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“They renounce legal marriages and fill their populous institutions in cities and villages with celibate people, useless either for war or for any service to the State; but gradually growing from the time of Arcadius to the present day they have appropriated the greater part of the earth, and on the pretext of sharing all with the poor they have, so to speak, reduced all to poverty. �� Zosimus,
the last pagan historian of antiquity, AD 498.”
― Helen Dale, Kingdom of the Wicked Book One: Rules

“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight for! �� Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy”
― Michael Walsh, The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West

“And if a giant new government agency—perhaps called “Housicare”—were given the power to tax all paychecks in order to pay for all home purchases and apartment rentals (according to an official schedule of prices corresponding to family size and job location), the disruption in the market would be mind-boggling. By severing the direct connection between buyer and seller, consumers�� satisfaction with their homes and apartments would suffer while prices would soar. After a few years of such a nutty system, the housing market would be just as screwed up as �� well, as the health care and health insurance markets currently are.”
― Doug McGuff, The Primal Prescription: Surviving The "Sick Care" Sinkhole

“Smoking increases the risk of getting cancer by five times. Being 50 years old increases the same risk by a hundred times, and being 70 increases this risk a thousand-fold.”
― SNAP Summaries, Summary & Analysis of Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To: A Guide to David Sinclair's Book