-Government vs. Centralization, 22. - Reproduced in PEACE PLANS No. = 22.=20 \par JURIES, FREE JURIES, JUDGES: The most important reason jurors = rarely use their theoretical power is that they are constantly told they = have none. - Jon M. Van Dyke.=20 \par JURIES, FREE JURIES, LAWS & GOVERNMENTS, OPPRESSION, EXPLOITATION: = If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the go vernment, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the = oppressions of the government, for there are no oppressions which they = government may not authorize by law. - Lysander Spooner, Trial by Jury. \par JURIES, LAWYERS, JUDGES, LEGISLATORS: Juries are not popular with = legalists, Juries expose the law. They can ignore judges. - Frank = Herbert, Chapterhause Dune, 355. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JURIES, PRESS, LIBERTY: Is the relinquishment of = the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your = liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your = liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings\emdash give us = that precious jewel, and you may take every thing else! \'85 . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every o ne who approaches that jewel. - Patrick Henry, speech to the Virginia = Convention, Richmond, Virginia, June 5, 1788. - The Debates in the = Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, = ed. Jonathan Elliot, vol. 3, p. 45 (1836, repri nted 1937). \par }{\fs24 JURIES: "If the jury feels the law is unjust, we recognize = the undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is = contrary to the law as given by a judge, and contrary to the evidence = ... and the courts must abide by that decision."=20 - US v Moylan, 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1969, 417 F.2d at 1006 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JURIES: "If the jury feels the law is unjust, we recognize the = undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary = to the law as given by a judge, and contrary to the e vidence ... and the courts must abide by that decision." - US vs. = Moylan, 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1969, 417 F.2d at 1006. \par JURIES: "The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of = both the law and facts." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, U.S. Supreme Court = Justice, Horning v. District of Columbia, 138 (1920). \par JURIES: "The jury has the right to determine both the law and the = facts." - Samuel Chase, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1796). \par JURIES: "The jury has the right to determine both the law and the = facts." - Samuel Chase, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1796). \par JURIES: "The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause = which is to be decided." - Harlan F. Stone, 12th Chief Justice (1941). \par JURIES: "The pages of history shine on instance of the jury's = exercise of its prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge ..." = - U.S. vs Dougherty, 473 F 2nd 1113, 1139 (1972). \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 JURIES: ...the jury in all criminal cases, shall be the = judges of the law and the facts. }{\i\cf1 - Georgia, Declaration of = Rights, Art.I, Sec.II, Para. I.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JURIES: \'85 a jury with absolute = powers that no law can veto." - Frank Herbert. - A human rights appeal = should always be possible. - J.Z., 11.6.92. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 JURIES: A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to = decide who has the better lawyer. - }{\i\cf1 Robert Frost. }{\cf1=20 - Free juries are ideal only for those who believe in them. Free choice = for individuals among juridical systems! - J.Z., 28.6.00.}{\i\cf1 =20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 JURIES: All juries to be made up = out of crime victims only! Among them let there be one or two former = convicts who were la ter found to be innocent of the crime they were convicted for. And since = the accused is allowed to look his best, all dressed up for the trial, = let the victim be represented by a life-sized photo or sculpture = indicating the condition his attacker left him =20 in, combined with a photo of his previous looks and present looks. If = there was no victim of a supposed crime, then let this fact be driven = home by a blank screen instead of a photo of the victim. - However, to = each the justice system of his choice! - J.Z ., 8.2.01, 2.2.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JURIES: An untrained group of balance-keepers, = upholding the truth hidden between shady lawyers. - Dagobert D. Runes, A = Book of Contemplation, 73. - In: A Dictionary of Thought he says: = "hidden by shady lawyers". \par JURIES: In effect, trial=20 by jury was a trial of both the governmetn and the criminal. Twelve = representatives of the public were to determine the facts of the case = and then to determine the justness of the government law. If any one of = the twelve had doubts as to the facts or as t o the justness of the government law, then the government's case against = the criminal could not be upheld. - Carl Watner, on Lysander Spooner, in = Holterman, Law in Anarchism, 125/126. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JURIES: It would be an absurdity for juries to be = required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own = opinion, judgment and conscience. - John Adams.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JURIES: It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the = judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgement, and = conscience. - John Adams. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JURIES: Most laws deserve to be = judged by juries - out of existence. - J.Z., 14.12.91. \par JURIES: The judges, the lawyers and the law's distortion of the = free jury system is now called "the" jury system. - J. Z., n.d., & = 27.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JURIES: The jury has a right to judge = both the law as well as the fact in controversy. - John Jay. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JURIES: They can arrive at any = decision they desire, the way a jury should function. The law be damned! = \'85 The first rule of our democracy: no laws restricting juries. - Frank = Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, 171. \par JURISDICTION & TERRITORIALISM: Territorial constitutions, laws, = regulations and institutions, privileges, powers and monopolies are what = is mainly defended by governmental courts, i.e., largely injustices, = rather than individual r ights and liberties. Under this system no one is given a veto-right to = uphold individual rights and liberties against continuous and official = attacks, nor the right to secede and establish or join alternative and = voluntary communties that are exterritoria l ly quite autonomous. Thus are established and maintained State- or = nation-wide territorial prisons, largely for innocent people, not = convicted of any crimes with victims. The victims are only allowed to = vote for one kind of master or the other - and to pr otest. - J.Z., 5.4.99, 27.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JURISDICTION, = COURTS AND JUSTICE: "... the less courts do, the more they can do well," = ... Jerold S. Auerbach, JUSTICE WITHOUT LAW? 122. =20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 JURISDICTION, COURTS, JUDGES, LAW, GOVERNMENT, = CONSTITUTIONS, DIVISION OF POWERS: Thi s member of the government was at first considered as the most harmless = and helpless of all its organs. But it has proved that the power of = declaring what the law is, }{\i\fs24\lang1046 ad libitum}{\fs24\lang1046 = , by sapping and mining, slyly, and without alarm, the foundations of = the Constitution, can do what open force would not dare to attempt. - = Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edward Livingston, 1825. \par JURISDICTION, COURTS, JUSTICE: Do we have a chance to win? It's = like a crap game. It can go either way. What will be the costs? That can = only=20 be determined once it is over. - Remarks, not verbally correct, in the = film Jesse, on a nurse on trial for practising medicine without a = licence. - Whether she helped or harmed a patient was not considered = important in this case. - J.Z., n.d. & 27.10.02. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 J URISDICTION, COURTS, LAWSUITS: It is better to be vexed to death than to = bring a lawsuit. - Chinese proverb. Another one: Once go to law, and = there's nothing but trouble. - Both quoted in: Jerold S. Auerbach, = JUSTICE WITHOUT LAW? 73& 74. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 JURISDICTION, CO URTS: Prozess: Eine Maschine, in die man als Schwein eingeht und die man = als Wurst verlaesst. - Bierce. (Retranslated: Legal suit: A machine = which one enters as a pig and leaves as sausage.) \par JURISDICTION, GOVERNMENT COURTS: Governmental juridical judgments = are mostly unjust - even though formally correct. - J.Z., 5.4.99. \par JURISDICTION, STATE, DISTRUST, REASONS OF STATE, REALPOLITIK, = PUBLIC INTEREST: Misstraut Euch, edler Lord, dass nicht der Nutzen des = Staates Euch als Gerechtigkeit erscheine. - Schiller. -=20 (Beware, noble Lord, so that the interest of the State does not appear = to you as justice.) \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JURISDICTION: "... = the courtroom had become an arena for combat between self-serving = lawyers rather than a place to seek the truth. -- Christopher L. = Bennett, Aggr avated Vehicular Genocide, ANALOG 11/98, page 120. \par }\pard \nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\fs24 JURY RIGHTS: "If = the jury feels the law is unjust, we recognize the undisputed power of = the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary to the law as given = by a judge, and contrary to the evidence ...=20 and the courts must abide by that decision." - US v Moylan, 4th Circuit = Court of Appeals, 1969, 417 F.2d at 1006.JURY RIGHTS: "The jury has the = power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both the law and facts." - = Oliver Wendell Holmes, U.S. Supreme Court J u stice, Horning v. District of Columbia, 138 (1920).JURY RIGHTS: "The = jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts." - Samuel = Chase, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1796)JURY RIGHTS: "The law itself is = on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided." - Harlan F. Stone, 12th Chief Justice (1941).JURY = RIGHTS: "The pages of history shine on instance of the jury's exercise = of its prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge ..." U.S. vs = Dougherty, 473 F 2nd 1113, 1139 (1972). \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JURY = SYSTEM: ... a jury of individuals fully informed as to their = thousand-year-old obligation to weigh the law itself, as well as the = facts of the case. - L. Neil Smith, Pallas, 191. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 JURY TAMPERER: Federal judge or U.S. attorney. - Dave = Wilber, Fool's Gold Is Green, 1982, Awake America, 27.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JURY TRIAL: If we subjected all laws = to trial by jury - would we find most of them guilty or innocent? - J., = 75. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JURY VETO, JURY NULLIFICATION, FREE = JURIES, JUSTICE, COURTS, JUDGES, LIBERTY: When juries know they can = judge th e law as well as the facts, we will restore natural liberty and justice. = Judges resist this because it would reduce their power. Although jurors = must have courage to over-rule a judge's instructions/suggestions, it is = being done: it only takes ONE juror's vote to not convict. Grand Juries have even more independent power an = dcan turn the tables on arrogant juricial bureaucrats. - Stormy Mon, = Diversified Unity: A Libertarian Strategy, page 2, in TC122p65. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JURY: The highest power in America, higher even = than the supreme court. - Dave Wilber, Fool's Gold Is Green, 1982, Awake = America, 27. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JURY: The jury has the right to determine both the = law and the facts. - Samuel Chase, Supreme Court Justice, and signer of = the Declaration of Independence, 1804. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE & BUR EAUCRACY: To have a "Department of Justice", i.e. justice = bureaucratically administered, was one of the greatest absurdities = anyone could have dreamt up. - J.Z., 18.8.80. \par JUSTICE & COURAGE: Without justice, courage is weak. - Benjamin = Franklin, quote in: Poor Richard, 1734. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE & COURTS: In most = government courts, most of the time, justice is "negatively present". - = A term quoted from L. Neil Smith, Contact & Commune, 99. \par JUSTICE & COURTS: Justice was rarely at home or produced at courts. = - J.Z., 5.4.99. \par JUSTICE & CRIME, PUNISHMENT, MERCY, LENITY: Wer die Schlechten = schont, verletzt die Guten. - Syrus. - (Whoever spares the bad hurts = the good.) \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE & DEATH PENALTY: Justice = assumes that all act in a way that they would have others act towards = themsel ves; and thus, when a man murders deliberately, and in cold blood, = justice seeks to accommodate the murderer in like manner. - Robert = Champlin, LIBERTARIAN OPTION, 9/75. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE & DUTY: Gerechtigkeit gibt = jedem das Seine, masst sich nichts Fremdes an, setz t den eigenen Vorteil zurueck, wo es gilt das Wohl des Ganzen zu wahren. = - St. Ambrosius, Von den Pflichten, 1,24. - (Justice gives to each his = own, does not claim anything from others and neglects the own advantage = when the wellbeing of the whole is conc erned.) \par JUSTICE & FAIRNESS: "\'85 justice as fairness." - The two terms are = close relatives and there is a tendency for 'fair' to replace 'just' in = much coloquial speech. But fairness and justice are not exactly the same = thing. 'A lottery is fair', for instanc e, 'if honestly run, but a lottery which distribued prizes = }{\i\fs24\lang1046 justly}{\fs24\lang1046 , i.e., according to desert or = need, would no longer be fair'. (Barry, 1967, p. 193.) - Anthony Flew, = The Politics of Procrustes, 94. \par JUSTICE & FORCE: There is no real force without justice. - Napoleon I, Maxims, 1804-15. - Force with justice is stronger than = force with injustice. Injustice subtracts from force. Justice adds to = force. The use of force without justice is wrong. The use of force to = enforce justice is right. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE & FORCE: Justice without force is = powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. - Blaise Pascal. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE & FREEDOM VS. COLLECTIVISM: We = need not fear, then, that a concern for justice will lead us away from = freedom and the free market. Freedom and=20 justice stand together, jointly opposed to collectivism. - David Kelley, = THE FREEMAN, 1/75. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE & FREEDOM: In allem = Gerechtigkeit, und es wird genug Freiheit geben. - Chamfort. - (Justice = in everything and there will be enough freedom.) \par JUSTICE & FREEDOM: Justice is therefore the aggregate of those = conditions under which the will of one person can be conjoined with the = will of another in accordance with a universal law of freedom. - Kant, = Justice, 230, Ladd, 34. - In Murphy, p. 112. \par JUSTICE & FREEDOM: Sie wollen frei sein und verstehen nicht, = gerecht zu sein. - Abb\'e9 Siey\'e8s, Nationalversammlung, 1793. - (They = want to be free but do not know how to be just.) \par JUSTICE & FREEDOM: Wo keine Gerechtigkeit ist, ist keine Freiheit, = und wo keine Freiheit ist, ist k eine Gerechtigkeit. - Seume, Spaziergang nach Syrakus: Frankfurt. - = (Where there is no justice there is no freedom and where there is no = freedom there is no justice.) \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE & GENEROSITY, WELFARE STATE, = SHARING, INCOME TRANSFERS, TRANSFER SOCIETY, SOCIAL=20 JUSTICE: Justice and generosity do not go hand in hand, the hand of = generosity being commonly thrust into the pocket of justice. - A. = Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, under "Fable". \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE & GODS: Justice is justice, = whatever the gods might say. - Orson Scott Card, Xenocide, 170. \par JUSTICE & GOVERNMENT, JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION, BUREAUCRACY & = JUSTICE, JURIDICAL MONOPOLY: What does the Department of Justice have to = do with justice? - J.Z., 6.7.92. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE & GOVERNMENT, MONOPOLISED = "JURISDICTION" & "JUSTICE": Gov ernments exploit the idea of justice by setting themselves up as the = sole legitimate guardians of justice. - View ascribed to James L. Walker = by Leland Schubert in "MINUS ONE", Spring 73. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE & GOVERNMENT: Justice is = the end of government. - Daniel Def oe, The True-born Englishman, II, 1701. - Although it is not the aim and = method of territorial governments, the establishment of true justice = would indeed end these governments. - J.Z., 17.10.85, 10.7.86, 27.10.02. \par JUSTICE & GOVERNMENTS: Government "justice" mainly favours = monopolies, prohibitions, lawyers, judges, barristers, politicians and = bureaucrats than individual rights and liberties of human beings. - = J.Z., 23.8.95, 27.10.02. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE & GOVERNMENTS: Justice - Something rare = when challenging government. - Dave Wilber, Fool's Gold Is Green, 1982, = Awake America, 27.=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE & HISTORY, PANARCHISM: Judging from the = main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in = jeopardy. - Walt Whitman: Democratic Vistas, 1870. - The major human i nstitutions have still to be based or established upon just principles = only. All just means and principles, including all individual rights and = liberties, must be used or introduced to safeguard justice. In the = extreme case: The chained slave can hardly g uaranty justice and liberty or become even fully aware of them. - J.Z., = 10.7.86, 28.10.02. \par JUSTICE & INSTINCT, MORAL SENSE,NATURAL JUSTICE, HUMAN NATURE, MAN: = I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is = as much part of our constit ution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing. - Thomas Jefferson, Letter = to John Adams, 1816. \par JUSTICE & KINDNESS: You can live without kindness; you can't live = without justice. - Edward Bond, Summer, a play. \par JUSTICE & LAW, RIGHT, LIBERTY, SECURITY, STABILI TY, RESPONSIBILITY, PROGRESS: Law is justice. And it is under the law of = justice, under the rule of right, under the influence of liberty, = security, stability, and responsibility, that every man will attain to = the full worth and dignity of his being, and that mankind will achieve, in a calm and orderly way - slowly, no = doubt, but surely - the progress to which it is destined. - Bastiat, = Essays, 94. - By "the law" he did not mean the unjust laws of = "plunderbunds". - J.Z. \par JUSTICE & LAW: Justice and law are distant cousins - and in South = Africa they are not even on speaking terms. - From film: A Dry White = Summer, seen 12/92 on Prime TV. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE & LAW: 'Law without justice = is a mockery.' - Jerry Pournelle, ANALOG, 3/74. \par JUSTICE & LAW: Law does not mean justice but where there is no law, = justice CAN exist. - J.Z., 8.1.1986. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 JUSTICE & LAW: Man ought to become just, without the assistance of laws, = merely by faith. - Bible, Romans, 3, 28. (My translation from a German = quote. - J.Z.) For we reckon that a man is de clared righteous by faith apart from works of law. - New World = Translation of the Holy Scriptures. - Therefore we conclude that a man = is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. - The Holy Bible, = King James Version, placed by THE GIDEONS. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE & LIBERTY: Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, = neither, in my opinion, is safe. - Edmund Burke, in: Seldes, The Great = Quotations, 536. \par JUSTICE & LIBERTY: Whenever a separation is made between liberty = and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. - Edmund Burke, quoted by = L. E. Read in The Love of Liberty, p. 94. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 JUSTICE & LIMITED GOVERNMENT, EQUITY, INITIATIVE, LAW, FORCE: Within the = limits of equity, everything is to be accomplished through the free and = perfectible initiative of man;=20 nothing is to be achieved by law or by force save universal justice. - = Source? - And even that can be achieved only without government aid and = monopolies. - J.Z., 12.7.92. \par JUSTICE & LOVE, COMPREHENSION, UNDERSTANDING, REASON: Gerechtigkeit = ist die Liebe m it sehenden Augen. - Nietzsche. - (Justice is love with open, observing = and understanding eyes.) - One does not have to love criminals and their = victims - but one owes them justice. - J.Z., 28.10.02. \par JUSTICE & LOVE: A world made new in the justice of live. - NATIONAL = GEOGRAPHIC, June 78, p. 812. - I prefer the following version: A world = made new by the love of justice. - J.Z., 30.3.88. \par JUSTICE & LOVE: Gerechtigkeit ist die Arithmetik der Liebe. - = Masryk. - (Justice is the arithmetic of love.) - Rather, of = understanding and respect. - J.Z., 28.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE & MARKET: Only the market can = properly market justice. - David Z., 31.10.76. \par JUSTICE & MARKET: Only the market can provide a close approximation = to justice. - J.Z., 12/72. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE & MODERATION, EXTREMISM: Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. - Senator Barry = Goldwater. Acceptance speech, Republican National Convention, San = Francisco, 16.7.1964. - Didn't he or his ghostwriter, perhaps Karl Hess, = also say, then or later: "Extremism in the pursu i t of justice is no vice!" - However, he seemed to have included, in his = extremism, the pursuit of nuclear strength and nuclear defence, in both = of which is inherent a great injustice. Not that the other candidates = clearly rejected such policies and destro yed these mass murder devices even unilaterally. - J.Z., 28.10.02. \par JUSTICE & NUCLEAR STRENGTH, NUCLEAR DETERRENT, NUCLEAR DEFENCE: = Recht tun auf ungerechte Art ist Unrecht. - L. Schefer, Laienbrevier, = Februat 28. - (To strive towards right in an injust way is doing wrong.) = - Compare: The end does not justify the means. \par JUSTICE & PANARCHISM, BARBARISM, CIVILIZATION, DIS: If mankind does = not relinquish at once, and forever, its vain, mad, and fatal dream of = justice, the world will lapse into barbarism. - Georg e Moore, Confessions of a Young Man, VIII, 1888. - Rather, let people = practise their different systems of justice among themselves. Only such = a tolerant system is over-all just to al. - J.Z., 10.7.86. \par JUSTICE & PANARCHISM, POWER, STATE, SOCIETY: Gerechtigk eit ist der einzige Grund der Macht and der Dauer des Staates sowie das = einzige Band der menschlichen Gesellschaft. - Wieland. - (Justice is the = only foundation of power and duration for the State as well as the only = connection of human society.) - Organ i zed injustice establishes and maintains territorial States, at least = injustice towards dissenting but peaceful minorities. For societies = justice is the main tie. Only the justice between various exterritorial = and autonomous communities has to be somewhat=20 a like, no matter how much their internal justice systems may differ. - = J.Z., 5.7.92. - Contrary to Wieland, many territorial States were = established and all too long maintained by great injustices. That would = be much harder to outright impossible for commu nities that are only exterritorially autonomous and whose members are = free to secede and have the chance to observe the different practices = among numerous diverse communities all around them. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE & PANARCHISM: Don't offer = anything that is less than 100% just as an ideal. - J.Z., 26.6.1974. - However, this = ideal would tend to differ for different people and their voluntary = communities. Let them have their own choices, in this sphere as well, = for all their internal affairs. Naturally, th e y would have no jurisdiction over others, unless these others offended = against internally claimed rights and liberties, that are also respected = by an internationally recognized law that is based upon individual = rights and liberties. For instance, religiou s communities may punish "blasphemy" etc. uttered by their voluntary = members but not among non-members, even when uttered in the presence of = their members. But they would be entitled to forcefully remove someone = who thus disturbed e.g. one of their religio u s meetings. House rules are to be respected, at least as property = rights, no matter how wrong and absurd they do appear to others. To that = extent: When in Rome, do as the Romans do" - but without extending that = "principle" to the whole territory of Rome a nd all people living there, under the assumption that they would all = constitute "one people" or one household or one business or one = voluntary association. - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE & PANARCHISM: Gerechtigkeit = ist das Brot der Nation; sie hungert immer danach. - Ch\'e2 teaubriand. - (Justice is the bread of the nation. It always hungers for = it.) - Oh, if only this were the case. All too many try to make a living = through injustices. -People who really hungered for justice would soon = establish it among themselves. - Indeed, we are undernourished if we consider justice as a food. But = we are overeating junkfood and make ourselves sick thereby. Injustices = are dispensed to us, quite regularly and in many forms - without us = becoming aware of them in all too many cases. =20 However, if justice were clearly proposed or lived by a minimum number = of people in our vicinity and if we were free to choose among the = various justice systems freely practised among their believers, then = more and more people, enjoying consumer sovereign ty in this sphere as well, would come to prefer genuine justice systems = for themselves, even though these might still somewhat differ in details = from each other. - J.Z., 5.7.92, 27.10.02. \par JUSTICE & PANARCHISM: Gerechtigkeit ist das Ziel des Regierens, das = Ziel der menschlichen Gesellschaft. Sie wurde und wird solange verfolgt, = bis sie verwirklicht oder die Freiheit verloren ist. - e. - = (Retranslated: Justice is the aim of government, the aim of human = society. It was and is pursued until it is realized or f r eedom is lost.) - Territorial government does not lead to justice but = away from it - in all too many ways and for all too many people. Only = freely competing societies and communities of volunteers, = exterritorially quite autonomous, are likely to approach=20 it fast, in accordance with their own ideas of justice. - J.Z., 5.7.92, = 27.10.02. \par JUSTICE & PANARCHISM: The aim of justice is to give everyone his = due. - Cicero, De legibus, I, c. 50 B.C. - The system of justice that is = due to everyone is that system which=20 was his individual choice, unless he offended willfully or carelessly = against the justice system of someone else. - J.Z., 10.7.86, 28.10.02. \par JUSTICE & PEACE: The work of justice shall be peace. - Isaiah, in = the Bible. \par JUSTICE & POWER: \'85 believe in justice rather than in power: = \'85 - T. H. White, The Book of Merlyn, 116. - Stirnerites often believe in = power than in justice. - J.Z., 27.7.92. - If the do, they have this in = common with totalitarians. - J.Z., 28.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE & PROPERTY & ALL HUMAN RIGHTS: = The=20 science of mine and thine - the science of justice - is the science of = all human rights: of all a man's rights of person and property; of all = his rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. - Spooner, = Natural Law, 1. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE & PUBLICITY, OPENNESS, = SECRECY: Justice must not only be seen to be done. It must be seen to be = believed. - Beachcomber. (J.B. Morton.)=20 \par JUSTICE & PUBLICITY: Justice should not only be done, but be = manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done. - Lord Hewart, Jstius, = Rex v. Sussex 9 Nov. 1923. \par JUSTICE & PUBLICITY: The price of justice is eternal publicity. - = Arnold Bennett, Things that have interested me. \par JUSTICE & PUNISHMENT, PANARCHISM: The sword of the law should never = fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pr onounced by their friends as well as foes. - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to = sarah Mease, March 1801. - In other words: Law should prosecute only by = unanimous consent. present States can at most approximate this condition = by an ideal jury system. Panarchies i nstitutionalize this principle generally. - J.Z., 10.7.86. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE & PUNISHMENT: Punishment is justice for = the unjust. - St. Augustine. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE & SELF-DEFENCE: Each person is = justified in defending his body and property from invasion. Invasion is = the threat of or actual use of physical force to compel obedience. Justice will = not come to reign unless those who care for its coming are prepared to = insist upon its value and have the courage to speak out against what = they know to be wrong. - Quoted by Carl Watne r, On Justice, p. 39. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 JUSTICE & SELF-GOVERNMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: Justice is = the basis, motivation, method and reward of being self-governing. So it = can never be perfect. Perfect justice is realistically recognized as = beyond human capacities to understand, much less codify and enforce. Recognition of this simple = reality would spare us all the plans, platitudes and harmful = interventions of the political perfectionists. How far have we departed = from self-government? - Joan Marie Leonard, THE F REEMAN, Feb. 77. - About as far as we have come away from the better = declarations of individual rights and liberties, which are more or less = despised or ignored by all too many legislators, lawyers and judges - = not only by most citizens. - J.Z., 28.10.02. \par J USTICE & SOCIAL CONFLICTS, SOCIAL JUSTICE VS. JUSTICE: Gerechtigkeit ist = eine Form der Loesung sozialer Konflikte. - (Retranslated: Justice is = one form of solution for social conflicts.) - Wiggins. - Rather: Justice = is THE solution for social conflicts. - Social justice is injustice. - J.Z., 5.7.92. \par JUSTICE & SOCIAL ORDER, SOCIAL JUSTICE, FRATERNITY, SELF-SACRIFICE, = LOVE: When Proudhon wrote that "social order is established upon the = basis of inexorable justice, and not at all upon the paradisiacal = sentimen ts of fraternity, self-sacrifice, and love, to the exercise of which so = many honorable socialists are endeavoring now to stimulate the people", = he recognized, as Marx did, that it is the technological forces = unleashed within the industrial order that basi cally determine the level of wages of the workers and the profits of the = capitalists and not beautiful words preached at people by moralists. - = W. O. Reichert, in: Holterman, Law in Anarchism, 145. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE & STRENGTH, DEFENCE: A just = cause is strong. - Thomas Middleton, A Trick to Catch the Old One, Act = iii,1.3. \par JUSTICE & SUBJECTIVE VALUE THEORY, RELATIVITY OF JUSTICE: Justice, = too, is largely a subjective value beyond the commands of = non-interventionism or the non-initiation of force, or the equal claim = of=20 all rational beings to basic rights: individual rights and liberties, if = and to the extent that they are aware of them and do appreciate them. = Thus it is differently conceived and practised among different people, = doing their things to and for themselves=20 a nd it is just that they do this rather than attempt to apply their = concepts and practices of justice to those who do not agree with them. - = To that extent it is just and fair that they do apply different laws or = rules and policing, juridical and penal amo ng themselves, like different sports teams and different churches apply = different rules among their voluntary participants. - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE & THE LAW: Maybe what we = need is less law and more justice. - - F.M. Busby, Getting Home, 151. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE &=20 THE NUCLEAR WAR THREAT: Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. (Gerechtigkeit = werde geuebt, und sollte die Welt dabei Zu Grunde gehen!) (Justice be = done, even if the world perishes thereupon.) - Motto of Emperor = Ferdinand I, who died in 1564. Some do now imagine that justice could be achieved with nuclear mass murder devices! - = J.Z., 8.1.1985, 16.11.02.) \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE & TRUTH, CONSCIENCE & = GENIUS: Conscience in the service of Justice and Genius in the service = of Truth. \'85 - Zarlanga, The Orator, 56. \par JUSTICE & TRUTH: Justice is truth in action. - Joseph Joubert, = Pens\'e9 es, 1842. - Court inscription of Superior Court of California. - = Shooting off an IBM with a nuclear warhead is truly an action, but is it = just? - At most one could say that justice is the realization of true rights and liberties of individuals. - J.Z., 5.7.92. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE AND = ANARCHY:... else they grow restless and take justice into their own = hands. That is anarchy. - Greg Bear, Queen of Angels, 323.- He probably = meant it only in this sense of Chaos. - J.Z. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUST ICE AND CHARITY: Charity is indeed a noble and beautiful virtue, = grateful to man, and approved by God. But charity must be built on = justice. It cannot supersede justice. - Henry George, THE CONDITION OF = LABOUR, 92. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE AND = COURTS, PLEA BARGAINING: In the halls of justice, as more than one cynic has observed, justice is = usually done in the halls. There "bargaining within the shadow of the = law" transpires in a tawdry setting that most closely resembles a = commodities exchange. - Jerold S. Auerbach, JUST ICE WITHOUT LAW? 143. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = JUSTICE AND EQUALITY: The Spartan principle of "calling that which is = just, equal; not that which is equal, just." - Emerson, Essays, Second = Series: Politics. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE AND = FREEDOM: All that is needed to remedy the evils of our time is to do = justice and give freedom. - Henry George, The Condition of Labour. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = JUSTICE AND FREEDOM: Where justice reigns, 'tis freedom to obey. - = James Montgomery, Greenland. \par JUSTICE AND LAW: ... "justice without law"... "justice according to = law" - Terms used by Ezra Pound. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE AND = SOCIAL-JUSTICE, IN DEMOCRACIES: Justice... is always unpopular and in = difficult under democracy, save perhaps that false form of so-called = social justice. - H. L. Mencken, 1926. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = JUSTICE AND STRENGTH: A just cause is strong. - Thom as Middleton. - But under present conditions it is not always stronger = than the unjust one, at least not in the short and medium-term. - J.Z., = 29.3.99. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE AND THE = PEOPLE: Why should there not be patient confidence in the ultimate = justice of the people ? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? - Abraham Lincoln, = First Inaugural Address, 4.3.1861. - I would rather have justice = realized gradually, step-by-step, within volunteer communities only, = than wait until finally, in further decades or cen t uries, all or most of the people are sufficiently enlightened. Justice, = peace, security, progress, prosperity and many other aspects of living = are much too important to leave them to majority decisions. Allow = individuals and minorities to advance as far=20 and as fast as they want to and can. Set all real people free rather = than the imagined \ldblquote uniform\rdblquote people of the = territorial State model. - John Zube, 3.4.99.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = JUSTICE AND THE RULE OF LAW, GOVERNMENT AND LAWYERS: Once the meaning of = justice is legalized and f ormalized, however, the rule of law (as the astute Progressive essayist = Herbert Croly understood) means "government by lawyers" conducted " in = the interest of litigation." - Jerold S. Auerbach, JUSTICE WITHOUT LAW? = 143. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE AND = TOLERANCE: Live and let live is the rule of common justice. - in Sir = Roger L'Etrange, Fables of Aesop, 127. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE AS PROVIDED BY GOVERNMENTS: Justice is so high = and holy a thing that it belongs exclusively to those wise enough and = rich enough to know where to buy it. - Robert A nton Wilson, The Earth Will Shake, 163.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE DELAYED: Verzoergerte Gerechtigkeit ist = verweigerte Gerechtigkeit. - Gladstone. - (Justice delayed is justice = denied.) - }{\fs24\lang1033=20 Justice Felix Frankfurter, dissenting, Dennis v. United States, 339 U.S. = 184 (1949). \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE Justice is = a firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his = due. - Justinian, Institutiones, I, 1. \par JUSTICE SYSTEM, COURTS, JURISDICTION, CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: For = any twentieth century American who'd been paying attention at a ll, the phrase "criminal justice system" should have been warning = enough. - William Wilde Curringer, Unfinished Memoirs. - One should = note, that it is not called a monopolistic justice system or an honest = justice system, but a criminal one. - John Zube, 1 3.3.99. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JUSTICE THROUGH COMPETITION RATHER THAN ENFORCED & TERRITORIAL = UNIFORMITY: If justice is to be for sale then I would rather have it = supplied by competitors, among whom I can freely choose, than by a = territorial monopoly system. - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par }\pard\plain = \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 JUS TICE THROUGH GOVERNMENTS? COURTS, JUDGES, CRIME: A San Franciscan who = murdered the city's mayor and then pleaded that he was upset by = financial pressures, political setbacks, and the chemical impact of = eating junk food, was convicted of the lowest possibl e charge and was eligible for parole barely five years after \'85 After two men in Detroit beat a Chinese-American to death after a = barroom argument about automobile imports, the judge sentenced them to a = $ 3,780 fine and three years probation. - Newt Gingrich, Window of = Opportunity, A Blueprint for the Future, 228.=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE V. PRAYER: = One-hour doing justice is worth a hundred in prayer. - Islamic Proverb. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE VS. CHARITY, RICH, POOR: To heal the breach = between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to di stinguish between justice and charity. There can be no claim for redress = except where justice is violated. - Pope Pius X: Apostolic Letter to the = Bishops of Italy on Catholic Social Action, Dec. 18, 1903. \par JUSTICE VS. EXPEDIENCY: Justice has nothing to do with expediency. = It has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted = and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity. - Woodrow Wilson, = Speech in Washington, Feb. 26, 1916. \par JUSTICE VS. FORCE, COERCION, COMPULSION: Daraus, dass man=20 die Menschen mit Gewalt der Gerechtigkeit unterwerfen kann, folgt = durchaus nicht, dass es gerecht sei, die Menschen der Gewalt zu = unterwerfen. - Pascal. - (From the fact that one may forcefully subject = men to justice it does not follow at all that it woul d be just to subject men to force.) \par JUSTICE VS. FORMALITIES, TECHNICALITIES & RITUALS: In our States = one mostly dispenses justice in a format that is more terrible than = injustice itself. - J. G. Seume, Apokryphen. - (Man gibt in unsern = Staaten meistens der=20 Gerechtigkeit eine Form, die schrecklicher ist als die Ungerechtigkeit = selbst.) \par JUSTICE VS. FREEDOM & PRIVILEGES: Privilegien aller Art sind das = Grab der Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit. - Seume. - (Privileges of all kinds = are the grave of freedom and justice.) \par JUSTICE VS. INJUSTICE, TOLERANCE, EXTERRITORIALISM, DIVERSITY & = COMPETITION OF JUSTICE SYSTEMS: One man's justice is another's = injustice. - B. W. Emerson: Circles, 1841. - Compare: One law for the = lion and the ox is oppression. - William Blake? - So, let=20 us apply to justice systems what justice demands for all other things: = To each his own! - J.Z., 10.7.86. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE VS. LAW & COURTS: How are you = to find justice at the hands of officers of the court who believe in the = sanctity of the law? - Jim Andrews, FRE EDOM TODAY, 10/75. \par JUSTICE VS. LAW & CUSTOM: The game they play is lawful because they = make the law to uphold their game; but they raise a hue and cry for 'law = and order' if they find any game conflicting with theirs, and declare it = unlawful. It is easy to see that laws thus enacted are unjust, for to be just, a law must be = enacted for the benefit of all; thus it is in no wise logical to presume = that the "legal" is the just. -- When we compare the laws made today and = the method and purpose of their making, =20 with those of the past, we find them to be in perfect harmony. It was = the law and custom of the past to provide for a class of idlers, it was = customary for the powerful to enslave the weak, for the rich to rob the = poor, for the unscrupulous to make laws i n their own interests, even as it is the law and custom today. Surely it = must be evident that law does not have its basis in justice, but rather = in custom. TO BOTH LAW AND CUSTOM, JUSTICE IS A TOTAL STRANGER. - = Sprading, Liberty, 18. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE VS. LAW: Law never made men = a whit more just. - Henry David Thoreau. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE VS. LAW: Law without justice = is a mockery. - Jerry Pournelle, ANALOG, 3/74. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE VS. LAW: Pro jure contra = legem. - Quoted by Victor Hugo in his "Deeds and Words". - (For justice, = against the law.) \par JUSTICE VS. LAWS & REGULATIONS: Justice, not laws and regulations! = - J.Z., 13.5.92. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE VS. LAWS: An unjust law is a contradiction = in terms. - Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel, GALAXY SF, No. 13, UK, 73. = - An unjust law is the rule rather than th e exception. - J.Z., 7.10. 00. -All laws may be lawful, in the worst = sense, but only very few laws are full of justice. The more laws, the = less justice - is an ancient and often pronounced experience - but it = seems to be unknown to most of the current leg islators, adding to the past avalanches of laws. No one has even the = time to read all the laws that are, temporarily, still in force, until = they are replaced by still longer, more unjust and more senseless laws. = - J.Z., 8.2.02. \par JUSTICE VS. LAWS: Justice is=20 that which exists when all laws are enforced. - Isaac Asimov, The Caves = of Steel, GALAXY SF, No. 13, UK, 73. - Rather, when only very few laws = are enforced, the few that are quite just. All others increase the = injustice in this world. - J.Z., 7.10.00, 9.2 .02. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE VS. LEGALITY: I departed from legality = only to return to justice. - Napoleon III, Explanation of the coup = d'\'e9 tat of Dec. 2, 1851. - That what his excuse or pretence. He hardly = introduced justice. But then the laws, before and after, didn't, either. = - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par JUSTICE VS. LOVE: Justice rather than love is needed for most = relationships between most people. - J.Z., 19.5.93. - The word "justice" = may have been too unknown, vague and incomprehensible for those to whom = Jesus Christ preached. It=20 is still not widely enough comprehended today. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE VS. MERCY: The GUILTY try for = MERCY, the VICTIM asks for JUSTICE. - Steve Ditko, Mr. A. \par JUSTICE VS. SOCIAL JUSTICE: ...justice and so-called social justice = are opposites and that to promote the latter is to retard the former. - = L. E. Read, Who's Listening? 93. \par JUSTICE VS. TERRITORIALISM: Justice cannot be determined = territorially! - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE VS. TERRITORIALISM: No = territorial political form CAN do justice to all the diverse individuals = living in a territory. - J.Z., 15.1.90. \par JUSTICE VS. WAR, PEACE & JUSTICE: Establish justice as the only = means of banishing the menace of war. - Ramsay Muir, Future of = Democracy, 1939. \par JUSTICE, ABSOLUTE JUSTICE, FREEDOM, DIS: Absolute freedom mocks at = justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. - Albert Camus, The Rebel, = 1951. - All too many people discredit themselves by their own = statements. - J.Z., 28.10.02.=20 \par JUSTICE, ADMINISTRATION, BUREAUCRATIC & GOVERNMENTAL JUSTICE: = Administered justice is justice destroyed. - J.Z., 8.12.85. \par JUSTICE, ADMINISTRATION, BUREAUCRATIC & GOVERNMENTAL JUSTICE: = Bureaucratically administered justice means as much the destruction of = justice as bureaucratically administered love would mean the destruction = of love. - J.Z., 8.12.85. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JUSTICE, ATTRACTION & VIOLENCE: Justice obligates man to eschew violence = and to stress attraction. - Ridgway K. Foley Jr., THE FREEMAN, 5/74, = referring to L. E. Read's How to Advance Liberty. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE, BILL OF RIGHTS & THE CIVIL = LIBERTIES UNI ON: One sometimes wonders what the American Civil Liberties union would = have done if the Bill of Rights had included the article: "Congress = shall pass no law obstructing the pursuit of justice." - William F. = Buckley, Jr., in: Four Freedoms, 102. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE, B USINESSMEN, CONTRACTS, MARKET, ECONOMY, VIRTUE, CRIMINALS, WRONGDOERS, = OFFENDERS, GANGSTERS: Ferner haben auch diejenigen, welche kaufen, = verkaufen, pachten, verpachten und in Geschaeftsabschluesse verwickelt = werden, die Gerechtigkeit fuer ihre Geschaefts f uehrung durchaus noetig. Ja die Macht dieser Tugend ist so gross, dass = nicht einmal diejenigen, welche von Uebeltaten und Freveln leben, ganz = ohne einen Funken von Gerechtigkeit zu leben imstande sind. - Cicero, = Drei Buecher von den Pflichten, 2.11. -- (F u rthermore, even those who buy and sell, lease or rent and are involved = in business do need justice for the conduct of their affairs. Indeed, = the power of this virtue is so large that not even those who live from = crimes and wrong-doing can survive quite wi thout a spark of justice.) \par JUSTICE, CHARITY, MERCY & GENEROSITY: Wolle nicht immer grossmuetig = sein, aber gerecht sei immer. - M. Claudius, An seinen Sohn Johannes. - = (You need not always be generous, but you must always be just.) \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE, CHILDREN, BARBARIANS, CIVILIZATION, = PEOPLE & TOOLS: Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due = to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them. \'85 there was still a large part of every population which was civilized = only in that it could use tools. - Murray Leinster, Med Service, 93 of = ASTOUNDING SF, 8/57.}{\fs24\lang1046 & ASTOUNDING SF, Dec. = 57.}{\fs24\lang1033=20 \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE, COMMUNISM, SOCIALISM, INDIVIDUALISM: The = Socialist invokes the name of justice in order to coerce all to conform = to the will of the government of the time being in all=20 matters of production, distribution and exchange. He does so not only on = the plea of a juster distribution of the rewards of toil in these = directions, but on the ground of greater social efficiency. The = Individualist holds that both these claims are contr a ry to the teaching of experience and of nature. Governments have not in = fact so arranged the distribution of wealth; and in fact greater justice = resides in the contention of the Individualist that the development of = justice has been governed by the princi p le that the earnings of each individual shall be securedly prserved to = him, and its chief aims have been to prevent individuals from plundering = each other, and safeguarding for each what each has earned. - S. = Hutchinson Harris, The Doctrine of Personal Ri ght, 380/381. \par JUSTICE, COMPETING COURTS, COMPETING PERSONAL LAWS & CONSTITUTIONS, = PANARCHISM: Freely competing juridical systems would come closer to = justice than a monopolistic and governmental one. - J.Z., 5.4.99. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE, CONDUCT, COERCION, LAW & = CLASSIC AL LIBERALISM: Today it is rarely understood that the limitation of all = coercion to the enforcement of general rules of just conduct was the = fundamental principle of classical liberalism, or, I would almost say, = its definition of liberty. This is largely=20 a consequence of the fact that the substantive (or 'material') = conception of law (as distinguished from a purely formal one) which = underlies it, and which alone gives a clear meaning... Hayek, Economic = Freedom and Representative Government, II. \par JUSTICE, CON SCIENCE & DISOBEDIENCE: After all, the practical reason why, when the = power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and = for a long period continue, to rule, is not because they are most likely = to be in the right, nor because this see m s fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the = strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases = cannot be based on justice, even as far as man understand it. Can there = not be a government in which majorities do not virtu a lly decide right and wrong, but conscience? - in which majorities decide = only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must = the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his = conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? - Thoreau, On Civil Disobedience. \par JUSTICE, CONSENT, VOLUNTARISM, COERCION, RIGHTS, ARBITRARINESS, = CHOICE, RATIONALITY, IRRATIONALITY, WHIM: Observe the principle = governing justice ... it is the principle that no man may obtain any v alues from others without the owner's consent - and, as a corollary, = that a man's rights may not be left at the mercy of the unilateral = decision, the arbitrary choice, the irrationality, the whim of another = man. - Ayn Rand, quoted by Mr. Baird, OPTION, 10 /76. - Only the consent of men, i.e. of rational beings, is decisive, = not of beasts of prey, inhuman form. - J.Z., 18.11.82. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE, COURTS AND RULES: Justice Holmes, admonished by a = friend to do justice on the bench, replied that his job was only to play = according to the rules. - Jerold S. Auerbach, JUSTICE WITHOUT LAW? 143. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 = JUSTICE, COURTS OF JUSTICE AND THE LAW:... courts of justice do not = actually dispense justice at all, but only law,... - H. L. Mencken, = 1919. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 JUSTICE, COURTS, JUDGES, LAWYERS, LIBEL LA WS, INDEMNIFICATION SPLEENS: Did You Know: Lawsuits Out of Control A = former employee of the Smithsonian was awarded $400,000 because his = employer referred to him as an "old fart". - Secrets of the Sentient. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE, COURTS, JURIES: If you = want justice, hir e an arbitrator or subscribe to a free jury system. But if you insist, = you should be free to hire a lawyer and judge - to lead you away from = your rights and liberties as far as you like. - J.Z., 5.4.99. \par JUSTICE, COURTS: The governmental jurisdiction delays justice and = to that extent destroys justice. For this disservice and also for = delayed injust decisions, it charges all too high monopoly prices. - = J.Z., 5.4.99. \par JUSTICE, COURTS: The governmental justice system is slow, very = expensive and all too often inj ust. Nevertheless, its monopoly power is largely enforced. To improve = it, it should be subjected to free competion, which could come to = provide fast, cheap and almost certain justice. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par JUSTICE, CULPRITS, CAUSAL THINKING, PERSONAL THINKING, SCAPEGOATS: Seid gerecht. Sucht nicht Schuldige, sondern Ursachen. - = Werner Mitsch. - (Be just. Don't look for culprits but for causes.) - = But there are also some culprits whose actions are not caused (by = conditions, the environment, society etc.) but wh o cause themselves, and willfully, injustices. - Some ideological = "causes" are injust to some, many, most or even all. (Instance of the = latter: "Every leash has two ends.")=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE, DECENCY VS. LOVE, MORALITY, = ETHICS: Please - a little less love, and a lit tle more common decency. - Kurt Vonnegut (Slapstick, 1976, p = 33). \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE, DELAYS: Judgement delayed = is judgement voided. - Sanhedrin, 952. \par JUSTICE, DIGNITY: \'85 the respect, spontaneously felt and = reciprocally guaranteed of human dignity, in whatso ever person in whatsoever circumstance it may be compromised, and to = whatsoever risk its defence may expose us. - Proudhon, Justice, I, 225, = 1868 edition. \par JUSTICE, DIS: There is no justice! - Indeed, we have to establish = it first! The same applies to freedom and peace, security and progress, = to a large extent. - J.Z., 6.4.91.=20 \par JUSTICE, DUTIES, RIGHTS, LIBERTIES: Gerechtigkeit ist die Summe = aller sittlichen Pflichten. - Godwin. (Justice is the sum of all moral = (ethical) duties.) And of all rights and liberties! - J.Z., n.d., & = 28.10.02. \par JUSTICE, EDUCATION, MANKIND: Justice is the faculty that may be = developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the = human race. - P. J. Proudhon, De la justice dans la r\'e9volution, I, = 1858. \par JUSTICE, EMPIRES & KINGDOMS, STATES: Reiche ohne Gerechtigkeit, was = sind diese anderes als grosse Raeuberhoehlen? - Augustinus, De civitate = Dei, 4, 4. - (Empires without justice, what are they otherwise than = great gangs of robbers?) \par JUSTICE, EQUALITY: Gerecht ist, wer nicht gleichsetzt. - Lohberger. = - (Just is who does not equate.) - To be just you have to discriminate; = you can't simply equate. - J.Z., 5.7.92. \par JUSTICE, EVIL, GOOD, REWARDS: Reward evil with justice and reward = good with good. - Confucius. \par JUSTICE, FAIRNESS & EQ UALITY: Fairness is the moral principle which takes over when = considerations of desert and entitlement either do not or cannot arise. = 'And fairness, unlike justice, does (in general) demand equality' = (Matson, p. 54). It is again significant that those who want equality do most often demand not just but fair shares. - Anthony = Flew, The Politics of Procrustes, 94. \par JUSTICE, FORCE, POWER, TYRANNY: Justice without force is powerless; = force without justice is tyrannical. - Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662. \par JUSTICE, FORCE, STRENGTH, POWER: I'm armed with more than complete = steel - / The justice of my quarrel. - Lust's Dominion, 1647, 4.3, = attributed to Christopher Marlowe. \par JUSTICE, FRATERNITY & LIBERTY: Why will they never understand that = fraternity can only be established by justice; that justice alone, the = condition, means, and law of liberty and fraternity, must be the object = of our study \'85 - Proudhon, System of Economic Contradictions, in: The Works of J. = Proudhon, Tucker, Boston, 1888, p. 281. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE, FREEDOM & OBEDIENCE: Where = justice reigns, 'tis freedom to obey. - James Montgomery, = Greenland}{\fs24\cgrid0 }{\f0\fs24\cgrid0 IV}{\fs24\cgrid0=20 .}{\f0\fs24 - Where does justice reign? - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE, FREEDOM, DIS: Absolute = freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. - Albert = Camus, The Rebel. - More no nsense by another famous name. Here he seems to mix up licence or = arbitrariness with freedom and justice for all. - J.Z., 4.4.89, = 28.10.02. \par JUSTICE, FULL VS. SOME JUSTICE: Etwas Gerechtigkeit ist nicht = genug. Es muss die volle sein. - J.Z., 25.10.82. - (Some justice is not = good enough. It must be full justice.) \par JUSTICE, GOOD VS. EVIL, GOD, CHRISTIANITY: Asked about his actions, = God Said: Return good for good. Return evil with justice. - Zarlanga, = The Orator, 55. - Why doesn't God - and this without delay? A pparently, we cannot wrong him and he does not care about us. - J.Z., = 28.10.02. \par JUSTICE, GOVERNMENT, CLASSES, PRIVILEGES, FREEDOM FOR RELIGIOUS = SERVICES BUT NOT FOR OTHERS: Unequal and prejudiced treatment of = different classes: "How could a government be j ust when it treats one class of people, those in religion and = publishing, as free to govern themselves - to follow or not to follow = its own professional standards - but other classes, such as doctors, = business people and financial advisors as in need of e x tensive supervision and regimentation? - Tibor Machan, Liberty and = Culture, 104. - Those publishing on radio and TV are also under = government regimentation. - And all of us are as victims of territorial = governments, continuously being outvoted or bureaucr a tically or politically ignored, contrary to our personal preferences in = numerous ways. Full consumer sovereignty towards all political and = bureaucratic "services" and disservices, which would also mean voluntary = taxation. That would rapidly reduce unjust=20 and extensive governmentalism - and retain only some really wanted = features - for voluntary victims. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par JUSTICE, HARM & WRONG: Justice is never anything in itself, but in = dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at anytime i t is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed. - Epicurus. - Rather: = not to wrong or be wronged, not to infringe rights nor have one's rights = infringed. - J.Z., 28.10.02. - He was so confused on "harm" and wrongs = that he even said: Bad men may kill me b ut they can never harm me." \par JUSTICE, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, CITIZENS, LAWYERS, LAWS, LEGISLATION, = JURISDICTION, CITIZENS: If citizens really siwhed for and fought for = justice and individual rights, then politicians, lawyers, and judges = could not fob them off wi th their kind of legislation and jurisdiction. - J.Z., n.d. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE, INJUSTICE = AND ORDINARY CITIZENS: And conceptions of justice that the rest almost = entirely upon legal procedure..... still trouble ordinary citizens who = have difficulty defining justice bu t know injustice when they receive it. - Jerold S. Auerbach, JUSTICE = WITHOUT LAW? 143. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE, INJUSTICE, COURTS, LAWYERS, LAWS, JUDGES, = PANARCHISM: \'85 so many lawyers, advocates, so many tribunals, so = little justice; so many laws, yet never more disorder s; the tribunal a labyrinth; to see a lamb executed, a wolf pronounce = sentence? - Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621. - Obviously, = organized governmental injustice is nothing new. High time to overthrow = this territorial imposition as well as i t has already been widely overthrown in religion. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par JUSTICE, INJUSTICE, SYMPATHY & MAN: Man liebt die Gerechtigkeit, = weil man selbst ein Opfer des Unrechts werden koennte. - La = Rochefoucauld. - (One loves justice because would might become oneself a = victim of injustice.) \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE, INTERESTS, HARM: That which is unjust can = really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one. - Henry = George. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE, INTERESTS, UTILITARIANISM: Gerechtigkeit = ist das groesste Interesse der Menschen auf Erden. - Webster. - (Justice is the greatest interest of man on earth.) = - Objectively, yes, it should be. Subjectively, alas, it is not, for = most people. - J.Z., 5.7.92, 28.10.02. \par JUSTICE, JURISDICTION, COURTS, MONOPOLY, NATIONALIZATION, STATE, = PANARCHISM: We object to the nationalization of the business of justice = by the State. - Sam Konkin III, Strategy of the NLA, # 1, p. 28. \par JUSTICE, JURISDICTION, COURTS, PANARCHISM: No system of judicature = can be suggested in which occasionally failure to insure compl ete justice may not arise. - Mr. Justice Hawkins, Judgment in Rex vs. = Miles, 1890. - But then let it happen through the self-chosen juridical = avenues of personal laws and jurisdictions. - J.Z., 10.7.86. \par JUSTICE, KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, INDEPENDENCE, JEWS: The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of = justice and the desire for personal independence - these are the = features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I = belong to it. - Albert Einstein, The World As I See I t . At the end this famous scientist uses the terms of astrologers! - = Jews were in the forefront of the communist movement as well as that of = the anarchist and libertarian movement. But has their love of justice = led them as yet e.g., to monetary freedom an d free trade and to reject territorialism? Do they not still represent as = much the ideas of "social justice" as of "justice"? And have they = managed to produce, between them, many better and private declarations = of individual rights and liberties. Aren't al l too many of them still captivated by the notions of an ancient = religion? Have they, more than e.g. Christians, Muslims and Hindus = rejected the principle of "collective responsibility" and of "defence" = with ABC mass murder devices? They, Scottish and Japa n ese people are among the most intelligent people in the world and yet, = between them, do they not still subscribe, like all too many other = peoples, to numerous popular errors, myths and prejudices, e.g., in = attempting to establish a territorial and democra t ic welfare State and to achieve statist security for it? Have they, any = more than their Arab opponents, considered their exterritorial autonomy = options? Even the love for certain people, and admiration for their = achievements should not make us blind to th eir remaining flaws, for which Einstein was perhaps a typical example. - = J.Z., 28.10.02. =20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE, LAW & ORDER: Justice is = incidental to law and order". - Victor Hugo. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE, LAW, LAWYERS: Justice = Without Law? Subtitled: Resolving Disputes With out Lawyers. Book title by Jerod S. Auerbach. - That is almost the only = way we could ever achieve justice. - J.Z., 2.8.92. \par JUSTICE, LAW, NATURAL LAW: For natural law is justice itself \'85. = the nature of justice can no more be altered by legislation than the = nature of numbers can be altered by the same means. - Lysander Spooner. \par JUSTICE, LAWS, GOVERNMENT, REPRESENTATIVES, DEMOCRACY, POWER = ADDICTION, RULERS, LEADERSHIP, POLITICIANS: Governments have less = interest in justice, individual rights and liberties than in laws and their law-making powers, taxation and decision-making = pwoers and their interpretation of them. - J.Z., 188.95. \par JUSTICE, LAWS, LAWYERS, COURTS: A just cause needs no interpreting. = / It carries its own case. But the unjust argument / since it is sick, needs clever medicine. - Euripides, The Phoenician Women, c. = 411-409 B.C., tr. Elizabeth Wyckoff. - Since justice hasn't prevailed = everywhere, people either know it not, have not interpreted it correctly = or simply assumed that it would fight its ow n battles without their assistance and would always win. - J.Z., = 15.11.85. \par JUSTICE, LIBERTY & PEACE: What is mankind? What is justice? I say = it is liberty and peace. - Father Peter Levi, Christmas Sermon from = Death is a Pulpit. \par JUSTICE, LIBERTY & PROPERTY: Justice is liberty and property. - = Bastiat, in Roche III, Bastiat, 157. \par JUSTICE, LOVE, NEIGHBOURLINESS: Die Gerechtigkeit ist nichts = anderes als die Naechstenliebe der Weisen. - Leibniz. - (Justice is = nothing but the love of neighbours by the wise.) - And=20 the love of fools for fools leads to injust actions. - One can be very = neighbourly to one's neighbour - without being just to many others, = especially "aliens" and "foreigners". - J.Z., 5.7.92. \par JUSTICE, LOVE, RECOGNITION & RESPECT: Gerecht sein heisst: den = anderen als anderen gelten zu lassen, es heisst: da anerkennen, wo man = nicht lieben cann. - Pieper. - (Justice means: Recognize the other and = respect where you cannot love.)=20 \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE, LOVE, = SELF-LOVE & EGOISM: The principle of every society is to be just towards oneself and others. If one ought to love one's neighbor as = oneself, then it is at least as just to love oneself as one loves one's = neighbor. - Chamfort, in: Franzoesische Moralisten, 268. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE, MAJORITIES, MINORITIES & INDIVIDUALS: \'85 = Chief Ju stice Jay said in perhaps the greatest opinion he ever wrote, that = "justice is always the same, whether it is due from one man to a = million, or from a million to one man." - Albert Jay Nock, Journal of = Forgotten Days, May 1934 - October 1935, Regnery, 194 8, 105. \par JUSTICE, MAJORITIES, MINORITIES, INDIVIDUALS: Justice is always the = same, whether it be due from one man to a million or from a million to = one man. - Chief Justice Jay, quoted in: - Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a = Superfluous Man, Harper, 1943, 76. -=20 Ibid, 77: We learned not only that justice is always the same in small = matters as in great, but we also learned thoroughly the consequent = lesson which seems to unaccountably hard for Anglo-Saxons ever to learn, = that justice is always the same in the case=20 of men and things you do not like, as in the case of those you do like. = - Ibid, p. 78: \'85 a third great truth about justice, namely: that justice is seldom = enough. It showed how necessary it is that matters should be managed not = only with justice but with th e appearance of justice, and that very often the appearance of justice = is as important as the substance of justice. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE, MAN, CIVILIZATION, NATIONS: Justice is = the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds = civilized beings and civi lized nations together. - Daniel Webster, Speech at the funeral of Mr. = Justic Story, Sept. 12, 1845. \par JUSTICE, MAN, GOODNESS, VIRTUE: Every virtue is included in the = idea of justice, and every just man is good. - Theognis: Elegies, c. 550 = B.C. \par JUSTICE, MAN, LAWMAKERS, JUDGES, LAWS: Since Spooner thought that justice was = something that could be learned by all mankind, he considered it an = impudence on the part of lawmakers to assume that the rest of mankind = needed their commands to know what is and what is no t just. - Carl Watner, on Lysander Spooner, in Holterman, Law in = Anarchism, 132. - "The science of justice is as open to be learned by = all other men, as by themselves (the legislators); and it is, in = general, so simple and easy to be learned, that there is no need of, and no place for, any man, or body of men, to teach it, = declare it, or command it, on their own authority." - Lysander Spooner, = A Letter to Grover Cleveland, p. 5. \par JUSTICE, MAN, SURVIVAL: Wenn die Gerechtigkeit untergeht, hat es = keinen Wert mehr, dass Menschen auf Erden leben. - Kant, Metaphysik der = Sitten. - (If justice perishes then the survival of man on earth is no = longer of value.) \par JUSTICE, MERCY, CRUELTY: He injures the good who spares the bad. - = Publilius Syrus, Sententiae, c. 50 B.C. \par JUSTICE, MERCY, CRUELTY: He that's merciful unto the bad is cruel = to the good. - Thomas Randolph, The Muses' Looking-Glass, 1636. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE, MODERATION, RADICALISM, = EXTREMISM, LIBERTY: Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, = moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. - MALCOLM X. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE, MORALITY, DUTY, ETHICS: = Justice is the sum of all moral duty. - William Godwin, An Enquiry = Concerning Political Justice, 1793. \par JUSTICE, MUTUALITY: Unless justice be done to others it will not be = done to us. - Woodrow Wilson. - Even the provision of justice is an = exchange agreement. - J.Z., 28.10.02. \par JUSTICE, NATURAL JUSTICE, NATURAL LAW, HUMAN RIGHTS: \'85 not our = own invented justice, which we have simply thought up to fit our = convenient earthly paradise. There is=20 a justice which existed before us, without us and for its own sake. And = our task is to }{\i\fs24\lang1046 divine}{\fs24\lang1046=20 what it is. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, August 14, page 476. - Rights = apply only to rational beings, not to ants or spiders. Thus before man = there were not human ri ghts. They do not apply to stones or animals. The totalitarian = communists neither offered justice nor a paradise. And rights cannot be = clearly conceived and formulated by divinations but only by clear = reasoning. Confused notions cannot sufficiently enligh ten. - J.Z., 28.10.02. \par JUSTICE, NON-PARTISANS, PARTIES, INDEPENDENTS, PANARCHISM: Auch = Parteilose sind nicht parteilos. Sie sind fuer die Gerechtigkeit. - = Stanislaw Jerzy Lec. - (Even those, who are not members of a party, are = taking a stand. They favour ju stice.) - Everybody ought to be a member of a genuine justice party. = Since all don't agree on this, let all be free to opt out and establish = their own justice system among themselves. - J.Z., 5.7.92. \par JUSTICE, PANARCHISM, ASSOCIATIONISM, VOLUNTARISM, SECESS IONISM: I say that you need a clear, positive, and exact expression of = your whole idea (of justice), - that is, an expression which states at = once the principle, the means, and the end; and I add that that = expression is association. - Association is Justi c e, by? in JOURNAL OF LIBERTARIAN STUDIES, Winter 80, p.78. - The Mafia, = other crime syndicates and any gangs or robbers and thieves are also = associations but they do hardly represent justice. To speak merely of = voluntary associations is not clear enough,=20 b ecause they are that, too - but they invade the voluntary associations = of others. Thus they are aggressive, criminal, intolerant associations, = as opposed to peaceful, honest and tolerant associations. I guess the = writer had only the latter in mind in spit e of the numerous examples of the former. - J.Z., 28.10.02.=20 \par JUSTICE, PANARCHISM, GOVERNMENT, TERRITORIALISM: Territorial = governments have organized and practised injustice rather than justice. = Full justice for all can only be organized exterritorially and=20 by volunteer communities. - J.Z., 24.11.92. - Full justice does not mean = uniform justice for all kinds of people but just the kind of justice = which they want for themselves and their own affairs. Territorial = governments do not give all their subjects this option. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par JUSTICE, PEACE & TYRANNY: Peace without justice is tyranny. - = William Allen White. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE, PERSONAL RATHER THAN CAUSAL THINKING, = SCAPEGOATS, CULPRITS, BLAMING OTHER PERSONS, CONSPIRACY THEORIES: We = prefer blame to justice. - The=20 Cynic's Book of Wisdom, quoted in: - S. Andrew Swann, Revolutionary, = Hostile Takeover # 3, 120. - Some, or all too many may do so. Should we? = J.Z., 21.4.00. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE, POWER, TYRANNY, MAN: Die Gerechtigkeit = ist ohnmaechtic ohne die Macht; die Macht ist tyran nisch ohne die Gerechtigkeit. Die Gerechtigkeit erfaehrt viel = Widerspruch, wenn sie keine Macht hat, weil es immer boese Menschen = gibt; die Mach wird angeklagt, wenn sie nicht gerecht ist. Man muss also = die Gerechtigkeit und die Macht vereinigen; und dazu =20 muss man bewirken, dass das maechtig sei, was gerecht ist, oder dass = gerecht sei, was maechtig ist. - Pascal, Gedanken, 257, ed. Dieterich. - = (Justice is impotent without power while power is tyrannical without = justice. Justice encounters much contradicti on when it is powerless, because there will always be evil men. Power = becomes accused when it is not just. Thus one has to combine justice = with power and to achieve that one has to make that powerful what is = just or to make that just what is powerful.) \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE, PROGRESS, HABIT, CUSTOM & TRADITION: Habit = creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than = habit. - Jos\'e9 Marti, ANALOG 12/00, page 233.=20 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE, PROPERTY, RESTITUTION, INDEMNITY: Justice is = the restoration of property to its jus t owner. Justice is restitution. - Barnett & Rothbard view, according to = Walter Grinder, An Introduction to Libertarian Thought, 21. \par JUSTICE, PROPERTY: Gerechtigkeit besteht darin, von keinem Menschen = etwas zu nehmen, was ihm gehoert. - Hobbes. - (Retranslated: Justice = consists in not taking anything from anyone that belongs to him.) \par JUSTICE, REASON & PASSIONS: But justice is the product of reason = not the passions. And justice is the necessary support of the social = order, and the social order is necessary t o man's well-being and happiness. If this is so, the norms of justice = must control and regulate the passions, and not vice versa. - A, Kenneth = Hesselberg, Hume, Natural Law and Justice, 1961. - Quoted in: Rothbard, = The Ethics of Liberty, 13. \par JUSTICE, RESPE CT, DIGNITY: Justice is spontaneous respect, mutually guaranteed, for = human dignity, in whatever person it may be compromised and under = whatever circumstances, and to whatever risk its defense may expose us. = - P. J. Proudhon, De la justice dans la r\'e9 volution, I, 1858. \par JUSTICE, RIGHT, SETTLEMENT OF DIFFERENCES: Nothing is ever settled = till it is settled right. - Quoted in GOOD GOVERNMENT, April 83.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE, RIGHT: Let right be done - or = do it yourselves. - J.Z. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 JUSTICE, RIGHTS & DELAYS:A right delayed is a right = denied. }{\i\cf1 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE, RIGHTS, COURTS: Present = legal and juridical systems mostly grind up individual rights and = liberties - or ignore them altogether. - J.Z., 5.4.99. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE, RIGHTS, NATURAL LAW, MAN, HUMAN RIGHTS, = LAW: Of=20 all these things respecting which learned men dispute there is none more = important than clearly to understand that we are born for justice, and = that right is founded not in opinion, but in nature. - Marcus Tullius = Cicero, Laws (De Legibus). \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE, RIGHTS, NATURE, SECURITY & LIBERTY: = Justice is founded in the rights bestowed by nature upon man. Liberty is = maintained in the security of justice. - Description on the Department = of Justice Building, Washington. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE, SELF-HELP, COURTS, JURIES, ARBITRATION = COURTS: We make our own justice. \'85 let us not rail about justice as = long as we have arms and the freedom to use them. - Frank Herbert, Dune, = Complete & unabridged edition, 87. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE, SOCIAL JUSTICE, EQUALITY, ENVY: The need = to differentiate between justice and envy. - 6}{\fs24\lang1046\super = th}{\fs24\lang1046 Annual LP convention - on Earl Ravenal's speech. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE, SOCIAL = JUSTICE, WAGES, EARNINGS, PROPERTY: What's just has been debated for = centuries but let me offer my definition of social justice: I keep what = I earn and you keep what you ear n. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs = to you - and why? - Walter Williams, ALL IT TAKES IS GUTS, 62. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE, SOCIAL JUSTICE: Based throughout on the = atrocious idea that political power ought to determine the material posi tion of the different individuals or groups. - Hayek, qoted by Ron = Manners, on "Social Justice". \par JUSTICE, STRENGTH, POWER, MIGHT, DESERTION, MILITARY INSURRECTION, = REVOLUTION: In a really just cause the weak conquer the strong. - = Sophocles, Oedipus Coloneo us, c. 450 B.C. - Especially when they are not weak in numbers, ideas = and weapons and if they manage to mobilize the deserters from the = conscripts of the strong for the just common cause. - How often has it = happened in wars that all justice was on one sid e and all injustice on the other side? A truly just cause, well = advocated, as just war and peace aims, can largely count on the soldiers = and officers of the injust regime, to either desert or rise or let = themselves be taken prisoners without resistance. -=20 J.Z., 10.7.86, 27.10.02. \par JUSTICE, SURVIVAL, WORLD, DIS: Es lebe die Gerechtigkeit und sterbe = die Welt. - Abraham a Santa Clara. - (Let justice live, even if it costs = the world.) - Another perverse notion on justice. Man is likely to = survive only through jus tice and will perish through injustice, e.g., the injustice inherent in = ABC mass murder devices. - J.Z., 28.10.02.=20 \par JUSTICE, SYMPATHY, CRUELTY: Without sympathy justice becomes = cruelty. Without justice sympathy becomes weakness. - Metastasio. (Ohne = Mitgefuehl wird Rechtsprechung zu Grausamkeit. Ohne Rechtsprechung wird = Sympathie zu Schwaeche.) \par JUSTICE, TOLERANCE, RECONCILIATION, PANARCHISM: Wer die = Gerechtigkeit nicht schafft, der probiere es mal mit der = Vertraeglichkeit. - Ernst R. Hauschka. - Whoever can not achieve justice should at least attempt peaceful coexistence. = (Contracts? Reconciliation?) - I would rather recommend tolerance and = independence instead, of the panarchistic type. Then it becomes = relatively easy to ignore opponents. - J.Z., 15.1.93, 2 7.10.02. \par JUSTICE, TRUTH, FREEDOM, PEACE, SECURITY, VICTORY, STRENGTH: Truth = is justice's handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion, = safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train. - Ascribed to = Sydney Smith in: A Memoir of the Rev. Syd ney Smith, by his daughter, Lady Holland, 1855.=20 \par JUSTICE, TRUTH, INDIVIDUALS: This is wht we stand for: "Truth, = Justice and the value of a single human being."- From film: Justice at = Nuremberg. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\tx4962\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE, UNIFORMITY VS. COMPETITION, IMPOSED VS. CHOSEN = JUSTIC E SYSTEMS, EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW? EQUALITY OF VOLUNTEERS BEFORE THEIR = LAW! PANARCHISM: The spectre of a dual system of justice loomed before = me. - Piers Anthony, Politician, Bio of a Space Tyrant, vol. 3, 248. - = Rather a multiple, competitive and volunt a ristic system of justice consisting of many justice systems, all = peacefully coexisting for their volunteers, with agreements on how to = deal with those who crossed the line - and offended against members of = other volunteer communities. - J.Z., 29.6.00 & 25 .1.02. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: \'85 the crazy ziggurat of precedent and = tradition that passes for "justice" dirtside. - Heinlein, The Cat Who = Walks Through walls, 65. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: Justice has a price. = Sometimes it costs a bribe. - J.Z., 21.7.78. \par JUSTICE: Justice is effective coordination. - Will Durant, The = Story of Philosophy, p. 29. \par JUSTICE: Justice is fast becoming subservient to political = ideology. - Quoted in NEWS DIGEST INTERNATIONAL, 6/73. \par JUSTICE: Justice is the constant and perpetual will to give each = man his right. - Digest of Justinian. \par JUSTICE: Justice without wisdom is impossible. - J. A. Froude, = Short Studies on Great Subjects: Party Politics. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE: Justice? Who asks for = justice? We make our own justice. We make it here on Arrakis - win or = die. Let us not r ail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them. - = Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune, 493. - Any conqueror and dictator and = other "great" leader might have argued likewise, while committing, with = armed force, one injustice after anothe r. However, there is something very different about merely receiving = justice from above, as a divine or political dispensation, and being = involved in making or choosing and assisting a justice system of one's = own. - J.Z., 7.2.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: Learn justice. (Discite = justitiam.) - Vergil, Aeneid, Bk. vi, 1,620. \par JUSTICE: "Force without justice is tyranny and justice without = force is futility." - source? \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: "Justice is blind" - they = say. And how! - J.Z., 24.11.92. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: "Property and justice are = water",=20 he said finally. "No man can hold them long. I have spent many years in = courtrooms, and I have seen property and justice change when a man = speaks, change as the caterpillar changes to the butterfly. Do you = understand me? I thought I had victory in my hand s, and then the judge spoke and it went away. Like water running through = the fingers." - Wilson/Shea, Illuminatus I, 154. - Typical for justice = in the hands of the State. - J.Z. 8.1.1985. \par JUSTICE: "This way of doing things makes a cultural group work; it = maintains orderly relationships. - John Campbell, ANALOG, Dec. 66. \par JUSTICE: "Truth is its (justice's) handmaid, freedom is its child, = peace is its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in = its train; ..." - Sydney Smith: Lady Holland's Memoir. \par JUSTICE: (Ravenal is sensitive to ....) He is alert to the need to = differentiate between justice and envy. - Earl Ravenal, 1976 Washington = D.C., LP National Convention report. Ravenal gave a speech as a foreign = policy analyst. \par JUSTICE: ... it is the defi nition of justice that each shall enjoy the fruit of his own labor and = self-denial, and of injustice that the idle and industrious, the = self-indulgent and the self-denying, shall share equally in the product. = - W. G. Sumner, as quoted in THE FREEMAN, 5/73 , p. 293. \par JUSTICE: ... justice should be sold on the free market like any = other good, rather than poorly dispensed through a monopolistic judicial = system. ... - Scott, in LIBERTARIAN CONNECTION, No. 73, p. 28. \par JUSTICE: ... 'the system of the laws of justice is the same as the system of the laws of the world, and they are = present in the human soul not only as ideas or concepts but as emotions = or feelings.' - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Selected Writings, N.Y., = 1969,p.230. \par JUSTICE: ... we live under the permanent paradox that Justice, = whose essence is equality and the very negation of power, is conceived = as something which emanates from power. - R. V. Sampson, The Discovery = of Peace, p. 100, on Proudhon. \par JUSTICE: ...These plain men are the men who pay the taxes, and = support the government. Why should they not have such an administration = of justice as they desire, and can understand? - L. Spooner, Trial by = Jury, Vol. I, p. 134. \par JUSTICE: \'85 the duty of love is trivial in comparison with the = duty of justice. - Father F ranziskus Stratmann, War & Christian Conscience, in "Morals & Missiles", = ed. by C. S. Thompson, p. 30. - Now, that is what I would call a = Christian Reformation statement! - J.Z., 7.1.1986. - In that he is ahead = of many Protestants. - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par JUSTICE: \'85 the only prerogative in society is liberty, the only = supreme force, Law. Authority and charity, they say, have served their = time. What we want instead is justice. - Proudhon, in S. Edwards, in = "The Question of Nationalities", 59. \par JUSTICE: \'85 justice - in contrast to a grant of privilege - is the absence of any deterrent = to the creative aspirations of any individual. Let each person pursue = his own ends so long as he does not impede the peaceful objectives of = other individuals. Justice, when rightly def ined, is 'the cement of society', as Alexander Hamilton phrased it.. - = L. E. Read, Who's Listening? 95. \par JUSTICE: \'85 justice and freedom are products no less than are = shoes and phonograph records. Justice and freedom are states-of-affairs = that must be created and maintained by human effort. - Don Franzen, Reply to Peter Crosby's = "Utopia of Competition", THE PERSONALIST. \par JUSTICE: \'85 justice between man and man, and maximum liberty for = each person. - Edmund A. Opitz, THE FREEMAN, 5/73. \par JUSTICE: \'85 justice is an immutable, natural principle; and not = anything that can be made, unmade, or altered by any human power. - = Spooner, to Cleveland, 3. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: \'85 Justice ought to be = stricter and cheaper: "Reason ought to teach us that justice can never = be really such unless it is gratuitous so far as innocent parties are concerned; \'85 " - S. Hutchinson Harris, The Doctrine of Personal Right, 382. - = Ascribing this view to & quoting Sir Roland Wilson, in The Province of = the State, and also to Individualists. - Also much faster and much more = certain! - J.Z., 28.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: \'85 natural law is justice itself ... the nature of justice can no more be = altered by legislation than the nature of numbers can be altered by the = same means. - Lysander Spooner, quoted in Libertarian Handbook, 1973. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE: \'85 no good ever came from the application of one injustice to the cure of = another. - Albert Jay Nock, Journal of Forgotten Days, May 1934 - = October 1935, Regnery, 1948, 105.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: \'85 statute law did not have = its source in justice nor is justice the outcome of such law. - = Sprading, Liberty, 17. \par JUSTICE: \'85 the principle of Justice which Proudhon never wavered = insisting, is an idea and sentiment, a spiritual force animating the = soul of man, immanent in his very nature. If it is not always the m ost energetic of our impulses, it is the most universal and the most = constant. - R. V. Sampson, The Discovery of Peace, 86. \par JUSTICE: A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion = ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery = beings, justice ends? - Edmund Burke, 1729-1797. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24=20 JUSTICE: A government founded upon anything except liberty and justice = cannot and ought not to stand. All the wrecks on either side of the = stream of time, all the wrecks of the great cities, and all the nations that have passed away - all are a warning that no nation = founded upon injustice can stand.}{ }{\fs24=20 From the sand-enshrouded Egypt, from the marble wilderness of Athens, = and from every fallen, crumbling stone of the once mighty Rome, comes a = wail as it were, the cry that no nation founded upon injustice can permanently = stand. - Robert G. Ingersoll, quoted in Sprading, Liberty, 273. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: A kingdom founded on = injustice never lasts. - Seneca (the Younger), Seldes, The Great = Quotations, 512. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: A=20 small instance of justice does not mean that the justice expressed in it = could not be very important in principle and as an example. - J.Z., = 4.9.89. (A part reversal of a remark by Kant, saying, essentially, in my = words: A small example of injustice does=20 not mean that the injustice expressed in it could not be very large. - = J.Z.) \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JUSTICE: Above all other things is justice: success is a good thing; = wealth is good also; honor is better, but justice excels them all. - D. = D. Field, Speeches: Law Reform, 18 March, 1876. \par JUSTICE: Admittedly, there are numerous distinguished economists - = they call themselves utilitarians - who, by cause-and effect reasoning, = arrive at free market, private property, limited government conclusions. = But the case for liberty should, in my opinion, be argued more along the lines of men's rights - justice - = than along strictly materialistic lines. For more on this, see my How to = Reduce Taxes, FEE, Irvington on Hudson, N.Y. - L. E. Read, Elements of = Libertarian Leadership, 32. \par JUSTICE: All around us the substitutes for true justice contest for = power: 'Equality of opportunity', 'social justice', 'freedom from want'. = Meanwhile, justice in the old way 'to each his due' - seems to have been = shunted aside. - Source? J.Z.?=20 \par JUSTICE: And it is invalid to say of a fact either that it is or = that it is not just; only actions are just or unjust. - David Kelley, = THE FREEMAN, 1/75. \par JUSTICE: Anyone who seeks justice through his own efforts is = branded as a criminal, since he has violated the governmental monopoly = on justice. - Leland Schubert, describing James L. Walker's views in = "MINUS ONE", Spring 173. \par JUSTICE: As soon as Justice returns, the golden age returns. (Jam = redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna.) Vergil, Eclogues, No. iv, 1.6. \par JUSTICE: Brutus=20 sacrificed his sons to his country, though this was probably not = absolutely necessary. Were I forced to choose, I would be prepared to = sacrifice my country to justice. - Proudhon, quoted by S. Edwards in = "The Question of Nationalities", p. 189. \par JUSTICE: B ut if justice be a natural principle, then it is necessarily an = immutable one; and can no more be changed - by any power inferior to = that which established it - than can the law of gravitation, the laws of = light, the principles of mathematics, or any othe r natural law or principle whatever; and all attempts or assumptions, on = the part of any man of body of men - whether calling themselves = governments, or by any other name - to set up their own commands, wills, = pleasure, or discretion, in the place of justi c e, as a rule of conduct for any human being, are as much an absurdity, = an usurpation, and a tyranny, as would be their attempts to set up their = own commands, wills, pleasure, or discretion in place of any and all = the physical, mental, and moral laws of t he universe. - Spooner, Natural Law, V. \par JUSTICE: But nothing can justify injustice. - Ayn Rand, Atlas = Shrugged, 530. \par JUSTICE: Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. - = Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, in "Martin Chuzzlewit", Ch. 27. \par JUSTICE: Conformity to truth, fact or right reason, fairness, = rightfulness; truth, impartiality. - quoted by Sprading as an accepted = definition. \par JUSTICE: Delay in justice is injustice. - Walter Savage Landor, = in: Seldes, The Great Quotations, 512. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: Die Gerechtig keit ist jene Tugend, die jedem gibt, was ihm gehoert. - Augustinus. = (Justice is that virtue which gives everybody what belongs to him.) = "Suum cuique". - (To each his own.) \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE: Do every = man equal justice. Let no innocent man suffer, let no guilty man = escape. - Isaac Charles Parker of Fort Smith, Arkansas, also known as = the "Hanging Judge".=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JUSTICE: Do you really believe that something as sensitive as justice = should be administered administered by the government? Wouldn't this be = as likely to be badly administered as the government post office and the government health = services are and as a government regulated sex life and food supply = would be? - J.Z., 1974, 7.1.1986. \par JUSTICE: Doesn't every individual owe it to himself to act justly = towards others? - R. A.Childs, Jr., INDIVIDUALIST, May 71. \par JUSTICE: Don't offer anything that is less than 100% justice an = ideal. - J., 74. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: Ein wesentlicher Umstand = bei der Gerechtigkeit, die man andern schuldet, ist, dass man sie ihnen = sogleich und ohne Aufschub=20 widerfahren laesst; sie auf sich warten lassen ist Ungerechtigkeit. - La = Bruy\'e8 re, Charaktere, Kap. XII. - (An essential condition with justice owed to = others is that one one offers it immediately, without any delays. To let = people wait for it amounts to in justice.) - Compare the much more concise: "Justice delayed is justice = denied." \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: Establish justice, as the = only means of banishing the menace of war. - Ramsay Muir, Future of = Democracy, 1939. \par JUSTICE: Every man has certain judicial powers or rights . He has by nature the right to judge and enforce his own rights, to = judge or redress his on wrongs. But, in doing so, a man must only act in = accordance with his own judgement and conscience, subject to his own = personal responsibility if he commits an err or injurious to another. - Carl Watner, on Spooner, "REASON", 3/73. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 JUSTICE: Fiat justitia, ne pereat mundus. - Let justice be done so that = the world does not perish. - From B.B. Greaves: Mises Made Easier. - = Isn't there a much older version running essent ially like this: Let justice be done, even though the world might perish = as a result? Meaning: Justice, not survival is the highest value. - = J.Z., 27.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: FIAT JUSTITIA, PEREAT MUNDUM. = But the world does not perish, where justice is done.- Frederic Ewen, in = his introduction to H. Heine, 50. \par JUSTICE: Fiat justitia, ruat coelum. (Let justice be done though = the heavens fall.) (Act justly, although the world might perish.) - Carl = Watner, on Justice, 36. \par JUSTICE: From Earth to Heav'n when Justice fled, // The Laws = decided in her Stead; // From Heav'n to Earth should she return, // = Lawyers might beg, and Lawbooks burn. - "Poor Richard", 1746. \par JUSTICE: General justice and mutual interest are found more capable = of binding men than signatures and seals. - Godwin, in Sprading, p. 102. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 JUSTICE: Give up on lawyers and governments, courts and judges - but = never on justice, free arbitration and free juries, individual liberties = and rights. - J.Z., 5.4.99. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: Has justice ever grown in the = soil of absolute p ower? Has not justice always come from the press of the heart and spirit = of men who resist power? - Woodrow Wilson, 1912. - So, what was he doing = in power? - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par JUSTICE: He who refuses justice surrenders everything to him who is = armed. (Arma t enati Omnia dat qui justa negat.) - Lucan, De Bello Civili, Bk. i, = 1.348. - The denial of justice to minority groups leads some of their = members to deny justice to innocents by means of terrorist actions = against them, committed under false notions of "col l ective responsibility" for the original and persistent wrongs, by some = decision-makers and their helpers, against groups which the terrorists = try to represent. Alas, the terrorists themselves aim, as a rule, at = territorial rule as well, with them on top a n d, in their turn, similarly oppressing others, who disagree with them. = Endless terror and counter-terror are the result. Civil wars and = international wars are largely the same thing but officially organized = and practised on a much larger scale. - The offi cial terrorists are the worst. - Not that this excuses any private = terrorist actions. - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par JUSTICE: How are you to find justice at the hands of officers of = the court who believe in the sanctity of the law? - Jim Andrews, FREEDOM = TODAY, 10/75. \par JUSTICE: How is justice to be served if the laws are not to be = questioned? - FREEDOM TODAY, Oct. 75. \par JUSTICE: I am interested in justice, not the law. There is an = unfortunate difference. - Peter O'Donnell, A Taste for Death, p. 106. \par JUSTICE: I say that you=20 need a clear, positive, and exact expression of your whole idea (of = justice), that is, an expression which states at once the principle, the = means, and the end; and I add that that expression is ASSOCIATION. - = "Association Is Justice, JLS, Winter 80, p. 7 8. - See also under Associationism, Voluntaryism, Secessionism, = Panarchism. ) \par JUSTICE: If each of us will treat each other human being as a = person, and respect the essential humanity of that person by respecting = his right to free choice, we will achieve justice. - Ridgway K. Foley = Jr., THE FREEMAN, 5/74. \par JUSTICE: If justice be not a natural principle, it is no principle = at all. If it be not a natural principle, there is no such thing as = justice. If it be not a natural principle, all that men have ever said o r written about it, from time immemorial, has been said and written = about that which had no existence. If it be not a natural principle, all = the appeals for justice that have ever been heard, and all the struggles = for justice that have ever been witnessed , have been appeals and struggles for a mere fantasy, a vagary of the = imagination, and not for a reality. - Spooner, Natural Law. \par JUSTICE: If justice be not a natural principle, then there is no = such thing as injustice; and all the crimes of which the world has been the scene, have been no crimes at all; but only simple events, = like the falling of the rain, or the setting of the sun; events of which = the victims had no more reason to complain than they had to complain of = the running of the streams, or the gr o wth of vegetation. -- If justice be not a natural principle, governments = (so-called) have no more right or reason to take cognisance of it, or = to pretend or profess to take cognisance of it, than they have to take = cognisance, or to pretend or profess to=20 take cognisance, of any other nonentity; and all their professions of = establishing justice, or of maintaining justice, or of regarding = justice, are simply the mere gibberish of fools, or the frauds of = impostors. - L. Spooner, Natural Law. \par JUSTICE: If men ar e to live together as civilised beings, then justice, not sacrifice, = must be the ruling principle among them. Just as productiveness is the = primary expression of man's rationality in his relationship to nature, = so justice is the primary expression of man=20 is rationality in his relationship to other men. - Ayn Rand, quoted in = Young, on A. R., 17. \par JUSTICE: If the idea that we form of justice and right is ill = defined, if it is imperfect or even false, it is clear that all our = legislative applications will be wr ong, our institutions vicious, our politics erroneous; and, = consequently, there will be disorder and chaos. - Proudhon, What is = Property? 1840, in Tucker's translation, p. 26/27. \par JUSTICE: If you seek peace you will not find it but if you obtain = justice you will find peace. - General Montgomery. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 JUSTICE: If you want justice, leave government courts, judges, lawyers, = laws, parliaments, politicians, and bureaucrats alone. Don't support or = obey them, when you can help it. Rather secede from them. Establish or c hoose your own juridical system. - 5.4.99. - With as much freedom of = choice and freedom of action and experimentation finally established for = individuals and their voluntary associations, we would soon make fast = progress with the realization of justice on earth. As it is, our individual rights and liberties are almost = strangled by avalanches of laws and court decisions. - J.Z., 27.10.02.=20 \par JUSTICE: If your Justice will not far exceed the justice of = scholars and Pharisees, then you will not get to the heavenl y empire. - Pestalozzi, Lienhard & Gertrud, 165. Kapitel, Motto. (Wenn = eure Gerechtigkeit nicht weit uebertreffen wird die Gerechtigkeit der = Schriftgelehrten und Pharisaeer, so werdet ihr nicht ins Reich des = Himmels eingehen.) \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: I'll not sell my bir th-right for a mess of pottage, for Justice is my natural right, my = heirdom, my inheritance by lineal descent from the loins of Adam, and so = to all the sons of men as their proper right without respect to persons. = - Overton, 9.9.1648. \par JUSTICE: Ils veulent etre libres et ne savent pas etre justes. (Sie = wollen frei sein, und sie verstehen nicht gerecht zu sein. They want to = be free and know not how to be just.) - Abbe Joseph Sieyes, in the = Constituent Assembly, 10 Aug., 1789. \par JUSTICE: In a footnote, Spooner p araphrases a follower of Blackstone to say "that, when no law has been = made in violation of justice, judicial tribunals, 'in all ages and = nations', have 'seldom' failed to agree as to what justice is." -p. 9, = Spooner on natural law, Works, I, p. 4. \par JUSTIC E: In a just society, each individual should be rewarded for his energy, = his talents, his productivity and his service. He ought not to be = rewarded because of his privileged position as an official of the State. = Neither should he be penalised, as he so of t en is today, by the State because he puts in a better than average = performance at what he knows or does best. Justice requires that each = man be free to prove his excellence and to enjoy the rewards of his = efforts as they are accorded to him by those who p a y for them and are therefore best able to judge their value. -- It is = well that we remember that who robs another of his reward, diminishes = not only his own status, but deprives all of society of the benefits it = might otherwise gain from the energies and=20 p roductivity of every citizen. -- The government that robs its citizens = of their reward, upon whatever pretext, diminishes not only the stature = of its citizens, but condemns the nation to a future of poverty and = despair. - Morris Shumiatcher, THE FREEMAN,=20 8/75, p. 493. (A name version of "Schumacher" or a misprint?) \par }\pard\plain \sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24=20 JUSTICE: In one of the most vitriolic epistles he addressed to the = officials of government, Spooner insisted that it is not the = Constitution that is the supreme law of the land but justice. "And if you do not know it", he wrote one of his unfortunate victims, "your = ignorance is so dense as to be pitiable." - There are those who argue = that liberty is lost to the American people because the Constitution has = been neglected, he rasped, but freedom c a n never be sustained in the land where people are taught to slavishly = follow the exact letter of the Constitution as though it were a book of = commandments bequeathed to them by a supreme lawgiver. Only justice = possesses enough majesty to be accorded a pla ce of honor in our consciences. - W. O. Reichert, Partisans of Freedom, = p. 125.}{\fs24\lang1046=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JUSTICE: In the field of justice, man's will is all; men CAN move = mountains, if only men so decide. - Murray N. Rothbard, in "Why Be = Libertarian?", in "Egalitarianism As A Revolt Against Nature, p. 149. \par JUSTICE: In the search for justice, injustice must not be = practised. - Solneman, LERNZIEL ANARCHIE, Nr. 2, S. 38. \par JUSTICE: In the Virginia Declaration of Rights, drafted by George = Mason and adopted on June 12, 1776, there appears=20 this statement in Article 15: "No free government or the blessings of = liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to = justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent = recurrence to fundamental principles." \par JUSTICE: In the whole constitution of man, I cannot see any virtue = contrary to justice, whereby it may be resisted and opposed. - Marcus = Aurelius Antoninus: Meditations. \par JUSTICE: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - = Martin Luther King, 1963. \par JUSTICE: Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is = justice. - Ascribed to Mencken, by Mack Reynolds: Trample an Empire = Down, p. 117/8. \par JUSTICE: It is also a subject of science, and is to be learned, = like mathematics, or any other science. It does no t derive its authority from the commands, will, pleasure, or discretion = of any possible combination of men, whether calling themselves a = government, or by any other name. - Spooner, to Cleveland, 3. \par JUSTICE: It is also in the Sermon on the Mount that Jesus offers the classical formulation of a notion of justice that embraces = retribution as well as distribution: 'the measure you give, shall be the = measure you get.' But the distinctive conception of justice in the New = Testament is that on the day of judgemen t few will be saved from eternal torment. The idea that any man - not = even to speak of most of mankind - should be punished with eternal = torture is so repugnant to liberals that millions refuse to acknowledge = its presence where it stares them in the face.=20 - Walter Kaufmann, Without Guilt and Justice, 43. \par JUSTICE: It is the science of peace: and the only science of peace: = since it is the science which alone can tell us on what conditions = mankind can live in peace, or ought to live in peace, with each other. - L. Spooner, Natural Law. - However, for many centuries one overlooked = that this would require the abolition of territorial States & their = jurisdiction and their replacement by exterritorially autonomous = volunteer communities and their various justice sys tems. One territorial justice system for all amounts to injustice to = many people who disagree on principles, means and methods, punishments, = rehabilitation and preventative steps against crimes. - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par JUSTICE: Just don't expect justice from governments - J.Z. 23.1.74. = - Not from territorial governments, anyhow. - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par JUSTICE: Just don't expect justice from governments. - J., 74. \par JUSTICE: Justice - The True Economic Expediency. - B. Butterworth, = Headline in "PROGRESS", March 1979. \par JUSTICE: Justice alone is the Supreme Law of this land, and all = other lands. - Spooner, Works 1, 5. \par JUSTICE: Justice and Generosity do not go hand in hand, the hand of = Generosity being commonly thrust into the pocket of Justice.' - A. = Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, under: Fable. \par JUSTICE: Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but = great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms? = - St. Augustine, The City of God, IV. \par JUSTICE: Justice cannot be discovered in the by-pass through the = minds of prejudiced and corrupt politicians and bureaucrats. - J.Z., = 9.75. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE: Justice consists in the = compliance with custom in all matters of difference between men. \'85 this accords with the definition of the Roman law. - James Coolidge = Carter. - While this might be a sufficient standard for justice within a = volunteer community, with its personal law system, it is not = automatically a good enough guide for the interrelationships between = different volunteer-communities, unless on agrees, in advan c e, to adopt either the law of the defender or that of the accuser. I = hold that a highly developed individual rights code would be a better = guide to follow. However, agreement on this is also a matter of = negotiation between such exterritorially autonomous=20 communities, with their competing legal and juridical systems. - J.Z., = 25.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JUSTICE: Justice contains the sum of all virtue, and every just man, = Kyrnos, is good. - Greek poet Theognis, in the 2nd. half of the 6th. = century B.C. (Walter Kaufmann, Without Guilt and Justice, 38.) \par JUSTICE: Justice could be reached only through reason. Most men = erred in their reasoning because they were encumbered by selfish or = limited interests. - Spooner to George Bradburn, Dec. 5, 1847, quoted by = Chively, p. 40, Spooner works, I. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: Justice delayed is justice = denied, says the legal maxim; what we have done is to institutionalize = the denial of justice. \'85 Woodrow Wilson, while still a professor of political science, said that = delays had effectively denied use of the courts to tens of millions of = American citizens. - Jerry Pournelle, To Establish Justice, ANALOG, = 9/83, page 111. \par }{\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE: Justice delayed is justice denied. - = Attributed to William E. Gladstone. - Laurence J. Peter Peter's = Quotations, p. 276 (1977). Unverified. - }{\fs24 Justice delayed is = justice denied. - W. E. Gladstone, 1809-1898. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JUSTICE: Justice demands that no man interfere with choices affecting = the life, liberty, or property of another human being by coercion, = fraud, or duress. - Ridgway K. Foley Jr., THE FREEMAN, 5/74. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: Justice entrusted to = bureaucrats, MP's, judges and lawyers ceases to be justice, as a rule. - = J.Z., 183.95. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: Justice first. - Edmund = Opitz, THE FREEMAN, 7/75, p. 437. \par JUSTICE: Justice for all. Charity for none! - J.Z., 2/75. - = Compulsory charity for none. Voluntary charity for those who like it. I = would always prefer private insurance, credit, mutual aid and fraternal = arrangements. - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: Justice in two words is = just ice. Often it is that cold and meaningl ess. - August B. Black, My Briefs on Life, FRAGMENTS 3-6/98. - One = should distingiush between "positive" and legal justice and natural = justice, conforming to the nature of man and his individual rights and = liberties. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: Justice is a code of principles which defines what is due to a man, what he = deserves, what he is legitimately entitled to ... the fundamental need = of man in society is freedom of action, which means: recognition of his = rights to actions over property which he morally owns, i.e. has a justifiable claim to, which means: Justice." - R. A. = Childs Jr., INDIVIDUALIST, May 71, p. 5. \par JUSTICE: Justice is always the same, whether it be due from one man = to a million, or from a million to one man. - Chief Justice Jay. \par JUSTICE: Justice is blind ... but must it also be deaf and dumb, = and wear a wooden leg? - Quoted by Scott in THE LIBERTARIAN CONNECTION, = No. 76, 8/5/78. \par JUSTICE: Justice is effective coordination. - Will Durant, The = Story of Philosophy, p. 39. \par JUSTICE: Justice is equity in balance with equality. - G. C. Szmak, = in "The Four Blind Spots". \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: Justice is everything. - = Big Bob in Georges Simenon, Fifth Omnibus, p. 248. \par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE: Justice = is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent = departure fro m it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no = policy at all. - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution and France. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: Justice is itself the great = standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, = under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. - = Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. - Was Burke quite = just towards all aspects of the French Revolution and towards the = writings of Thomas Paine? - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par JUSTICE: Justice is liberty and property. - Bastiat, quoted in = Roche III, Bastiat, 157. \par JUSTICE: Justice is love, so love justice or it won't love you. - = D.Z, 14.11.76. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: Justice is more important = than descent. - J.Z., n.d. \par JUSTICE: Justice is not impossible - but has too few defenders - = people who understand and love it and are prepared to stand up, risk = unpopularity and to fight for it. - J.Z., 24.2.86, 27.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: Justice is not the right of = the stronger, but the effective harmony of the whole. - Will Durant, The = Story of Philosophy, 39. \par JUSTICE: Justice is our destiny. - Zarlenga. \par JUSTICE: Justice is the constant and perpetual will to give each = man his right. - Digest of Justinian. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE: Justice is the end of = government. - Daniel Defoe, Th e True-born Englishmen, II, 1, 368. - Has it ever been the true aim of = any government? Will not the realisation of true justice mean the end of = any territorially imposed government? - J.Z., 2.4.99. -- Defoe's remark = }{\fs24=20 is rather ambiguously expressed. It cou ld mean that justice will end governments or that justice is what = governments really aim at. I would rather say: Government won't achieve = justice but justice will end government. - J.Z. 5.7.82. - Overlooking = previous remarks, which got separated in scanni n g, I added now: Indeed, the realisation of true justice would mean = ending all territorial governments. - Territorial governments usually = strove more for power than genuine justice. They only pretended to = provide the latter and defence and protection etc.=20 - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JUSTICE: Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil = society. - James Madison, Federalist, No. 51. - True justice realized = would end territorial governments and finally being truly civil, because = free societies. - Did territor ial governments ever sufficiently aim at justice rather than power? - = J.Z., 16.11.02. \par JUSTICE: Justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest = evil. - John Leitch, Man to Man, 233, quoting from the policy of the = Packard Company. \par JUSTICE: Justice is the having and doing what is one's own. - = Plato. \par JUSTICE: Justice is the only true and right way to peace. - G. C. = Szmak, in "The Four Blind Spots". \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: Justice is the settled and = permanent intention of rendering to each man his rights. - Roman, = Justinian, Institutions, I, i.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: Justice is the sum of all = moral duty. - William Godwin, An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, = 1793. \par JUSTICE: Justice is the supreme God, it is the living God, the = all-powerful God, ... Proudhon, Oevres Complete de P. J. Proudhon, De la = Justice Dans La Revolution et Dans l'Eglise, vol. I, p. 225. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 JUSTICE: Justice is the very first condition of all society, and indeed = a condition of human life prior to society. Justice consists essentially = in regard to two rights that b elong by nature to every man, namely, liberty and property. - View = ascribed to Dr. Quesnay in "Natural Right", 1765, and Mercier de la = Riviere, in: "The Natural and Essential Order of Political Societies", = 1757. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: Justice is to give every man = his own. - Aristotle. - Free Man's Almanac, by L. E. Read. (Suum = cuique.) \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE: Justice is truth in action. - Benjamin Disraeli, = 1851. Also: Joubert, Pensees, No.203, 1838. \par }\pard \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\fs24 = JUSTICE: Justice is truth in action. - Churchill. - How often did he = know it and put it into action? - J.Z.,, 7.1.86. - If I drop something on Earth, it = will fall, unless it is tied, glued, nailed or screwed on or otherwise = held up. This is true, but is it justice? Obviously, he meant only the = use of truths for relationships between peop l e. But even there: Is total frankness and expression of all the opinions = one has of others, in their presence or in their absence, always = demanded by "justice"? In certain situations one should not lie or = remain silent - but in others! Formulas can be exp ressed in so general terms that they become rather useless. - J.Z., = 16.11.02.}{\fs24\lang1046=20 \par JUSTICE: Justice may be called, of all things, the miracle worker = amongst men. - John Bright, 1868. \par JUSTICE: Justice may be defined, [as] that virtue which impels us = to give to ev ery person what is his due. In this extended sense of the word, it = comprehends the practice of every virtue which reason prescribes, or = society should expect. Our duty to our Maker, to each other, and to = ourselves, are fully answered, if we give them what =20 we owe them. Thus justice, properly speaking, is the only virtue; and = all the rest have their origin in it. - The qualities of candour, = fortitude, charity, and generosity, for instance, are not, in their own = nature, virtues; and if ever they deserve the t itle, it is owing only to justice, which impmels and directs them. = Without such a moderator, candour might become indiscretion, fortitude = obstinacy, charity improudence, and generosity mistaken profusion. \'85 - Oliver Goldsmith, The Bee, No. III, p. 364. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: Justice must not only be done = but manifestly must be seen to be done. - Lord Chief Justice Hewart, = 1924. \par JUSTICE: Justice must tame, whom mercy cannot win. - George Savile, = Lord Halifax, 1633-1695. - Justice should be a primary and mercy merely = a}{\fs24 }{\f0\fs24 secondary consideration. - J.Z., 16.11.02.}{\fs24=20 \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 JUSTICE: Justice never is anything in itself, but in dealing of men with = one another in any place whatever and at any time, it is a kind of = compact not to harm or be harmed. - Epicurus, Principal Doctrines, 33, = ca. 3 41-270 B.C. - Rather, not to do wrong and not to be wronged. - J.Z. \par }{\fs24 JUSTICE: Justice requires that you should not place the = burdens of one man on the shoulders of another man, even though he is = better able to bear them. - Auberon Herbert, Mack edition, 57. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JUSTICE: Justice rules when rights are respected or protected and = individual responsibility applies to offenders. J.Z., ca. 1975-1980. - = However, there is a limited case for applying collective responsibility = to criminals with victims. If they do not form a mutual insurance company to make good all the damages they do, as far = as that can be done, then such an organization can be forced upon them, = financed via levies of all those convicted of crimes with victims and = with indemnification claims against them only being reduced in accordance with the information they supply on = other criminals, not yet convicted for particular crimes. - See my = articles on this in my PEACE PLANS series. - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par JUSTICE: Justice should know "no limits in time or distance". - = Simon Wiesenthal, quoted in READER'S DIGEST, 3/72. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: Justice to all. (Justitia = omnibus.) - Motto of the District of Columbia.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: Justice Versus Social = Justice. - L. E. Read, heading of chapter 14 of "Who's Listening?", p. = 93. \par JUSTICE: J ustice without power is inefficient; power without justice is tyranny. = Justice without power is opposed, because there are always wicked men. = Power without justice is soon questioned. Justice and power must = therefore be brought together, so that whatever=20 is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. - Blaise = Pascal, Pensees. \par JUSTICE: Justice without wisdom is impossible. - J. A. Froude, = Short Studies on Great Subjects: Party Politics. \par JUSTICE: Justice, being destroyed, will destroy; being preserved, = will preserve; it must never, therefore, be violated. [MANU]-? (Stress = the first part or leave rest out. - D.Z.) \par JUSTICE: Justice, once disturbed, cannot be restored by = indemnification between the victims alone. The offender (or similar = types of=20 offenders, rather than the general public must be held responsible for = all the damages, including the costs of his apprehension. Different = kinds of penal codes and judiciary systems and rehabilitation, = punishment, deterrence and indemnification systems wi ll be applied by different panarchies. - J.Z., 28.7.84, 16.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1=20 JUSTICE: Justice..... A commodity which in a more or less adulterated = condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, = taxes and personal service. - Ambrose Bierce. - Does it sell more = justice than injustice? - J.Z., 29.6.00.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JUSTICE: Justice: Is the handmaiden of government and thus bespeaks the = character of its master... - D. R. Runes, Treasury of Thought, 74. - = Better: Justice is too often the .... - J.Z. 1/75. \par JUSTICE: Justitia est constans et perpetua voluntas jus suum cuique = tribuendi. (Justice is a steady and unceasing disposition to render to = every man his due.) - Carl Watner, ibid, 15, quoting Justinian, = Institutiones, Bk. i, sec. 1. \par JUSTICE: Justitia est linma recti. (Justice is a straight line.) = Watner, Justice, 21. \par JUSTICE: Knowing of the rights of others, sometimes expressed as = not doing unto others that which one would not have done unto self: = Justice. - Read, Elements of Libertarian Leadership, 171. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: Learn to do justice. = (Discite justitiam.) - Vergil: Aeneid, VI, 18 B.C. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: Let justice be a weapon. Or: = Use justice as a weapon. - J.Z., after reading Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, = 973: "The weapon was justice." \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24 JUSTICE: Let justice be done, so that the = world be saved. - J.Z., 7.4.77. \par }{\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: Let justice be done, though the heavens = fall. (Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.) - Source ? \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: Let justice be your = breastplate, and you shall need to fear no enemies, for you shall strike = a terrour to your now=20 insulting oppressors, and force all the Nations Peace to fly before you. = Prosecute and prosper. - Walwyn, The Bloody Project, 1648. \par JUSTICE: Let order and justice prevail. - Bastiat, quoted by Roche = III, Bastiat, 208. \par JUSTICE: Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is = feeble is found to be nothing worth. - Apocrypha: Wisdom of Solomon, ii, = 11. \par JUSTICE: Let there be courts of justice instead of law. - J.Z., = 27.11.73, after reading: "Let there be justice in the courts instead of = law." - in "Treasury of Thought, by D. R. Runes, p. 81. \par JUSTICE: Libertarians believe that justice is that which ought to = be done by one to another. - Sprading, Liberty, 16. \par JUSTICE: Maladministration of justice raises, very considerably, = the cost of living for all. - Herbert Spencer, The Study of Sociology, = postscript. \par JUSTICE: Man has a right to justice - at the expense of the = aggressor, if he exists. The difference in this regard between justice = and a good such as food, a job, or shelter, is this: to claim a 'right=20 to food' is to demand something positive from others which it is not in = their interest to provide; but to claim a right to justice is to ask of = others only the negative requirement of non-aggression. The clich\'e9 , "freedom isn't free", describes an undesirable present fact of = reality. ... It certainly should not be mistaken for the ideal or for = the condition of a truly libertarian society. - R. A. Childs, Jr., THE = LIBERTARIAN CONNECTION, 10/7/72. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: Maybe there is a little = bit of justice in the world af ter all. - From The New Mike Hammer film: The Golden Lady. - And maybe = we can increase that amount a little. - J.Z., 3.8.89. \par JUSTICE: Nationalized, legalized, lawyerized and bureaucratized = justice is no longer justice. - J.Z. 5.4.99, 27.10.02 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: No more than justice is = obligatory, and no less. - J.Z., 73/75. \par JUSTICE: Now, if von Mises and the Austrian school are correct in = their conclusion that market means are the optimal mechanism for = supplying human wants, then justice and freedom should be most ef ficiently produced by the free market. - Don Franzen, Reply to Peter = Crosby's "Utopia of Competition", THE PERSONALIST. \par JUSTICE: Of all the things respecting which I learned men dispute, = there is nothing more important than clearly to understand that we ar e born for justice and that right is founded not in opinion but in = nature. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, Laws, - Seldes, The Great Quotations, = 536. \par JUSTICE: Of the two principles libertarians share: "Do No = Injustice" and "Suffer No Injustice", the first injunct ion should be to "Suffer No Injustice" and the second "Do None". The = certainty of meeting a firm and resolute resistance to injustice is far = more powerful than a simple prohibition. The man who defends his life = and just property defends the conditions req uired for his continued existence. - Carl Watner, On Justice, quoting = von Ihering, The Struggle for Law, 76 & 46. \par JUSTICE: Only the market can properly market justice. - D., 76. \par JUSTICE: Our defence is not in armaments, nor in science, nor in = going undergro und. Our defence is in law and order. - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955. - = Can the usual democratic or republican "law and order" system defend us = sufficiently against internal and external aggression? Against private = terrorism or official terrorism with ABC=20 mass murder devices? - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par JUSTICE: Policemen: They are friends when supporting justice and = foes when inflicting injustice. - L. E. Read. \par JUSTICE: Rawl ... arguing that "just institutions are those which = allow creativity to all people". - W. Stoddard, "REASON", 3/74. \par JUSTICE: Rawl .... arguing that JUST INSTITUTIONS ARE THOSE WHICH = ALLOW CREATIVITY TO ALL PEOPLE.' - W. Stoddard, REASON, 3/74. \par }\pard\plain \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid = {\fs24\cgrid0 JUSTICE: Render unto all men their due, but remember thou = art also a man. - Martin F. Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy: of Humility. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: Rightfulness; uprightness, = equitableness, as the justice of a cause. - Quoted by Sprading as an = accepted definition. \par JUSTICE: So long as governments depend on coercion, justice cannot = be obtained. - Carl Watner, on Spooner, REASON, 3/73. \par JUSTICE: Something as sensitive as justice shouldn't be = administered by governments. - J.Z. 29.6.74. - I.e., not by politicians = and bureaucrats. Then it turns out even worse than art, music, charity, = postal and transport services or defenc e administered by them. - They are so mistaken that they still imagine = that they can promote justice by their avalanches of laws! - J.Z., = 16.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: Sparing justice feeds = iniquity. - Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, 1594. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: Speed is not of=20 the essence; justice very definitely is. - E. E. 'Doc' Smith, First = Lensman, p. 215. - Is justice done to a man when his court case is = rightfully settled only after his death? Justice ought to be speedy, = too! - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par JUSTICE: Spooner no more than John Brown expected justice through = legal channels. - Charles Shively, in introduction to Spooner's works, = 1, 38. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1033 JUSTICE: Summum ius summa iniuria. = - Extreme [legal] justice is extreme injustice. - Anonymous Latin Legal = maxim cited by Cicero, De Officiis 1.10.33. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JUSTICE: Sumner advanced a fundamental principle of justice: "I am = entitled to make the most I can of myself without hindrance from = anybody, but I am not entitled to any guarantee that I should make as = much of myself as somebody else makes of him self. - W. G. Sumner, quoted by J. Marshall, JLS, Fall 79. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: Suum cuique: To each his = own. Ancient Roman definition of justice.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: That justice is the highest = quality in the moral hierarchy I do not say, but that it is the first. = That which i s above justice must be based on justice, and include justice, and be = reached through justice. - Henry George, Social Problems, Ch. 9. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: That which is above = justice must be based on jsutice, and include justice, and be reached = through justice. - Hen ry George, Social Problems, IX, 1884. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24=20 JUSTICE: That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is = just can really harm no one. - Henry George, The Land Question, Ch. 14. = - Doesn't the death penalty harm the murderer? Doesn't crime pay, = sometimes, for some criminals? JJ. 27.4.83. - With a murderer only an irrational = being is eliminated, rational beings are not harmed but benefit by his = execution - unless they take into consideration the earnings and = indemnification potential thus destroyed. And cr ime pays, usually, only in the short run and only in money and = excitement. J.Z., 8.1.1986. \par JUSTICE: The belief that men have a right to justice is implicit in = the very spirit of libertarianism. - R. A. Childs Jr., THE LIBERTARIAN = CONNECTION, 10/7/72. \par JUSTICE: The Chinese sage, Mencius, is said to have declared: I = desire life. I also desire Justice. But if I cannot have both, I shall = have to let life go and take Justice. - Carl Watner, On Justice, 37, = referring to the Works of Mencius, VI, I, 10.1. \par JUSTICE: T he conception of justice that underlies retributive and distributive = justice is the same: distributions and punishments are considered just = when each gets what he deserves, and unjust when this is not the case. = In other words, JUSTICE CONSISTS OF METING O U T TO MEN WHAT THEY DESERVE. When they are punished because they are held = to deserve evil and suffering, one speaks of retributive justice. When = what is distributed is good, one speaks of distributive justice. I = propose to criticise this kind of justice -=20 retributive justice, in the remainder of this chapter, distributive = justice in the next. The notion that distributive justice is better = understood as fairness will also be taken up in the next chapter. - = Walter Kaufmann, Without Guilt and Justice, 39. \par JUSTI CE: The crooked course of Favor, greatness, or the like, is not the = proper channel of Justice; it is pure, and individual, equally and alike = proper unto all, descending and running in that pure line streaming and = issuing out unto all, though grievously co rrupted, vitiated, and adulterated from generation to generation. - = Overton, 9.9.1648. \par JUSTICE: The essence of justice is respect. - Proudhon \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: The extremity of justice = is extreme injustice. - Richard Grafton, Chronicle at Large, 1568. - A = misleading formula. All principles can be exaggerated on a nominalist basis. Every = truth relates to others. Every value is bounded by other values: every = right limited by other rights. - J.Z., 10.7.86. - What is here called = "extremity of justice" is, probably, by i tself, essentially an injust act that should never be called and act of = justice. - To judge this judgment or misjudgment one may have to proceed = from such generalities to practical cases. - J.Z., 27.10.02.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: The first principle of = justice, according to Rawls, is equal liberty. - WilliamStoddard, = REASON, 3/74. \par JUSTICE: The free market renders justice. Justice is a social term; = it relates to relationships one with another and is achieved when our = relations with each other are fair. How is a just exchan ge to be determined? It is simply a matter of respecting subjective = judgements If you prefer what I have to offer more than what you stand = ready to give in exchange, that is all there is to it: economic justice. = This is willing exchange - both parties wil ling - a prime tenet of the free market way of life. - L. E. Read, The = Truth Will Out, p. 45. \par JUSTICE: The government cannot even ensure the production of a = decent pair of boots - and still some believe it should be entrusted = with the production of as sensitive an article as justice. - J.Z., = 4.2.73. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: The just among the = Gentiles are priests of God. - Eliyahu Zuta, 20. - A Gentile who lives a = goodly life is like a High Priest. - Rabbi Me\'ed r, Abodah Zarah, 32. - Even an idolator who studies Zorah is like the = High Priest. - Baba Kamma, 38a. - Are all priests renowned for their = justice? - J.Z., 289.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: The rendering to everyone his = due or right; just treatment. - Sprading, quoting it as an accepted = definition. \par JUSTICE: The root of all well-order ed social action is a sentiment of justice, which at once insists on = personal freedom, and is solicitous for the like freedom of others; and = there at present exists but a very inadequate amount of this sentiment. = - Herbert Spencer, Essays, From Freedom to Bondage. \par JUSTICE: The science of justice is as open to be learned by all = other men as by themselves; and it is, in general, so simple and easy to = be learned, that there is no need of, and no place for, any man, or body = of men, to teach it, declare it, or c ommand it, on their own authority. - Spooner, to Cleveland, 5. \par JUSTICE: The State provides 'justice' by mass terror, 'freedom' by = mass servitude, and 'defense' by mass murder. - VONULIFE, 3/73. \par JUSTICE: The State's concept of justice is as outdated as its = judges' wigs. - J.Z., 1973. - By now, in many cases, the wigs are gone = but the unjust laws remain - and are even multiplied. - J.Z., 7.1.1986. \par JUSTICE: The State's concept of justice is as outdated as its = judges' whigs. - J., 73. \par JUSTICE: There are only two ways in which each of us can improve = our lot: at our own expense; or at the expense of others. The first = method constitutes justice; the second injustice. - Roche III, Bastiat, = 203. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: There is a point beyond = which even justice becomes unjust. - So phocles, Electra, ca. 450 B.C. - I would rather say: A point where it = ends and its authority is exceeded, or where it only succeeds in = introducing an additional kind of injustice. - J.Z., 10.7.86. - There is = no right to infringe the rights and liberties o f others. Justice does not authorize injustices. There is no inherent = contradiction. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: There is no incompatibility = between prosperity and justice, between peace and freedom. - Bastiat, = Sophisms, 124. \par JUSTICE: There is no other princ iple that any man can rightly enforce upon others, or ought to consent = to have enforced against himself. Every man claims the protection of = this principle for himself, whether he is willing to accord it to others = or not ... - Spooner, to Cleveland, 6. \par JUS TICE: There never will be a decent political sense developed in this = country until we breed a race of people who are as ready to go to the = mat for justice in behalf of what they do not believe in as in behalf of = what they do believe in. That is the spirit that utterly terrifies politicians and job holders and makes them walk = a chalk line. - A. J. Nock. \par JUSTICE: There was no cry for freedom in 1642, only justice. = Justice is the cry for obeyance of old laws. Liberty is the cry of = revolution. Revolution may make new laws ... or none at all. - = Libertarian Handbook, 1973, p. 27. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri360\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 JUSTICE: They call it the Halls of Justice because the = only place you get justice is in the halls. - }{\i\cf1 Lenny Bruce.=20 \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: To do justice to; to treat = with fairness or according to merit; to render what is due to; ... = Quoted by Sprading as accepted definition. \par JUSTICE: To no one will we deny justice, to no one will we delay = it. (Nulli negabimus, nulli differemus justitiam. - Unknown, Magna = Carta, 12 June, 1215. \par JUSTICE: To say that men hav e a right to justice does not mean that they should be required to pay a = tax to a government or a fee to an insurance company for the privilege = of not being aggressed against. Man has a right to justice - at the = expense of the aggressor, if he exists. - R . A. Childs Jr., THE LIBERTARIAN CONNECTION, 10/7/72. \par JUSTICE: True law is right reason conformable to nature, universal, = unchangeable, eternal, whose commands urge us to duty, and whose = prohibitions restrain us from evil ... This law cannot be contradicted by any other law, and is not liable either to derogation or abrogation. = Neither the senate nor the people can give us any dispensation for not = obeying this universal law of justice. It needs no other expositor and = interpreter than our own conscience. It=20 i s not one thing at Rome, and another at Athens; one thing today, and = another to-morrow; but in all times and nations this universal law must = forever reign, eternal and imperishable. - Cicero, De re publica, On the = Commonwealth, translated in "Bohn's Class i cal Library, London, Bell and Daldy, 1872, p. 360. - As if the demands = of consciences did not differ in different people! Those with the same = conscience and justice notions should associate to do their own things = for and to themselves - and leave others,=20 with different notions and practices alone. See: Tolerance. - J.Z., = 16.11.02. \par JUSTICE: Truth is its (justice's) handmaid, freedom is its child, = peace is its companion, safety walks in its step, victory follows in its = train... - Sydney Smith: Lady Holland's Memoir. \par JUSTICE: Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application = of it to affairs. - Emerson, Essays, Second Series: Character. \par JUSTICE: Tyranny, not liberty, has been the custom in the past; and = so Libertarians reject custom as a guiding principl e, just as they reject power or might. They know that JUSTICE IS NOT = SOMETHING THAT WAS, OR IS, BUT THAT IS TO BE. Pascal saw the absurdity = of law and justice that have their source in custom, for he says: "In = the just and unjust we find hardly anything w h ich does not change its character in changing its climate. Three degrees = of elevation of the pole reverse the whole of jurisprudence. A meridian = is decisive of truth, or a few years of possession. Fundamentals always = change! Right has its epochs! A pleasa nt justice that, which a river or a mountain limits! Truth on this side = the Pyrenees, error on the other!" - Sprading, Liberty, 17. \par JUSTICE: Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might. = ... - Pascal. \par JUSTICE: 'We can define justice as respect for free choice.' - = Ridgway K. Foley Jr., THE FREEMAN, 5/74. \par JUSTICE: We must be just to another or die. - J.Z., after reading: = " ... we must love one another or die", in: Edmund Cooper: Tomorrow = Came, p. 34. \par JUSTICE: What he called 'the evil excesses of force' had become so = 'ingrained in our ways and in our laws' that justice no longer seemed = possible. Either men must be free, or society must be unjust. - Roche, = Bastiat, 58. \par JUSTICE: What is justice? To give ever man his due. - Aristotle. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: What kind=20 of justice can we expect from territorial government constitutions, = laws, regulations, courts, monopoly police forces and their lawyers and = judges? - J.Z., 21.9.93, 27.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: What sort of protection is = this of the general right, that is maintained by infringing the rights of particulars? What sort of justice is this, = which is enforced by breaches of its own laws? These paradoxes I leave = to be solved by the able heads of legislators and politicians. For my = part, I say what a plain man would say on=20 such occasion. - Edmund Burke, quoted in Sprading, Liberty and the Great = Libertarians, pp. 64/65. - Able heads of legislators and politicians? = How many are there? - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par JUSTICE: What we call civil society consists of numerous, diverse, = varying i ndividuals, each a world to himself, and living contemporaneously. Each = can reach his potential best only as justice prevails in personal = relations, that is, in the absence of injustice. Understood in this = manner, justice is indeed the end of civil societ y. - L. E. Read, Who's Listening?, 94. \par JUSTICE: What, indeed, is Justice other than an equal balance of = forces? Justice is not merely a relationship, an abstract idea, a = fictitious creation of the intelligence or an act of faith on the part = of conscience. I t is something real and all the more imperative because based on those = freely moving forces that we know to be realities. - Proudhon, Property, = 144. \par JUSTICE: When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will = justice be done: that very instant the t yrants of the earth shall bite the dust. - Peter Kropotkin, An Appeal to = the Young, 1880. - A bit of wishful thinking is involved here. All the = wishful thinking of all the libertarians, and all their present actions = in favour of their ideals, do no automa t ically and immediately abolish all wrongful restrictions in this world. = However, if they bothered to mobilise all their ideas and references, = put and kept them in print, supplemented them as is advisable, made = every positive idea, talent and resource know n and available for their freedom struggle, then they could win fast. = Compare how they ignored so far, e.g., their microfiche, floppy disk and = CD-ROM publishing and reading options, how they still haven't developed = and spread a consistent and comprehensive =20 libertarian revolution, liberation and defence program, how they still = have neglected to work systematically towards a comprehensive enough = declaration of basic rights and liberties - and towards many other tools = and machines required if their struggle is to be successful soon. - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par JUSTICE: When will mankind learn - and compel their governments to = conform to the knowledge - that justice is better policy than any scheme = of robbery, that was ever devised? - L. Spooner, quoted in Reichert, = Partisans of Freedom, 121. \par JUSTICE: When you reflect on it, the only thing that allowed the = human race to stop living as animals and to start living as human beings = was by adopting a set of rules - a system of justice. Maintaining a = system of justice in an order ly society is essential to whatever else people accomplish. - Frank W. = Wilson, U.S. District Judge, commenting on his sentencing of James R. = Hoffa, head of the Teamsters' Union, 12 March, 1964, in Chattanooga, = Tenn. \par JUSTICE: Where there is justice there will be peace. - Indian = Chief, saying in a Western. (The Sioux Uprising of 1863?) \par JUSTICE: Where there is no justice, there is no freedom and where = there is not freedom, there is no justice. The concepts are identical. - = Seume, Mein Leben ( My Life), II/33. \par JUSTICE: Whether they live in isolation or in society, men are, = above all, interested in preserving their existence and the fruits of = their labor. If the sense of justice were universally prevalent on = earth; if, consequently, each man confined himself to=20 l aboring and exchanging the fruits of his labor, without wishing to = endanger the life or take away, by violence or by fraud, the fruits of = other men's labor; if everyone had, in one word, an instinctive horror = of any act harmful to another person, it is ce r tain that security would exist NATURALLY on earth, and that no = artificial institution would be necessary to establish it. = Unfortunately, this is not the way things are. The sense of justice = seems to be the perquisite of only a few eminent and exceptional=20 t emperaments. Among the inferior races it exists in only a rudimentary = state. Hence the innumerable criminal attempts, ever since the beginning = of the world, since the days of Cain and Abel, against the lives and = property of individuals. -- Hence also the=20 creation of establishments whose object is to guarantee to everyone the = peaceful possession of his person and his goods. - G. Molinari, The = Production of Security, p. 2. \par JUSTICE: With justice all problems are soluble. Without it, none = are. - Harry Schultz. - There are not only problems between humans but, = e.g., scientific problems. Can we conquer time and space and longevity = merely with "justice"? - J.Z., 16.11.02. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046 JUSTICE: Wrong must not win by = technicalities. - Aeschylus, The Eumenides, 458 B.C., tr. Richm ond Lattimore. - Even that injustice has not yet been overcome, in = almost 2500 years! So slow are the mills of justice run by governments. = - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par }\pard\plain \s15\qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \f2\fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f0\fs24 JUSTICE: You can't expect justice from = people who tax you. - J.Z. 27.11.74. - And who lead you into wars. - = J.Z., 16.11.02. \par JUSTICE: You do not have to like a fellow in order to do him = justice. - J.Z. 2.4.83. \par JUSTICE: You don't owe your neighbour love or respect - but you do = owe him justice. J.Z., 73. \par JUSTICE: You have sacrificed justice to mercy. - Ayn Rand, Atlas = Shrugged, 936. - Don't sacrifice justice to mercy. \par JUSTICE: You mean that justice is not known like a dog who barks in = the night? That it is more like the unexpected sound in the woods that = must be identified cautiously after hard thinking? - Wilson/Shea, = Illuminatus I, 154. \par }\pard\plain \qj\sb120\sa120\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright = \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\fs24\lang1046=20 JUSTICES: Most "justices" should be realistically renamed "injustices". = - J.Z., 20.3.95. - They do selectively apply "the law", or, rather, some = of millions of them, in preference to natural justice. - J.Z., 27.10.02. \par JUVEN ILE DELINQUENCY & COMPULSORY SCHOOLING: Is it surprising, then, that = juvenile victims of this irrational despotism turn, rebelliously, to = mischief and crime to relieve their boredom or perhaps to supplement the = unearned incomes from their subsidized fami l ies? More freedom for the yount to be useful, and more freedom for = parents, employers and teachers to apply non-retaliatory sanctions, as = well as to provide more productive outlets for youthful energies would = be a more effective way to raise the moral lev el of juvenile conduct. - V. Orval Watts, THE FREEMAN, 8/75, p. 482. - = How high is the moral level of teachers, parents, politicians, = bureaucrats, writers, public speakers etc. and other citizens? - J.Z., = 27.10.02. \par JUVENILE DELINQUENTS, COMPULSORY EDUCATION, SCHOOLS: Juvenile = misbehavior is largely the result of wasting the time of those who ought = to be at work. - Prof. C. Northcote Parkinson, The Law and the Profits. \par }\pard\plain \s17\qj\ri55\sb100\sa100\nowidctlpar\adjustright = \lang2057 {\cf1 JUVENILES, YOUNG, REBELS & NONCONFORMISTS: The young = always have the same problem - how to=20 rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying = their parents and copying one another. - Quentin Crisp.=20 \par = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D \par To become comprehensive & correct enough this compilation ought to = be added to and criticised & amended by thousands. - Will you be one of = them? - J.Z., 5.12.02 \par }} ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C2A39E.B0332FA0--