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Politicians are leaches, mostly.
Tibor R. Machan
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If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.
Tibor R. Machan
This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It's only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen-that is what makes the crucial difference.
Tibor R. Machan
[The media] assume, in the way they address politicians or report on social problems, that whatever is important to society must be a matter of public or state concern.
Tibor R. Machan
If one behaved as a good citizen or a charitable person simply because one was dreadfully scared of the state placing one in jail, one would not be a good citizen or person but barely more than a circus animal.
Tibor R. Machan
While individualism was once widely hailed in Britain and especially the United States, today it is deemed amoral and heartless. The individualist viewpoint is unable to promise honestly that everyone will eventually be completely well-off. Critics find this defeatist and insist that ‘we must do better' while calling upon the forces of the state to see that we do.
Tibor R. Machan