Brackins Quotes

#1. The only way for the state to finance its operations is through the forcible expropriation of productive wealth from its citizens.

Daniel Alexander Brackins

#2. There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Democracy is the antithesis of liberty. The foundation and cornerstone of liberty is private property and majority rule is thus logically incompatible with this.

Daniel Alexander Brackins

#4. If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

Sally Stanford

#5. Any system of ethics must account for scarcity. If it doesn't, humanity would perish due to misallocation of finite resources, including one's own body.

Daniel Alexander Brackins

#6. Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#7. We seek to understand Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to understand ourselves. We have different explicit goals, from getting in shape, learning self-defense or competition, but tacitly we all seek mastery of ourselves.

Chris Matakas

#8. Ultimately it must be accepted by advocates of limited government that the same guns that are promised to protect the population may be used on them.

Daniel Alexander Brackins

#9. Because rights are only claims against other people, and not claims on other people and their property, rights end when they infringe on the rights of others.

Daniel Alexander Brackins

#10. Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty ... words ever determine lives.

Leanna Renee Hieber

#11. I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

Marianne Williamson

#12. To make a claim of ownership implies a claim against others. That is, others must refrain from interfering with your use of that thing. As such the very act of the body occupying its standing room is to make a claim against others because only one body can occupy the space at a time.

Daniel Alexander Brackins

#13. Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes.

Mary Hunter Austin

#14. When I realized that my body had been damaged from adverse environmental exposures, I decided to use it for medical research and to develop the recovery techniques.

Steven Magee

#15. You have two choices in life; either to be a pick or you chose to be a whale

Hisham Fawzi