“While it is desirable that the old should treat with respect the wishes of the young, it is not desirable that the young should treat with respect the wishes of the old. The reason is simple, namely that in either case it is the lives of the young that are concerned, not the lives of the old.” - Bertrand Russell

“One must be able at times to lose oneself if one wants to learn something from things that we ourselves are not.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Those coins can never be recovered, and the total circulation is less. Since the effective circulation is reduced, all the remaining coins are worth slightly more. It's the opposite of when a government prints money and the value of existing money goes down.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

“This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention, the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State; that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long-run sustains, nourishes and impels human destinies.” - Jose Ortega y Gasset

“There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party. Both represent some range of business interests. In fact, they can change their positions 180 degrees, and nobody even notices.” - Noam Chomsky

“A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men.” - Woodrow Wilson

“It is impractical for anyone to develop wealth in government money without government acceptance. Government can confiscate money from the banking monopolies it controls, inflate the currency to devalue holders' wealth and reward it to the most loyal of its subjects, impose draconian taxes and punish those who avoid them, and even confiscate bills.” - Saifedean Ammous

“One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.” - Giorgio Agamben

“Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.” - Benjamin N. Cardozo

“Being open source means anyone can independently review the code. If it was closed source, nobody could verify the security. I think it's essential for a program of this nature to be open source.” - Satoshi Nakamoto