Um Discurso Fatal, Rex Stout
- Highlight Loc. 1144-46 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2011, 11:52 PM
Não nego que às vezes sou franco demais, mas se alguém me chamar de grosseiro eu brigo. Entretanto, ao ver Kates lá de novo, eu disse o que disse. Suponho que poderia ser interpretado de diversos modos. Não concordo com essa história de que Phoebe Gunther me obcecava, mas o que houve é que encarei Alger Kates e perguntei:
— Você mora aqui?
3 de jun. de 2012
Boundaries of Order (Butler Shaffer)
Boundaries of Order (Butler Shaffer)
- Highlight Loc. 486-91 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2011, 03:17 AM
Our assertion of self-ownership confronts the doctrine of eminent domain, a concept essential to the authority of all political systems. Eminent domain expresses the proposition that the state has a supervening claim to all property interests within its domain, which it may exercise at any time it chooses. Such powers are not confined to the more familiar area of real property, but include ownership claims over persons. Conscription, the regulation and taxation of one’s productive activities, control over what substances a person may ingest, capital punishment; and compulsory education, are some of the major instances of the eminent domain principle, which presumes individual interests to be subservient to those of the state. It is this doctrine that is being challenged by the development of decentralized, horizontal, interconnected social practices.
— Nossa estratégia não presta para nada.
Um Discurso Fatal, Rex Stout
- Highlight Loc. 870-74 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2011, 11:49 PM
— Nossa estratégia não presta para nada. Ele toma um táxi e vamos atrás dele, e quando ele voltar para casa seu porteiro lhe diz que foi seguido.
— E que é que eu devia fazer? — perguntei.
— Devia me disfarçar de florista e ficar na esquina vendendo flores? Na próxima vez você prepara um plano. Esse negócio de segui-lo virou piada. Dê partida no carro. De qualquer modo, ele nunca voltará para casa. Vamos apanhá-lo por assassinato antes do fim do dia. Vamos!
- Highlight Loc. 870-74 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2011, 11:49 PM
— Nossa estratégia não presta para nada. Ele toma um táxi e vamos atrás dele, e quando ele voltar para casa seu porteiro lhe diz que foi seguido.
— E que é que eu devia fazer? — perguntei.
— Devia me disfarçar de florista e ficar na esquina vendendo flores? Na próxima vez você prepara um plano. Esse negócio de segui-lo virou piada. Dê partida no carro. De qualquer modo, ele nunca voltará para casa. Vamos apanhá-lo por assassinato antes do fim do dia. Vamos!
No centro, o próprio Estado e suas gigantescas empresas monopolísticas
JORNALISTA DIEGO CASAGRANDE (web.archive.org)
- Highlight Loc. 11-18 | Added on Sunday, December 18, 2011, 09:12 PM
No centro, o próprio Estado e suas gigantescas empresas monopolísticas, os políticos e funcionários controlando todas as alavancas e botões da máquina econômica. Nada se fazia sem sua autorização. Ao redor deles, algumas dezenas de ricas empresas privadas mimadas com todo tipo de privilégio: concessões, subsídios, reserva de mercado etc. Mais afastados do núcleo, os negócios pequenos e médios, os profissionais liberais, lutando para sobreviver aos confiscos, extorsões tributárias, inflação, regulamentações draconianas e outras armadilhas e obstáculos montados pelo Estado para apanhar os incautos. Na periferia desse círculo econômico perverso, dezenas de milhões sem eira nem beira, morando em favelas miseráveis, seus salários corroídos pela monstruosa emissão inflacionária do Estado, vivendo das migalhas que o poder central lhes deixava. Esse quadro lamentável era o resultado das escolhas e decisões dos brasileiros, sobretudo da elite política, econômica e cultural.
a sociedade civil não pode se organizar
JORNALISTA DIEGO CASAGRANDE (web.archive.org)
- Highlight Loc. 22-26 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2011, 09:28 PM
os parlamentares e os grupos de pressão que os circundam são profissionais dedicados integralmente a extrair benesses dos pagadores de impostos. Estes, ao contrário, isolados e mergulhados em suas próprias atividades de trabalho e lazer, não têm tempo, meios, nem conhecimento para se defender eficazmente. Isso ocorre no mundo inteiro, pelo que se pode prever sem medo de errar que a civilização ocidental perecerá, mais cedo ou mais tarde, soterrada por milhões de leis absurdas e inexeqüíveis e sufocada por um fardo intolerável de impostos.
Consumers Don’t “Create Jobs”
Consumers Don’t “Create Jobs”: Reisman vs. Blodget (blog.mises.org)
- Highlight Loc. 20-23 | Added on Thursday, December 15, 2011, 04:31 AM
More consumer spending financed by inflation, i.e., the creation of new and additional money, has the potential for increasing employment in some circumstances, but only insofar as the sellers of the consumers’ goods that are faced with the additional spending save and invest their additional sales proceeds. If they too consumed, or if the government taxed away their additional sales proceeds, there would be no increase in the spending for labor or capital goods and no increase in employment.
Um Discurso Fatal, Rex Stout
Um Discurso Fatal, Rex Stout
- Highlight Loc. 509-11 | Added on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 06:02 PM
Quando lhe disse que era impossível conseguir um táxi naquele local e ofereci-me para levá-la, juntamente com sua tia, para o hotel, respondeu:
— O Sr. Dexter vai nos levar.
Foi uma declaração franca e cordial, e apreciei-a muito.
Aristotle
Conservative Anarchists (lewrockwell.com)
- Highlight Loc. 47-49 | Added on Thursday, December 15, 2011, 04:14 AM
The most conservative political authority of all, Aristotle, certainly thought that mankind's natural form of organization was the city-state, which is much more humane in scale than the anonymous mass-societies of the modern nation-state.
Reforming the state is impossible and utopian: to reform the state would require reforming human nature.
Conservative Anarchists (lewrockwell.com)
- Highlight Loc. 44-47 | Added on Thursday, December 15, 2011, 04:13 AM
Reforming the state is impossible and utopian: to reform the state would require reforming human nature. By contrast there are historical precedents for anarchy and near-anarchy (again various medieval and classical forms of human organization) and even today there are small, independent communities such as Monaco and Liechtenstein, Singapore and Hong Kong, that are happier and more prosperous than any nation state.
Without the state men would still be dangerous
Conservative Anarchists (lewrockwell.com)
- Highlight Loc. 43-44 | Added on Thursday, December 15, 2011, 04:13 AM
Without the state men would still be dangerous, but would not have at their disposal an institution in which power is so concentrated and unchecked.
Tolkien anarquista
Conservative Anarchists (lewrockwell.com)
- Highlight Loc. 30-34 | Added on Thursday, December 15, 2011, 04:12 AM
JRR Tolkien, the British novelist and traditionalist Catholic, wrote in 1943: "My political beliefs lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) — or to 'unconstitutional' Monarchy." Those who knew him described Auberon Waugh, another Englishman and champion of high culture, as "very, very hard on the police force, something not a lot of Conservatives would have approved of. He was an anarchist really. He detested all forms of political activity and he was suspicious of all politicians of either party."
Caspar Consensus
Boundaries of Order (Butler Shaffer)
- Highlight Loc. 368-72 | Added on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 01:13 AM
One of the more interesting phenomena is the practice, in some communities and other groups, of reaching common objectives through consensus (i.e., where everyone must agree with a proposal before it is undertaken). Caspar, California, an unincorporated town of some two thousand people occupying twelve square miles of territory, is one such community in which decisions are made through a process of “deliberating until we can find a way that satisfies all.”
Um Discurso Fatal, Rex Stout
Um Discurso Fatal, Rex Stout
- Highlight Loc. 207-11 | Added on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 01:17 AM
— Ouça, Relações Públicas — falei. — Por que não simplifica tudo ligando-me diretamente com esse Erskine? Se ele vier às quatro e meia, terá de esperar uma hora e meia. O horário do Sr. Wolfe com as orquídeas é de nove às onze da manhã e de quatro às seis da tarde, e nada, e quando eu digo nada é nada mesmo, jamais mudou isso nem mudará.
— Isso é ridículo!
— Claro que é. E também é ridículo esse método complicado de um homem se comunicar com outro homem, e no entanto eu o aceito.
— Fique na linha.
Consenso
Boundaries of Order (Butler Shaffer)
- Highlight Loc. 4830-33 | Added on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 01:13 AM
12The Caspar residents have found this process to be not “as difficult as we thought, and that heeding and incorporating the views of the minority often saves us from grievous errors while leading us away from ‘slam dunks’ and quick fixes to well thought-out, longer lasting, better solutions.” http://casparinstitute.org/lib/artConsensus.htm.
traffic signs
Boundaries of Order (Butler Shaffer)
- Highlight Loc. 311-14 | Added on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 01:04 AM
A number of cities and regions in Europe have taken to abolishing traffic signs, leaving traffic decisions to be made by the interplay of motorists. One advocate of such change has said that “[t]he many rules strip us of the most important thing: the ability to be considerate. We’re losing our capacity for socially responsible behavior.” This new policy has led to a dramatic reduction in traffic accidents.
- Highlight Loc. 311-14 | Added on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 01:04 AM
A number of cities and regions in Europe have taken to abolishing traffic signs, leaving traffic decisions to be made by the interplay of motorists. One advocate of such change has said that “[t]he many rules strip us of the most important thing: the ability to be considerate. We’re losing our capacity for socially responsible behavior.” This new policy has led to a dramatic reduction in traffic accidents.
Boundaries of Order (Butler Shaffer)
Boundaries of Order (Butler Shaffer)
- Highlight Loc. 275-81 | Added on Monday, December 12, 2011, 11:55 AM
while nationalism continues to be a major political force in the world, many people are increasingly identifying themselves with and organizing their lives around various abstractions that transcend nation-state boundaries. Religion, ethnicity, culture, lifestyles, race—even membership in urban gangs—are some of the categories by which people identify themselves other than by nationality. The Internet is helping to dissolve political boundaries in favor of economic, philosophical, entertainment, political, lifestyle, and other criteria by which individuals create cyber-communities with like-minded persons throughout the world. “Societies” are beginning to be thought of less and less in purely geographical terms, and are increasingly being defined in terms of shared subdivisions of interests that do not necessarily correlate with place.
- Highlight Loc. 275-81 | Added on Monday, December 12, 2011, 11:55 AM
while nationalism continues to be a major political force in the world, many people are increasingly identifying themselves with and organizing their lives around various abstractions that transcend nation-state boundaries. Religion, ethnicity, culture, lifestyles, race—even membership in urban gangs—are some of the categories by which people identify themselves other than by nationality. The Internet is helping to dissolve political boundaries in favor of economic, philosophical, entertainment, political, lifestyle, and other criteria by which individuals create cyber-communities with like-minded persons throughout the world. “Societies” are beginning to be thought of less and less in purely geographical terms, and are increasingly being defined in terms of shared subdivisions of interests that do not necessarily correlate with place.
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