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Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons
Robert Anton Wilson
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Robert Anton Wilson
Age: 74 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 18
Died: 2007
Died: January 11
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The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.
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The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.
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The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
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Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.
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Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.
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I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.
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The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
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I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.
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The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
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I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.
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The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
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Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).
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Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.
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