Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.

The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.

Perhaps the most flagrant testimony to the intellectual shallowness of statism is that the typical statist believes that the fantastically hypothetical threat of a corporation monopolizing the supply of water is a devastating objection to libertarianism, but the painfully real threat of a state methodically exterminating tens of millions of individuals is not a devastating objection to statism.

Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions.

Nationalism: the love of tribal fictions inspired by the hatred of social realities.

What makes the difference between a gang and a state is the belief that there is a difference between a gang and a state.