Sun Tzu on avoiding conflicts

If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.

~ Sun Tzu

 

Kevin Duffy on the trend towards big government

To keep the game going, the political class has increasingly relied on borrowing, inflation and diversions like victimology, Covid and climate change.  “War is the health of the state” needs updating.  The modern state has evolved, learning the lesson that any conflict feeds the Leviathan.  Conflict is not limited to “us vs. them” and “good vs. evil,” but left vs. right, black vs. white, male vs. female, straight vs. LGBTQ, rich vs. poor, entrepreneurs vs. employees, young vs. old and even man vs. the planet.  Wars have morphed into abstractions, e.g. war on poverty, war on drugs, war on terrorism and now a war on a virus.  The justifications for protecting party A against the predations of party B are endless.

~ Kevin Duffy, "Inflection Points: Where the big money is made," The Coffee Can Portfolio, September 18, 2022

Philip Duffy on centralization

If you commit yourself to centralization, you doom yourself to conflict.

~ Philip Duffy, June 27, 2021

Phil Duffy with daughter Erin
Linderhof Palace in Ettal Germany
May, 2009

Kevin Duffy on divisiveness and the state

The state is masterful at creating conflict: left vs. right, rich vs. poor, black vs. white, male vs. female, us vs. them. This is meant to distract us from the real conflict: the state living at the expense of the rest of us, i.e., parasite vs. host.

~ Kevin Duffy

Paul Craig Roberts on the racist interpretation of America

The racist interpretation of America is designed to build anger among blacks and guilt among whites. As black hostility rises and white confidence declines, the society unravels.

~ Paul Craig Roberts, "George Floyd Was Not Killed by Police," LewRockwell.com, June 22, 2020

Ayn Rand on consistency

In any conflict between two men (or two groups), it is the more consistent one who wins.

~ Ayn Rand, The Anatomy of Compromise

(as quoted by Sheldon Richman, America's Counter-Revolution, p. 10)