random thought of the moment:
Freedom, as people enjoyed it in the democratic countries of Western civilization in the years of the old liberalism’s triumph, was not a product of constitutions, bills of rights, laws, and statutes. Those documents aimed only at safeguarding liberty and freedom, firmly established by the operation of the market economy, against encroachments on the part of officeholders. No government and no civil law can guarantee and bring about freedom otherwise than by supporting and defending the fundamental institutions of the market economy. Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. Where there is no market economy, the best-intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.
— , Human Action [1949]
July 20th, 2006 by Bitterman
I realized something about self-centered people. They're bad or hateful per se. They're just so self-centered that they don't even realize that they fail to care about anybody else in the universe. It's just the way they are. When they ignore you, it's not personal or an insult. They don't love, hate, or anything you. You fail to do so much as register in their consciousness.
Some part of me prefers malice.
Bitterman
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Self-centred people also tend to claim that everyone has a problem with them, but it is their problem.
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Posted 20 Jul 2006 at 7:30 pm ¶I usually find that selfish people are prideful and they don't want God to become first in their lives either!
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