John Zube

ON LIBERTY

Quotes, Notes, Comments & Slogans
for Individual Liberty & Rights
against Popular Statist Errors & Prejudices

Index - T3

(2013 - 2014)

 


 

TERRORISM & TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS, SUSPECTING ALL THEIR SUBJECTS: The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom". – Joe Sobran – SURVEILLANCE, SECURTITY, SEARCHES

TERRORISM & WAR: How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? – Howard Zinn, James Cox shared Wayne Waleed Parnell (Official)'s photo. Facebook, 18.6.12. – Q. – WARFARE OF TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS

TERRORISM, AIR RAIDS, INDISCRIMINATE WARFARE: Our anger embodies a judgment that what the terrorists did on September 11th was wrong. But what was it that they did? They rained down death from the skies upon innocent civilians in order to express a grievance against our government. If, in the anger of our military response, we are heedless of the lives of innocent civilians in Afghanistan or elsewhere, then, in the name of our anger, we will have infringed the very principle that our anger is supposed to be expressing: we will be the ones raining down death from the skies upon innocent civilians in order to express a grievance against their government. Those who answer directly to their blood often end up having a lot of blood to answer for. - Roderick Long - Roy Halliday, Quotations with an Attitude, online. – COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY, CIVILIANS, NON-COMBATANTS, DECISION-MAKING MONOPOLY, PEOPLE AS PROPERTY

TERRORISM, NUCLEAR “WEAPONS” & DEMOCRACIES: When even “democratic” governments fool around with mass murder devices – should we expect ordinary terrorists to behave like little angels? – JZ, 2.10.09.

TERRORISM, PRIVATE, GOVERNMENT & FREEDOM: Terrorists can only take my life. Only my government can take my freedom. – Bruce Schneier in www.strike-the-root.com 

TERRORISM: A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.” - Epicurus. – Wrongs, aggressions, suppressions and intolerance breed further wrongs, aggressions, suppressions and intolerance. –JZ, 14.4.09. - FEAR, DESPOTISM, TYRANNY

TERRORISM: A.) WHAT IS RIGHT ABOUT IT? B.) WHAT IS WRONG ABOUT IT? - A.) The wish for independence and self-government. The right to resist wrongful oppression and exploitation. The right not to be subjected to the laws and institutions that others passed in their own interest and at the risk and expense of those who do not agree with them, as far as their own affairs are concerned. I.e., the numerous disadvantaged and discriminated against minorities, whose only remaining option is to try to become or to persuade the majority, which is rather difficult regarding deep-seated errors, beliefs and convictions of the majority. - B.) Most terrorists themselves aim at intolerant and territorial domination, rather than merely at self-government under personal laws and institutions of their own, including legislative and juridical ones. Moreover, they hold innocent people collectively responsible, with their lives, for crimes committed or supposed to have been committed by their governments against the terrorists or those the terrorists sympathize with. - - A.) Genuine freedom fighters would aim only at exterritorial autonomy for voluntary communities. To the extent that terrorists would only aim at that they would be right. To the extent that they would use terrorism as a supposed means to reach that objective they would still be wrong. I do not know of any terrorist group that has only such a rightful aim. - - B.) Genuine freedom fighters would not commit any terrorist acts against innocents, on the principle of collective responsibility but they might engage e.g. in tyrannicide and in genuinely liberating revolutions and uprisings that would liberate even those minorities or local majorities with whom they happen to disagree, by realizing, for them as well, all their voluntaristic and exterritorial options, their panarchies or polyarchies or establishing the framework in which they could form such communities themselves. – JZ, 23.1.04, 31.10.07.

TERRORISM: All nuclear weapons are already controlled by terrorists, those constitutionally, legally and juridically, but not morally, put in authority over such mass murder devices, their production, stand-by readiness and their use. Already for decades they have terrorized the people of this planet with them but have not eliminated conventional wars, either, by these anti-people “weapons”. – JZ, 31.1.03., 1.2.03, 21.10.07. - NUCLEAR WAR THREAT, DECISION-MAKING MONOPOLY, IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN WAR, TERRITORIAL WARFARE STATES, NUCLEAR WAR THREAT

TERRORISM: Almost every European government is a legalized manufactory of dynamiters. Vexation piled upon vexation, restriction upon restriction, burden upon burden, the dynamiter is slowly hammered out everywhere on the official anvil. The more patient submit, but the stronger and more rebellious characters are maddened, and any weapon is considered right, as the weapon of the weaker against the stronger. …” Auberon Herbert, in Mack edition, p.223.

TERRORISM: Amnesty and exterritorial autonomy even for terrorists, provided only that they do surrender or are already captured and disarmed? After all, it was territorialism, combined with the predominant collective responsibility notions that led them into terrorism in the first place. And how many of the “decent” people have so far been quite clearly against territorialism and collective responsibility? – JZ, 28.2.95, 18.7.08.

TERRORISM: an enemy whose deliberate policy was hysterical violence.” - "We will run amok!" - Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, p.179. - Their "why", their motive, ought to be explored - and the possibility of preventing it from arising. That is certainly not possible for every violent madman and zealot, but for many who have been turned into such by circumstances, ignorance, prejudices and false ideas. Among the latter the most important are: territorialism, collective responsibility and monetary despotism. Their opposites have the potential to turn the practice of terrorism to close to zero. - JZ, 7.2.02. - AMOK, VIOLENCE

TERRORISM: Any coercion preventing dissenters from doing their own thing – at their own expense and risk and among themselves only (no matter how spleeny their ideas and actions may appear to others), does invite resistance, reprisals and even terrorist actions from those so frustrated in their intentions and actions and seeing no chance to get their ideals realized by persuasion or majority voting. – JZ,15.5.85, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: By suppressing exterritorial autonomy the territorial governments create terrorism. By using terrorism as a means towards becoming territorially sovereign the terrorists themselves suppress the exterritorial autonomy of others, i.e., act like repressive territorial governments. – JZ, 28.5.08, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: Citizen acts of terrorism (extreme misanthropy) are inevitable signs of ubiquitous government.” – Charles R. LaDow, THE FREEMAN, 9/74.

TERRORISM: Counter-terror and mere police and military suppression and various security measures are not the best responses to terrorism. Tolerance is, not for the terrorist acts themselves but for all rightful aims of terrorists, provided only that they are prepared to realize them only for and among themselves and only at their own expense and risk. Their personal rights and liberties should be extended and recognized to that extent. Once this is done then they will be well on the road to become peaceful and tolerant themselves. Free to practise their ideals among themselves, without any territorial or international interventions, will keep them occupied and disinterested in promoting territorially their ideals via terrorist attacks. Because then they would already be free to realize their ideals among themselves and everything else would merely distract them from that opportunity. Beyond that, we have to demolish their collective responsibility notions – starting by destroying them within ourselves first. – Panarchist successful experiments would also demonstrate to them how to end unemployment and inflation and poverty, rather fast. People whose living standard is rising fast, by their own efforts, will be disinclined to become e.g. suicide bombers. Perhaps the most effective counter-measure might thus be the compilation and publication of an ideal declaration of individual rights and liberties. JZ, 2.11.00, 20.7.08.

TERRORISM: Counter-terror must be directed only against the guilty, not against any innocents. – JZ, 15.10.87.

TERRORISM: Crime and terror can't be fought militarily, especially not with area bombing, concentration camps and ABC mass murder devices. - JZ, 24.9.01. - Try exterritorial autonomy for communities of volunteers, individual responsibility, monetary and financial freedom and other liberties instead! Give terrorists a chance to rule themselves, and themselves only, in the only way that this is possible, and they will soon cease to terrorize others and do harm only to themselves. - JZ, 31.1.02. - & CRIME, AIR RAIDS, BOMBING, MILITARY STRENGTH, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY, MINORITY AUTONOMY

TERRORISM: Disarm terrorists and rehabilitate them by offering them the kind of autonomy they could or should be satisfied with – not on a territorial basis but merely on that of personal laws or exterritorial autonomy or experimental freedom for their volunteers. – JZ, 21.12.82, 26.7.08, 24.3.11.

TERRORISM: Every state is a "terrorist state," for each, in varying degrees, threatens people with the infliction of violence or death for failure to abide by its demands.” - Butler Shaffer, The Wizards of Ozymandias, chapter 58. – By its monetary and financial despotism the territorial State also creates degrees of poverty and unemployment which are breeding grounds for terrorism and violent revolutions of its victims, who are economically just as ignorant and prejudiced as are their rulers. – Territorialism gives the somewhat enlightened minorities no chance to do their own things only for themselves, under full experimental freedom, requiring in the sphere of social sciences the same kind of experimental freedom that does already exist in most other spheres. Thus they cannot set better examples for the rest. - JZ, 14.4.09. - & STATES, TERRITORIALISM

TERRORISM: experience showed that domestic terrorism isn’t needed to further imperial ambitions, is actually counter-productive.” – Poul Anderson, The Byworlder, p.64.

TERRORISM: Exterritorialism, on a voluntary basis, might come to end terrorism, in connection with sufficient enlightenment on the wrongfulness of collective responsibility practices. Terrorists and anti-terrorists have both territorialist ambitions, which make them, inevitably, antagonistic to each other. If all dissenters, even those forming only small minorities, had the exterritorialist panarchistic option for themselves, then few of them would be motivated to struggle towards their ideal with the means and methods of terrorism. Most of their ideal could then be realized, as far as humanly possible, among their volunteers, in a quite tolerant way towards outsiders or non-members and at the own expense rather than at the expense of others. Under voluntary membership - and the pressure of competition from other societies - each group of true believers would also have to provide some small to large successes for its system, relatively soon, or it would lose many members and could not gain enough new members to make up for such losses. Their leaders would have to put up or shut up. Nor could they prevent their members receiving much criticism from member of other societies with other convictions. Only by renouncing and doing away with exclusive territorial domination can all kinds of movements and beliefs be realized, as far as possible, among their believers, under full exterritorial autonomy and personal laws. Under such freedom conditions terrorist acts would be condemned even by most of their fellow believers. There would be no longer any territorialist repression, which would breed more and more resistance and even terrorism. – JZ, 6.10.93, 19.7.08. - & THE TERRITORIALIST CONNECTION, COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY

TERRORISM: Fanaticism is always the child of persecution.” – Napoleon I, to Barry E. O’Meara at St. Helena, Jan. 27, 1817. – Not always but often. – JZ

TERRORISM: for terrorism is, in practice, no more than ordinary warfare in which the objectives are the enemy’s highest officers and principal buildings and the maximum use is made of surprise. It is an infinitely cleaner kind of warfare, than, for example, the pattern bombing or enemy cities in which, as in terrorist warfare, civilians are as often the objectives as soldiers; and it is far more discriminating. The only serious question in the context of war is – is terrorism effective?” – Edward Hyams, Killing No Murder, p.171. – How can buildings be an enemy? This is as irrational as the destruction of churches by non-believers is. If there are no longer enough faithful to support a church the building can still be useful for other purposes. No place is more “holy” than any other. - Is either method rightful? – JZ, 26.7.08. - WARFARE, INDISCRIMINATE MURDER & DESTRUCTION,

TERRORISM: French society reacted violently against the anarchists before 1914,” Tixier-Vignancourt believes. “Terrorists were stopped by the gallows, the guillotine and public opinion. But at the time we had a healthy society, a civilized society … (*) Material terrorism stems from intellectual terrorism which is at once its innovator and source of inspiration.” – TROTN, quoted in NEWS DIGEST INTERNATIONAL, 9/77. – (*) ? – JZ

TERRORISM: He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.” - Claudian. - FEAR

TERRORISM: How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? – Howard Zinn, quoted by Mick Meaney sharing Rinf.com's photo – on Facebook, 18.12.13. - WAR ON TERRORISM

TERRORISM: How come we have an international association of terrorists before we have an international association of moral and tolerant minorities, that aspires to nothing but full exterritorial autonomy for all its very diverse communities of volunteers? – One of the main reasons seems to be that coercing others is either quite natural to almost all of us or because, as territorial statists. we remain ignorant of or prejudiced against exterritorial autonomy for volunteers, and thus adhere to the “territorial imperative” rather than the “exterritorial imperative” and do not want to give up the deadly, destructive and despotic system, institutions, “thinking” and “ideas” or prejudices as well as "actions" of territorialism? – JZ, 17.2.82, 20.2.82, 26.7.08, 24.3.11. - EXTERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE VS. TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE

TERRORISM: How much, if at all, has international terrorism been reduced since the collapse of its sponsorship by the Soviet Empire? – JZ, 10.5.92. – The Anti-Americanism and Anti-Capitalism which the Soviet Union sponsored and all the other popular errors, myths and prejudices which led to territorial States, are still all too much alive, everywhere, and are not systematically and efficiently countered. – JZ, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS." - Malcolm Forbes, when asked if he was afraid of terrorism. - &TAXATION

TERRORISM: in 1920 and 1921, she had second thoughts. It is one thing to employ violence in combat as a means of defence, but to institutionalize terrorism as the Bolsheviks had done is altogether different. ‘Such terrorism begets counter-revolution and in turn becomes counter-revolutionary’.” – Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible, on Emma Goldman, p.405.

TERRORISM: In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then, they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew … Then they came for the Catholics. I didn't speak up then because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up. – Reverend Martin Niemoller, German Lutheran pastor arrested by the Gestapo in 1937.

TERRORISM: In one way and only one way can the dynamiter be permanently disarmed – by abandoning in almost all directions our force machinery, and accustoming the people to believe in the blessed weapons of reason, persuasion, and voluntary service. (*) We have morally made the dynamiter; we must now morally unmake him.” - Auberon Herbert, in Mack edition, p.226. - (*) As well as in full exterritorial autonomy for communities of volunteers, doing their own things for or to themselves. – JZ, 26.3.08. – FORCE, COERCION, COMPULSION, TERRITORIALISM, INTOLERANCE, TOLERANCE, PANARCHISM, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM

TERRORISM: In the utilization of military possibilities, to talk in the language of the military, the “existing weapons” were employed, without regard for the own and the foreign population. – The use of the first atomic bomb and later the use of napalm bombs was done upon orders by a democratic government. In this the atomic test in Hiroshima was undertaken although at this point of time the military defeat of Japan was already assured. This murder of 90,000 people was never punished. – Whether the State’s terrorism – for nothing else were the wars of the past and will be the coming ones, will guarantee security (whose security?) – will remain questionable.” – LERNZIEL ANARCHY Nr. 3.

TERRORISM: It is the mindlessness and lack of quite rightful and liberating ideas among the terrorists and among the anti-terrorists “revolutionaries” and “warriors” that concerns me most. Their numerous wrong ideas makes them fight with wrong means for wrongful or flawed causes. Primarily both are intolerant territorialists and both apply all too much the “principle” of collective responsibility. Both do not sufficiently explore what induces terrorists to become terrorists and what conditions or institutions would not breed terrorists and would reduce terrorism almost to zero. Among these means would e.g. be individual secessionism and voluntary associationism under exterritorial autonomy and personal laws. Full employment mainly via full monetary and financial freedom. The replacement of collective responsibility by individual responsibility. The knowledge and practice of all individual rights and liberties – to the extent that one does wish to apply them among like-minded volunteers. The protection of individual rights and liberties through properly enlightened, motivated, trained and armed voluntary citizen forces. Easy access to all of the best libertarian ideas. The systematic refutation of all popular errors, myths and prejudices. – Mere military and police repression may produce more terrorists than it eliminates. - JZ, 26.10.07, 14.4.09.

TERRORISM: It should come as no surprise to find that the majority of the current crop of international terrorists come from prosperous liberal-minded middle-class families.” – H. R. H. Prince Philip, quoted in QUADRANT, 1/78. – Under the present territorial system they are insufficiently enlightened and all too frustrated intellectuals, who want to reform whole territories and populations according to their own territorialist notions, - just like all the ruling territorial governments do. But the ruling territorial governments usually go with popular errors and prejudices, while the likewise territorialist terrorists cannot with a similar success appeal to these errors and prejudices of the majorities. They are small secular sectarians without the benefit of the equivalent of religious freedom or religious tolerance in the political, economic and social spheres, which they want to territorially change according to their own preferences, not those of the majority of the population in these territories or those of other diverse and numerous minorities. – If the terrorists were sufficiently enlightened, they would throw away their bombs and other devices and begin agitating for exterritorial autonomy for all communities of volunteers that merely want to do their own things for or to themselves. – Territorial governments do, as such and quite naturally, not offer them this kind of solution, either, but, rather, conduct prolonged military and police campaigns against them, by which still more innocent civilians or killed, injured and tortured. - JZ, 26.7.08, 24.3.11.

TERRORISM: Legalizing counter-terror and dictatorial methods and wars against governments that shelter terrorists, are not the ideal methods to prevent or fight terrorism or even to find terrorists. - JZ, 28.9.01, 31.1.02. Terrorism must be cut at its roots: Territorialism, collective responsibility, monetary despotism, other economic interventionism and education systems that do not educate or enlighten. - JZ, 31.1.02.

TERRORISM: Less than 1,000 Americans die from terrorist attacks every year, which accounts for far fewer deaths than from falling off a ladder at home or from riding a bicycle.” - Stephen Moore & Julian L. Simon: It’s Getting Better all the Time. Greatest Trends the Last 100 Years, p. 178. Cato Institute, 2000 & 2001, www.cato.org.

TERRORISM: Let terrorists secede and most of them will soon no longer be terrorists. – JZ, 30.10.81. – They will then be all too busy to try to realize their ideals among themselves. – JZ, 26.7.08. – SECESSIONISM. – See also under COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY

TERRORISM: Man is created free, is free. // Even if he were born in chains! // Do not be misled by the shouting of the mob, // nor by the abuses of aroused fools! // Be afraid only of the slave when he breaks his chains, but do not tremble before a free man.” - Friedrich Schiller, Gedichte: Die Worte des Glaubens. ( JZ tr. of: “Der Mensch ist frei geschaffen, ist frei. // Und wuerd’ er in Ketten geboren! / Lasst euch nicht irren des Poebel’s Geschrei, // Noch den Missbrauch rasender Toren! // Vor dem Sklaven, wenn er die Kette bricht, // Vor dem freien Menschen erzittert nicht.)

TERRORISM: McVeigh said he blew up the building in Oklahoma City to protest the federal government's actions in Waco - and he was quickly apprehended, tried, and punished for his crime. That was proper, even if you might disagree with the morality of the death sentence. However, not a single FBI or BATF agent was arrested for their role in the fiery deaths of 86 people at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. There should not be one standard of justice for ordinary Americans, and another for government officials. Until that injustice is eliminated, many Americans will continue to view their government with suspicion, fear, and bitterness. People tend to turn to violence only when they feel they have no other way to be heard. When Americans feel they have a role in the political system, they will work through the political system to make productive changes. When that avenue is blocked - either by restrictive ballot access laws, legal curbs on political speech, exclusion from debates, or by attempting to discredit unpopular political speech - the Timothy McVeighs of the world turn to violence. That's why robust political debate - especially about the abuse of government power - is a healthy way to change the system. And that's why stifling such debate is downright dangerous.” - Steve Dasbach, Libertarian Party Press release, June 12, 2001. - PRIVATE & OFFICIAL TERRORISM

TERRORISM: Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.” – Helen MacInnes. – No wonder, seeing that they are also territorialists. – JZ, 26.76.08.

TERRORISM: Neither the military professionals nor the ruling territorial gangsters can solve the problem of terrorism. They caused and maintained most of it through their very nature, existence and actions, most on the principles and practices of territorialism and of collective responsibility. No wonder that many draw their private conclusions from these bad examples, just like most thieves and robbers merely engage in private enterprise taxation or piracy or tribute gathering. – When the leading men in a country set such bad examples – what can one expect from minor minds and activists? - JZ, 17.9.86, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: no pity could be spared for those who never showed it to others.” - Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, 387. – Thus there would be a moral case even for tortures of convicted terrorists, to help avoid further terrorist attacks – if only the widespread condemnation of torture would not be usable to recruit even more terrorist. I think that terrorists should rather be confronted with all the arguments against collective responsibility and with all panarchistic alternative choices, to turn even them into enemies of any further terrorist acts. – Just like territorial governments – the largest terrorists of all, they still do know all too little of the rightful and effective alternatives to achieve quite rightful aims. – JZ, 14.4.09. - ATROCITIES, FANATICS, WAR CRIMINALS, PITY, MUTUALISM, TERRORISTS, CLEMENCY, FORGIVENESS, TERRITORIALISM

TERRORISM: No private or movement terrorism is as mass murderous and destructive as that organized by territorial governments. – JZ, 9.11.97. – And even the private and movement terrorism is largely caused by governmental territorialism and its effects e.g. upon minorities, refugees, and the rates of unemployment. – JZ, 16.7.08. - GOVERNMENTS, TERRITORIALISM, WAR, MASS MURDERS

TERRORISM: Now, many worthy people are apt to look on (*) dynamite as the archenemy of government; but remembering this definition, remembering that undeniably the great purpose of government (**) is the compulsion of A by B and C to do what he does not want to do, it is plain that such a view fails to distinguish essence from accident, and to appreciate the most characteristic qualities that inhere in this new political agent. Dynamite is not opposed to government; it is, on the contrary, government in its most intensified and concentrated form.” (***) – Auberon Herbert, in Mack edition, p. 192. - - (*) the users of dynamite for other than productive purposes. – - (**) territorial government! – (***) Governments, mostly, do not explosively altogether destroy societies and populations, but they do always, more or less, despotically and territorially suppress liberties and rights. - JZ, 26.7.08. – GOVERNMENTS, TERRITORIALISM, RULERS

TERRORISM: Number of Americans killed by terrorists since 9/11: 33. – Number of Americans killed by police since 9/11: 5,000 + - Trudy Bagley sharing Police the Police (A Community Projet)’s photo, Facebook, 19.1.14. – US Citizens 29 Times More Likely to be Killed by Police than Terrorists. Read more: http://bit.ly/1dwiBdm - Facebook, 19.1.14.

TERRORISM: Obviously, the action of a handful of fanatic individuals only, it is taken as a slur on all militia movements. Although a case of home-made explosives (fertilizer and oil), it is, nevertheless, taken as a case for more gun control! – Typically, two major motives of it, namely collective responsibility notions and territorial rule, with its territorially imposed laws and institutions, was not mentioned in the press reports. – JZ, 16.5.95. - OAKLAHOMA TERROR BOMBING

TERRORISM: Occupation is a state of violence which breeds counter-violence.” – From a radio talk heard on 2/7/86. – Every territorial State amounts to a coercive occupation of a whole country or territory and all its population. Should we be surprised then when some would try to resist, even with terrorist means, especially when they have almost no chance at all to get the majority on their side, either in the voting process or in a revolution of the masses? Let all the dissenters secede to do, quite peacefully, whatever they like, their own things, for or to themselves. Then only would they be quite unlikely to ever think of or engage in terrorist actions. But make also sure that they are always acting only at their own risk and expense. Also see to it that their minds become cleaned of all notions of collective responsibility. Let them become fully and obviously self-responsible, with no chance at all to blame others for the results of their own mistakes and follies. – JZ, 20.7.08, 24.3.11.. – TERRITORIALISM, OCCUPATIONS, VIOLENCE, BOMB-THROWERS, SUICIDE BOMBERS, PANARCHISM, VOLUNTARISM, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY UNDER PERSONAL LAWS, COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY & CHOICES.

TERRORISM: Once a regime is no longer able to frighten the people - to terrorize them into passive submission - then that regime is in big trouble.” - Gene Sharp on “The Two-Way-NPR News Blog,” http://www.voluntaryist.com/quotes/ – Feb. 22, 2011. - FEAR, AUTHORITY, GOVERNMENTS, RULERS, DICTATORSHIPS

TERRORISM: Police and military forces practise rather than demolish the fixed idea of "collective responsibility" upon which most terrorists act. Furthermore, their governments and they do uphold the principle and practice of territorial rule, which drove terrorists into terrorism in the first place, because they do not possess and thus cannot practise exterritorial autonomy and its options. Moreover under the monetary despotism, protectionism and other economic interventions and monopolies, which they suffer under territorialism, which keep them poor, ignorant and prejudiced, they become so dissatisfied that, in extreme cases, they do resort to terrorist acts because they see no better options for themselves. Allow terrorists to vote themselves into the governments and societies of their dreams and they will be so busy with their resulting self-help problems that they will have neither the energy nor a motive left to try to interfere with the dream worlds and fantasy or utopian activities of others. We could not make them love us - but we could neutralize them, if we offered them justice and self-rule rather than territorial repression. - JZ, 31.1.02, 14.4.09, 24.3.11. - PANARCHISM, MONETARY FREEDOM, INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY, FORCE, VIOLENCE, REPRESSION

TERRORISM: Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism. – Azmat Hassan, at the Conference on World Affairs, Boulder CO, 4/6/04. – As if all too flawed and intolerant religious, ideologies, spleens, dogmas, popular errors, prejudices, wrong assumptions and conclusions, personal thinking, collective responsibility notions, territorial and statist monopolies, e.g. decision-making monopolies on war and peace, had nothing to do with it. Matter of fact, many of the famous terrorists came actually from rich families and the worst and largest terrorists are still the large or despotic territorial governments and their tax revenues are certainly not very low. All the nonsense that is still believed and uttered in what is wrongly called the “social sciences” or their subjects has still to be systematically collected and encyclopedically confronted by the best refutations so far found or developed. – This compilation is just an individual’s effort in this direction. It needs your sound input or even your errors and prejudices – for their refutation by others. – JZ, 27.4.13. – POVERTY, , ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BEST REFUTATIONS OF POPULAR ERRORS, MYTHS & PREJUDICES THAT ARE OBSTACLES TO PROGRESS.

TERRORISM: Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.” – Azmat Hassan, at the Conference on World Affairs, Boulder CO, 4/6/04. - Terrorists often waste not only the lives of innocents but even their own, also much time, effort and funds. Probably they could achieve relative well being with the same total effort, rationally and rightfully applied to serve themselves and others. Anyhow, at most it is a motive for some terrorists, it is not a cause. Otherwise every poor person would be a terrorist. - JZ, 25. 11. 06. – Wrongful and irrational “collective responsibility” notions and intolerance towards other kinds of people and beliefs do form a much greater factor than the envy caused by poverty. The terrorists, in their ignorance and prejudices, leave everything intact that makes for poverty! – JZ, 14.4.09, 24.3.11. - TROUGH POVERTY?

TERRORISM: Prevention is the cure for terrorism, not counter terrorism. - JZ, 26.9.02. - More territorial authoritarianism is certainly not the cure but rather breeds more terrorists, who are also territorialists. Full exterritorial autonomy for all voluntary communities is the main, long-term and preventative answer and it would not only undermine territorial domination attempts but also the wrongful concept of collective responsibility, by which primarily innocent people are targeted. Nevertheless, territorialism and collective responsibility as root causes and exterritorial autonomy for volunteers, and the principle amd practice of individual as opposed to collective responsibility remain rarely discussed, if at all. To that extent most people are steeped in the very thinking and practices which leads some to commit terrorist acts. - JZ, 31.10.02. The same applies to the monetary and financial despotism that impoverishes people and makes them poor and dissatisfied. – JZ, 14.4.09.

TERRORISM: Several Palestinians (interviewed by NBC) explained their resort to terrorism by insisting that for years “nobody would listen” to their outcry so now they were merely “speaking louder” with bullets and bombs. The principal aim of terrorism is not to destroy but “to be heard”, and to convince others of the seriousness of their cause.” (*) – David V. J. Bell, “Power, Influence, and Authority”, p.14. - (*) Often, not always. All too often the aim is to gain power over others by terrorizing opponents. But even then, when they have become successful in this way, their real message is: Under our rule, too, exterritorial self-government options will also shine by their absence. – JZ, 26.7.92. - If that alone were the case, then, with the rise of the Internet and other electronic options, the number of terrorist acts should have declined. But territorialism remains the same, on the side of those, who are in territorial power for the time being and those who strive by any means towards acquiring it themselves. Since territorialism does not allow them to start their ideals freely, on a small scale, among volunteers, with the potential for unlimited growth, according to merit, under personal laws or full exterritorial autonomy or freedom of action or experimentation, and since they cannot win over the mass media and masses of voters to their cause, they resort to terrorist actions and thereby condemn themselves and their causes by the reactions to their wrongful actions, practised also on the principle of collective responsibility for all, who do not agree with them. – 25.7.08.

TERRORISM: Should we entrust the biggest terrorists and killers of all, the territorial States, with the fight against terrorism? Should we also continue to ignore the fact that territorial statism, by its very existence, continues to breed or condition terrorists? - JZ, 13. 5. 02, 31.10.02. - & TERRITORIAL STATES

TERRORISM: Some people get all excited about individual and relatively small-scale terrorism and yet side with ”strategic” indiscriminate bombing of cities and civilians and with nuclear terrorism as a way to peace! – JZ, 18.3.87, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: Someone recently asked: When was the last act of foreign terrorism was committed against Switzerland? Isn't it interesting that countries that mind their own business aren't targets of violence committed by citizens of other nations?” - Sheldon Richman, FREEDOM NETWORK NEWS No. 57.

TERRORISM: state terror against innocent people will definitely not solve the private terror against innocent people.” - www.wereldcrisis.nl - in Dutch, pointed out by DESTINY WORLDWIDE, 27.9.01. - & COUNTER-TERRORISM, AIR RAIDS AGAINST COUNTRIES OR GOVERNMENTS OR GOVERNMENT FORCES (INCLUDING CONSCRIPTS) WHICH SUPPORT SOME TERRORISTS, CIVILIANS, WAR AIMS, WARFARE METHODS, WAR AGAINST TERRORISM

TERRORISM: strong as terror gripped, it was a transient glue.” – Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite, ANALOG, 29 March 82, p.153.

TERRORISM: Terran Archives 2803: Terrorists were bands of desperate persons much like governments in that their chief occupations were murder and extortion. In his excellent study, “From Baboon Food-Gathering Bands to Consciousness”, Nomis of Noom demonstrates at least three differences between terrorists and governments: (1) the alpha male in a terrorist band was usually an intellectual, whereas in government he was usually a lawyer: (2) terrorists did not print their own currency, but governments did (*); (3) terrorists usually murdered small groups (from two or three to a few dozen), whereas governments murdered millions. – Otherwise, the two types of organization were indistinguishable from any other hominid predator-band from the autralopithecines ca. 4,000,000 B.C.E. to the dawn of True Consciousness begun by the evolutionary mutation recorded in this Romance.” – Robert Anton Wilson, Schroedinger’s Cat, p.161. - - (*) Printing and issuing the own currency is nothing wrong – IF it is one soundly founded, with sufficient reflux or acceptance foundation to keep it generally at par with its nominal value and is not an exclusive and forced currency, i.e. one with compulsory acceptance and an enforced value, one that is competitive on a free market for other privately or cooperatively issued exchange media, clearing certificates and value standards. – JZ, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: Territorial governments and territorialist terrorists create and deserve each other. The innocent and victimized or threatened civilians do deserve neither of them. Only freedom for individual group secessions can disentangle the current political, military, economic and social messes – and yet, presently, this option is neither known to nor demanded by most members of either group, the victims and the victimizers, private or officials ones. –JZ, 28.5.82, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: Territorialism breeds terrorism among many other major wrongs. - JZ, 26.9.00. - Nevertheless, in the extensive writings on terrorism this link is never or almost never mentioned. At least I have never found it yet in any of them. - Not even collective responsibility "thinking" is widely recognized as a factor making for war with ABC mass murder devices or promoting all kinds of other bomb attacks on people who are really innocents. - JZ, 30.1.02, 14.4.09. - & TERRITORIALISM

TERRORISM: terror inspires terror not only in the beaten masses but in the very leaders.” (*) – Stanton A. Coblentz, The Long Road to Humanity, 1959. – (*) And in the private terrorists. – JZ, 17.7.89. – Extreme fears can turn many officials or private citizens into terrorists. – JZ, 2.8.08.

TERRORISM: terrorism cannot be combated by appeasement or negotiation.” – AINR, 22.6.66. – Was a serious attempt ever made to prevent terrorism by granting these true and fanatic believers full exterritorial autonomy for their communities of volunteers, under personal laws? I for one know of no such preventive policies, appeasement or negotiation attempts. In summit conferences, for instances, as far as I know, and their contents is, largely, reported, the panarchistic alternatives are never discussed. Only territorial non-solutions seem to remain on their agendas. Nor do most victims of territorialist actions of private and official terrorists and their sympathizers seriously consider these alternatives. – And so private and official terrorism goes on and on, also supported by the almost general and often quite unconscious belief in collective responsibility. - JZ, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government) –Gore VidalAs if all private terrorism were only committed are justified resistance against crimes committed by governments. – To my knowledge no terrorist ever opposed the main crime of all existing governments, namely their territorialism. They just want to replace it by another territorialist government system. In the second part of this sentence he even asserts that there exists ONLY terrorism by members of governments. – I am not sure that I found ever a pro-freedom quote by G. V. that I found good enough to include in my collection. At least I do not remember it. – JZ, 22.4.13.

TERRORISM: Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government). – Gore Vidal. - - Not all the results of religious intolerance and fundamentalism, fanaticism etc. can be blamed on the Federal Government and its foreign policies. The pretences of the terrorists cannot be taken any more serious than the pretences of territorial governments. - JZ, 23. 11. 06.

TERRORISM: Terrorism is a tactic. It's intellectually incoherent to declare war on a tactic.” - Alan Bock, 10.3.01. URL www.free-market.net/rd/79585929.html - WAR ON TERRORISM

TERRORISM: Terrorism is like protectionism and war: It is not reduced by counter-terror but rather increased by it, as are protectionism and wars by more "protective" measures against protectionism and warlike measures against wars. - JZ, 12.6.01, 30.1.02. - Violence breeds violence, wars breed wars, protectionist measure breed more protectionism. - JZ, 30.1.02. - WAR, PROTECTIONISM

TERRORISM: Terrorism is not reduced by counter-terror but, rather, is fed by it. For thus more and more terrorists are born or made. One of the reasons for this is that both, the terrorists and the anti-terrorists, do share the same wrongful premises: Collective responsibility and territorialism, taking them for granted, unexamined, without a doubt about them. - JZ, 12.6.01, 30.1.02. - COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY & TERRITORIALISM

TERRORISM: Terrorism is one of the many and inevitable bad consequences of territorialism, its monopolistic, centralistic and coercive intolerance, especially in the political, social and economic spheres and often even still in the religious sphere. – JZ, 20.4.99, 20.7.08. – Its main other root cause consists in collective responsibility notions. Other factors making for territorialism are the various impoverishing policies of all territorial States, particularly those causing mass unemployment and immigration restrictions. – JZ, 20.7.08.

TERRORISM: Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.” - Edward Abbey, 1927-1989, Vox Clamantis in Deserto (A Shout in the Wilderness or Crying in the Wilderness.) - & GOVERNMENTS

TERRORISM: Terrorist acts are either undertaken by territorial governments against the own or foreign subjects or by private territorialist competitors aiming to replace existing territorial governments by their own. They are also holding whole groups or populations collectively responsible for the actions of either some of their members or for the actions of their government.  When whole populations are collectively punished then they are treated as the property of their governments, who had committed one crime or aggression or the other. –  23.4.13, 10.6.13. - COLLECTIVE INSTEAD OF INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, TERRITORIALISM, TERRORIZING THE OWN SUBJECTS TO KEEP THEM FROM RESISTING & REBELLING

TERRORISM: Terrorist, n. An aspiring statesman. One who believes that dynamite makes right.” – L. A. Rollins, Lucifer’s Lexicon, p. 122. – STATESMEN, POLITICIANS, AIR RAIDS, POWER

TERRORISM: Terrorists are amok runners on a national or even international scale. The essential question: What kind of institutions, beliefs, ideas, actions and processes turned them into such beasts, towards such states of "mind" and of "action", seems to be all to rarely asked and sensibly answered. Not even the to me rather obvious links to territorialism, to the notion of collective responsibility and to the results of monetary despotism are usually recognized - in the thousands of articles on the subject. - JZ, 10.10.01, 29.1.02, 14.4.09.

TERRORISM: Terrorists are persons with strong beliefs who are convinced that they will always be outvoted or otherwise repressed – and so they lash out at almost anyone in their frustration. They would be disarmed and pacified by allowing them to live in accordance with their own beliefs – at their own risk and expense. – JZ, 27.5.08, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: Terrorists being attracted by the large number of potential victims in large planes, there should be more freedom and less taxation and regulation for smaller passenger planes. Naturally, this would leave the risk of smaller planes used for chemical and biological warfare. The most effective ways to prevent or end terrorism remain: Exterritorial autonomy for dissenting groups, enlightenment on individual vs. collective responsibility and full monetary and economic freedom with their beneficent economic effects. Alas, they are not yet seen as such. - JZ, 4.10.01, 1.2.02. - & LARGE PLANES

TERRORISM: Terrorists can handle weapons and tactics but by their very motives and actions, especially their targeting, they indicate, as a rule, that they can’t handle them rightfully and intelligently. Mostly they still use them under the primitive notion of “collective responsibility”, i.e., indiscriminately murderously, killing many more innocents than guilty persons, if any really guilty persons at all. They do not know what genuine individual rights and liberties are and would require for their realization. Thus they waste their own lives and all too many lives of others. But then the armed forces of territorial governments do often act not all that much different from them and do commit murders of innocents on a much larger scale and be it only via “friendly” fire or “collateral damage”. – They, too, and their leaders, dictators or tyrants, have not yet bothered to find out what quite rightful war and peace aims are, quite rightful defence, liberation and revolutionary methods. Nor have most of their radical opponents, the anarchists and libertarians, bothered sufficiently to inform themselves about these requirements. – If they had, they might already be as liberated as they want to be, in their own communities of volunteers. - JZ, 21.10.07.

TERRORISM: Terrorize tyrants and terrorists – and no one else! – JZ, 9.9.84, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: that violence, cruelty and murder are completely rational acts, devised as deliberately as a theatre piece, to further the aims – political, financial or personal – of those who perpetrate them. …” - Morris West, Proteus, p.67. – Panarchism would grant every kind of ideology and movement its rights and liberties, to be tolerantly practised among its followers. Thus it would, largely, prevent the rise of terrorism used in attempts to realize the ideals of any ideological movement that would no longer attempt to territorially and thus intolerantly, impose its ideals upon dissenters as well, i.e., upon whole territorial populations. – JZ, 30.6.98, 20.7.08. - PANARCHISM, TOLERANCE, CRIME, VIOLENCE

TERRORISM: the Basques are the terrorists, Spain is just maintaining order. In the same way, when Palestinian guerillas kill children, they are terrorists; when the Israeli air force kills children by bombing Lebanese villages, it is maintaining order. Not that the words make any difference, either way the children are dead, but they do illustrate the extent of the occupation. (The French Resistance were certainly terrorists as far as the Germans were concerned.) A terrorist can then be defined these days as a patriot without an air force.” – Michael Zwerin, A Case for the Balkanization of Practically Everyone, p.47. – To each his own voluntary community and personal laws and institutions. To no one any territorial monopoly. - A territory goes beyond private and cooperative real estate. – JZ, 26.7.08, 24.3.11. - AIR RAIDS, COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY

TERRORISM: The Cambridge historian Christopher Andrew has calculated that in the 1960’s there was not a single religious or cult-based terrorist group anywhere, and as recently as 1980 only two of the world’s sixty-four known terrorist groups were religious. Since then, however, Shi’a extremists alone have been responsible for more than a quarter of the deaths form terrorism. ‘We are not fighting so the enemy will offer us something,’ the former Hezbollah leader Hussein Massawi said. ‘We are fighting to wipe out the enemy.’ Whereas groups such as the Palestine Liberation Organisation or the Provisional IRA  spread terror for a specific and limited political purpose, their religious successors raised mass slaughter to an end in itself. The intelligence chief of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo, which released nerve gas on the Tokyo subway in 1995, explained that ‘we regarded the world outside as evil, and destroying the evil as salvation.’ – Frances Wheen, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Harper Perennial, 2004, p.183/84. -& RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE

TERRORISM: The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That’s easy: 100 per cent. Joseph Sobran, 1/1/04. – TAX SLAVERY

TERRORISM: The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That’s easy: 100 per cent.”Joseph Sobran, 1/1/04 - TERRORIST THREAT COMPARED WITH THE THREAT POSED REGULARLY BY TAXATION

TERRORISM: The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden.” – Dennis Hastert, House Speaker. - If drug use were legalized then this source of finance for terrorism would tend to dry up. Drug production and drug trade would no longer be very profitable. - JZ, 23. 11. 06. - & DRUGS

TERRORISM: the political terrorist is the most evil person on the face of the earth.” – Alan Johnson, PERCEPTION, 3/73. – The private territorialist terrorists do much less wrong and harm than do the official territorialist terrorists! – JZ, 25.10.08. – TERRITORIALISM,

TERRORISM: The price of empire is terrorism.Greenbacks – Terrorism is also practice by and small territorial States, e.g. the North Korean regime and against small territorial States.– Not everything can be blamed on Big Governments or Empires. – JZ, 25.4.13.

TERRORISM: The price of empire is terrorism.” – Greenbacks - - Terrorism does not even need whole large empires for its practice. Compare the terrorist acts which religious fanatics still practise against each other in some countries, e.g. Indonesia and Iraq. Their own internal imperialistic ambitions are enough to motivate terrorists. - JZ, 25. 11. 06. – IMPERIALISM,

TERRORISM: The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom". – Joe Sobran – IT IS MORE BEARABLE THAN ALL THE ANTI-TERRORIST MEASURES OF GOVERNMENTS

TERRORISM: The terrorist is the suppressed autonomist PLUS the suppressor of other autonomists. – JZ, 28.5.82.

TERRORISM: The truth is, we're in far more danger from our own cars than we are from terrorism. Nearly 800,000 people have died in car accidents in the last twenty years. During that time there have been exactly two Islamic terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, with less than 3,000 total fatalities. That's more than 200 TIMES as many Americans dying in their cars as at the hands of Islamic terrorism. And yet . . We've turned the whole world upside down in response to the two terrorist attacks. We've launched invasions, created vast new bureaucracies, shredded the Bill of Rights, compounded regulations, spent hundreds of billions of dollars, and disrupted travel and commerce. But no one is suggesting that we do 200 times as much to address the driving risk, which is 200 times greater." - "I Am Not Afraid," from DownSize DC: http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=77 - COMPARED WITH CAR ACCIDENT RISKS: CARS VERSUS TERRORISTS – Compare also how many unborn children were aborted in the USA by their own parents – during the last 20 years. – JZ, 14.4.09.

TERRORISM: The war on "terror" will never be over, it will just change locations. Like the war on drugs, prostitution, pornography, and the many others that will follow, it is a war on humanity. These wars will never be won; the State will just keep creating new boogiemen to frighten us with. The sheep will anxiously anticipate the next fall guy the State offers up as a sacrifice for the war on whatever happens to be next. Be careful, the next pawn could be me or you.Mike WasdinWhat is the total number of private terrorism during the last century, compared with the number of victims of State-organized and conducted terrorism or all too indiscriminate counter-terrorism that kills more innocents than terrorists? – JZ, 26.4.13. - WAR ON TERROR, ANTI-TERRORISM BY TERRITORIAL STATES, INDISCRIMINATE COUNTER-TERRORISM

TERRORISM: The war on "terror" will never be over, it will just change locations. Like the war on drugs, prostitution, pornography, and the many others that will follow, it is a war on humanity. These wars will never be won; the State will just keep creating new [ones? - JZ] to frighten us with. The sheep will anxiously anticipate the next fall guy the State offers up as a sacrifice for the war on whatever happens to be next. Be careful, the next pawn could be me or you.” – Mike Wasdin - - Private terrorists are not just boogiemen but terrorism by territorial governments is usually much worse. - JZ, 25. 11. 06.

TERRORISM: The War on Terror is impossible, not in the sense that it cannot cause immense amounts of bloodshed and destruction and loss of liberty, but in the sense that it cannot finally achieve what it is supposed to achieve, and will only end in creating more of the same conditions that led to its declaration in the first place." (10/23/02) - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., The Impossible War, www.LewRockwell.com - & WAR ON TERRORISM

TERRORISM: To protect us from terrorists our government treats us like terrorists. Hal O'BoyleANTI-TERRORISM BY TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS

TERRORISM: To protect us from terrorists our government treats us like terrorists.” - Hal O’Boyle - & GOVERNMENTAL PROTECTION FROM IT

TERRORISM: We will never bow to terrorism” – said M. Fletcher, but at the same time he demands a “strong” territorial government, which tends to constitute the greatest of all terrorists and which also tends to produce, as a side effect, private terrorism, not only wars, revolutions, wars, civil wars and mass murders. – JZ, n.d. & 18.7.08.

TERRORISM: We’ve hear the oh-so-intellectual terrorists, who murder in the name of the People they pretend to represent (“Le people, c’est moi,” seems to be the radical aristocrat’s variation on Louis XIV). … Editorial, GALAXY 39/3, p.149.

TERRORISM: What government does: Uses force and intimidation to coerce people to comply with their demands. Definition of Terrorism: The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. - Nizam Ahmad and Dale Ogden shared Capitalism's photo. - Capitalism -  The Angel Clark Show – Facebook, 11.2.13. - & GOVERNMENT,  TERRITORIALISM, FORCE, COERCION, INTIMIDATION, COMPULSION:

TERRORISM: What had made these men into such beasts?” - Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom, The Jesus Incident, p.172. - Were their creative energies ever sufficiently released? Were they offered voluntaristic options, among their believers? Were they only subjected to governments and rules of their own free choice? Even if they had been among the most enlightened people, would their chances have been good to achieve majority approval for their aspirations in a democracy? - JZ, 6.10.01. - INTOLERANCE, MAN, BEASTS, ATROCITIES, TERRITORIALISM, PANARCHISM

TERRORISM: What is coercion otherwise than reason which has become desperate?” – Ortega y Gasset. – (“Was ist Gewalt anderes als Vernunft die verzweifelt?”) - Desperate unreasonable ambitions, dogmatism, fanaticism and fundamentalism are also involved, of people quite frustrated with their remaining options, e.g. with no chance to come territorially into power (through voting or popular revolutions) over themselves and others and who do not have or even know the exterritorial autonomy option. All of these “freedom fighters” and terrorists, suicide bombers etc. are territorialists, just like the territorial regimes are that they try to fight through indiscriminate murders and destructions, based upon quite unreasonable notions of collective responsibility. Mostly, they are also victims of monetary despotism but without knowledge of it and of its monetary freedom alternative. – The cure for terrorism, wars, civil wars, mass murders and violent revolutions is – sufficient freedom for all the diverse aspirations, to the extent that they can be tolerantly practised among volunteers, under personal laws and full exterritorial autonomy. – Only genuine individual rights and liberties deserve to be coercively protected – among all those who do appreciate them, to the extent that they do, and this, probably best, by a new kind of military militia force to protect all individual rights and liberties. It would minimize, if it could, rather than maximize the use of coercion - to merely defensive use of force. - JZ, 5.7.92, 25.7.08. – , IDEALISM, TERRORISM, RESISTANCE, TERRITORIALISM, PANARCHISM, COERCION, VIOLENCE, MILITIA

TERRORISM: What is now called terrorism is, after all, the method of warfare employed by individuals and small groups against the power of the state. These groups were, not long ago, called the Underground and the Resistance. And they were, not long ago, automatically the heroes of our movies. The Secret Police that searched them out and the armies that hunted them down were automatically the villains.” - Larry Beinhart, American Hero, p.208. - - Most terrorists rather imitate rather than fight the motives, ideas, arguments, powers, methods and weapons of the territorial State. – JZ, 10.9.06. – They do also operate, as a rule, on the principle of collective responsibility and have only vague to flawed notions on rightful liberation. – JZ, 12.9.07. - RESISTANCE & THE TERRITORIAL STATE & ITS WARFARE

TERRORISM: When voluntary paths are blocked then many true believers resort to coercive methods and hold even mere subjects of coercive territorial government collectively responsible for the wrongful and intolerant actions of these governments against dissenters. Admittedly, all terrorists are territorialists as well and as such we should never give in to them and their terrorist methods. But that does not mean that we should not respect their right to do their own things to or for themselves, at their own risk and expense. That might be the most effective way to disarm them, together with a thorough discrediting of almost all methods based upon collective responsibility notions. Realizing all economic rights everywhere, especially full monetary and financial freedom, even if at first only applied among volunteers, would also greatly reduced the conditions under which private terrorism tends to grow. – JZ, 6.11.80, 4.6.82, 26.7.08, 24.3.11.

TERRORISM: While, at whatever price, terrorism must be stopped, it would still be preferable to prevent it – by depriving terrorists of their motives for engaging in terrorist acts. – JZ, 27.2.86. – Once they are offered sufficient free, diverse and tolerant alternatives, to practise their views among themselves and also sufficient enlightened to stop their collective responsibility notions and practices against their imagined and real enemies, they will tend to become peaceful and tolerant gardeners and care-takers of their own and self-chosen spheres, running their own lives freely, rather than attempting to run the lives of others. Naturally some irrational, immoral, insane and pathological cases will remain but they will become smaller in numbers and powers. They will also run out of easily imagined enemies and targets, in most cases, when no longer confronted by single model territorial States. – Certainly, mass murder devices should be made even less accessible to them than to any territorial government. - JZ, 25.7.08.

TERRORISTS: By today's governmentally proscribed notions and definitions, the American revolutionaries were violent terrorists, common criminals, and treasonous political deviants who deserved nothing less than to hang at the end of a rope." - Hans Sherrer, GULAG AMERICANA, Chapter 32. - http://www.voluntaryist.com/quotes/ – AMERICAN REVOLUTION

TERRORISTS: Terrorists can handle weapons and tactics but by their very motives and actions, especially their targeting, they indicate, as a rule, that they can’t handle them rightfully and intelligently and for rightful purposes and against their real enemies only. Mostly they still use them under the primitive notion of “collective responsibility”, i.e., indiscriminately murderously, killing many more innocents than guilty persons, if any really guilty persons at all. They do not know what genuine individual rights and liberties are and would require for their realization. Thus they waste their own lives and all too many lives of others. But then the armed forces of territorial governments do often act not all that much different from them and do commit murders of innocents on a much larger scale and be it only via “friendly” fire or “collateral damage”. – They, too, and their leaders, dictators or tyrants, have not yet bothered to find out what quite rightful war and peace aims are and quite rightful defence, liberation and revolutionary methods. Nor have most of their radical opponents, the anarchists and libertarians, bothered to inform themselves, sufficiently, about these requirements. – If they had, they might already be as liberated as they want to be, in their own communities of volunteers. - JZ, 21.10.07, 24.3.11. – PANARCHISM, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS & LIBERTIES, ENEMIES, INNOCENTS, COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY, INDISCRIMINATE MURDERS

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: As usual, the nuclear weapons tests will be protected from the people but the people will not be protected against them, not even in peace time, not to speak of war times. – JZ, 12.7.95. – We have let governments get away with this for two generations by now, while, all too often, they did engage in nuclear brinkmanship! How much longer should we tolerate this situation and behavior? How many more chances should we give them to exterminate all of us? Should they really assure that these “weapons” do work or would the best thing that could happen be that none of them would work at all? – JZ, 18.7.08. - NWT

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: Blast, rather, all those who make or prepare nuclear blasts or stockpile the “weapons” for them, really only mass murder devices or anti-people “weapons”. – Should not their mere possession characterize the persons involved as tyrants or helpers of tyrants? Also the monopoly to decide on their usage? – Perhaps a referendum should be initiated on that question. – JZ, 11.7.74, 1.8.08. – NUCLEAR WAR THREAT, NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, REFERENDUM, TYRANNICIDE

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: I’d never guarantee the safety of nuclear weapons testers! – JZ, 3.9.73.

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: I’d worry about untested nuclear “weapons” only if they would actually explode when “used”, while some maniacs want them always to explode, whenever and wherever they want them to. The very best thing any of them could do, when finally “used” or “employed”, would be not to work at all! If by some sabotage actions, miracle or advanced technology we could achieve that none of them would work, while madmen want to use them against whole cities, countries and peoples, that would be highly desirable. Those testing them are only afraid that they might not explode, when the criminal idiots involved are pushing their buttons. – JZ, 21.7.95.

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: If these nuclear tests are really so harmless, let them be tested in the seat of the French government, in Paris. – JZ, 5.6.73, 1.8.08. – IN THE PACIFIC, JOKES

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: Some French politicians promoted a French nuclear force as a matter of “prestige”. - - The genuine prestige of France would have been really increased only if it had refused to build any nuclear mass murder and mass destruction devices and would have called of all tests of them. - What would the world have thought if the Nazis had wanted to increase their “prestige” by full publicity for their extermination camps and death squads? By e.g. publicly running some tests with such camps? What are nuclear “weapons” otherwise than portable, cheap, scientific and technologically developed “extermination camp” packages, kept in readiness for use? Actually, nuclear, bacteriological and chemical mass murder devices are even more indiscriminate means for mass murder than the Nazi death camps and death squads were. The Nazis selected and sorted out their victims from the whole population. They did not or not yet indiscriminately wipe out whole cities and whole territorial populations, as the ABC mass murder advocates are prepared to do. But the nuclear strength advocates still imagine that they are patriots rather than men engaged in mass murder conspiracies and preparations. – JZ, 28.6.95, 18.7.08. – NUCLEAR WAR THREAT, DETERRENCE, MASS MURDERS, DEATH CAMPS, EXTERMINATION CAMPS, TESTING FOR MASS MURDER READINESS, , PRESTIGE, FRANCE

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: Some thoughts, unordered, on French and other nuclear tests: (1) Don’t just use verbal abuse. (2) Don’t immolate yourself. Rather wait for nuclear war to do so. (3) Don’t expose yourself to being murdered now by a nuclear bomb, by visiting such a bomb test area before the general nuclear holocaust. (4) Don’t attack a supposedly guilty large collective, the French people, for instance. They have no more say on this than you and I have. It would also mean acting on the same principle that made building, stock-piling and using nuclear “weapons” possible, namely collective responsibility! (5) Don’t use violence against private property. You could not outperform nuclear weapons in that, anyhow. (6) Destruction of “public” property is just as useless as nuclear war destruction – unless that “public” property is one of the nuclear bombs nuclear weapons factories or nuclear war “facilities”. (7) Don’t use warships or other military means – or you may set off the nuclear war we want to prevent. (8) Don’t use indiscriminate methods.(9) Don’t try to stop all trade when e.g. stopping merely the uranium mining and trade could be an effective means. (10) Not only refuse to recognize the French or other nuclear government but recognize, for each of them, several governments in exile, instead, each one representing all of its kinds of dissenters, all volunteers for it only, now or in the future. (11) Go directly after the really guilty ones only, all out, the scientists, administrators, politicians and generals involved. They prepare for scientifically conducted mass murders or risk them accidentally occurring or by miscalculation. Pay them back in their own coin but with non-nuclear devices. (12.) Practise article 27 of the French constitution of 1793, which says that all those, who usurp sovereignty, shall be put to death, instantly, by the free men. (That did, finally, belatedly, happen to Robespierre and before him to Marat, by a woman, Charlotte Corday.) (13) Incite and help organize, rationally, a tax strike against the French government. The French taxpayers would enthusiastically support this if you show them a feasible way. (14) Dissolve France – and all other countries, as nuclear targets, by allowing individuals and groups to split it up into all the numerous diverse, decentralized and exterritorially autonomous groups, communities and societies that free people, would, individually, prefer for themselves, just like the do prefer different religions, sports, hobbies, fashions, music, writings, arts, meals, drinks, cars, bicycles and all other things that make life worthwhile. Thereby you would remove the motives to have nuclear weapons in readiness, the finance for them and also the targets. (15) Go not only after further tests but after the stockpiles and the production facilities, including nuclear reactors, which can be turned into nuclear “weapons” production facilities, if they are not already. There are already enough of these “weapons” to wipe all of us out, several times over. Who can seriously believe that the fact that all of them have not yet been “used” is a sufficient proof that they will never be used? These facilities are not protected against the people but the people are not protected against them. (16) Do not put pressure on the government but on yourself and on your fellow-citizens to do your bit to achieve nuclear disarmament, even one-sidedly, a.s.a.p. Governmental disarmament inspectors cannot be trusted, either. (17) Arm, organize and train yourself for your part in carrying out the nuclear disarmament and preventing your government from engaging in any aggressive war. (18) Achieve the constitutional power to vote on such issues, on war and peace, armament and disarmament and international treaties. Governments have never bothered to declare quite rightful war and peace aims only. Ponder them, declare them and stick by them with all your mind and strength. (19) Contribute to build up trust between nations – e.g., by public declarations under oath, of quite rightful war aims, and swear that you would rather secede from, escape from or rise against the own government than deviate from such aims. (20) Help to stop uranium mining. Export earnings should not be all that we should be concerned about in this respect. No more uranium no further nuclear “weapons” and no more “innovations” and “better” nuclear “weapons” (21) Stop advocating or tolerating “peaceful” nuclear reactors, which do also breed more material for more such “weapons”. The only nuclear reactor that is relatively safe for us, because it is far enough away – is the sun. (22) Don’t just be one-sidedly concerned with the radiation hazards coming from nuclear test fall-outs when there are many other daily sources of dangerous (in the long run) hard and soft radiation, like e.g. some luminous watch dials, x-rays, TV’s, planes flying at high altitudes, mobile phones, leaking microwave ovens, living in brick houses, in granite areas etc. We already live in a soup of artificially produced radiations and electro-magnetic effects, with the long-term results of them upon our bodies and minds still unknown. (23) “Nuclear giants and ethical infants” we were called by General Omar Bradley after WW II. Someone else stated: “The age of over-kill and under-think.” (24) What is a significant additional radiation hazard? – “… there are now two million people throughout the world who will die of cancer as a result of all the nuclear tests held so far, probably 1000 in Australia. If France goes ahead with its nuclear testing in the Pacific, another 70 000 can be added – a good percentage of them Australians.” – Prof. Linus Pauling. – While, Sir Robert Menzies, when he was still Prime Minister, said: “… the tests will be unlikely to lead to significant radiation hazards to the Australian population.” – And yet all such tests were carried out as far from human population centers as possible, which says at least something on their hazards. - JZ, probably from the 70’s, somewhat revised 2.8.08, 24.3.11.

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: Why doesn’t the French government go one step further? Why does it stop before asserting that nuclear weapons are entirely harmless to anyone, anywhere, especially when tested in their remaining colonial possessions? Why does it not assert that they are not only harmless to your health but actually good for you, anywhere, anytime, like vitamins and mineral pills, healthy food and exercises? – JZ, 23.8.95. – And why does it not prove its convictions and assertions by setting off the tests over or under Paris? – JZ, 18.7.08. - Q. - NUCLEAR TESTS OF FRENCH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: Wouldn’t it be terrible if a nuclear test bomb didn’t go off? Almost as terrible as a conventional extermination camp whose “facilities” would not work! - By rights, all its builders, transporters and test personnel involved should be executed – if it does work! – JZ, 16.8.95. – And if it does not work then they might still be charged with preparing for a mass murder. – JZ, 18.7.08.

TESTS: All tests and examinations tend to produce at least some failures of tests and examinations TERRORISM & TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS, SUSPECTING ALL THEIR SUBJECTS: The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom". – Joe Sobran – SURVEILLANCE, SECURTITY, SEARCHES

TERRORISM & WAR: How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? – Howard Zinn, James Cox shared Wayne Waleed Parnell (Official)'s photo. Facebook, 18.6.12. – Q. – WARFARE OF TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS

TERRORISM, AIR RAIDS, INDISCRIMINATE WARFARE: Our anger embodies a judgment that what the terrorists did on September 11th was wrong. But what was it that they did? They rained down death from the skies upon innocent civilians in order to express a grievance against our government. If, in the anger of our military response, we are heedless of the lives of innocent civilians in Afghanistan or elsewhere, then, in the name of our anger, we will have infringed the very principle that our anger is supposed to be expressing: we will be the ones raining down death from the skies upon innocent civilians in order to express a grievance against their government. Those who answer directly to their blood often end up having a lot of blood to answer for. - Roderick Long - Roy Halliday, Quotations with an Attitude, online. – COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY, CIVILIANS, NON-COMBATANTS, DECISION-MAKING MONOPOLY, PEOPLE AS PROPERTY

TERRORISM, NUCLEAR “WEAPONS” & DEMOCRACIES: When even “democratic” governments fool around with mass murder devices – should we expect ordinary terrorists to behave like little angels? – JZ, 2.10.09.

TERRORISM, PRIVATE, GOVERNMENT & FREEDOM: Terrorists can only take my life. Only my government can take my freedom. – Bruce Schneier in www.strike-the-root.com 

TERRORISM: A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.” - Epicurus. – Wrongs, aggressions, suppressions and intolerance breed further wrongs, aggressions, suppressions and intolerance. –JZ, 14.4.09. - FEAR, DESPOTISM, TYRANNY

TERRORISM: A.) WHAT IS RIGHT ABOUT IT? B.) WHAT IS WRONG ABOUT IT? - A.) The wish for independence and self-government. The right to resist wrongful oppression and exploitation. The right not to be subjected to the laws and institutions that others passed in their own interest and at the risk and expense of those who do not agree with them, as far as their own affairs are concerned. I.e., the numerous disadvantaged and discriminated against minorities, whose only remaining option is to try to become or to persuade the majority, which is rather difficult regarding deep-seated errors, beliefs and convictions of the majority. - B.) Most terrorists themselves aim at intolerant and territorial domination, rather than merely at self-government under personal laws and institutions of their own, including legislative and juridical ones. Moreover, they hold innocent people collectively responsible, with their lives, for crimes committed or supposed to have been committed by their governments against the terrorists or those the terrorists sympathize with. - - A.) Genuine freedom fighters would aim only at exterritorial autonomy for voluntary communities. To the extent that terrorists would only aim at that they would be right. To the extent that they would use terrorism as a supposed means to reach that objective they would still be wrong. I do not know of any terrorist group that has only such a rightful aim. - - B.) Genuine freedom fighters would not commit any terrorist acts against innocents, on the principle of collective responsibility but they might engage e.g. in tyrannicide and in genuinely liberating revolutions and uprisings that would liberate even those minorities or local majorities with whom they happen to disagree, by realizing, for them as well, all their voluntaristic and exterritorial options, their panarchies or polyarchies or establishing the framework in which they could form such communities themselves. – JZ, 23.1.04, 31.10.07.

TERRORISM: All nuclear weapons are already controlled by terrorists, those constitutionally, legally and juridically, but not morally, put in authority over such mass murder devices, their production, stand-by readiness and their use. Already for decades they have terrorized the people of this planet with them but have not eliminated conventional wars, either, by these anti-people “weapons”. – JZ, 31.1.03., 1.2.03, 21.10.07. - NUCLEAR WAR THREAT, DECISION-MAKING MONOPOLY, IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN WAR, TERRITORIAL WARFARE STATES, NUCLEAR WAR THREAT

TERRORISM: Almost every European government is a legalized manufactory of dynamiters. Vexation piled upon vexation, restriction upon restriction, burden upon burden, the dynamiter is slowly hammered out everywhere on the official anvil. The more patient submit, but the stronger and more rebellious characters are maddened, and any weapon is considered right, as the weapon of the weaker against the stronger. …” Auberon Herbert, in Mack edition, p.223.

TERRORISM: Amnesty and exterritorial autonomy even for terrorists, provided only that they do surrender or are already captured and disarmed? After all, it was territorialism, combined with the predominant collective responsibility notions that led them into terrorism in the first place. And how many of the “decent” people have so far been quite clearly against territorialism and collective responsibility? – JZ, 28.2.95, 18.7.08.

TERRORISM: an enemy whose deliberate policy was hysterical violence.” - "We will run amok!" - Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, p.179. - Their "why", their motive, ought to be explored - and the possibility of preventing it from arising. That is certainly not possible for every violent madman and zealot, but for many who have been turned into such by circumstances, ignorance, prejudices and false ideas. Among the latter the most important are: territorialism, collective responsibility and monetary despotism. Their opposites have the potential to turn the practice of terrorism to close to zero. - JZ, 7.2.02. - AMOK, VIOLENCE

TERRORISM: Any coercion preventing dissenters from doing their own thing – at their own expense and risk and among themselves only (no matter how spleeny their ideas and actions may appear to others), does invite resistance, reprisals and even terrorist actions from those so frustrated in their intentions and actions and seeing no chance to get their ideals realized by persuasion or majority voting. – JZ,15.5.85, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: By suppressing exterritorial autonomy the territorial governments create terrorism. By using terrorism as a means towards becoming territorially sovereign the terrorists themselves suppress the exterritorial autonomy of others, i.e., act like repressive territorial governments. – JZ, 28.5.08, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: Citizen acts of terrorism (extreme misanthropy) are inevitable signs of ubiquitous government.” – Charles R. LaDow, THE FREEMAN, 9/74.

TERRORISM: Counter-terror and mere police and military suppression and various security measures are not the best responses to terrorism. Tolerance is, not for the terrorist acts themselves but for all rightful aims of terrorists, provided only that they are prepared to realize them only for and among themselves and only at their own expense and risk. Their personal rights and liberties should be extended and recognized to that extent. Once this is done then they will be well on the road to become peaceful and tolerant themselves. Free to practise their ideals among themselves, without any territorial or international interventions, will keep them occupied and disinterested in promoting territorially their ideals via terrorist attacks. Because then they would already be free to realize their ideals among themselves and everything else would merely distract them from that opportunity. Beyond that, we have to demolish their collective responsibility notions – starting by destroying them within ourselves first. – Panarchist successful experiments would also demonstrate to them how to end unemployment and inflation and poverty, rather fast. People whose living standard is rising fast, by their own efforts, will be disinclined to become e.g. suicide bombers. Perhaps the most effective counter-measure might thus be the compilation and publication of an ideal declaration of individual rights and liberties. JZ, 2.11.00, 20.7.08.

TERRORISM: Counter-terror must be directed only against the guilty, not against any innocents. – JZ, 15.10.87.

TERRORISM: Crime and terror can't be fought militarily, especially not with area bombing, concentration camps and ABC mass murder devices. - JZ, 24.9.01. - Try exterritorial autonomy for communities of volunteers, individual responsibility, monetary and financial freedom and other liberties instead! Give terrorists a chance to rule themselves, and themselves only, in the only way that this is possible, and they will soon cease to terrorize others and do harm only to themselves. - JZ, 31.1.02. - & CRIME, AIR RAIDS, BOMBING, MILITARY STRENGTH, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY, MINORITY AUTONOMY

TERRORISM: Disarm terrorists and rehabilitate them by offering them the kind of autonomy they could or should be satisfied with – not on a territorial basis but merely on that of personal laws or exterritorial autonomy or experimental freedom for their volunteers. – JZ, 21.12.82, 26.7.08, 24.3.11.

TERRORISM: Every state is a "terrorist state," for each, in varying degrees, threatens people with the infliction of violence or death for failure to abide by its demands.” - Butler Shaffer, The Wizards of Ozymandias, chapter 58. – By its monetary and financial despotism the territorial State also creates degrees of poverty and unemployment which are breeding grounds for terrorism and violent revolutions of its victims, who are economically just as ignorant and prejudiced as are their rulers. – Territorialism gives the somewhat enlightened minorities no chance to do their own things only for themselves, under full experimental freedom, requiring in the sphere of social sciences the same kind of experimental freedom that does already exist in most other spheres. Thus they cannot set better examples for the rest. - JZ, 14.4.09. - & STATES, TERRITORIALISM

TERRORISM: experience showed that domestic terrorism isn’t needed to further imperial ambitions, is actually counter-productive.” – Poul Anderson, The Byworlder, p.64.

TERRORISM: Exterritorialism, on a voluntary basis, might come to end terrorism, in connection with sufficient enlightenment on the wrongfulness of collective responsibility practices. Terrorists and anti-terrorists have both territorialist ambitions, which make them, inevitably, antagonistic to each other. If all dissenters, even those forming only small minorities, had the exterritorialist panarchistic option for themselves, then few of them would be motivated to struggle towards their ideal with the means and methods of terrorism. Most of their ideal could then be realized, as far as humanly possible, among their volunteers, in a quite tolerant way towards outsiders or non-members and at the own expense rather than at the expense of others. Under voluntary membership - and the pressure of competition from other societies - each group of true believers would also have to provide some small to large successes for its system, relatively soon, or it would lose many members and could not gain enough new members to make up for such losses. Their leaders would have to put up or shut up. Nor could they prevent their members receiving much criticism from member of other societies with other convictions. Only by renouncing and doing away with exclusive territorial domination can all kinds of movements and beliefs be realized, as far as possible, among their believers, under full exterritorial autonomy and personal laws. Under such freedom conditions terrorist acts would be condemned even by most of their fellow believers. There would be no longer any territorialist repression, which would breed more and more resistance and even terrorism. – JZ, 6.10.93, 19.7.08. - & THE TERRITORIALIST CONNECTION, COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY

TERRORISM: Fanaticism is always the child of persecution.” – Napoleon I, to Barry E. O’Meara at St. Helena, Jan. 27, 1817. – Not always but often. – JZ

TERRORISM: for terrorism is, in practice, no more than ordinary warfare in which the objectives are the enemy’s highest officers and principal buildings and the maximum use is made of surprise. It is an infinitely cleaner kind of warfare, than, for example, the pattern bombing or enemy cities in which, as in terrorist warfare, civilians are as often the objectives as soldiers; and it is far more discriminating. The only serious question in the context of war is – is terrorism effective?” – Edward Hyams, Killing No Murder, p.171. – How can buildings be an enemy? This is as irrational as the destruction of churches by non-believers is. If there are no longer enough faithful to support a church the building can still be useful for other purposes. No place is more “holy” than any other. - Is either method rightful? – JZ, 26.7.08. - WARFARE, INDISCRIMINATE MURDER & DESTRUCTION,

TERRORISM: French society reacted violently against the anarchists before 1914,” Tixier-Vignancourt believes. “Terrorists were stopped by the gallows, the guillotine and public opinion. But at the time we had a healthy society, a civilized society … (*) Material terrorism stems from intellectual terrorism which is at once its innovator and source of inspiration.” – TROTN, quoted in NEWS DIGEST INTERNATIONAL, 9/77. – (*) ? – JZ

TERRORISM: He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.” - Claudian. - FEAR

TERRORISM: How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? – Howard Zinn, quoted by Mick Meaney sharing Rinf.com's photo – on Facebook, 18.12.13. - WAR ON TERRORISM

TERRORISM: How come we have an international association of terrorists before we have an international association of moral and tolerant minorities, that aspires to nothing but full exterritorial autonomy for all its very diverse communities of volunteers? – One of the main reasons seems to be that coercing others is either quite natural to almost all of us or because, as territorial statists. we remain ignorant of or prejudiced against exterritorial autonomy for volunteers, and thus adhere to the “territorial imperative” rather than the “exterritorial imperative” and do not want to give up the deadly, destructive and despotic system, institutions, “thinking” and “ideas” or prejudices as well as "actions" of territorialism? – JZ, 17.2.82, 20.2.82, 26.7.08, 24.3.11. - EXTERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE VS. TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE

TERRORISM: How much, if at all, has international terrorism been reduced since the collapse of its sponsorship by the Soviet Empire? – JZ, 10.5.92. – The Anti-Americanism and Anti-Capitalism which the Soviet Union sponsored and all the other popular errors, myths and prejudices which led to territorial States, are still all too much alive, everywhere, and are not systematically and efficiently countered. – JZ, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS." - Malcolm Forbes, when asked if he was afraid of terrorism. - &TAXATION

TERRORISM: in 1920 and 1921, she had second thoughts. It is one thing to employ violence in combat as a means of defence, but to institutionalize terrorism as the Bolsheviks had done is altogether different. ‘Such terrorism begets counter-revolution and in turn becomes counter-revolutionary’.” – Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible, on Emma Goldman, p.405.

TERRORISM: In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then, they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew … Then they came for the Catholics. I didn't speak up then because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up. – Reverend Martin Niemoller, German Lutheran pastor arrested by the Gestapo in 1937.

TERRORISM: In one way and only one way can the dynamiter be permanently disarmed – by abandoning in almost all directions our force machinery, and accustoming the people to believe in the blessed weapons of reason, persuasion, and voluntary service. (*) We have morally made the dynamiter; we must now morally unmake him.” - Auberon Herbert, in Mack edition, p.226. - (*) As well as in full exterritorial autonomy for communities of volunteers, doing their own things for or to themselves. – JZ, 26.3.08. – FORCE, COERCION, COMPULSION, TERRITORIALISM, INTOLERANCE, TOLERANCE, PANARCHISM, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM

TERRORISM: In the utilization of military possibilities, to talk in the language of the military, the “existing weapons” were employed, without regard for the own and the foreign population. – The use of the first atomic bomb and later the use of napalm bombs was done upon orders by a democratic government. In this the atomic test in Hiroshima was undertaken although at this point of time the military defeat of Japan was already assured. This murder of 90,000 people was never punished. – Whether the State’s terrorism – for nothing else were the wars of the past and will be the coming ones, will guarantee security (whose security?) – will remain questionable.” – LERNZIEL ANARCHY Nr. 3.

TERRORISM: It is the mindlessness and lack of quite rightful and liberating ideas among the terrorists and among the anti-terrorists “revolutionaries” and “warriors” that concerns me most. Their numerous wrong ideas makes them fight with wrong means for wrongful or flawed causes. Primarily both are intolerant territorialists and both apply all too much the “principle” of collective responsibility. Both do not sufficiently explore what induces terrorists to become terrorists and what conditions or institutions would not breed terrorists and would reduce terrorism almost to zero. Among these means would e.g. be individual secessionism and voluntary associationism under exterritorial autonomy and personal laws. Full employment mainly via full monetary and financial freedom. The replacement of collective responsibility by individual responsibility. The knowledge and practice of all individual rights and liberties – to the extent that one does wish to apply them among like-minded volunteers. The protection of individual rights and liberties through properly enlightened, motivated, trained and armed voluntary citizen forces. Easy access to all of the best libertarian ideas. The systematic refutation of all popular errors, myths and prejudices. – Mere military and police repression may produce more terrorists than it eliminates. - JZ, 26.10.07, 14.4.09.

TERRORISM: It should come as no surprise to find that the majority of the current crop of international terrorists come from prosperous liberal-minded middle-class families.” – H. R. H. Prince Philip, quoted in QUADRANT, 1/78. – Under the present territorial system they are insufficiently enlightened and all too frustrated intellectuals, who want to reform whole territories and populations according to their own territorialist notions, - just like all the ruling territorial governments do. But the ruling territorial governments usually go with popular errors and prejudices, while the likewise territorialist terrorists cannot with a similar success appeal to these errors and prejudices of the majorities. They are small secular sectarians without the benefit of the equivalent of religious freedom or religious tolerance in the political, economic and social spheres, which they want to territorially change according to their own preferences, not those of the majority of the population in these territories or those of other diverse and numerous minorities. – If the terrorists were sufficiently enlightened, they would throw away their bombs and other devices and begin agitating for exterritorial autonomy for all communities of volunteers that merely want to do their own things for or to themselves. – Territorial governments do, as such and quite naturally, not offer them this kind of solution, either, but, rather, conduct prolonged military and police campaigns against them, by which still more innocent civilians or killed, injured and tortured. - JZ, 26.7.08, 24.3.11.

TERRORISM: Legalizing counter-terror and dictatorial methods and wars against governments that shelter terrorists, are not the ideal methods to prevent or fight terrorism or even to find terrorists. - JZ, 28.9.01, 31.1.02. Terrorism must be cut at its roots: Territorialism, collective responsibility, monetary despotism, other economic interventionism and education systems that do not educate or enlighten. - JZ, 31.1.02.

TERRORISM: Less than 1,000 Americans die from terrorist attacks every year, which accounts for far fewer deaths than from falling off a ladder at home or from riding a bicycle.” - Stephen Moore & Julian L. Simon: It’s Getting Better all the Time. Greatest Trends the Last 100 Years, p. 178. Cato Institute, 2000 & 2001, www.cato.org.

TERRORISM: Let terrorists secede and most of them will soon no longer be terrorists. – JZ, 30.10.81. – They will then be all too busy to try to realize their ideals among themselves. – JZ, 26.7.08. – SECESSIONISM. – See also under COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY

TERRORISM: Man is created free, is free. // Even if he were born in chains! // Do not be misled by the shouting of the mob, // nor by the abuses of aroused fools! // Be afraid only of the slave when he breaks his chains, but do not tremble before a free man.” - Friedrich Schiller, Gedichte: Die Worte des Glaubens. ( JZ tr. of: “Der Mensch ist frei geschaffen, ist frei. // Und wuerd’ er in Ketten geboren! / Lasst euch nicht irren des Poebel’s Geschrei, // Noch den Missbrauch rasender Toren! // Vor dem Sklaven, wenn er die Kette bricht, // Vor dem freien Menschen erzittert nicht.)

TERRORISM: McVeigh said he blew up the building in Oklahoma City to protest the federal government's actions in Waco - and he was quickly apprehended, tried, and punished for his crime. That was proper, even if you might disagree with the morality of the death sentence. However, not a single FBI or BATF agent was arrested for their role in the fiery deaths of 86 people at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. There should not be one standard of justice for ordinary Americans, and another for government officials. Until that injustice is eliminated, many Americans will continue to view their government with suspicion, fear, and bitterness. People tend to turn to violence only when they feel they have no other way to be heard. When Americans feel they have a role in the political system, they will work through the political system to make productive changes. When that avenue is blocked - either by restrictive ballot access laws, legal curbs on political speech, exclusion from debates, or by attempting to discredit unpopular political speech - the Timothy McVeighs of the world turn to violence. That's why robust political debate - especially about the abuse of government power - is a healthy way to change the system. And that's why stifling such debate is downright dangerous.” - Steve Dasbach, Libertarian Party Press release, June 12, 2001. - PRIVATE & OFFICIAL TERRORISM

TERRORISM: Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.” – Helen MacInnes. – No wonder, seeing that they are also territorialists. – JZ, 26.76.08.

TERRORISM: Neither the military professionals nor the ruling territorial gangsters can solve the problem of terrorism. They caused and maintained most of it through their very nature, existence and actions, most on the principles and practices of territorialism and of collective responsibility. No wonder that many draw their private conclusions from these bad examples, just like most thieves and robbers merely engage in private enterprise taxation or piracy or tribute gathering. – When the leading men in a country set such bad examples – what can one expect from minor minds and activists? - JZ, 17.9.86, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: no pity could be spared for those who never showed it to others.” - Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, 387. – Thus there would be a moral case even for tortures of convicted terrorists, to help avoid further terrorist attacks – if only the widespread condemnation of torture would not be usable to recruit even more terrorist. I think that terrorists should rather be confronted with all the arguments against collective responsibility and with all panarchistic alternative choices, to turn even them into enemies of any further terrorist acts. – Just like territorial governments – the largest terrorists of all, they still do know all too little of the rightful and effective alternatives to achieve quite rightful aims. – JZ, 14.4.09. - ATROCITIES, FANATICS, WAR CRIMINALS, PITY, MUTUALISM, TERRORISTS, CLEMENCY, FORGIVENESS, TERRITORIALISM

TERRORISM: No private or movement terrorism is as mass murderous and destructive as that organized by territorial governments. – JZ, 9.11.97. – And even the private and movement terrorism is largely caused by governmental territorialism and its effects e.g. upon minorities, refugees, and the rates of unemployment. – JZ, 16.7.08. - GOVERNMENTS, TERRITORIALISM, WAR, MASS MURDERS

TERRORISM: Now, many worthy people are apt to look on (*) dynamite as the archenemy of government; but remembering this definition, remembering that undeniably the great purpose of government (**) is the compulsion of A by B and C to do what he does not want to do, it is plain that such a view fails to distinguish essence from accident, and to appreciate the most characteristic qualities that inhere in this new political agent. Dynamite is not opposed to government; it is, on the contrary, government in its most intensified and concentrated form.” (***) – Auberon Herbert, in Mack edition, p. 192. - - (*) the users of dynamite for other than productive purposes. – - (**) territorial government! – (***) Governments, mostly, do not explosively altogether destroy societies and populations, but they do always, more or less, despotically and territorially suppress liberties and rights. - JZ, 26.7.08. – GOVERNMENTS, TERRITORIALISM, RULERS

TERRORISM: Number of Americans killed by terrorists since 9/11: 33. – Number of Americans killed by police since 9/11: 5,000 + - Trudy Bagley sharing Police the Police (A Community Projet)’s photo, Facebook, 19.1.14. – US Citizens 29 Times More Likely to be Killed by Police than Terrorists. Read more: http://bit.ly/1dwiBdm - Facebook, 19.1.14.

TERRORISM: Obviously, the action of a handful of fanatic individuals only, it is taken as a slur on all militia movements. Although a case of home-made explosives (fertilizer and oil), it is, nevertheless, taken as a case for more gun control! – Typically, two major motives of it, namely collective responsibility notions and territorial rule, with its territorially imposed laws and institutions, was not mentioned in the press reports. – JZ, 16.5.95. - OAKLAHOMA TERROR BOMBING

TERRORISM: Occupation is a state of violence which breeds counter-violence.” – From a radio talk heard on 2/7/86. – Every territorial State amounts to a coercive occupation of a whole country or territory and all its population. Should we be surprised then when some would try to resist, even with terrorist means, especially when they have almost no chance at all to get the majority on their side, either in the voting process or in a revolution of the masses? Let all the dissenters secede to do, quite peacefully, whatever they like, their own things, for or to themselves. Then only would they be quite unlikely to ever think of or engage in terrorist actions. But make also sure that they are always acting only at their own risk and expense. Also see to it that their minds become cleaned of all notions of collective responsibility. Let them become fully and obviously self-responsible, with no chance at all to blame others for the results of their own mistakes and follies. – JZ, 20.7.08, 24.3.11.. – TERRITORIALISM, OCCUPATIONS, VIOLENCE, BOMB-THROWERS, SUICIDE BOMBERS, PANARCHISM, VOLUNTARISM, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY UNDER PERSONAL LAWS, COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY & CHOICES.

TERRORISM: Once a regime is no longer able to frighten the people - to terrorize them into passive submission - then that regime is in big trouble.” - Gene Sharp on “The Two-Way-NPR News Blog,” http://www.voluntaryist.com/quotes/ – Feb. 22, 2011. - FEAR, AUTHORITY, GOVERNMENTS, RULERS, DICTATORSHIPS

TERRORISM: Police and military forces practise rather than demolish the fixed idea of "collective responsibility" upon which most terrorists act. Furthermore, their governments and they do uphold the principle and practice of territorial rule, which drove terrorists into terrorism in the first place, because they do not possess and thus cannot practise exterritorial autonomy and its options. Moreover under the monetary despotism, protectionism and other economic interventions and monopolies, which they suffer under territorialism, which keep them poor, ignorant and prejudiced, they become so dissatisfied that, in extreme cases, they do resort to terrorist acts because they see no better options for themselves. Allow terrorists to vote themselves into the governments and societies of their dreams and they will be so busy with their resulting self-help problems that they will have neither the energy nor a motive left to try to interfere with the dream worlds and fantasy or utopian activities of others. We could not make them love us - but we could neutralize them, if we offered them justice and self-rule rather than territorial repression. - JZ, 31.1.02, 14.4.09, 24.3.11. - PANARCHISM, MONETARY FREEDOM, INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY, FORCE, VIOLENCE, REPRESSION

TERRORISM: Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism. – Azmat Hassan, at the Conference on World Affairs, Boulder CO, 4/6/04. – As if all too flawed and intolerant religious, ideologies, spleens, dogmas, popular errors, prejudices, wrong assumptions and conclusions, personal thinking, collective responsibility notions, territorial and statist monopolies, e.g. decision-making monopolies on war and peace, had nothing to do with it. Matter of fact, many of the famous terrorists came actually from rich families and the worst and largest terrorists are still the large or despotic territorial governments and their tax revenues are certainly not very low. All the nonsense that is still believed and uttered in what is wrongly called the “social sciences” or their subjects has still to be systematically collected and encyclopedically confronted by the best refutations so far found or developed. – This compilation is just an individual’s effort in this direction. It needs your sound input or even your errors and prejudices – for their refutation by others. – JZ, 27.4.13. – POVERTY, , ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BEST REFUTATIONS OF POPULAR ERRORS, MYTHS & PREJUDICES THAT ARE OBSTACLES TO PROGRESS.

TERRORISM: Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.” – Azmat Hassan, at the Conference on World Affairs, Boulder CO, 4/6/04. - Terrorists often waste not only the lives of innocents but even their own, also much time, effort and funds. Probably they could achieve relative well being with the same total effort, rationally and rightfully applied to serve themselves and others. Anyhow, at most it is a motive for some terrorists, it is not a cause. Otherwise every poor person would be a terrorist. - JZ, 25. 11. 06. – Wrongful and irrational “collective responsibility” notions and intolerance towards other kinds of people and beliefs do form a much greater factor than the envy caused by poverty. The terrorists, in their ignorance and prejudices, leave everything intact that makes for poverty! – JZ, 14.4.09, 24.3.11. - TROUGH POVERTY?

TERRORISM: Prevention is the cure for terrorism, not counter terrorism. - JZ, 26.9.02. - More territorial authoritarianism is certainly not the cure but rather breeds more terrorists, who are also territorialists. Full exterritorial autonomy for all voluntary communities is the main, long-term and preventative answer and it would not only undermine territorial domination attempts but also the wrongful concept of collective responsibility, by which primarily innocent people are targeted. Nevertheless, territorialism and collective responsibility as root causes and exterritorial autonomy for volunteers, and the principle amd practice of individual as opposed to collective responsibility remain rarely discussed, if at all. To that extent most people are steeped in the very thinking and practices which leads some to commit terrorist acts. - JZ, 31.10.02. The same applies to the monetary and financial despotism that impoverishes people and makes them poor and dissatisfied. – JZ, 14.4.09.

TERRORISM: Several Palestinians (interviewed by NBC) explained their resort to terrorism by insisting that for years “nobody would listen” to their outcry so now they were merely “speaking louder” with bullets and bombs. The principal aim of terrorism is not to destroy but “to be heard”, and to convince others of the seriousness of their cause.” (*) – David V. J. Bell, “Power, Influence, and Authority”, p.14. - (*) Often, not always. All too often the aim is to gain power over others by terrorizing opponents. But even then, when they have become successful in this way, their real message is: Under our rule, too, exterritorial self-government options will also shine by their absence. – JZ, 26.7.92. - If that alone were the case, then, with the rise of the Internet and other electronic options, the number of terrorist acts should have declined. But territorialism remains the same, on the side of those, who are in territorial power for the time being and those who strive by any means towards acquiring it themselves. Since territorialism does not allow them to start their ideals freely, on a small scale, among volunteers, with the potential for unlimited growth, according to merit, under personal laws or full exterritorial autonomy or freedom of action or experimentation, and since they cannot win over the mass media and masses of voters to their cause, they resort to terrorist actions and thereby condemn themselves and their causes by the reactions to their wrongful actions, practised also on the principle of collective responsibility for all, who do not agree with them. – 25.7.08.

TERRORISM: Should we entrust the biggest terrorists and killers of all, the territorial States, with the fight against terrorism? Should we also continue to ignore the fact that territorial statism, by its very existence, continues to breed or condition terrorists? - JZ, 13. 5. 02, 31.10.02. - & TERRITORIAL STATES

TERRORISM: Some people get all excited about individual and relatively small-scale terrorism and yet side with ”strategic” indiscriminate bombing of cities and civilians and with nuclear terrorism as a way to peace! – JZ, 18.3.87, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: Someone recently asked: When was the last act of foreign terrorism was committed against Switzerland? Isn't it interesting that countries that mind their own business aren't targets of violence committed by citizens of other nations?” - Sheldon Richman, FREEDOM NETWORK NEWS No. 57.

TERRORISM: state terror against innocent people will definitely not solve the private terror against innocent people.” - www.wereldcrisis.nl - in Dutch, pointed out by DESTINY WORLDWIDE, 27.9.01. - & COUNTER-TERRORISM, AIR RAIDS AGAINST COUNTRIES OR GOVERNMENTS OR GOVERNMENT FORCES (INCLUDING CONSCRIPTS) WHICH SUPPORT SOME TERRORISTS, CIVILIANS, WAR AIMS, WARFARE METHODS, WAR AGAINST TERRORISM

TERRORISM: strong as terror gripped, it was a transient glue.” – Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite, ANALOG, 29 March 82, p.153.

TERRORISM: Terran Archives 2803: Terrorists were bands of desperate persons much like governments in that their chief occupations were murder and extortion. In his excellent study, “From Baboon Food-Gathering Bands to Consciousness”, Nomis of Noom demonstrates at least three differences between terrorists and governments: (1) the alpha male in a terrorist band was usually an intellectual, whereas in government he was usually a lawyer: (2) terrorists did not print their own currency, but governments did (*); (3) terrorists usually murdered small groups (from two or three to a few dozen), whereas governments murdered millions. – Otherwise, the two types of organization were indistinguishable from any other hominid predator-band from the autralopithecines ca. 4,000,000 B.C.E. to the dawn of True Consciousness begun by the evolutionary mutation recorded in this Romance.” – Robert Anton Wilson, Schroedinger’s Cat, p.161. - - (*) Printing and issuing the own currency is nothing wrong – IF it is one soundly founded, with sufficient reflux or acceptance foundation to keep it generally at par with its nominal value and is not an exclusive and forced currency, i.e. one with compulsory acceptance and an enforced value, one that is competitive on a free market for other privately or cooperatively issued exchange media, clearing certificates and value standards. – JZ, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: Territorial governments and territorialist terrorists create and deserve each other. The innocent and victimized or threatened civilians do deserve neither of them. Only freedom for individual group secessions can disentangle the current political, military, economic and social messes – and yet, presently, this option is neither known to nor demanded by most members of either group, the victims and the victimizers, private or officials ones. –JZ, 28.5.82, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: Territorialism breeds terrorism among many other major wrongs. - JZ, 26.9.00. - Nevertheless, in the extensive writings on terrorism this link is never or almost never mentioned. At least I have never found it yet in any of them. - Not even collective responsibility "thinking" is widely recognized as a factor making for war with ABC mass murder devices or promoting all kinds of other bomb attacks on people who are really innocents. - JZ, 30.1.02, 14.4.09. - & TERRITORIALISM

TERRORISM: terror inspires terror not only in the beaten masses but in the very leaders.” (*) – Stanton A. Coblentz, The Long Road to Humanity, 1959. – (*) And in the private terrorists. – JZ, 17.7.89. – Extreme fears can turn many officials or private citizens into terrorists. – JZ, 2.8.08.

TERRORISM: terrorism cannot be combated by appeasement or negotiation.” – AINR, 22.6.66. – Was a serious attempt ever made to prevent terrorism by granting these true and fanatic believers full exterritorial autonomy for their communities of volunteers, under personal laws? I for one know of no such preventive policies, appeasement or negotiation attempts. In summit conferences, for instances, as far as I know, and their contents is, largely, reported, the panarchistic alternatives are never discussed. Only territorial non-solutions seem to remain on their agendas. Nor do most victims of territorialist actions of private and official terrorists and their sympathizers seriously consider these alternatives. – And so private and official terrorism goes on and on, also supported by the almost general and often quite unconscious belief in collective responsibility. - JZ, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government) –Gore VidalAs if all private terrorism were only committed are justified resistance against crimes committed by governments. – To my knowledge no terrorist ever opposed the main crime of all existing governments, namely their territorialism. They just want to replace it by another territorialist government system. In the second part of this sentence he even asserts that there exists ONLY terrorism by members of governments. – I am not sure that I found ever a pro-freedom quote by G. V. that I found good enough to include in my collection. At least I do not remember it. – JZ, 22.4.13.

TERRORISM: Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government). – Gore Vidal. - - Not all the results of religious intolerance and fundamentalism, fanaticism etc. can be blamed on the Federal Government and its foreign policies. The pretences of the terrorists cannot be taken any more serious than the pretences of territorial governments. - JZ, 23. 11. 06.

TERRORISM: Terrorism is a tactic. It's intellectually incoherent to declare war on a tactic.” - Alan Bock, 10.3.01. URL www.free-market.net/rd/79585929.html - WAR ON TERRORISM

TERRORISM: Terrorism is like protectionism and war: It is not reduced by counter-terror but rather increased by it, as are protectionism and wars by more "protective" measures against protectionism and warlike measures against wars. - JZ, 12.6.01, 30.1.02. - Violence breeds violence, wars breed wars, protectionist measure breed more protectionism. - JZ, 30.1.02. - WAR, PROTECTIONISM

TERRORISM: Terrorism is not reduced by counter-terror but, rather, is fed by it. For thus more and more terrorists are born or made. One of the reasons for this is that both, the terrorists and the anti-terrorists, do share the same wrongful premises: Collective responsibility and territorialism, taking them for granted, unexamined, without a doubt about them. - JZ, 12.6.01, 30.1.02. - COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY & TERRITORIALISM

TERRORISM: Terrorism is one of the many and inevitable bad consequences of territorialism, its monopolistic, centralistic and coercive intolerance, especially in the political, social and economic spheres and often even still in the religious sphere. – JZ, 20.4.99, 20.7.08. – Its main other root cause consists in collective responsibility notions. Other factors making for territorialism are the various impoverishing policies of all territorial States, particularly those causing mass unemployment and immigration restrictions. – JZ, 20.7.08.

TERRORISM: Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.” - Edward Abbey, 1927-1989, Vox Clamantis in Deserto (A Shout in the Wilderness or Crying in the Wilderness.) - & GOVERNMENTS

TERRORISM: Terrorist acts are either undertaken by territorial governments against the own or foreign subjects or by private territorialist competitors aiming to replace existing territorial governments by their own. They are also holding whole groups or populations collectively responsible for the actions of either some of their members or for the actions of their government.  When whole populations are collectively punished then they are treated as the property of their governments, who had committed one crime or aggression or the other. –  23.4.13, 10.6.13. - COLLECTIVE INSTEAD OF INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, TERRITORIALISM, TERRORIZING THE OWN SUBJECTS TO KEEP THEM FROM RESISTING & REBELLING

TERRORISM: Terrorist, n. An aspiring statesman. One who believes that dynamite makes right.” – L. A. Rollins, Lucifer’s Lexicon, p. 122. – STATESMEN, POLITICIANS, AIR RAIDS, POWER

TERRORISM: Terrorists are amok runners on a national or even international scale. The essential question: What kind of institutions, beliefs, ideas, actions and processes turned them into such beasts, towards such states of "mind" and of "action", seems to be all to rarely asked and sensibly answered. Not even the to me rather obvious links to territorialism, to the notion of collective responsibility and to the results of monetary despotism are usually recognized - in the thousands of articles on the subject. - JZ, 10.10.01, 29.1.02, 14.4.09.

TERRORISM: Terrorists are persons with strong beliefs who are convinced that they will always be outvoted or otherwise repressed – and so they lash out at almost anyone in their frustration. They would be disarmed and pacified by allowing them to live in accordance with their own beliefs – at their own risk and expense. – JZ, 27.5.08, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: Terrorists being attracted by the large number of potential victims in large planes, there should be more freedom and less taxation and regulation for smaller passenger planes. Naturally, this would leave the risk of smaller planes used for chemical and biological warfare. The most effective ways to prevent or end terrorism remain: Exterritorial autonomy for dissenting groups, enlightenment on individual vs. collective responsibility and full monetary and economic freedom with their beneficent economic effects. Alas, they are not yet seen as such. - JZ, 4.10.01, 1.2.02. - & LARGE PLANES

TERRORISM: Terrorists can handle weapons and tactics but by their very motives and actions, especially their targeting, they indicate, as a rule, that they can’t handle them rightfully and intelligently. Mostly they still use them under the primitive notion of “collective responsibility”, i.e., indiscriminately murderously, killing many more innocents than guilty persons, if any really guilty persons at all. They do not know what genuine individual rights and liberties are and would require for their realization. Thus they waste their own lives and all too many lives of others. But then the armed forces of territorial governments do often act not all that much different from them and do commit murders of innocents on a much larger scale and be it only via “friendly” fire or “collateral damage”. – They, too, and their leaders, dictators or tyrants, have not yet bothered to find out what quite rightful war and peace aims are, quite rightful defence, liberation and revolutionary methods. Nor have most of their radical opponents, the anarchists and libertarians, bothered sufficiently to inform themselves about these requirements. – If they had, they might already be as liberated as they want to be, in their own communities of volunteers. - JZ, 21.10.07.

TERRORISM: Terrorize tyrants and terrorists – and no one else! – JZ, 9.9.84, 26.7.08.

TERRORISM: that violence, cruelty and murder are completely rational acts, devised as deliberately as a theatre piece, to further the aims – political, financial or personal – of those who perpetrate them. …” - Morris West, Proteus, p.67. – Panarchism would grant every kind of ideology and movement its rights and liberties, to be tolerantly practised among its followers. Thus it would, largely, prevent the rise of terrorism used in attempts to realize the ideals of any ideological movement that would no longer attempt to territorially and thus intolerantly, impose its ideals upon dissenters as well, i.e., upon whole territorial populations. – JZ, 30.6.98, 20.7.08. - PANARCHISM, TOLERANCE, CRIME, VIOLENCE

TERRORISM: the Basques are the terrorists, Spain is just maintaining order. In the same way, when Palestinian guerillas kill children, they are terrorists; when the Israeli air force kills children by bombing Lebanese villages, it is maintaining order. Not that the words make any difference, either way the children are dead, but they do illustrate the extent of the occupation. (The French Resistance were certainly terrorists as far as the Germans were concerned.) A terrorist can then be defined these days as a patriot without an air force.” – Michael Zwerin, A Case for the Balkanization of Practically Everyone, p.47. – To each his own voluntary community and personal laws and institutions. To no one any territorial monopoly. - A territory goes beyond private and cooperative real estate. – JZ, 26.7.08, 24.3.11. - AIR RAIDS, COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY

TERRORISM: The Cambridge historian Christopher Andrew has calculated that in the 1960’s there was not a single religious or cult-based terrorist group anywhere, and as recently as 1980 only two of the world’s sixty-four known terrorist groups were religious. Since then, however, Shi’a extremists alone have been responsible for more than a quarter of the deaths form terrorism. ‘We are not fighting so the enemy will offer us something,’ the former Hezbollah leader Hussein Massawi said. ‘We are fighting to wipe out the enemy.’ Whereas groups such as the Palestine Liberation Organisation or the Provisional IRA  spread terror for a specific and limited political purpose, their religious successors raised mass slaughter to an end in itself. The intelligence chief of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo, which released nerve gas on the Tokyo subway in 1995, explained that ‘we regarded the world outside as evil, and destroying the evil as salvation.’ – Frances Wheen, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Harper Perennial, 2004, p.183/84. -& RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE

TERRORISM: The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That’s easy: 100 per cent. Joseph Sobran, 1/1/04. – TAX SLAVERY

TERRORISM: The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That’s easy: 100 per cent.”Joseph Sobran, 1/1/04 - TERRORIST THREAT COMPARED WITH THE THREAT POSED REGULARLY BY TAXATION

TERRORISM: The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden.” – Dennis Hastert, House Speaker. - If drug use were legalized then this source of finance for terrorism would tend to dry up. Drug production and drug trade would no longer be very profitable. - JZ, 23. 11. 06. - & DRUGS

TERRORISM: the political terrorist is the most evil person on the face of the earth.” – Alan Johnson, PERCEPTION, 3/73. – The private territorialist terrorists do much less wrong and harm than do the official territorialist terrorists! – JZ, 25.10.08. – TERRITORIALISM,

TERRORISM: The price of empire is terrorism.Greenbacks – Terrorism is also practice by and small territorial States, e.g. the North Korean regime and against small territorial States.– Not everything can be blamed on Big Governments or Empires. – JZ, 25.4.13.

TERRORISM: The price of empire is terrorism.” – Greenbacks - - Terrorism does not even need whole large empires for its practice. Compare the terrorist acts which religious fanatics still practise against each other in some countries, e.g. Indonesia and Iraq. Their own internal imperialistic ambitions are enough to motivate terrorists. - JZ, 25. 11. 06. – IMPERIALISM,

TERRORISM: The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom". – Joe Sobran – IT IS MORE BEARABLE THAN ALL THE ANTI-TERRORIST MEASURES OF GOVERNMENTS

TERRORISM: The terrorist is the suppressed autonomist PLUS the suppressor of other autonomists. – JZ, 28.5.82.

TERRORISM: The truth is, we're in far more danger from our own cars than we are from terrorism. Nearly 800,000 people have died in car accidents in the last twenty years. During that time there have been exactly two Islamic terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, with less than 3,000 total fatalities. That's more than 200 TIMES as many Americans dying in their cars as at the hands of Islamic terrorism. And yet . . We've turned the whole world upside down in response to the two terrorist attacks. We've launched invasions, created vast new bureaucracies, shredded the Bill of Rights, compounded regulations, spent hundreds of billions of dollars, and disrupted travel and commerce. But no one is suggesting that we do 200 times as much to address the driving risk, which is 200 times greater." - "I Am Not Afraid," from DownSize DC: http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=77 - COMPARED WITH CAR ACCIDENT RISKS: CARS VERSUS TERRORISTS – Compare also how many unborn children were aborted in the USA by their own parents – during the last 20 years. – JZ, 14.4.09.

TERRORISM: The war on "terror" will never be over, it will just change locations. Like the war on drugs, prostitution, pornography, and the many others that will follow, it is a war on humanity. These wars will never be won; the State will just keep creating new boogiemen to frighten us with. The sheep will anxiously anticipate the next fall guy the State offers up as a sacrifice for the war on whatever happens to be next. Be careful, the next pawn could be me or you.Mike WasdinWhat is the total number of private terrorism during the last century, compared with the number of victims of State-organized and conducted terrorism or all too indiscriminate counter-terrorism that kills more innocents than terrorists? – JZ, 26.4.13. - WAR ON TERROR, ANTI-TERRORISM BY TERRITORIAL STATES, INDISCRIMINATE COUNTER-TERRORISM

TERRORISM: The war on "terror" will never be over, it will just change locations. Like the war on drugs, prostitution, pornography, and the many others that will follow, it is a war on humanity. These wars will never be won; the State will just keep creating new [ones? - JZ] to frighten us with. The sheep will anxiously anticipate the next fall guy the State offers up as a sacrifice for the war on whatever happens to be next. Be careful, the next pawn could be me or you.” – Mike Wasdin - - Private terrorists are not just boogiemen but terrorism by territorial governments is usually much worse. - JZ, 25. 11. 06.

TERRORISM: The War on Terror is impossible, not in the sense that it cannot cause immense amounts of bloodshed and destruction and loss of liberty, but in the sense that it cannot finally achieve what it is supposed to achieve, and will only end in creating more of the same conditions that led to its declaration in the first place." (10/23/02) - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., The Impossible War, www.LewRockwell.com - & WAR ON TERRORISM

TERRORISM: To protect us from terrorists our government treats us like terrorists. Hal O'BoyleANTI-TERRORISM BY TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS

TERRORISM: To protect us from terrorists our government treats us like terrorists.” - Hal O’Boyle - & GOVERNMENTAL PROTECTION FROM IT

TERRORISM: We will never bow to terrorism” – said M. Fletcher, but at the same time he demands a “strong” territorial government, which tends to constitute the greatest of all terrorists and which also tends to produce, as a side effect, private terrorism, not only wars, revolutions, wars, civil wars and mass murders. – JZ, n.d. & 18.7.08.

TERRORISM: We’ve hear the oh-so-intellectual terrorists, who murder in the name of the People they pretend to represent (“Le people, c’est moi,” seems to be the radical aristocrat’s variation on Louis XIV). … Editorial, GALAXY 39/3, p.149.

TERRORISM: What government does: Uses force and intimidation to coerce people to comply with their demands. Definition of Terrorism: The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. - Nizam Ahmad and Dale Ogden shared Capitalism's photo. - Capitalism -  The Angel Clark Show – Facebook, 11.2.13. - & GOVERNMENT,  TERRITORIALISM, FORCE, COERCION, INTIMIDATION, COMPULSION:

TERRORISM: What had made these men into such beasts?” - Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom, The Jesus Incident, p.172. - Were their creative energies ever sufficiently released? Were they offered voluntaristic options, among their believers? Were they only subjected to governments and rules of their own free choice? Even if they had been among the most enlightened people, would their chances have been good to achieve majority approval for their aspirations in a democracy? - JZ, 6.10.01. - INTOLERANCE, MAN, BEASTS, ATROCITIES, TERRITORIALISM, PANARCHISM

TERRORISM: What is coercion otherwise than reason which has become desperate?” – Ortega y Gasset. – (“Was ist Gewalt anderes als Vernunft die verzweifelt?”) - Desperate unreasonable ambitions, dogmatism, fanaticism and fundamentalism are also involved, of people quite frustrated with their remaining options, e.g. with no chance to come territorially into power (through voting or popular revolutions) over themselves and others and who do not have or even know the exterritorial autonomy option. All of these “freedom fighters” and terrorists, suicide bombers etc. are territorialists, just like the territorial regimes are that they try to fight through indiscriminate murders and destructions, based upon quite unreasonable notions of collective responsibility. Mostly, they are also victims of monetary despotism but without knowledge of it and of its monetary freedom alternative. – The cure for terrorism, wars, civil wars, mass murders and violent revolutions is – sufficient freedom for all the diverse aspirations, to the extent that they can be tolerantly practised among volunteers, under personal laws and full exterritorial autonomy. – Only genuine individual rights and liberties deserve to be coercively protected – among all those who do appreciate them, to the extent that they do, and this, probably best, by a new kind of military militia force to protect all individual rights and liberties. It would minimize, if it could, rather than maximize the use of coercion - to merely defensive use of force. - JZ, 5.7.92, 25.7.08. – , IDEALISM, TERRORISM, RESISTANCE, TERRITORIALISM, PANARCHISM, COERCION, VIOLENCE, MILITIA

TERRORISM: What is now called terrorism is, after all, the method of warfare employed by individuals and small groups against the power of the state. These groups were, not long ago, called the Underground and the Resistance. And they were, not long ago, automatically the heroes of our movies. The Secret Police that searched them out and the armies that hunted them down were automatically the villains.” - Larry Beinhart, American Hero, p.208. - Most terrorists rather imitate rather than fight the motives, ideas, arguments, powers, methods and weapons of the territorial State. – JZ, 10.9.06. – They do also operate, as a rule, on the principle of collective responsibility and have only vague to flawed notions on rightful liberation. – JZ, 12.9.07. - RESISTANCE & THE TERRITORIAL STATE & ITS WARFARE

TERRORISM: When voluntary paths are blocked then many true believers resort to coercive methods and hold even mere subjects of coercive territorial government collectively responsible for the wrongful and intolerant actions of these governments against dissenters. Admittedly, all terrorists are territorialists as well and as such we should never give in to them and their terrorist methods. But that does not mean that we should not respect their right to do their own things to or for themselves, at their own risk and expense. That might be the most effective way to disarm them, together with a thorough discrediting of almost all methods based upon collective responsibility notions. Realizing all economic rights everywhere, especially full monetary and financial freedom, even if at first only applied among volunteers, would also greatly reduced the conditions under which private terrorism tends to grow. – JZ, 6.11.80, 4.6.82, 26.7.08, 24.3.11.

TERRORISM: While, at whatever price, terrorism must be stopped, it would still be preferable to prevent it – by depriving terrorists of their motives for engaging in terrorist acts. – JZ, 27.2.86. – Once they are offered sufficient free, diverse and tolerant alternatives, to practise their views among themselves and also sufficient enlightened to stop their collective responsibility notions and practices against their imagined and real enemies, they will tend to become peaceful and tolerant gardeners and care-takers of their own and self-chosen spheres, running their own lives freely, rather than attempting to run the lives of others. Naturally some irrational, immoral, insane and pathological cases will remain but they will become smaller in numbers and powers. They will also run out of easily imagined enemies and targets, in most cases, when no longer confronted by single model territorial States. – Certainly, mass murder devices should be made even less accessible to them than to any territorial government. - JZ, 25.7.08.

TERRORISTS: By today's governmentally proscribed notions and definitions, the American revolutionaries were violent terrorists, common criminals, and treasonous political deviants who deserved nothing less than to hang at the end of a rope." - Hans Sherrer, GULAG AMERICANA, Chapter 32. - http://www.voluntaryist.com/quotes/ – AMERICAN REVOLUTION

TERRORISTS: Terrorists can handle weapons and tactics but by their very motives and actions, especially their targeting, they indicate, as a rule, that they can’t handle them rightfully and intelligently and for rightful purposes and against their real enemies only. Mostly they still use them under the primitive notion of “collective responsibility”, i.e., indiscriminately murderously, killing many more innocents than guilty persons, if any really guilty persons at all. They do not know what genuine individual rights and liberties are and would require for their realization. Thus they waste their own lives and all too many lives of others. But then the armed forces of territorial governments do often act not all that much different from them and do commit murders of innocents on a much larger scale and be it only via “friendly” fire or “collateral damage”. – They, too, and their leaders, dictators or tyrants, have not yet bothered to find out what quite rightful war and peace aims are and quite rightful defence, liberation and revolutionary methods. Nor have most of their radical opponents, the anarchists and libertarians, bothered to inform themselves, sufficiently, about these requirements. – If they had, they might already be as liberated as they want to be, in their own communities of volunteers. - JZ, 21.10.07, 24.3.11. – PANARCHISM, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS & LIBERTIES, ENEMIES, INNOCENTS, COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY, INDISCRIMINATE MURDERS

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: As usual, the nuclear weapons tests will be protected from the people but the people will not be protected against them, not even in peace time, not to speak of war times. – JZ, 12.7.95. – We have let governments get away with this for two generations by now, while, all too often, they did engage in nuclear brinkmanship! How much longer should we tolerate this situation and behavior? How many more chances should we give them to exterminate all of us? Should they really assure that these “weapons” do work or would the best thing that could happen be that none of them would work at all? – JZ, 18.7.08. - NWT

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: Blast, rather, all those who make or prepare nuclear blasts or stockpile the “weapons” for them, really only mass murder devices or anti-people “weapons”. – Should not their mere possession characterize the persons involved as tyrants or helpers of tyrants? Also the monopoly to decide on their usage? – Perhaps a referendum should be initiated on that question. – JZ, 11.7.74, 1.8.08. – NUCLEAR WAR THREAT, NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, REFERENDUM, TYRANNICIDE

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: I’d never guarantee the safety of nuclear weapons testers! – JZ, 3.9.73.

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: I’d worry about untested nuclear “weapons” only if they would actually explode when “used”, while some maniacs want them always to explode, whenever and wherever they want them to. The very best thing any of them could do, when finally “used” or “employed”, would be not to work at all! If by some sabotage actions, miracle or advanced technology we could achieve that none of them would work, while madmen want to use them against whole cities, countries and peoples, that would be highly desirable. Those testing them are only afraid that they might not explode, when the criminal idiots involved are pushing their buttons. – J.., 21.7.95.

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: If these nuclear tests are really so harmless, let them be tested in the seat of the French government, in Paris. – JZ, 5.6.73, 1.8.08. – IN THE PACIFIC, JOKES

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: Some French politicians promoted a French nuclear force as a matter of “prestige”. - - The genuine prestige of France would have been really increased only if it had refused to build any nuclear mass murder and mass destruction devices and would have called of all tests of them. - What would the world have thought if the Nazis had wanted to increase their “prestige” by full publicity for their extermination camps and death squads? By e.g. publicly running some tests with such camps? What are nuclear “weapons” otherwise than portable, cheap, scientific and technologically developed “extermination camp” packages, kept in readiness for use? Actually, nuclear, bacteriological and chemical mass murder devices are even more indiscriminate means for mass murder than the Nazi death camps and death squads were. The Nazis selected and sorted out their victims from the whole population. They did not or not yet indiscriminately wipe out whole cities and whole territorial populations, as the ABC mass murder advocates are prepared to do. But the nuclear strength advocates still imagine that they are patriots rather than men engaged in mass murder conspiracies and preparations. – JZ, 28.6.95, 18.7.08. – NUCLEAR WAR THREAT, DETERRENCE, MASS MURDERS, DEATH CAMPS, EXTERMINATION CAMPS, TESTING FOR MASS MURDER READINESS, , PRESTIGE, FRANCE

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: Some thoughts, unordered, on French and other nuclear tests: (1) Don’t just use verbal abuse. (2) Don’t immolate yourself. Rather wait for nuclear war to do so. (3) Don’t expose yourself to being murdered now by a nuclear bomb, by visiting such a bomb test area before the general nuclear holocaust. (4) Don’t attack a supposedly guilty large collective, the French people, for instance. They have no more say on this than you and I have. It would also mean acting on the same principle that made building, stock-piling and using nuclear “weapons” possible, namely collective responsibility! (5) Don’t use violence against private property. You could not outperform nuclear weapons in that, anyhow. (6) Destruction of “public” property is just as useless as nuclear war destruction – unless that “public” property is one of the nuclear bombs nuclear weapons factories or nuclear war “facilities”. (7) Don’t use warships or other military means – or you may set off the nuclear war we want to prevent. (8) Don’t use indiscriminate methods.(9) Don’t try to stop all trade when e.g. stopping merely the uranium mining and trade could be an effective means. (10) Not only refuse to recognize the French or other nuclear government but recognize, for each of them, several governments in exile, instead, each one representing all of its kinds of dissenters, all volunteers for it only, now or in the future. (11) Go directly after the really guilty ones only, all out, the scientists, administrators, politicians and generals involved. They prepare for scientifically conducted mass murders or risk them accidentally occurring or by miscalculation. Pay them back in their own coin but with non-nuclear devices. (12.) Practise article 27 of the French constitution of 1793, which says that all those, who usurp sovereignty, shall be put to death, instantly, by the free men. (That did, finally, belatedly, happen to Robespierre and before him to Marat, by a woman, Charlotte Corday.) (13) Incite and help organize, rationally, a tax strike against the French government. The French taxpayers would enthusiastically support this if you show them a feasible way. (14) Dissolve France – and all other countries, as nuclear targets, by allowing individuals and groups to split it up into all the numerous diverse, decentralized and exterritorially autonomous groups, communities and societies that free people, would, individually, prefer for themselves, just like the do prefer different religions, sports, hobbies, fashions, music, writings, arts, meals, drinks, cars, bicycles and all other things that make life worthwhile. Thereby you would remove the motives to have nuclear weapons in readiness, the finance for them and also the targets. (15) Go not only after further tests but after the stockpiles and the production facilities, including nuclear reactors, which can be turned into nuclear “weapons” production facilities, if they are not already. There are already enough of these “weapons” to wipe all of us out, several times over. Who can seriously believe that the fact that all of them have not yet been “used” is a sufficient proof that they will never be used? These facilities are not protected against the people but the people are not protected against them. (16) Do not put pressure on the government but on yourself and on your fellow-citizens to do your bit to achieve nuclear disarmament, even one-sidedly, a.s.a.p. Governmental disarmament inspectors cannot be trusted, either. (17) Arm, organize and train yourself for your part in carrying out the nuclear disarmament and preventing your government from engaging in any aggressive war. (18) Achieve the constitutional power to vote on such issues, on war and peace, armament and disarmament and international treaties. Governments have never bothered to declare quite rightful war and peace aims only. Ponder them, declare them and stick by them with all your mind and strength. (19) Contribute to build up trust between nations – e.g., by public declarations under oath, of quite rightful war aims, and swear that you would rather secede from, escape from or rise against the own government than deviate from such aims. (20) Help to stop uranium mining. Export earnings should not be all that we should be concerned about in this respect. No more uranium no further nuclear “weapons” and no more “innovations” and “better” nuclear “weapons” (21) Stop advocating or tolerating “peaceful” nuclear reactors, which do also breed more material for more such “weapons”. The only nuclear reactor that is relatively safe for us, because it is far enough away – is the sun. (22) Don’t just be one-sidedly concerned with the radiation hazards coming from nuclear test fall-outs when there are many other daily sources of dangerous (in the long run) hard and soft radiation, like e.g. some luminous watch dials, x-rays, TV’s, planes flying at high altitudes, mobile phones, leaking microwave ovens, living in brick houses, in granite areas etc. We already live in a soup of artificially produced radiations and electro-magnetic effects, with the long-term results of them upon our bodies and minds still unknown. (23) “Nuclear giants and ethical infants” we were called by General Omar Bradley after WW II. Someone else stated: “The age of over-kill and under-think.” (24) What is a significant additional radiation hazard? – “… there are now two million people throughout the world who will die of cancer as a result of all the nuclear tests held so far, probably 1000 in Australia. If France goes ahead with its nuclear testing in the Pacific, another 70 000 can be added – a good percentage of them Australians.” – Prof. Linus Pauling. – While, Sir Robert Menzies, when he was still Prime Minister, said: “… the tests will be unlikely to lead to significant radiation hazards to the Australian population.” – And yet all such tests were carried out as far from human population centers as possible, which says at least something on their hazards. - JZ, probably from the 70’s, somewhat revised 2.8.08, 24.3.11.

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: Why doesn’t the French government go one step further? Why does it stop before asserting that nuclear weapons are entirely harmless to anyone, anywhere, especially when tested in their remaining colonial possessions? Why does it not assert that they are not only harmless to your health but actually good for you, anywhere, anytime, like vitamins and mineral pills, healthy food and exercises? – JZ, 23.8.95. – And why does it not prove its convictions and assertions by setting off the tests over or under Paris? – JZ, 18.7.08. - Q. - NUCLEAR TESTS OF FRENCH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

TESTS, NUCLEAR TESTS: Wouldn’t it be terrible if a nuclear test bomb didn’t go off? Almost as terrible as a conventional extermination camp whose “facilities” would not work! - By rights, all its builders, transporters and test personnel involved should be executed – if it does work! – JZ, 16.8.95. – And if it does not work then they might still be charged with preparing for a mass murder. – JZ, 18.7.08.

TESTS: All tests and examinations tend to produce at least some failures of tests and examinations, not only failures of those tested and examined. – JZ, 10.6.82, 16.4.14.– EXAMINATIONS

THEFT: Common thievery is looked upon by nearly everyone as an ignorant way of life. It is self-evident that all would perish were all thieves.” – Leonard E. Read, Love of Liberty, p.124.

THEFT: If we steal from someone we either assume that he is not a man, or that he does not exist for the fulfillment of his own will.” – Theodore Cahn, Forced Integration, p. 24. – PROPERTY, OWNERSHIP, MANHOOD, SELF-DETERMINATION, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, CRIME

THEFT: Theft is a primary form of enslavement.” – William F. O’Neill, summarizing Ayn Rand, in his book on Ayn Rand, p.197. – PROPERTY, SELF-OWNERSHIP, SLAVERY

THEFT: Thievery is on the rampage the world over. While overwhelmingly in the form of legalized plunder, it is as parasitical as the personal holdup variety. Unless checked, it must eventually destroy the hosts.” – Leonard E. Read, Having My Way. – Let’s rather destroy the thieves! – JZ, 1.8.08. – At least let us deprive them of all powers over non-consenting victims. – JZ, 25.10.08.

THEFT: Through the years, some men have discovered how to satisfy their wants at the expense of others without being accused of theft: They ask their government to do the stealing for them.” – Curtiss, The Tariff Idea, p.19. - GOVERNMENT, LAWS, WELFARE STATE, TAXATION, TARIFFS, PROTECTIONISM

THEFT: When a thief steals property he steals life. For a mercantilist I am tolerant of human weakness, and I would not act vigorously to the theft of a day. I would resent the theft of a week; I would kill the thief who stole a year of my life.” – Jack Vane, The Anome, p.100. – Most people would agree but would, unfortunately, exempt the tax collectors. – JZ, 21.5.80. – Whoever stole a good car, for instance, would, as a rule, steal more than the savings of a year of work for most people. That insurance cover spreads out such losses over many insured does not diminish the wrongness involved. I have met one car thief who claimed that he had stolen over 400 cars before he was caught! – JZ, 1.8.08, 24.3.11.

THEFT: Why would even a human being take the Jewels? They aren’t his. He has no right of ownership in them; what would make him believe that he had?” – Laurence M. Janifer, Knave in Hand, p.68.

THEISTS: Theists have their feet firmly planted on the ground and their minds firmly attached to – nothing. – JZ, 1.12.78. – JOKES, PREACHERS, PRIESTS, CHRISTIANS, FAITH, RELIGION, CHURCHES, SECTS, GOD

THEOCRACY: A system of theocratic government need not be founded on one or the great historical religions of the world. It may be founded on the metaphysical tenets which reject all traditional churches and denominations and take pride in emphasizing their anti-theistic and anti-metaphysical character. In our time the most powerful theocratic parties are opposed to Christianity and all other religions which evolved from Jewish monotheism. What characterizes them as theocratic is their craving to organize all earthly affairs of mankind according to the content of ideas whose validity cannot be demonstrated by reasoning.” – Ludwig von Mises, Human Action, quoted in THE CONNECTION 102, p.36. – The ethical validity of territorialism cannot be demonstrated even for democratic governments. – JZ, 1.8.08, 24.3.11. - COMMUNISM, INTOLERANCE, FUNDAMENTALISM, FANATIC IDEOLOGIES, IDEOLOGIES, TOTALITARIANISM

THEOCRACY: The integration of Church and State, Mosque and State, or Synagogue and State; a holy (*) alliance of brute faith and blind force.” - L. A. Rollins, Lucifer’s Lexicon. – (*) Rather an unholy one, pretending to be a holy one. – JZ, 2.8.08. - FUNDAMENTALISM, RELIGIOUS HIERARCHIES, FANATICISM, RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE,

THEOLOGY, RELIGIONS, SECTS, CHURCHES, FAITH, BELIEF, RITUALS, WORSHIP, GODS: One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh. - Robert Heinlein - Roy Halliday, Quotations with an Attitude, online.

THEOLOGY: A theologian defined a philosopher as a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which was not there, to which the philosopher answered that a theologian would have found the non-existing cat.” – from “Heavenly Humor”, p.84. - PHILOSOPHY, GOD, JOKES

THEOLOGY: Professor Huxley introduced me to the fact that theology is a study with no answers because it has no subject matter.” – Robert Heinlein, “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”, p. 212 in the hardback edition, first page of chapter 14, Black Tuesday. - GOD, RELIGIONS, JOKES

THEOLOGY: Terran Archives 2803: Theology was a system for explaining things by coining words which nobody could understand and pretending that the words meant something. Among the Western primates the chief word used, for this purpose, was “God”. Among the Eastern primates it was “karma”. Both words were, of course, crude primate gropings toward the system of checks-and-balances which causes the greatest Whole System, and all the lesser Whole System, to cohere.” – Robert Anton Wilson, Schroedinger’s Cat, p. 98. – More mere words? – JZ, 1.8.08. - GOD, KARMA, NATURE, NATURAL LAW, RELIGIONS, CHURCHES, PREACHERS, PROPHETS, GURUS, GOD, CHRISTIANITY, FAITH, FATE

THEOLOGY: Theology hides moral truths, jurisprudence obscures in every possible way the conception of justice, the natural sciences teach materialism, and history distorts the true life of the people.” – Tolstoi, in A. B. Goldenveizer, Talks with Tolstoi, p.63. – JUSTICE, JURISPRUDENCE, HISTORY, MORALITY, RELIGIONS

THEOLOGY: Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner. - Elbert Hubbard - Roy Halliday, Quotations with an Attitude, online.

THEOLOGY: Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. - H. L. Mencken - Roy Halliday, Quotations with an Attitude, online.

THEOLOGY: Theology is the science of the divine lie, jurisprudence the science of the human lie, and metaphysics and idealistic philosophy the science of any half-lie.” - Mikhail A. Bakunin, Gesammelte Werke, Golos trude edition, I, 184-5. - RELIGION, CHRISTIANITY, CHURCHES, JURISPRUDENCE, LAWS, DEMOCRACY, LIMITED GOVERNMENT, GOOD GOVERNMENT, SELF-GOVERNMENT, CONSENT, REPRESENTATION, PREJUDICES, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BEST REFUTATIONS, DIS, LIES, LIARS, LYING

THEORIES OF HISTORY: Numerous fallacies have been connected with the theory that one or [the] other group has secretly manipulated world politics for their own ends undetected until the author’s own exposé was triumphantly published. The most notorious of such theories is that persistently suggesting that the world is in the hands of Jews. The Russian tract “The secret of the Jews” (possibly drawn up by the Russian secret agent and occultist Yuliana Glinka) formed the basis for the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” which purported to be documents proving the existence of such a conspiracy, all totally fabricated. Norman Cohn and Léon Poliakov have shown that the Nazi use of the conspiracy theory owed a great deal to anti-Jewish and anti-masonic propaganda of certain Roman Catholic writers at the turn of the century. …” – Philip Ward, A Dictionary of Common Fallacies, The Oleander Press, 1978, ISBN 0 900891 14 0, p.54/55. - - Altogether there are over 1000 conspiracy theories or hypotheses or mere assertions. Certainly, they cannot all be right and the vast majority at least is quite wrong. – Almost all are full of “personal thinking” rather than “causal thinking”. – Compare my proposal for an encyclopedia of the best refutation of popular errors, myths, prejudices etc. which are obstacles to progress. - JZ, 9.9.08. - Perhaps we need a separate one to refute all the conspiracy theories. Among them are also the hypotheses, fallacies and speculations on present private banks supposedly being able to create credit or deposits out of thin air, lend them and charge interest on them. - In such notions either the clearing involved or the debt claims upon the credit recipients, are ignored. - JZ, 24.3.11. - CONSPIRACY THEORIES, ANTI-SEMITISM, JEWS, “PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION” A FORGERY,

THEORIES: And in the long run, when these new worlds are free to work out their own destinies without Earth’s influence, one man’s theories could have a longer and more useful effect than one man’s practice.” – Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake, p.45. – IDEAS, INDIVIDUALS, INFLUENCE

THEORIES: Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties, if it is desired greatly enough. It is no argument against any project to say: ‘The idea’s fantastic!’ Most of the things that have happened in the last fifty years have been fantastic, and it is only by assuming that they will continue to be so that we have any hope of anticipating the future.” - Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future, Book Club Associates, London, 1983, p.25. - & PRACTICE

THEORIES: As Goethe recognized, all that we imagine to be factual is already (*) theory; what we ‘know’ of our surroundings is our interpretation of them.” – F. A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit, p.106. - PRACTICE, KNOWLEDGE, FACTS, IMAGINATION - (*) Already or merely? – JZ

THEORIES: As Helmholtz said, the most practical thing in the world is a good theory.” – Jerry Pournelle, NEW DESTINIES, Fall 90, p.169.

THEORIES: every theory, not matter how fantastic, is innocent of the crime of invalidity until proven guilty.” – Tom Godwin, Mother of Invention, SF story in Pan Books, SPECTRUM 5, ed. by Amis/Conquest. - HYPOTHESES, IDEAS, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF REFUTATIONS, PREJUDICES, ERRORS, MYTHS, FALLACIES

THEORIES: Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.” – Felix Cohen. – Real theories are based on facts. They should such be clearly distinguished from hypotheses, which are merely assuming things or speculating or guessing about facts and causes. – JZ, 31.7.08. - FACTS, HYPOTHESES, RED.,

THEORIES: It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scandal in Bohemia, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1891. – RED. - Only hypotheses are not backed by data. Theories always are, although they may not yet cover all the facts involved. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THEORIES: Mind you, philosophy and theory are essential. Without them, we blunder blind at best, we’re brutes at worst. But they are not ends in themselves. … They are guides to action.” – Poul Anderson, To Promote the General Welfare, CONTINUUM 4, p.52. – PHILOSOPHY, ACTIONS, EXPERIMENTS

THEORIES: No theories or hypothesis should be forced upon anyone as if it were true or a panacea. Especially not upon those opposed to it. The supposed experts were all too often wrong. Even if objectively proven it should not be enforced upon the non-believers. These punish themselves enough by not recognizing it. - Nor should any experiment be forced upon dissenters. All experiments are anyhow conducted best if undertaken only by volunteers. – JZ, 16.6.04, 18.10.07. - & EXPERIMENTS, VOLUNTARISM VS. COERCION & COMPULSION, EXPERTS, PANARCHISM, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY FOR COMMUNITIES OF VOLUNTEERS

THEORIES: No theory is good except on condition that one uses it to go beyond.” - Andre Gide. - IDEAS, PROGRESS

THEORIES: Nobody has the right to force his own economic and other theories upon his fellow citizens as guidelines for their actions. – Ulrich von Beckerath

THEORIES: One never says ‘yes’ to a theory, only ‘maybe’, for some better theory will surely come along and the one that has seemed best until then will get its ‘no’.” – Frederick Pohl, Heechee Rendezvous, p.255. – That is even more true on mere hypotheses – which usually are passed off as if they were already theories that are based at least upon some facts, observations and measurements, not mere opinions or guesses. Decades ago there were already ca. 150 economic crisis hypotheses and theories. How many are there now? Have all of them been sufficiently examined and criticized? There are still hundreds of hypotheses and theories on causes wars and peace-promoting measures against them. – JZ, 1.8.08, 24.3.11.

THEORIES: People are all too ready to subscribe to a single theory that appears plausible to them and then to reject all others wholesale. – JZ, 4.4.76. – This certainly saves them much reading and thinking but hardly assures that they come close to the truth on a subject. – Miseans, for instance, have a plausible crisis theory. But that does not authorize them to reject about 150 others, although some to many or even most of them are flawed, incomplete or altogether false. But are all of them, without close enough examination? – I deny that the Misean and Rothbard theory and assumptions and conclusions are optimal against the threats of inflation, deflation and stagflation. Hayek came, finally and rather belatedly, closest of them to the full monetary freedom solution. As far as I know. But I do not know as yet of any of the Austrian school whose writings are superior, in this respect, to those of Ulrich von Beckerath, Professor Heinrich Rittershausen and Dr. Walter Zander. – But then I haven’t had access to all of the old and new monetary freedom writings of the Austrian School – and of any other school. Probably no one has had access to all of these writings as yet, because most of these writings are still largely unknown or long out of print and not all of them have been micro-fiched or scanned in by myself and others. - JZ, 20.7.08.

THEORIES: Practice without theory is blind; theory without practice is empty.” – R. Lichtman

THEORIES: The most practical thing in the world is a good theory." -  Wade Curtis, A Matter of Sovereignty, p.17 of ANALOG, 1/72. - The most practical thing in the world is a good theory.” – Ascribed to Helmholtz, - & PRACTICE

THEORIES: The so-called practical business-man who since his college years, if college years there were, has never touched a theoretical book, looks with unconcealed contempt on what he rejects as ‘mere theory’, not realizing that he himself is theorizing in every sentence he speaks, and that what he believes to be solely the outgrowth of practical experience is the outgrowth of the theoretical fallacies of fifty years ago.” – Gustav Stolper, This Age of Fable, p.13. - PRAXIS, PRACTICAL MEN, BUSINESSMEN,

THEORIES: The State may not put into force by legislation any scientific theory and force the opponents of this theory and the people in general to act as if this theory were right. – My version and translation of frequent similar remarks by Ulrich von Beckerath, 1882-1969. – Compare the statists springing into action upon the mere hypothesis that whatever global warming may be happening would be due to man’s production of carbon dioxide. According to published measurements the other planets in this solar system are warming up, too and there man can certainly not be blamed for this effect. – Alas, most of Bth.’s writings still remain to be translated into English. - JZ, 1.8.08. - STATE, LAWS, GLOBAL WARMING, GREENIES, STATIS, TAXES ON CARBON BIOXIDE PRODUCTION, 

THEORIES: Theoretical labors achieve more in the world than practical labor. Once the sphere of concepts is revolutionized then the establishment can no longer stand up against them.“ – Hegel, in JZ tr. of: “Die theoretische Arbeit bringt mehr zustande in der Welt als die praktische; ist erst das Reich der Vorstellung revolutioniert, so haelt die Wirklichkeit nicht aus.” – Once territorialism and exterritorialism are clearly and widely enough understood, territorialism with all its wrongs and evils will not last much longer. - JZ, 24.3.11. - IDEAS, CONCEPTS, UNDERSTANDING, COMPREHENSION, REASON

THEORIES: Theories are usually rash conclusions of an impatient mind that wants to free itself from the phenomena and in their place merely puts images, concepts, yes, often mere words. One may be partly aware that this is merely a makeshift but are not passion and party-spirit always ready for makeshifts? And rightly so, since they require them very much.” - Goethe, “Sprueche in Prosa”, JZ tr. of: “Theorien sind gewoehnlich Uebereilungen eines ungedultigen Verstandes, der die Phaenomene gern los sein moechte und an ihrer Stelle desswegen Bilder, Begriffe, ja oft nur Worte einschiebt. Mahn ahnet, man sieht auch wohl, dass es nur ein Behelf ist; liebt sich nicht aber Leidenschaft und Parteigeist jederzeit Behelfe? Und mit Recht, da sie ihrer so sehr beduerfen.“ - Only under full experimental freedom for all can the flawed or false theories of some people do harm only to themselves, instead of to numerous involuntary victims of them in a whole territory. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THEORIES: There is nothing so practical as a good theory.” – Kurt Levin – IDEAS, IDEAS ARCHIVE

THEORIES: Thinking and doing, doing and thinking, that is the sum of all wisdom, always recognized, always practised, but not understood by everybody. Both must, like breathing in and out, continuously happen in our lives, like questions and answers. None should happen without the other. Whoever makes it his law what is whispered by the genius of mankind secretly into the ear of every newborn human, to test the action by thinking and the thinking by actions, cannot go wrong, for if he errs he will soon be back on the right track.” – Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s Lehrjahre. – Only in a JZ tr. of: “Denken und Tun, Tun und Denken, das ist die Summe aller Weisheit, von jeher anerkannt, von jeher geuebt, nicht eingesehen von einem jeden. Beides muss wie Aus- und Einatmen sic him Leben ewig fort hin und wider bewegen; wie Frage und Antwort sollte eins ohne das andere nicht stattfinden. Wer sich zum Gesetz macht, was einem jeden Neugeborenen der Genius des Menschenverstandes heimlich ins Ohr fluestert, das Tun am Denken, das Denkan am Tun zu pruefen, der kann nicht irren nicht irren, und irrt er, so wird er sich bald auf den rechten Weg zurueckfinden.“ - Panarchism would allow all people to apply this method as well in the spheres so far monopolized by territorial governments. – JZ, 1.8.08.

THEORIES: Until there is correct thought, there cannot be right action. When there is correct thought, right action will follow.” – Source not known to me. – JZ – ACTION

THEORIES: we’ll improve our action only as we refine our theory.” – Edmund Opitz, THE FREEMAN, Jan. 77, p.30.

THEORIES: With panarchism dozens to thousands of different theories, hypotheses, ideologies and utopias in the social sciences can all be tried out peacefully, among their volunteers and at their expense and risk only, without upsetting the whole of society through revolutions, civil wars, terrorism or wars, without bloodshed and destruction. Only the participants will take some risks with their lives, property and work. That they are entitled to do. Even their failures, properly observed, recorded and evaluated, will help to develop the present “social sciences” into genuine social sciences. – JZ, 1.8.08.

THEY: Never be afraid of “they” – 1977 Collins Desk Calendar. – Be afraid of them – as long as they have nuclear “weapons” at their disposal! – JZ, 25.10.08. -

THINK BEFORE YOU ACT: Proverbial wisdom. – “First ponder, then dare.” – Helmuth von Moltke.

THINK BIG: We have to learn to think big – bigger than we’ve ever dreamed or dared.” - L. Neil Smith, Lever Action, A Mountain Media Book, 2001, vin@lvrj.com, p.447.

THINK FOR YOURSELF: Don let them do the thinking – against you. – JZ, 6.2.06. - Confine their "thoughts" and experiments based upon them to their voluntary victims, under exterritorial autonomy or personal law. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK TANKS: I am under the impression that libertarian think tanks as well, are still too much occupied with grantsmanship, with gaining and spending much money, in conventional and expensive ways, rather than fully utilizing the most economic text storage and communication methods, which are now the electronic ones. With these whole freedom libraries and numerous freedom reference works could be compiled and published very cheaply, almost with pocket money only and in spare time activities of many, whose collaboration is sufficient organized, electronically. – I think that mostly they spend still too much money on salaries, grants, prizes, accommodation and printed matter. Their primary and most comprehensive information collection and offer should be electronic. Only for those financial enough should prints on demand also be offered. – I know that there are a few exceptions, that offer much online and even some books on disks and much via email. – But too much stress is still put on conventional media and expensive personal meetings and conferences rather than on permanent electronic meetings, conferences and collaborations on particular libertarian projects. Should we not also become involved in “organization development” instead of repeating the conventional organizational mistakes over and over again, just like most non-libertarian organizations do? Too much decision-making power and responsibility is accumulated and retained at the centre. Too few jobs are efficiently delegated to the ordinary members and supporters. Their creative potential remains largely unutilized, although, in some instances, they number in the thousands and even ten-thousands. How much could be achieved with as many members, if they were sufficiently motivated, informed and coordinated in accordance with their numerous special interests and capacities, into teams whose members might live dispersed all over the world but are, electronically, sufficiently connected to promote any special libertarian interest project, between them, and this very fast? – Not even all such projects and contacts for them are so far sufficiently listed together. Even with the best intentions and greatest abilities the few officials of large organizations can do only so much themselves. - What steps and measure would the full mobilization of all the special interests, talents, references and knowledge that all of us possess, between us, require, so that all these resources, voluntarily offered, become easily accessible to others and sufficiently combined for effective teamwork, in international division of labor, in a real free and open market between us, sufficiently publicized among ourselves? – Already a directory indicating special interests and a common projects list and list of works in progress could achieve very much, or so I believe. Am I wrong in this? - JZ, 12.7.04, 26.10.07. – Even large and, seemingly, efficiently and scientifically conducted large corporations have often not yet fully mobilized the ideas and talents of their employees. All too often merely their hierarchical structures obstruct such utilizations and encouragements. In such a company even a mere good suggestion box scheme could already achieve much. – "Release all creative energies!" - Leonard E. Read. - JZ, 14.4.09. - LIBERTARIAN THINK TANKS & INSTITUTES, CD-PROJECT, LIBERTARIAN PUBLISHING, LIBRARY, ABSTRACTS REVIEW COLLECTION, DIRECTORY, IDEAS ARCHIVE, NEW DRAFT.

THINK: A fool talks, a wise man thinks.” – Persian proverb, retranslated from the German version: “Ein Narr spricht, ein Weiser denkt.”

THINK: A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. - Roy Halliday - Roy Halliday, Quotations with an Attitude, online. – SELF-THINKING

THINK: A note on Descartes: sometimes I think and sometimes I am.” – Valéry – (“Eine Glosse zu Descates: Manchmal denke ich; und manchmal bin ich.”)

THINK: A propos Descartes: “How I think thus I am.” – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec – (“A propos Descartes: Wie ich denke, so bin ich.”)

THINK: A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all." - Georges Bernanos - Capitalism - Nizam Ahmad shared Capitalism's status update. - THOUGHT & ACTION

THINK: Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.” – B. C. Forbes, quoted by L. J. Peter, The Peter Plan, p. 151.

THINK: Aim high and think in big figures; …” Thomas John Watson, reviewed in a 1940 FORTUNE article. – R. T. Bascale and A. G. Athos, The Art of Japanese Management, 1981, p.291.

THINK: All (that government) can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally, he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.” – H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Crestomathy, N.Y., Knopf, 49, p.145. – GOVERNMENT, REVOLUTION

THINK: All that we are is the result of all that we have thought.” – Buddha. – Are human beings only the products of conscious thought and development from the first primitive life forms onwards? Only by now should they take their own fate, not that of dissenters, into their own hands, to the extent that this is already humanly possible. – JZ, 17.4.09. - TOLERANCE, VOLUNTARISM, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY, GENUINE SELF-GOVERNMENT

THINK: All thought is a feat of association: having what’s in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn’t know you knew.” – Robert Frost, interview, Writers at Work, Second Series, 1963.

THINK: allow them to think for themselves.” – John Wyndham, in “The Secret People”, p.116. - And to act and experiment for themselves, at their own expense and risk, in every sphere! - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: Amusement is the happiness of people who don’t think.” – Ascribed to Swift in p.67 of Henry W. Nevinson, Essays in Freedom, London, Duckworth & Co, 1909, 1911.

THINK: An ounce of logical thought is worth more than a ton of activity.” - Louis A. Allen. – ACTIVISTS, CALLS FOR ACTION

THINK: any action executed without thought is just an arbitrary jerk.” - Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible, p.7. – ACTION, KNEE-JERK REACTIONS

THINK: Any man who ever renounces thinking renounces his manhood. – JZ, 14.11.76. – The same applies, naturally, to women and womanhood. – JZ, 17.4.09. - MAN, SELF-THINKING, THINK, MAN! SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

THINK: Any system is wrong or flawed which depends on the thinking of only all too few or of all too many. – JZ, n.d. & 21.7.08, 17.4.09. – LEADERSHIP, MAJORITIES, VOTING, DECISION-MAKING MONOPOLY, DEMOCRACY, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY VS. COLLECTIVISM

THINK: As Lessing says: people are inclined to cease to think at the point at which thought begins to be difficult; but it is just there, I would add, that thinking begins to be fruitful.” – Tolstoy, Essays and Letters, Why Do Men Stupify Themselves? p.31.

THINK: Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. (*) Then all things at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. … The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart (**), the religion of the nation (***), the manners and morals of mankind are all at the mercy of a new generalization. “(****) – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles, 1841. - They would not be at their mercy, if the great thinker were confined to exterritorial autonomy and personal laws in a community of volunteers. – An Ideas Archive would also concentrate opposition ideas, refutations and competing ideas and talents. – (*) He, she or it lets most great thinkers go to waste! – So much for a great “creator”, who is supposed to love his children, especially man. What kind of cruel games would he really play with us – and with other, much more helpless creatures – if he really existed? – (**) Was he thinking with his heart instead of his brain? – (***) Does it really exist and does it only have one? - (****) How many new generalizations are habitually ignored every day? - JZ, 21.7.08 - PANARCHISM, IDEAS ARCHIVE, LEADERSHIP, TERRITORIALISM, PROPHETS, GENERALIZATIONS, IDEOLOGIES, INTOLERANCE, FANATICISM, TOTALITARIANISM

THINK: Blind acceptance of anything is antithetical to the Anarchist ideal of freedom which desires to bring about a condition of freedom that can only exist when people think for themselves.” – Fred Woodworth, Anarchism, p.5.

THINK: Break the chain of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.” – Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, p.77. – Chains of your thought? – JZ

THINK: But evil is wrought by want of Thought // As well as want of Heart!” – Thomas Hood, 1788-1845.

THINK: But far more numerous was the Herd of such, //Who think too little, and who talk too much.” – John Dryden, 1631-1700. – IGNORANCE, IDLE TALK, RED.

THINK: But if dishonest, immoral and uneconomic thinking prevails, the results must be harmful, not only to others but to self as well. Such thoughtlessness, then – rather than careful thought – is the seed of actions which presently bedevil us.” – NOTES FROM FEE, 3/78.

THINK: But keep on thinking. Keep your thinking close to the ground, where it belongs. Don’t ever trade your liberty for another man’s offer to do your thinking and make your mistakes for you.” – Poul Anderson, Brain Wave, p.25.

THINK: Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment, since every man must give an account of himself to God.” – John Wesley, quoted in THE FREE MAN’S ALMANAC, for November 24. – God still spooks in all too many heads. – JZ, 21.7.08. – DISSENT, DISAGREEMENTS, TOLERANCE FOR ALL TOLERANT ACTIONS & EXPERIMENTS

THINK: Don let them do their thinking and acting – against you. – JZ, 6.2.06, 24.3.11. - THINK& ACT FOR YOURSELF

THINK: encourage … incite … every man, woman and child to examine the evidence and think for themselves.” – Wilson/Shea, Illuminatus III, p.174. – And do sufficiently assemble and publish and confront and compare the thoughts and ideas of all, instead of leaving even some of them best unknown or unappreciated for all too long. - JZ, 24.10.08. – Freedom to think and to act should always come together, for all peaceful and productive people. It should never be largely confined to territorial governments. - JZ, 24.3.11. - IDEAS ARCHIVE, LIBERTARIAN LIBRARY & ENCYCLOPEDIA, HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION OF ALL INDIVIDUAL HUMAN RIGHTS & LIBERTIES

THINK: Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world, alters the world.” – Emerson. – Such thoughts can make one all too complacent about the great waste of genius, talents and good ideas still happening in this world. - Yes, eventually that will happen, if the statist mass murderers do not put an end to mankind first, but when will it happen, with what certainty and how slowly or fast? Often only long after that genius is dead or the ideas had first been expressed. Should we not seriously consider the possibility of utilizing via full experimental freedom, under exterritorial autonomy, every genius, every talent, every idea a.s.a.p., at their greatest strength, rather than destroying or ignoring all too many of them for all too long? – JZ, 21.7.08, 24.3.11. – PANARCHISM, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, WORLD LIBRARY, LIBERTARIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA, FREEDOM LIBRARY, IDEAS ARCHIVE, SUPER-COMPUTER PROJECT, COMMON PROJECT LIST FOR LIBERTARIANS. A DIRECTORY TO ALL LIBERTARIANS, INDICATING THEIR SPECIAL INTERESTS.

THINK: Everything bears thinking it over. – JZ, 2/75, Almost everything bears thinking it over. – JZ, 30.7.08. – But, sometimes, one has to act immediately upon rightful impulses or one’s genuine moral sense, not that of any kind of indoctrination or wrongful or flawed legislation and jurisdiction. – JZ, 17.4.09, 24.3.11.

THINK: Few people ever really learn how to think at all; those who do, think only with the surface of their minds. The rest is still conditioned reflex and rationalization of a thousand subconscious fears and hates and longings.” – Poul Anderson (?), “Planet of No Return”, p.17. – I managed to jot down the book’s title but not the author! And I won’t try, at present, to dig up the book to make certain, that I did not get the author wrong. Many other entries need and deserve correction by readers of this compilation. – “Thinking is a collective process!” said Heinrich von Kleist somewhere. That does also apply to many of the still missing libertarian reference works and other sources. - Put in your bit! – Has anyone ever attempted to combine all the libertarian ideas in Paul Anderson's books and stories? I think that would help to sell more of his books. - JZ, 30.7.08, 24.3.11.

THINK: Few people think and yet all people want to decide.” – Frederick the Great, Friedrich der Grosse. – (“Wenige Menschen denken, und doch wollen alle entscheiden.”) - All too many have left it to territorial governments to decide about war, peace and international treaties and to make territorial rules for all. Territorial statism is a mental disease. Few are consistently in favor of extending the referendum options to support extensions of individual rights and liberties. Many also suffer from a disease which was called “decidophobia” by a freedom lover in one of his books. Panarchism confines the bad results of under-informed and prejudiced decision-making largely to volunteers, i.e. makes these people and their votes relatively harmless. - Regarding their own affairs they do have the right to decide, even though they might not have thought sufficiently about them, by whatever voting or other decision-making system that they prefer fro themselves. – Let all individuals and minority groups form or choose their own decision-making bodies and institutions, always at the own risk and expense. JZ, 30.7.08, 24.3.11. – VOTING, DEMOCRACY, SELF-GOVERNMENT, MAJORITARIANISM

THINK: Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.” – George Bernard Shaw. – SUCCESS, WISDOM, REPUTATION, MAKING A NAME FOR ONESELF

THINK: First ponder, then dare.” – Helmuth von Moltke – Alas, with all his intelligence he pondered and dared aggressive wars, not liberation campaigns, internally and externally. A clever bank robber might also subscribe to the same “principle”. – JZ, 23.10.08. – , COURAGE, DARING, AUDACITY, REASON

THINK: Five per cent of the people think; ten per cent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.” – Thomas A. Edison, quoted in THE FREE MAN’S ALMANAC, for August 6. – Quoted or restated by Leonard E. Read, Castles In The Air, p.129/130.

THINK: For of all things thinking is perhaps the one that has of late gone most definitely out of fashion.” - J. O. Y. Gasset, Concord and Liberty, p.51. – Was the past really better in this respect? – JZ, 24.10.08.

THINK: For thought has become dispersive, and the centrifugal forces of the human mind, among those who think seriously, have for the time become dominant and supreme.” – John Morley, On Compromise, p.133/34.

THINK: Good thoughts are the mainspring of human progress. They bring the unseen – the unimaginable – into the realities that bless our lives.” – Leonard E. Read, NOTES FROM FEE, 5/77. - As if it were already easy for anyone or any group of volunteers to practise any good idea among themselves – in spheres which territorial governments have monopolized and, thereby, created thousands of problems, due to primitive and false statist notions. – JZ, 21.7.08, 24.3.11. – PANARCHISM, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF ACTION, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY

THINK: Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Phi Beta Kappa Address, July 18, 1876. - False and bad thoughts as well, even more so, so far. – I wish that his thought would be applicable even to the victims of torturers against their torturers. – How powerful are thoughtful and dissenting conscripts in the armed forces or thoughtful and dissenting taxpayers against the tax department? – What good does it do great men, if they are crucified or have to empty a poison cup - when their ideas are only partly realized even 2000 years later? - All such general statements should become sufficiently qualified. - JZ, 21.7.08. – It is rather thoughtlessness that largely rules this world, still, applied from the top down. – JZ, 24.10.08. - IDEAS ARCHIVE, TALENT CENTRE, SUPER-COMPUTER PROJECT, TERRITORIALISM, PREJUDICES, FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT

THINK: Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.” John Churton Collins, 1848-1908. – Neither thinking on its own nor emotions on their own are good enough to base personal relationships on – or even whole political, economic and social systems, unless one includes under “thinking” also morality and ethics and ultimately all individual rights and liberties. – JZ, 25.7.08. – Feelings and emotions should be confined to voluntary associations. They should never be allowed to become territorially imposed, as if they were quite rightful and sound, upon the rights, liberties and actions of whole populations, among which there are many, who do not share the feelings, emotions, ambitions, ideas and prejudices of territorial rulers. - JZ, 24.3.11. - FEELINGS, EMOTIONS, REASON, DUTY, MORALITY, SYMPATHY, CARING, EGOISM, ALTRUISM, PEOPLE

THINK: He had read much, but his contemplation was much more than his reading, he was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.” – John Aubrey, 1626-1697. – A. Andrews Quotations, p.296. – READING, SELF-THINKING

THINK: He was, as he said, a ‘thought-adventurer’.” – Jim Dale Davidson, INDIVIDUALIST, 6/72, on D. H. Lawrence.

THINK: Help conquer the IQ shortage: worry less and think more.” – Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminati Papers, p.18.

THINK: Honest, oral and sound economic though results in commendable and creative action.” – NOTES FROM FEE, 3/78. – Only under sufficient freedom to apply them, together with other volunteers, in tolerant experiments, at the own risk and expense. – JZ, 31.;7.08. - PANARCHISM

THINK: How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. Adolf Hitler – Thinking is an action of individuals only, not of collectives as large as a whole population or of “representatives”, as in parliaments or even of collectives as small as appointed committees. It is difficult enough to get e.g. free juries to think about a particular criminal cases. – JZ, 21.4.13. - G0VERNMENT, PEOPLE, COLLECTIVISM, CENTRALIZATION, INDIVIDUALISM

THINK: How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. –Adolf HitlerAnother version or translation: What luck for the rulers that men do not think. - Adolph Hitler - Roy Halliday, Quotations with an Attitude, online. – Rather: that most people do not think most of the time on subjects that are of interest to power-mad rulers. – JZ, 26.3.12.

THINK: How lucky for the governments that people don’t think.” – Adolf Hitler – JZ tr. of: “Was fuer ein Glueck fuer die Regierungen, dass die Menschen nicht denken.” - Enough people don’t think enough so that the Hitlers, Stalins, Maos, Castros, Idi Amins etc. become possible and majoritarian democracies and their Welfare and Warfare States as well. – JZ, 25.7.08. – Under panarchism it would be enough if at least a few thought enough and acted freely upon their thoughts to set attractive examples to most other people, too, at least in the long run. – JZ, 25.7.08. – PANARCHISM, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM

THINK: Human thinking cannot be controlled by force or violence.” – Source unknown to me. – JZ

THINK: Hundred human beings sharpen their swords, thousands their knives, but ten-thousands leave their reasoning power unsharpened, because they do not practise with it.” – Pestalozzi, Der natuerliche Schulmeister, 3: Zueignung. (“Hundert Menschen schaerfen ihren Saebel, Tausende ihre Messer, aber Zehntausende lassen ihren Verstand ungeschaerft, weil sie ihn nicht ueben.“)

THINK: I deny the right of anyone – individually or collectively – to set up an inquisition of thought. Thought is, or should be, free. … For the government to attempt to control thought, to prescribe certain opinions or proscribe others, is the height of despotism.” – Alexander Berkman, declaration to Agents of the Department of Immigration, 1919. – The legalized inquisitions against free and self-responsible actions are in our times still more wrong and harmful. - JZ, 24.3.11. - CENSORSHIP, DISSIDENTS, “UNDESIRABLES”, DEPORTATIONS, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

THINK: I don’t want you to think like me. I just want you to think. - @[203829633105393:274:Intelligence is sexy] — with Donna Bella. – Quoted by Scott Molon Labe Twist sharing Intelligence is sexy's photo. – Facebook, 2.10.13. – TOLERANCE, RED

THINK: I doubt, therefore I think.” –Werner Mitsch ( “Ich zweifle, also denke ich.” )

THINK: I knew nothing about either Greece, or the Greeks, or Constantinople, but I was possessed of that common illusion of young men, that facility in composition indicates the existence of thought.” – Edwin Lawrence Godkin, quoted in Phillip Knightley, The First Casualty. The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Myth Maker, Quartet books, 1975, 1982, p. 8. – RED. – ELOQUENCE, WRITING ABILITY

THINK: If all the people who have the capacity to think would do so, this civilization would be a thousand years further along.” – Dagobert D. Runes, On the Nature of Man - We should not only try to mobilize all the current thought output but also all that of the past, which often dies with their creators or remains unpublished or out of print and inaccessible. E.g. nowhere are all freedom writings and all freedom ideas as yet sufficiently combined. In this respect, too, we usually would not have to try to re-invent the wheel. Most of the good ideas and thoughts that we need are already in existence – SOMEWHERE – but not readily accessible to us whenever and wherever they would be most helpful. – JZ, 21.7.08. – IDEAS ARCHIVE, TALENT CENTRE, SUPER-COMPUTER PROJECT, LIBERTARIAN LIBRARY, LIBERTARIAN DIRECTORY, LIBERTARIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA, CIVILIZATION, PROGRESS

THINK: If my soldiers began to think, not one would remain in the ranks.” – Frederick the Great, quoted in: Dr. Paul Rogers, Dr. Malcolm Dando, Dr. Peter Van den Dungen, “As Lambs to the Slaughter, The Facts About Nuclear War”, An Ecoropa Report, Arrow Books, London, 1981, 289 pages pocketbook, p.267. – “The parliaments of Sweden and Canada decided unilaterally not to produce or acquire nuclear weapons, …” – Ibid, p.236, - Alas, the horrors of any war were never a sufficient deterrent. - SOLDIERS, DISOBEDIENCE, NUCLEAR WAR THREAT

THINK: If only human thinking had been improved like e.g. cars, planes, computers and computer programs have been! – JZ, 25.1.83. – One new method to think systematically, in writing, is the digitized “argument mapping” recommended by Paul Monk et al online. In spite of this publicity it is still extensively unknown and unused, as far as I know. A case that should make us think. – JZ, 30.7.08.

THINK: If you don’t control your thoughts others will soon control your actions. – Woodrow Wilson. – JZ re-tr. of: “Wer seinen Gedanken nicht befiehlt … wird bald das Kommando ueber seine Handlungen verlieren.” - Obviously, people have not yet thought enough, e.g. about monetary despotism, territorialism, the employer-employee relationship, taxes, the warfare State, general despotism and the rightful alternatives to them to introduce monetary freedom, exterritorial autonomy for voluntary communities, self-management schemes, voluntary taxation, peaceful communities that are peacefully coexisting because they are only exterritorially autonomous, all individual rights and liberties. – JZ, 25.7.08. - ACTIONS, CONTROL, SELF-DISCIPLINE, SELF-CONTROL

THINK: If you make people think they’re thinking, the’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.” – Don Marqui, Archy and Mehitabel, 12927.

THINK: If you think someone else’s way you put your own life into someone else’s hands.” – Clint Eastwood, in film ”Magnum Force”.

THINK: If you were in my situation, you would think otherwise.” – Terenz, Andria, II. 1. (“Tu si hic sis, aliter sentias. – Waerst du an meiner Stelle, du wuerdest anders denken.) – RED., THINK AGAIN, CHECK YOUR PREMISES

THINK: improvement in society rests exclusively on improved actions, these have their sole origin in improved thinking. Look to the thinking – the only magic key there is!” – Leonard E. Read, on a FEE advertising envelop, about 1974. - The best thoughts and ideas do not help enough if there is not freedom to act upon them. - E.g., how much freedom was there to act upon rightful ideas under Stalin, Hitler and Mao? - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: in a word, a country where men are forbidden to think, and consequently labour under the most miserable slavery, that of mental servitude.” – Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Letter CXVIII, p.315. – Only all too few will think, occasionally, about individual rights and liberties and the reforms they do require, even when they are quite free to do so and to talk or write about them. – JZ, 31.7.08.

THINK: In bad times the thinkers think otherwise.“ - Werner Mitsch – (“In schlimmen Zeiten sind Denkende Andersdenkende.”) – In bad times the thinkers think other thoughts. – JZ, 8.7.92. - Alas, so far and everywhere the innovative thinkers, in the political, economic and social spheres, are not free to act upon their better thoughts but bound in the chains of territorialism, which they are not free to cut and throw away. Thus they cannot quickly set better examples, to solve a crisis for themselves and thereby show others how they could do the same for themselves. – JZ, 21.7.08. – Most of the supposed “intellectuals” are addicts to popular errors, myths and prejudices as well, especial in what passes still as “social sciences”. – JZ, 24.10.08. - PANARCHISM, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, INDIVIDUAL INSTEAD OF COLLECTIVIST, COERCIVE, MONOPLISTIC & TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY

THINK: In Herbert’s dry and gritty world, the future belongs only to those who think for themselves.” – Peter Stoler, in TIME, 11.5.81, on Frank Herbert’s God Emperor of Dune. – And who are already free to act for themselves. - JZ, 24.3.11. - SELF-THINKING, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

THINK: In his “Logic” he gives 3 important rules for thought: First, to think yourself; second, to put yourself in the place of others; third, always to think consistently. The first is the enlightened, the second is the enlarged, and the 3rd. is the consequent method of thinking.” – Immanuel Kant, according to Stuckenberg, The Life of Kant, p.75.

THINK: Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.” – Wendell Phillips: Speech on John Brown, Harper’s Ferry, November 1, 1859. – Quoted in Seldes: The Great Quotations. - It should. Unfortunately, for most insurrections, revolutions and resistance or “freedom”–fighters it does not or does not sufficiently. – How many have, for instance, seriously considered the problem of how to finance a revolution, using monetary freedom options rather than the self-defeating monetary despotism options that were used in all too many revolutions. I know only of two people who did, Ulrich von Beckerath and Georg Holzhauer. – JZ, 21.7.08. – REVOLUTION, INSURRECTIONS, FINANCING THEM

THINK: Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1893-1882., Fate, in The Conduct of Life, 1860. – As far as mere thinking goes, he is largely free, unless he is tortured, overworked, sick etc. But what about the freedom to act upon his thoughts? He still has not got that freedom in most important spheres. But with his best thoughts and those of others sufficiently combined, he has a pretty good chance to become free, even free to act and experiment autonomously in the political, economic and social spheres. –…, he can become free. – JZ, n.d.

THINK: Is thinking ever free? Wherever I meet it, I find it chained to a motive of one kind or another. The world operates on motivated thinking tied to prejudice, opportunism, greed, narrow-mindedness, selfishness, and a thousand other little passions and passionettes that clutter up the narrow path of righteousness.” - Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought.

THINK: It has been said that people largely read in order not to think. But they also act, watch, play, exercise, travel, listen, talk and crack jokes in order not to have to think, sufficiently, themselves. – JZ, 14.4.95. 18.7.08.

THINK: It is as if our age were bent on committing suicide in loyalty to the premise that the more pressing a problem, the less thought one must give it.” – Isabel Paterson, quoted in the manuscript by Mrs. Young on Ayn Rand. – NUCLEAR WAR THREAT

THINK: It is the natural destiny of plants to develop regularly, of animals to move suitably and of man to think.” – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Die Bestimmung des Menschen, Erstes Buch, Zweifel, p.20. (“Es ist die Naturbestimmung der Pflanze, sich regelmaessig auszubilden, die des Tieres, sich zweckmaessig zu bewegen, die des Menshen, zu denken.”)

THINK: It isn’t what people think that’s important, but the reason they think what they think.” – Eugene Ionesco, quoted in ANALOG,10/90, p.109. – REASON, PREJUDICES, MOTIVES, RED.

THINK: Just let your brain go to work, …” Pearl S. Buck, Command the Morning, p.235. – RED.

THINK: Ke Wan Tze thought thrice and then acted. When the Master was informed of it, he said: “Twice may do.” – The Wisdom of Confucius, Analects, bk.v, c.xix. - Were any of us ever free enough to act upon our rightful ideas, at our own risk and expense, in every sphere, even those monopolized by territorial governments? - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: Keep thinking rather than merely emoting. – JZ, 14.1.13. – Think rather than emote. – JZ, 16.4.13. – EMOTIONS, REASON & RATIONALITY OVER FEELINGS IN ALL BUT PERSONAL PREFERENCES & RELATIONS

THINK: Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” - Confucius, 551-479 B.C., Analects. – The greatest genius and learning are insufficient when not accompanied by freedom to act and experiment. - JZ, 24.3.11. - LEARNING, KNOWLEDGE, IGNORANCE

THINK: Less cash and more thought.” – THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Column 8, 21.10.72. – In recent years I have hardly ever found this column worth reading anymore. Therefore I do now, mostly, ignore it altogether. - The interests of the editors must have been greatly changed. – JZ, 31.7.08.

THINK: Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject … The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.” – Luther Burbank, quoted in Seldes, The Great Quotations. – As far as their work-places are concerned, good suggestion box schemes, associated with bonus schemes, have proven the contrary. In this respect even otherwise quite ordinary people can be quite creative. The same applies to their home decoration, their gardening, their hobbies and their crafts. Once they gained panarchistic liberties many might also demonstrate creative abilities in that sphere. Today, all too often, creativity and self-thinking is no more welcomed than it is in most soldiers and officers, unless it is initiative in fighting. –JZ, 21.7.08. – I read that in this respect the Israeli Army is outstanding. No positive suggestion by anyone is ignored. - JZ, 24.3.11. -

THINK: Let the non-thinkers alone suffer under their own mistakes, errors and prejudices. And sue them for damages when they cause any to outsiders. – JZ, 21.7.08. - PANARCHISM, INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY, VOLUNTARISM, PERSONAL LAWS

THINK: Life is so crowded with everyday, it takes great effort to stop aside and just watch and think.” - Dagobert D. Runes, A Book of Contemplation, p.81. – DAILY DISTRACTIONS, NEWS, CURRENT EVENTS, PRIVATE OBLIGATIONS

THINK: Life is thought.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Bk. iv, sec. 3. – Since my source adds the text in Greek, too difficult for me to type in, I assume that he merely cited a Greek proverb. - Life is all too often also all too thoughtless or full of flawed thoughts, ideas, notions and actions. – JZ, 21.7.08, 24.3.11. -

THINK: Life with fools consists in Drinking; with the wise man, Living’s Thinking. – Poor Richard, 1748. – As if freedom of action and experimentation would have nothing to do with thinking and wisdom. - At least as a natural scientist, publisher and as a political reformer, Benjamin Franklin did also act. - JZ, 24.3.11. - SOCIALIZING, PARTIES, ENTERTAINMENT, GOING OUT, ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION, DRINKING, BEER, WINE ETC., FREEDOM OF ACTION

THINK: Listen to yourself thinking!” – Source unknown to me. – JZ – RED.

THINK: Live and think.” – Samuel Lover, Father Roach. We can enjoy a really free life only after sufficient rightful thought and action. – JZ, 21.7.08. – But most would, rather, merely vegetate and call that living! – JZ, 24.10.08. – Think and survive. But not by thought alone, until we have enough PSI power for this purpose. – JZ, 17.4.09.

THINK: Make people think they are thinking, and you flatter them, but make them really think and they will hate your guts.” – Source unknown to me. – JZ

THINK: Man is obviously made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit.” – Pascal, Pensées, 1670, tr. W. F. Trotter. - As if sympathy, pity, considerateness for the feelings of others, benevolence, kindness, politeness and good manners would not matter at all. – People tend to generalize or exaggerate the importance of their preferences. – From the way most people act, much of the time, one can also get quite the contrary impression. Or should one conclude from Pascal’s remark the multitude of others are no genuine human beings at all. For a small minority of them I would agree. – They are only beasts in human form. - Man is also made to act, self-responsibly - and yet that freedom is still all too much suppressed, territorially. - JZ, 26.7.08, 24.3.11.

THINK: Man may renounce much. But he must think, and he has a deep need to express his thoughts. It is profoundly sickening to be compelled to remain silent when there is need for expression. It is tyranny at its worst to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own. The limitation of freedom of thought is not only an attack on specific political and social rights, but an attack on the human being as such.” – Milovan Djilas, The New Class, Praeger, 1957, p.146. – Freedom of thought should be distinguished from freedom of expressing thoughts. – JZ - As if freedom of action or experimental freedom would not matter. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900. – Thus he gets stuck on the many ideas of others that he does remember. – However, if he thought enough and critically about them … - JZ, 31.7.08.

THINK: Many people would sooner die than think. – In fact, they do.” – Bertrand Russell

THINK: Many there are, too depressed, too embruted with hard toil, and the struggle for animal existence (*), to think for themselves. Therefore, the obligation devolves with all the more force on those who can. If thinking men are few, they are for that reason all the more powerful.” – Henry George, Social Problems. – Only potentially. In territorial States it is mostly the non-thinking or false-thinking men, full of popular prejudices, who get into positions of power and stay there all too long. - If men have time and energy to drink, use other drugs, engage in sports or watch them, to bet, gamble and smoke, talks about the weather and trade union “actions”, etc., then they would and should also have some time to think seriously about their own situations and how to improve them. One cannot or should not blame everything on one’s own environment, conditions or jobs. That is just as bad as “blaming society” for all crimes. - (*) Hardly the case any more in most of the somewhat developed countries. – JZ, 21.7.08. – POWER, INFLUENCE, INDIVIDUALS,

THINK: Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death.” – Bertrand Russell, Selected Papers of Bertrand Russell. – If that were quite true, they would not fall for so many fallacies, myths, errors and prejudices. Nor should we ignore that all too many people are all too ready to ignore even correct and valuable thoughts and ideas or get quickly bored by them, rather than becoming afraid of them. They only are afraid of having to listen to them any further. But rulers do fear serious thoughts and ideas in their subjects. – JZ, n.d. & 21.7.08. -

THINK: Men who fail to think may expect to find themselves in a bad society. A good society is possible only among those who have reached the human level of thinking for themselves.” – Leonard E. Read, Who’s Listening? p.87. - And who managed to achieve freedom of action for themselves. Until then they are stuck with all the wrongs and evils of territorialism. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.” – Daniel Webster, address on laying the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument, Boston, Mass., June 17, 1825. - Only if the minds of man do also mind all the requirements for sound minds to be productively used in free actions, in every sphere. That requires the experimental freedom of panarchism. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: Most can think better for themselves than they can think for others. And under freedom they have more incentives to do so. – JZ, 19.1.96. – Under the rule of politicians and bureaucrats thinking becomes reduced, at the top as well as at the bottom. – JZ, 18.7.08. - THINKING FOR ONESELF, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, TERRITORIALISM

THINK: Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion – in the long run, these are the only people who count.” - Robert Heinlein, ISIL LIBERTY QUOTE LIBRARY 03. - Provided they do enjoy experimental freedom under full exterritorial autonomy. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: Most people either lack the capacity for thought or they’re too lazy to employ it. They shroud themselves in the fog of conventional morality and substitute knee-jerk sentimentality for though-out reactions. Lee had refused to be that sort of cripple. Good for him.” – Larry Beinhart, American Hero, 98.

THINK: Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.” - Bertrand Russell. – Only those, who do not think enough do manage to run against barbed wire and machine gun fire and obey other commands which resemble enforced suicide or mass murders committed by oneself. Turn your guns around, when forced to fight for a wrongful cause, and think enough about how to do so, most effectively, perhaps via a mass fraternization and military insurrection, together with the soldiers on the other side, in favor of quite rightful war and peace aims, adopted over the heads of the own and their rulers. The optimal technique for armed resistance cannot be developed on the spot and in a moment. Actually, a new kind of science is required, of quite rightful, organized and effective disobedience. One ought to develop or study it long before one finds oneself in such an emergency situation: Obey and shoot other people or let yourself be shot by them or be shot by your officer. - Then the rightful and sensible disobedience action should become as automatic as is now the automatic obedience drilled into soldiers. – JZ, 4.1.08. – SOLDIERS, RESISTANCE INSTEAD OF OBEDIENCE, MILITARY INSURRECTIONS, FRATERNIZATION, SEPARATE PEACE TREATIES

THINK: Must men be bullied for ever? Are there no men to think at least as earnestly as one climbs a mountain, and to write with their utmost pride? Are there no men to face truth as those boys at Mons faced shrapnel, and to stick for the honour of the mind and for truth and beauty as those lads stuck to their trenches?” – H. G. Wells: Boon. – It was very difficult to impossible to escape the dangers of trench warfare but it is always easy to escape thought, at least for most people. – JZ, 31.7.08. - SPORTS, HOBBIES, GAMES, RIDDLES, WASTING TIME, READING & TRAVELING FOR ENTERTAINMENT ONLY

THINK: My thought is one. That is why I cannot stop. I exist by what I think.” – Jean-Paul Satre, Nausea, 1938. – I am not clear what he meant by the first sentence. I would rather have said: My thoughts are many and that is why I cannot stop. I exist by what I think. – JZ, 22.6.92.

THINK: No one can do his best thinking amidst junk piles – things unfinished – of the desk and the mind. True, the road is better than the inn (*), but not if it becomes one great detour. Get the chores into the past tense as quickly as possible.” – Leonard E. Read, THE FREE MAN’S ALMANAC, for August 28. (*) Hardly for sleeping on. – JZ - CHORES, UNFINISHED PROJECTS

THINK: No one can give better advice than yourself.” – Cicero, Ad Atticum, II, ca. 50 B.C.

THINK: No one, not even the most powerful dictocrats has ever been able to put a tax or tariff on good thoughts.” – Leonard E. Read, NOTES FROM FEE, 5/77. - All he could do is prohibit, hinder or penalize the public expression and transmission of thoughts and ideas. – But we have done this, to a large extent, ourselves, by confining our thoughts, ideas, plans and projects largely only to relatively expensive media, like public lectures, conferences, print on paper and broadcasts, rather than e.g. on microfilm or computer disks. Largely only via emails and websites have we extended the all too limited and expensive old communication channels. While these are very powerful and useful means, especially when used together with helpful automatic search programs, they are still not quite efficient and useful enough, especially not for new and unpopular ideas, just like the conventional mass media are not providing an effective market for them. We are still far from having used the peripheral, alternative, powerful, cheap and lasting media sufficiently, like microfiche and disks to their full capacity. For instance, the humble floppy could very cheaply store and duplicate up to 6 books zipped. A CD could offer 3000 books, a DVD even 15 000. - A cheap external HD of 1 TB could now come to contain over 3 million books or the equivalent number of other pages. Ponder how long would it take you and how much it would cost you to find as many pages for freedom, justice, peace, prosperity, progress on the Internet and then download and properly assemble them in your electronic storage system. But between us, in international division of labor, we could assemble them relatively easily and cheaply and then cheaply and fast enough duplicate the lot, updating it frequently, online or in new annual editions! Thus almost everyone, at least in the somewhat developed countries, could have an almost complete freedom reference library on his desk, only the size of a conventional book! – Deus ex machine! Indeed! – The best of man’s thoughts on the most important subjects brought thus together. A new mental power and reference tool of enormous potential. Knowledge is influence. Especially when it can be as easily found and spread. – Do not rely too much on the Internet alone to do your thinking and enlightenment work for you. Too many pearls are buried there, too, in the mud, as one item among thousands or even millions of references that one has not the time and energy to pick through. - J.Z, 21.11.82, 21.7.08. - FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, LIBERTARIAN ELECTRONIC LIBRARY, LIBERTARIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA & OTHER REFERENCE WORKS, IDEAS ARCHIVE, SUPER-COMPUTER PROJECT, DISCS COLLABORATIVELY FILLED WITH SPECIAL REFERENCES VIA THE WHOLE OF THE INTERNET, INSUFFICIENTLY SORTED OUT & COLLATED STILL BY XYZ SEARCH ENGINES, ESPECIALLY FOR NEW OR UNPOPULAR OLD BUT STILL IMPORTANT IDEAS.

THINK: Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think. –Adolf Eichmann, Memoirs written after his 1960 capture by Israel. – OBEDIENCE

THINK: One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren’t enough policemen to control them.” – Stanislaw Lec, Unkempt Thoughts, 1962. – If we fully mobilized all libertarian thoughts, ideas, methods and reference works, it would become difficult to impossible for territorial governments to control and abuse us any longer. – JZ 30.7.08. – Libertarian thinkers have to become multiplied, too, not only via educational efforts. That is one reason why I do regret that so many libertarians do not have any or only all too few children. – JZ, 17.4.09. - IDEAS ARCHIVE, SUPER-COMPUTER PROJECT, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BEST REFUTATIONS, RED., SLOGANS FOR LIBERTY, LIBERTARIAN LIBRARY, L. ENCYCLOPEDIA, L. ABSTRACTS, L. REVIEWS, MONETARY FREEDOM & PANARCHISM HANDBOOKS

THINK: One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.” – Paul Bourcet (Bourget?), “Conclusion”, Le Démon de midi, 1914. – But first one has to gain the freedom to do so. And that does, to a large extent and in very important spheres, require the experimental freedom of panarchism. – JZ, 20.7.08.

THINK: One of the things that Reade and his later rivals have perhaps failed to make sufficiently clear is this, that as there were men in past ages above the average mental level of to-day, there are still uncounted millions of men and women, of all classes, whose thinking is done more or less on the average mental levels of previous and even far-distant epochs.” – From the introduction by Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man, XV, XVI.

THINK: One should talk less and think more.” – John Henry Mackay. Abrechnung, p.161 – JZ tr. of: “ Man rede weniger und denke mehr.” – RED.

THINK: Our toughest opponents are those who have the capacity for thought, but - for some reason - won't think.” - Christopher Anvil, The Toughest Opponent, p.50, ANALOG, 8/62. – To fully mobilize the thinking power of all those who do love to think is now, technologically, a real option for the first time. - JZ, 24.3.11. - RED.

THINK: People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.” – Sebastian Chamfort, 1741-1794. – A. Andrews Quotes, p.384. – If only all of them were really governed by their own and sufficiently enlightened heads. – A heart is neither kind nor malicious. It is merely sound or unhealthy. – JZ, 21.7.08.

THINK: People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.” - Helen Keller

THINK: People do wrong and harm themselves more by the things (and services, principles, ideas, methods, principles, institutions and processes) they do not talk about than those they do talk about. Often they remain silent on or disinterested in the most important points. – Think about other things! - JZ, 29.7.92.

THINK: People who don’t think and act for themselves do become pawns in the hands of others.” – JZ, 16.7.79. - I have still to find enough libertarians and anarchists to seriously tackle the job of producing, between them, an as correct and complete declaration of all genuine individual rights and liberties as it would now be possible to produce. I consider that to be a scandalous case of an extreme lack of interest in some of the most important own affairs, least excusable for these supposed "freedom-lovers". - Compare the digitized anthology of over 130 private drafts of this kind, which I compiled in PEACE PLANS 589/590, hoping that it would bring about such a collaboration. - JZ, 24.3.11. - TERRITORIALISM, HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION

THINK: POSITION PAPER: Your ability to think is greatly affected by your position. On your feet, you think faster, but you also tend to make hasty, even rash, conclusions. You have the best sales resistance and are at your most commanding, but your ability to remember is at its worst. - - In a reclining position you are more apt to think creatively. Thought will come more slowly and are more profound, and memory is at its best. Also, you are most receptive to suggestion and the ideas of others. - - Tests at a Long Island university support sitting as the best all-round position for thinking. Thought may not come as fast (or rattled) as when you’re standing (*), or as creative as when you’re lying down, but it’s the best compromise science has come up with.” – NATIONAL ENQUIRER, quoted in READER’S DIGEST, 3/75. - - (*) Or walking. The Peripatetics, supposed to have conducted conversations while walking around a temple, are said to have formed the first academic community. - I guess the effect of position and movement upon the blood-flow to the brain is important in this respect. – JZ, 21.7.08.

THINK: Press your lips together and be not in a hurry to answer.” – Zbadah Zarah, 358. – From: The Wisdom of Israel, ed. by Lewis Browne. – Ponder, rather than reply immediately. – JZ, 254.6.92. – Compare: "Before you put your mouth into gear, make sure your brain is engaged." - RED.

THINK: reason is your means of survival – so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question ‘to think or not to think’.” – Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, p. 938. – SURVIVAL, NUCLEAR WAR THREAT, TERRITORIALISM, PANARCHISM

THINK: Refusal to think, persistently, about the major problems of our times is to be classed among the major crimes. – JZ, 8.10.82. – Ignoring the major problems of our times is to be classed among the major crimes. – JZ, 30.7.08,

THINK: Resist much. Obey little. Think for yourself.” - William Thomas. - & RESIST

THINK: Riddle: What is the quickest thing in the world? Answer: Thought. - - It is and it isn’t. It can be slow, too – oh, how slow! Only slowly and laboriously do men, people, society, realize what has happened to them. Realize the truth about their position.” – Solzhenitsyn, Gulag 3, p.231. – Correct under territorialism. It puts too many barriers between thought and action. It would be very different if they were members of a community of volunteers, with numerous other such communities all around them, all experimenting with their ideas and ideals. – In spheres where there are few such barriers, e.g. in natural sciences and in technology, especially in computer technology, thoughts and actions can advance very fast. We do have to achieve the same for the "social sciences". Until we do they are not genuine sciences as yet. - JZ, 31.6.08, 24.3.11. – PANARCHISM, PROGRESS, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, INDIVIDUAL CHOICE, VOLUNTARISM, IDEAS ARCHIVE, SUPER-COMPUTER-PROJECT

THINK: Roger Bacon ( ca. 1214-1294 ) recognized four categories of offendicula, which might be translated ‘impediments to thought’. These are ‘excessive reliance on authority’, slavery to custom’, subjection to the weight of popular opinion’, and the ‘concealment of ignorance by pretending knowledge’.” – Source: Roger Bacon, “Sumule dialectics”, written about 1245, in Bacon’s “Opera hactenus inedita”, ed. by Robert Steele, fasc. 15, Oxford, 1909.” - Philip Ward, A Dictionary of Common Fallacies, p.179. - KNOWLEDGE, PREJUDICES.

THINK: see what everybody else has seen, and think what nobody else has thought.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi - And thing as well as work to gain the freedom to do, at your own expense and risk, anything worthwhile that nobody has ever done before you. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: Simplicity is the natural result of profound thought.” - Slogans from the SPIRITUAL ANARCHY WEBSITE – SIMPLICITY – There are also all too many thoughtless and prejudiced over-simplifications, false premises and false conclusions. – If e.g. gravity were quite a simple matter we might have artificial anti-gravity already long ago. - JZ, 14.4.09. -

THINK: So many millions of people – and yet so few genuine new and correct thoughts and ideas are produced and exchanged between them. – JZ, 7.11.95. – IDEAS ARCHIVE, SUPER-COMPUTER PROJECT, LIBERTARIAN LIBRARY, LIBERTARIAN PROJECTS LIST, LIBERTARIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA, TALENT CENTRE

THINK: So much food for thought is delivered to us every day – and yet how little genuine thinking grows from it, in most people, apart from the usual false and conditioned responses. – JZ, 7.11.95. – But then neither all worthwhile freedom texts, ideas, projects and arguments have so far been fully assembled nor have all libertarian refutations been put encyclopedically together – while we are swamped with statist notions, dogmas, prejudices, errors, myths, false premises and conclusions. Already Goethe complained about the mess we still find ourselves in: “Oh, gluecklich, wer noch hoffen kann, aus diesem Meer des Irrtums aufzutauchen …” – (“Happy the one who can still hope to overcome this ocean of errors …”) – JZ, 18.7.08. – , ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BEST REFUTATIONS, PREJUDICES

THINK: So varied are members of the human race that similarities can often be expressed only in broad generalities: the potentiality to think, for instance. (*) But there the similarity ends, for we do not think alike; indeed, each person varies in his own thinking from moment to moment. These observations merely set the stage for the thesis of this chapter, namely, that agreement among us is not in our nature and, as an objective, is both unrealistic and mischievous. –– (*) For an enlightening treatise on how enormously varied we are, see You Are Extraordinary, by Dr. Roger J. Williams, New York, Random House, 1967. - Leonard E. Read, Let Freedom Reign, p.7. – This title by Dr. Williams is one of the best books I have read. – JZ, 21.7.08. - DIVERSITY, MAN, HUMAN RACE, PANARCHISM VS. TERRITORIALISM & NATION-BUILDING

THINK: Some people follow their notions without ever catching a single real thought.” – Ron Kritzfeld – JZ tr. of: “Manche gehen ihren Gedanken nach, ohne jemals einen zu fassen.” – RED

THINK: some will be men and women who have suddenly found that they have to think and act on their own.” – Con Sellers, Mr. Tomorrow, p.159. – SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY

THINK: Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. … Rather than to go to the bottom of any given idea, to examine its origin and meaning, most people will either condemn it altogether, or rely on some superficial or prejudicial definition of non-essentials.” – Emma Goldman, “Anarchism What It Really Stands For, in: Alix Kates Shulman, ed. of Red Emma Speaks, p.63. - Compare frequent responses like "bullshit!" from many people upon first encountering a new idea or proposal. - JZ, 24.3.11. - CONDEMNATION, CRITICISM, PREJUDICES, RED.,

THINK: Start thinking for yourself!” - Leonard E. Read, Having My Way, p.121. - Don't forget thinking and working towards full freedom of action for yourself and for all others as well. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: Stop to think – but don’t stop thinking. – JZ, 22.6.92. - Well, after you have done enough thinking you ought to think also about how to achieve the freedom to act upon your correct thoughts and ideas, in spheres so far monopolized by territorial governments. You might first have to become a sovereign individual, i.e., have to get territorial governments out of your way, starting with individual or group secessionism. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: Study the past, if you would divine the future.” – Confucius, 551-479 B.C., Analects. – HISTORY, LEARNING FROM IT

THINK: Summarized, my highest purpose is to develop, grow, emerge, evolve; it is not to stagnate – rot – but rather to hatch! - - My rules for hatching may not be the best for you, but I offer these two for what they are worth. First, resolve to begin thinking for self on the more important life issues – individualistic and societal: Start the cerebral machinery; avoid stagnation. Except for mundane matters, an alarming number of people in today’s world let others do their thinking for them; they are only imitators and rarely know who to imitate. Certainly, seek the counsel of those considered wiser; but make up one’s own mind on all matters pertaining to self and society.” – Leonard E. Read, Castles in the Air, p.147.

THINK: TFYQA – Think For Yourself, and Question Authority.” – William McGowan,OMNI,1/87. - Not only question territorial "authorities" but do away with them, at least with all their territorial powers. - Without them they would start to become harmless for the dissenters. These would then have the option to do their own things under their own personal law. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: That’s the trouble with the Ship”, the old man told him. ‘No one ever thinks. They while away their time. They never dig for reasons. They never even wonder. Whatever happens must be for the best, and that’s enough for them.’ – ‘I have just begun to think’, said Jon.” – Clifford Simak, Target, Generation, in Strangers in the Universe, p. 36. – Well, they are interested in “news”, idle speculations, rumors, gossip, meals, sex, drinks, drugs, sports and weather reports, personal rather than causal thinking, conspiracy theories, games, bets, getting money, gambling and sex, but hardly ever in important ideas and reforms. – JZ, 31.7.08, 24.3.11.

THINK: The ability to think does not remain constant if one lets oneself go. As a result of inactivity its flexibility and strength become gradually reduced. It always requires a certain assistance through reasoning to keep the ability to think and to act awake and pure.” – Plutarch, Ob ein Greis noch Staatsgeschaefte betreiben soll, 8. (JZ tr. of the German version: “Die Denkfaehigkeit bleibt nicht gleich rege, wenn man sich gehen laesst: infolge von Untaetigkeit nimmt sie allmaehlich ab an Spannkraft und Bestandfaehigkeit, indem es immer einer gewissen Nachhilfe durch den Verstand bedarf, um das Vermoegen, zu denken und zu handeln, wach und rein zu erhalten.“) – Neither old nor young people should occupy themselves with territorial statism. That would be quite unreasonable. – They should rather try to abolish it. – The brain needs exercise as well as muscles do. Otherwise it deteriorates. Exercise it by exploring how all solvable problems could be solved much better than they could be solved by any territorial State, or, indirectly, through the abolition of all territorial States. - JZ, 21.7.86, 20.7.08.

THINK: the absurdity of allowing others to think for them. For this condition of mental and moral blindness the church is responsible.” – Emerson, quoted in Sprading, Liberty and the Great Libertarians, p.144. – CHURCHES, RELIGION, STATISM, PRIESTS, EXPERTS, TERRITORIALISM

THINK: The ancestor of every action is a thought.” – Emerson, Essays, First Series: Spiritual Laws. – Aren’t there also all too many criminal thoughts and actions, by official a well as private criminals? Which thoughts and actions would help us most against both kinds? – JZ, 21.7.08.

THINK: The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.” - Ludwig von Mises - There is also the present enormous gap between those who are free to act, even wrongfully and irrationally, and those, who are territorially and forcefully prevented from acting quite rightfully and rationally, or making their own mistakes, at their own risk and expense, due to the special interests, immorality, power addiction, ignorance or prejudices of those, who have gained territorial power. - JZ, 24.3.11. - THINKERS, CREATIVITY, ORIGINALITY, TERRITORIALISM

THINK: The conventional territorial voting system combines a minimum of thought with a minimum of responsibility. – And guess what kinds of “leaders” are the result of this! - JZ, 21.4.08, 24.10.08. – VOTING, DEMOCRACY, LEADERSHIP, RULERS, PRESIDENTS, PRIME MINISTERS, GOVERNMENTS, REPRESENTATIVES

THINK: The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.” - J. K. Galbraith – Was that his motive for adopting so many conventional, false or flawed but popular statist views? – JZ, 8.8.08. – RED.

THINK: the future belongs only to those who think for themselves.” - Peter Stoler: “In (Frank) Herbert's dry and gritty world (God Emperor of Dune)” - TIME, May 11, 1981. - And who manage to gain the freedom to act upon their thoughts and concede the same freedom to all others. Freedom to experiment in one's own affairs, no longer subjected to any territorial "authority". - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts.” – Leonard E. Read, The Path to Duty, in the contents listing. – So why have we still not fully mobilized them but rather publish relatively trivial news and entertainment all the time? – JZ, 21.7.08. – The best ideas and thoughts are still largely useless to oneself until one has also gained the freedom to act upon them, together with like-minded people. - JZ, 224.3.11. - IDEAS, IDEAS ARCHIVE, SUPER-COMPUTER PROJECT, SLOGANS FOR LIBERTY

THINK: The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.” – Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 1871, p.4. - Only our own thoughts and also our own actions but not the thoughts and actions of anyone else. – JZ, 20.7.08, 24.3.11.

THINK: The human brain can be an amazing instrument when it is forced to function.” - Source? – Did you use enough of this kind of force? – JZ, 14.4.09. – RED.

THINK: The human mind is a weird and tortuous thing. It’s perfectly possible to believe in a dozen mutually contradictory things at once. Few people ever really learn how to think at all; those who do, think only with the surface of their minds. The rest is still conditioned reflex and rationalization of a thousand subconscious fears and hates and longings. … There is so much insanity left over from all our history, so much built into the very structure of human society.” – Poul Anderson, Question and Answer, p.13. – TERRITORIALISM, STATISM, COERCIVE COLLECTIVISM, NATIONALISM, MONETARY DESPOTISM,

THINK: The last thought is always wiser than the first.” – Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought. - The last thought is NOT always wiser than the first – even though there is a good chance that it is. That also applies to its wording. – JZ, n.d. & 30.7.08.

THINK: The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.” – Robert G. Ingersoll, quoted in Sprading, Liberty and the Great Libertarians, p.279. Also in Seldes: The Great Quotations. – Consequently, we still have “nations” largely made up of traitors to it! – JZ, 24.10.08. - TERRITORIALISM

THINK: The mind is its own place, and in itself // Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” - John Milton, 1608-1674), “Paradise Lost”. - MIND

THINK: The more one thinks, the more one thinks oneself apart from others. – JZ, 11.1.77. – Ultimately, one might be almost quite alone with one’s thinking. – Can the Internet link us up again, with a sufficient number of people who think alike and have the same interests, so that, between them, they could tackle larger problems than they could, as individuals? At least world-wide enough similar individuals should exist. – So far the Internet does not yet seem to have achieved that, at least not in my eyes. But then I do not spend much time online. – Are you sufficiently interlinked with all or enough like-minded people? - JZ, 21.1.08.

THINK: The pure political thinker, if caught up in practical politics, resembles the daughter of a cleric, that somehow found herself in a foreign country. One hears many laments from them.“ – Hans Kasper – (“Der reine Denker in die Politik verschlagen gleicht der Pastorentochter in der Fremde. Da hoert man manche Klage.“) - Until panarchism or polyarchism arrived on the scene there was no morally pure and also realistic political thinking done but merely that of territorial despotism. Both the political thinker and the virgin will have to adapt to a world of very many different ideals, models and practices or life styles, all peacefully coexisting and individually chosen, or simply lock themselves in or retreat to a monastery or an ivory tower. – JZ, 21.7.08.

THINK: the real hero of tomorrow is a Thinking Man; …” Mark Clifton, When They Come from Space, p. 104. - Provided, he is also free to act. Under territorialism he might still be quite powerless to do so or might even become imprisoned or exterminated for his thoughts and ideas. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: The revelation of Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.” – Emerson, Conduct of Life: Fate. – So why haven’t all relevant thoughts – facts and ideas been as yet made easily, cheaply and permanently available to anyone with a P.C.? – Why has one still to dig for them, laboriously, like an archeologist, for some ancient relics? Why are they still mixed up with such multitudes of false or incomplete or flawed notions, prejudices, errors, myths, wrong assumptions and conclusion. Where is there only pure thought, where are only quite rightful ideas offered so far, e.g., in an ideal declaration of individual rights and liberties, in an ideal handbook of correct definitions regarding liberties and rights? Why exists there still no complete libertarian library, bibliography, abstracts and review collection, not to speak of an alphabetical index to all the texts? Why not even a complete and growing libertarian encyclopedia? Why are there still dozens of different classification schemes and, perhaps, not yet a single libertarian electronic “argument map”? We do have the technology for a complete liberation program – but haven’t used it as yet to develop it. – Why not? JZ, 21.7.08. – Moreover, why are we still not free to act uponb our ideas and opinions, at our own risk and expense? - JZ, 24.3.11. - IDEAS, FREEDOM, IDEAS ARCHIVE, SUPER-COMPUTER PROJECT, TERRITORIALISM.

THINK: the single evil is the reluctance to think.” – Henry Hazlitt - As if the suppression of freedom to act self-responsibly, in every sphere, were not also an evil, one of many others. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. – A. A. Milne, 1882-1956. – A. Andrews Quotations, p.300. – MAJORITY, MINORITY, INDIVIDUALISM, SELF-THINKING, MINDS, GENIES,

THINK: The wise, through not thinking, become foolish; and the foolish, by thinking, become wise.” – The Wisdom of Confucius, Shu King, pt. v, bk. xviii, 2. - Were the wise of the past and the wise of the present wise enough to stand up for full experimental freedom? - JZ, 24.3.11. - FOOLISHNESS, WISDOM

THINK: The world is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel.” – Source not quoted in THE CONNECTION 109, p.12, 22.1.83, by Jim Downard. – Think and feel more and enough – then this tragi-comedy can be turned into the drama of real progress. – JZ, 29.6.89, 31.7.08. - The present territorial messes are still continued largely because freedom of action and experimentation is still suppressed in some of the most important spheres by territorial governments. - Even people like Mencken preferred to laugh about the world to trying to develop a sound program for changing it into a better world, the natural and free way. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: The world is full of fools who don't think of things in time.” - Lawrence Meynel, 'The Man No One Knew', Collins, London, 1951. - FOOLISHNESS, FORESIGHT, LONG TERM THINKING VS. SHORT TERM VIEWS, LIMITED HORIZONS, SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS

THINK: There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.” – Thomas Alva Edison: Placard in all Edison works. – Quoted in Seldes: The Great Quotations. - Compare: “Some people read only so that they do not have to think!” - Once many are free to act in their own sphere, independent of any government, many will begin to think and act in their own spheres. Many of these will make many mistakes. Some will make few or even none. These will be widely imitated. Panarchism does not demand anything more but also nothing less than that. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: There is one art of which every man should be a master – the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?” – Coleridge, quoted in Leonard E. Read, Having My Way, p.46. – MAN, REFLECTION, REASON

THINK: There never was a tie when there was greater need for independent thinking than there is today.” – NZ RATIONALIST AND HUMANIST, Oct./Nov. 74. – Alas, most of the organized atheists and humanists do all too little independent thinking when it comes to the so-called social sciences. There they do mostly share the popular errors, myths, prejudices, false assumptions and conclusions. – JZ, 31.7.08. - Freedom of thought and its extensive usage can still not be very productive in all spheres, as long as people are not free to act in spheres still monopolized by territorial governments. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: They can because they think they can.” - (Possunt quia posse videntur.) – Vigil, Aeneid, v. – G. Seldes, The Great Quotations. - Isn't that one of the main errors of territorial politicians? - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: Things thought too long can be no longer thought. // For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, // And ancient lineaments are blotted out.” – William Butler Yeats, The Gyres, New Poems, 1938. – Thinking for too long a time. - Think still with the fire of first enthusiasm and before any good thought becomes weakened by a thousand weak and flawed objections. – JZ, 20.11.85. - Thoughts must also become supported by freedom to act and experiment. - JZ, 24.3.11. -

THINK: Think and let think.” – John Wesley, quoted in LIFE. – G. Seldes, The Great Quotations. - Act and let act. Think and work to obtain freedom of action for yourself and for all others, in a tolerant, voluntary and exterritorial autonomy way, under personal law. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: Think big – or don’t bother to think at all. – JZ, 23.3.75. - - If you can’t think big, at least think small. Both types are necessary. – JZ, 30.7.78. – Cars and planes developed to their present degrees of perfection mostly in relatively small steps. - Division of labor can and should also be applied to the thinking process. – Networking can be very productive. Now talents from all over the world can, hypothetically, become involved, if this is sufficiently prepared or organized. - Who said that “thinking is a collective process!”? Much thinking gets done in free discussions. Certain forms of guided and recorded discussions are more productive than others. The so far least utilized option seems to be electronic “argument mapping” as recommended online by Paul Monk at al. – JZ, 21.7.08. - Even the building of sound cars and planes required freedom to experiment. It is even more needed in the "social sciences". - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.” – Voltaire, Essay on Tolerance. – Quoted in Seldes. – Is it a privilege, a right, a freedom, or even a duty? – JZ, 31.7.08. - Should we be satisfied with only freedom to think or insist upon freedom for self-responsible actions as well, in every sphere? - JZ, 24.3.11. - Q.

THINK: THINK FOR YOURSELF, SCHMUCK! – Wilson/Shea, Illuminatus I, p.87. - And gain the freedom to act for yourself - while conceding to others the same freedom. - And I do not mean the freedom to act of a clown, comedian, actor or artist. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: Think in other categories.” – Ouspensky, just before he died, quoted in Damon Knight, The Observers, p. 45? 95? (My hand-writing!) – LATERAL THINKING, PREJUDICES, DEFINITIONS, CATEGORIES

THINK: Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.” – Henri Bergson, quoted in ANALOG, 2/93. – Also quoted in ANALOG,10/90, p.186. - For that, we and all others, do need freedom of action in every sphere - except in the sphere or wrongfully restricting rightful actions of others. - JZ, 24.3.11. - ACTION

THINK: Think more than you ever thought necessary and more often, too. – JZ, 23.8.08.  - Otherwise most of the present wrongs and evil will continue to plague us. – JZ, 19.9.08.

THINK: Think or die!” – Bob Cowin, 12.9.75. – Whether we think or don’t, we die anyhow. Only if we do not think enough will we die earlier. And if we think too much, in the opinion of a totalitarian regime, then we might be liquidated very soon. – Have enough people as yet pondered sufficiently how to avoid a general nuclear holocaust? – JZ, 21.7.08.

THINK: Think then act safely.” - Author Unknown. – As if we were already quite free to act rightly or self-responsibly in all spheres. - JZ, 24.3.11. - THINK BEFORE YOU ACT

THINK: Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be a great and noble creed.” - Horatius Bonar, D.D. – Sent by C. B. – Think about what? Which truths and thoughts did he mean? What concrete suggestions did he have to make? - Uttering generalities just heats up air and adds some sound vibrations to it but does not convey sufficient meaning and does not achieve sufficient understanding among the listeners or readers. – How does one live truly? And should not life be more than a creed? - JZ, 27.12.07. - & SPEAK THE TRUTH

THINK: Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself.” - Gotthold E. Lessing.

THINK: Think your own thoughts!” – Ursula Le Guin, The Day Before the Revolution, in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, p.132. – There are few better and cheaper pleasures! – However, beware, one important thought or idea may very well change the rest of your life. - JZ, 21.7.08.

THINK: Think! It might be a new experience for you! – JZ, 25.7.08. – RED.

THINK: Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevances.” – R. Buckminster Fuller, Utopia or Oblivion.

THINK: Thinking is a quiet talk within oneself in which one continuously examines whatever one says (*) for internal contradictions.” – Reininger. – JZ tr. of: “Denken ist ein bestaendig auf seine Widerspruchslosigkeit geprueftes stilles Sprechen.” - (*) or hears, or reads! – JZ, 25.7.08. – CONSISTENCY, CONTRADICTION, EXAMINATION, TESTING

THINK: Thinking is a vice which can hardly be solved with administrative means.” – Bruzinski – “Das Denken ist ein Laster, das man schwerlich mit administrativen Mitteln heilen kann.”

THINK: Thinking is talking to oneself.” – Kant. – JZ tr. of: “Denken ist Reden mit sich selbst.” – As reasonably as one can manage. – JZ, 25.7.08.

THINK: Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probably reason why so few engage in it.” – Henry Ford. - Not thinking in general but correct, rightful, quite reasonable thinking, is hard. If you are merely thinking about which fruit to eat, which wine or beer to drink, that is hardly hard work. – If all creative and constructive thinking were sufficiently rewarded, or at least welcomed by enough people, then there would be much more of it. – How much creative thinking goes every day to waste, is not even put down in writing, because there is no one else sufficiently interested in it, who is available and even the thinker himself does not take his thinking, in many cases, serious enough? If he had, as a rule, a much better chance with it, than by buying a lot in a lottery, then much more thinking would be done, recorded and communicated to a proper market for ideas. – To conserve one’s idea for mankind no more should be required than sending a post card or an email outlining an idea. – Then we might almost be flooded by millions of ideas. For instance: Under good suggestion box schemes most were found useful enough to be rewarded at least with a small bonus. - JZ, 21.7.08. – IDEAS ARCHIVE, SUPER-COMPUTER PROJECT

THINK: Thinking is, according to the belief of many people, merely a new ordering for their prejudices.” – James. – JZ tr. of: “Denken ist das, was viele Leute zu tun glauben, wenn sie lediglich ihre Vorurteile neu ordnen.” – , PREJUDICES, RED.

THINK: Thinking is, so to speak, the breathing of the mind. One must not omit it for all too long, if one does not want to expose oneself to the danger of a mental death.” – From: “FLIEGENDE BLAETTERN. – JZ tr. of: “Das Denken ist gewissermassen das Atemholen des Geistes. Man darf es nicht allzu lang unterlassen, wenn man nicht Gefahr laufen will, geistig zugrundezugehen.“

THINK: Thinking means comparing.” – Rathenau. – “Denken heisst Vergleichen.”

THINK: Thinking means searching for a close-by factor.” - („Denken heisst, das Naheliegende suchen.“) – Helmar Nahr – Thinking requires looking not only for obvious, nearby and short term factor but also for hidden, remote and long-term influences. – JZ, 25.7.08. –

THINK: Thinking means seeing things in opposites, polarized.” – Schlick. – (“Denken heisst in Gegensaetzen, polarisiert, sehen.”) - Even when this, too, would give a wrong impression? Does one think enough when one considers people to be either wholly good or wholly bad? – One should merely be able to see whatever is good and whatever is bad in a person. - Z., 25.7.08. -

THINK: Thinking means to bring the contents of concepts into agreement with each other.” – JZ tr. of: “Denken heisst Vortellungsinhalte untereinander verstaendigen.” – Lohberger.

THINK: Thinking means to say no.” – Alain. (JZ retr. of the German: “Denken, das heisst nein sagen.”) – Even when a reasonable, just and tolerant person would say: Yes!? – It means merely the ability to say “No!” when this is the right answer. - JZ, 25.7.08.

THINK: Thinking people are never in agreement. People who do not think are always in agreement.” – E. Haldeman Julius. – However much agreement can be achieved on e.g. political, economic and social subjects can only be achieved within communities of volunteers. – Moreover, there is also great dissent among the ignorant, foolish and prejudiced, all placing their bets on many quite different and often opposite viewpoints, all of them at least flawed or incomplete, if not quite false. – JZ, 18.7.08. - RED., AGREEMENT, CONSENSUS

THINK: Thinking, we begin to discern from the preliminary level of our investigation, is an occupation to which man must dedicate himself, although he despairs of his ability to carry it through.” – J. O. Y. Gasset, Concord and Liberty, p.61.

THINK: Thinking: Understanding through concepts.” – Kant. (“Denken: die Erkenntnis durch Begriffe.”) Compare the suggestion by Confucius, that one should first clarify one’s concepts or definitions, in order to enable one to solve one’s problems. – JZ, 21.7.08.

THINK: This futile search, when all you have to do is to look in your own mind. The seeds of your destruction are there. If this ship is lost, freedom goes with it.” – A. E. van Vogt, The Proxy Intelligence, p.115. – By now one could say: If this Earth is lost … - As if all minds were already sufficiently informed and clarified. But at least the assets one does have in one’s mind should be fully used - whenever more than trivial actions are involved. - JZ, 21.7.08. – And the assets that all other people have in their minds should be fully collected and made easily accessible. – JZ, 24.10.08. – IDEAS ARCHIVE, FREEDOM LIBRARY, LIBERTARIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA, DECLARATION OF ALL GENUINE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS & LIBERTIES.

THINK: Those who like to think regarding all their own affairs and relationships with public affairs should be free to do so, regardless of the lack of thinking by others and they should also be free to direct their actions and involvements with others quite in accordance with their own thinking only, again, quite independent of the thinking or lack of thinking of all those others, who live in the same country with them but did not voluntarily associate with them as like-minded people. Different laws, constitutions, jurisdictions, political, economic and social systems for different people. – JZ, n.d., 21.7.08. – PANARCHISM, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, ASSOCIATIONISM, VOLUNTARISM, INDEPENDENCE

THINK: Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot are fools, and those who dare not are slaves.” - George Gordon Noel Byron, 1788-1824, [Lord Byron] – SELF-THINKING

THINK: Thought is the ruler’s chief enemy.” – Napoleon I. – Is it, always? If he had been more thoughtful, he might have ruled much longer. – And if his subjects and his enemies had thought more then he would have been overthrown much earlier. - JZ, 31.7.08. – RULERS, OBEDIENCE, SUBJECTS, SERVILITY, STATISM, TERRITORIALISM

THINK: Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson. - Was he unaware how limited his freedom of action was? - Are we still largely unaware of how limited it still is for us, even in the supposedly "free" countries? - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: Thought is the seed of action.” – Emerson, Society and Solitude: Art. – We do not as yet have the freedom of action that we have e.g. in art, gardening and sports, hobbies and crafts, where we need it most, namely in the political, economic and social spheres. There, under territorialism, most healthy seeds falls mainly on barren ground and sound thoughts encounter mostly deaf ears. – JZ, 231.7.08.

THINK: Thought takes a man out of servitude into freedom.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson. - Not without a good enough enlightenment and action program on how to achieve that. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: Thoughts are mightier than the strength of hand.” – Sophocles, Fragments, No. 584. – Could he have thought himself out of an extermination camp or out of a huge tax debt imposed upon him? Should we put the thinkers in the front lines? Shall policemen only apply thought to prevent crime? How can correct thoughts defeat mighty armies or, better still and bring them over to the just side, as allies.– Have we mobilized all correct thoughts, insights, ideas and discoveries as yet and sufficiently published them? - Such general formulas contain too much wishful or hopeful thinking and not enough in form of platforms and blueprints for rightful actions. - JZ, 21.7.08. - , FREEDOM OF ACTION, FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT, PANARCHISM

THINK: Thoughts make everything fit for use.” – Emerson, The Poet. Essays: Second Series, 1844. – Every means? Even those used for criminal purposes, like break-in and safe-cracking tools, viruses, spam etc.? - When will we finally start fully mobilizing all of the best thoughts, ideas, suggestions, platforms etc., and all of the best or significant talents? – Starting out by making them fully accessible. - JZ, 10/85, 20.7.08. - Thoughts alone won't achieve freedom of action. - For that even some illegal action might be needed, even in democracies. - JZ, 24.3.11. - , PREJUDICES

THINK: To live is to think.” (Vivere est cogitare.) – Cicero, Tusculanarum Disputationum, Bk. v, ch. 38, sec.111. - Are all the non-thinkers around us already dead? What kind of thinking do most of them habitually avoid? Have we thought enough about the nuclear war threat to be able to abolish it? My book on this, making about 500 alphabetized points, is still a record non-seller: www.butterbach.net/epinfo/abc.htm - JZ, 21.7.08. - If soldiers really started to think then all of them might survive a war threat - by taking the actions required to prevent it, together with the soldiers of their supposed enemies, e.g. by concluding a separate peace among them and uniting them against the warmongers and war profiteers on both sides. Who could hinder them? Both forces are the main forces in both governments. But they do all too thoughtlessly obey rather than rise. – JZ, 21.7.08. - We certainly can't live and survive on thoughts alone. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: To talk without thinking  is to shoot without aiming.” – English proverb, 18th c. - Quoted in A. Andrews Quotations, p. 195.

THINK: To the extent that you have to think for others you can’t think for yourself. – JZ, 23.7.75. - To the extent that your are not free to think and act for yourself you are not free. Under territorialism uncounted free and rightful actions are outlawed! - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone – when you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and in despair have trusted your own unshaken will – then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret, isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that, a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of this thought – the subtle rapture of a postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army.” – Justice Oliver Wendell Holms. – If the thinkers thought enough, then they would provide, between them, e.g. and Ideas Archive of Super-Computer Project and Talent Centre, as essential markets for them, that would speed up the process of enlightenment and may help them greatly to achieve their ideals in their own life-time. – JZ, 31.7.08. - If they thought enough, then they would also realize freedom of action and experimentation for all people, who are able and willing to act self-responsibly with their ideas and opinions. - I can hardly blame others for sometimes forgetting about freedom of action when I manage to do it myself, as I did in the above first statement. - JZ, 24.3.11. - IDEAS, POWER OF IDEAS, FREEDOM OF ACTION.

THINK: To think is to live.” – Vivere est cogitare. – Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tuculanae disputations. – In G. Seldes, The Great Quotations. - How often has freedom of thought led to the death of the thinker when he had neither freedom of expression nor freedom to act? - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: Two percent of the people think, three percent of the people think they think, and ninety –five percent of the people would rather die than think. – George Bernard Shaw, quoted by Nizam Ahmad sharing Capitalism's photo. - John Zube We should not ignore that in those spheres, where people are still free to act rightfully and to their advantage, they are often rather thoughtful. – Facebook, 26.1.13.

THINK: Two percent of the people think, three percent of the people think they think, and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think. - George Bernard Shaw, quoted byJudy Morris shared Knowledge is Power's photo. – Facebook, 14.6.12.

THINK: Under the territorial voting system it is wrongly assumed that every voter is sufficiently able and willing to sufficiently ponder his choice. But the slogans, used to induce him to vote for one party or the other, do already indicate that the appeal is mostly to the most ignorant, foolish and prejudiced voters. If his vote directly determined his tax burden then he would be more careful with his vote and with his political association with others. – Just as he is with most purchases made with his own money. - JZ, 21.5.08. – If he were a member of a community of volunteers then his vote, if still asked for, would also tend to be very different. - JZ, 24.3.11. - VOTING, DEMOCRACY, PARTIES, ELECTIONS. TERRITORIALISM, ENLIGHTENMENT, VOLUNTARY TAXATION

THINK: Walk in the light of your own thoughts.” – From a radio play, episode 7, “Walk a Barefoot Road”, 4.9.89. - I did not catch the name of the author. – JZ – Strive to become free to act in the light of your own thoughts. - JZ, 24.3.11. - RED.

THINK: We are individual humans who think, and in our thinking capacity lies our salvation. It is only when we stop thinking for ourselves that we truly lose our freedom.” – Thomas Frederick O’Connell, THE FREEMAN, 11/73. - If we are only free to think but not free to act within our genuine individual rights and liberties, then even our best thoughts and ideas will not always help us sufficiently. Which are the best thoughts and ideas to achieve this freedom of action and experimentation? - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINK: We cannot cope until we think (*) differently.” – Julius Stulman, mid-70’s, quoted in M. Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, p.358. – Compare “lateral thinking”. - (*) and act - JZ, 24.3.11. - ANARCHISM, LIBERTARIANISM, ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONS, PANARCHISM

THINK: We haven’t the money. So we’ve got to think!” – Ernest Rutherford, in the BULLETIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS, 1962, quoted in OMNI, 3/80. – As if riches were a good substitute for thinking. But at least a rich person can hire himself one or several thinkers or researchers. - Money, that is good enough and problem-solving rather than problem causing, as well as wealth, that is safe enough, even from governments, do also require much thinking and thoughtful and free actions. – Both, money and wealth, are presently at the mercy of ignorant and prejudiced territorial governments. - JZ, 21.7.08. – With all their money, forcefully taken, territorial governments still act all too wrongly, stupidly and self-defeatingly. – Merely throwing money and manpower at problems does not solve them. Or you get “solutions” like that of the Manhattan Project: Mass murder devices! - JZ, 24.10.08.

THINK: We ought to begin with our own independent thinking precisely there where most people do not dare to go, even in their thought games.” - (Da mit dem eignen Denken ansetzen wo die meisten mit ihrem Denken aussetzen oder gar nicht erst anfangen.) – JZ, 5.10.03. - The rightful and effective solutions can be found only far from what is already generally known and thought about. – JZ, 23.10.07.

THINK: We will have to think harder than ever before …” – Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars, p.3.

THINK: What is the hardest task in the world? To think.” - Emerson, Journals, 1836. – To think up new utopias is relatively easy. To think up correct and practicable ones is harder. And then, under territorialism, the hardest job is to try to realize even the best of them. So first of all we have to ponder how to achieve the freedom to experiment, together with other volunteers, quite tolerantly, i.e., exterritorially, under personal laws, even in those spheres which territorial States have so far, quite intolerantly, monopolized. – JZ, 20.7.07. – PANARCHISM, FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT, FREEDOM OF ACTION.

THINK: When you do something without thinking you are not making the choice, the choice is making you.” – From film: “The Ghostrider.” – CHOICE, ACTING, CONSCIOUSNESS, RATIONALITY, REASON, REACTING, INDIVIDUALISM

THINK: Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor, imbecility.” – William Godwin, quoted in Sprading, Liberty and the Great Libertarians, p. 96. - TERRITORIALISM

THINK: Who all too much rethinks will do very little.” – Schiller, Wilhelm Tell – (“Wer gar zu viel bedenkt wird wenig leisten.”)

THINK: Who classifies much dispenses little.” – Friedrich Georg Juenger – (“Wer viel einteilt, teilt wenig aus.“) - This German remark applies to rationing as well as communication of thoughts or ideas. – But to classify and distinguish correctly is part of all genuine thinking. - JZ, 31.7.08. - CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES

THINK: Why do you confine your thought in a tiny fixed landscape?” - Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom, The Jesus Incident, p.145. - THOUGHT, TERRITORIALISM, NATIONALISM, POLITICS

THINK: Wrote Thomas Alva Edison: “Five per cent of the people think.” Were the percentage that large there would be no need to fret about the rest of this statement: “Ten per cent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five per cent would rather die than think.” I might add that potential intellectual alacrity – good thoughts – is deadened by the prevailing lethargy.” – Leonard E. Read, NOTES FROM FEE, 5/77. - - If we were really interested in good thoughts and ideas then we would long ago have collected, displayer and published all of them together, permanently and cheaply. – The Internet still mixes them up with a lot of rubbish and trivia, lies, errors and prejudices. - JZ, 31.7.08. – LIBERTARIAN LIBRARY & ENCYCLOPEDIA, ABSTRACTS & REVIEWS COLLECTION, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BEST REFUTATIONS, IDEAS ARCHIVE, SUPER-COMPUTER PROJECT.

THINK: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.” - Neils Bohr – LOGIC, RED.

THINK: You can’t see a thought, you can’t measure, weigh, nor taste it – but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.” – Robert Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy, p.139. - Are they more real than actions based on sound ideas? - JZ, 24.3.11. - IDEAS & ACTIONS

THINK: You conquer fate by thought.” – Thoreau. – At least, under full freedom, you are free to try to do so. – JZ, 20.7.08. – FATE, ACTIONS, FREEDOM

THINK: You damned sadist, you’re trying to force your readers to think!” – E. E. Cummings to Ezra Pound, quoted by Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminati Papers, p.44. - RED.

THINK: You live with your thoughts - so be careful what they are.” - Eva Arrington. – RED.

THINK: Your subconscious mind acts upon repeated thoughts – make sure you have positive ones.” – From 1977 Collins Desk Calendar. - As if conscious action upon rightful ideas were not also possible under freedom to do so. - JZ, 24.3.11.

THINKERS: Why do so many thinkers not appreciate each other? – Among other things, like pride and conceit, envy, jealousy, it has to do with the proportion of untruths to truths. The untruths are so much more numerous than even the best thinkers retain some of them and can thus accuse each other quite rightfully of these. Moreover, to the extent that they hold with some of the untruths themselves, they do not appreciate the contrary truths held by other thinkers. – How many popular untruths are there for every truth? Dozens or even thousands? – JZ, 26.4.95, 18.7.08. - Every mind holds a mixture of them. In most minds the errors and prejudices predominate - at least when it comes to the "social sciences" which as yet are not genuine social sciences. - JZ, 25.3.11. – IDEAS, PREJUDICES, ERRORS, MYTHS, FALLACIES, FALSE CONCLUSIONS & ASSUMPTIONS, DOGMAS, INTELLECTUALS, , Q.

THINKING: A book is a friend that will do what no friend does – be silent when we wish to think.” – Will Durant. - FRIENDS, BOOKS & BEING ALONE

THINKING: a little thinking can save a lot of blood, sweat, toil and tears. ‘Look before you leap’.” Ben Bova in “Brothers”, p.367. – How much thinking do our lawmakers invest in their ten-thousands of laws? – 18.9.07. - & LAWS, Q.

THINKING: Ale, man, ale’s the thing to drink / For fellows whom it hurts to think.” - Hayford Peirce, Unlimited Warfare, in Ben Bova, The Best of Analog, Ace Books, 1972-1979, 210. – Alas, there are many more alcoholic drinks - as switch-off potions for the mind. – JZ, 19.9.07. - & BEER, ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION, DRINKING

THINKING: led me to believe that you understand the nature of thinking. That it is a process of winnowing useful concepts from a seething mass of inference and ambiguity…” - Stephen L. Burns, Night Voices, ANALOG SF, Sep. 00, 53. - IDEAS, JUDGMENT, DISCRIMINATION

THINKING: Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” - Charles Mackay - HERD-THINKING, MOBS, MASSES, INDIVIDUALISM

THINKING: Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind. – John Dryden (1631-1700), The Hind and the Panther, 1687. Freedom to think, by its very nature, can hardly be restricted, anyhow. Only under the infliction of e.g. hunger, noise or other tortures, e.g. drugs, does it become difficult. Only the free expression of one’s ideas and thoughts can be all to much restricted. Dryden did not make the necessary distinctions. – JZ, 24.4.13.

THINKING: The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.” – C. Morley, quoted in: Dr. Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Prescription, p.6. – Alas, many people read largely only so that they do not have to think and are merely entertained or relaxed. – JZ, 15.4.09. READING VS. STUDYING & SELF-THINKING, BOOKS

THINKING: The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.” - Justice Anthony Kennedy, majority opinion Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, April 16, 2002. - Freedom of speech is merely the beginning, not the end of thought! Think again! Never get too tired of thinking when the subject is very important. - JZ, 26.3.04. – Kleist wrote an interesting essay on the gradual manufacture of thought while one is speaking. – The same is true for writing. Goethe is supposed to have remarked: If you do not understand something, write something about it! Doubts and questions are the first steps towards productive thinking. The brain, like a motor, has to be started to work. – Freedom of action, tolerant actions and experiments, among volunteers, if often even more important to clarify issues. – With mere verbal battles one can achieve only so much. Perhaps most with electronic “argument mapping” as proposed by Paul Monk at al. But I have still to see the first libertarian electronic argument map. - JZ, 4.1.08. – Actually, one must have a thought, flawed or correct, before one can express it in speech or writing. – Freedom of expression and information, as well as freedom of action or experimentation are merely the precondition for advancing thoughts and ideas, discoveries and innovations further. - JZ, 1.4.09, 25.3.11. - FREEDOM OF SPEECH, PRESS, EXPRESSION & INFORMATION

THINKING: when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.” - Thomas Paine. – They officially quit thinking on certain subjects when they transferred decision-making power e.g. on foreign affairs, money issues – and on too much else as well - to certain officials, chosen or appointed only collectively and territorially, instead of individually for individuals and voluntary communities. – JZ, 11.1.08. - & LIBERTY, PANARCHISM, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, VOLUNTARISM, DELEGATION OF POWERS OVER THE OWN AFFAIRS, VOTING, DECISION-MAKING MONOPOLY, TERRITORIALISM, COLLECTIVISM

THIRD WAY, THE & PANARCHISM OR FREE CHOICE AMONG GOVERNMENTS & SOCIETIES: According to Giddens (*) the Third Way sought ‘to go beyond those on the right who say “government is the enemy”, and those on the left who say “government is the answer”.’ - FRANCIS WHEEN, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, A Short History of Modern Delusions, Harper Perennial, London, 2004, p.225. – (*) Professor Anthony Giddens, “The Third Way”. – To each his own choice! – That is the third way which neither the territorialists of the left or right nor the “middle of the roaders” or compromisers have so far seriously considered, since they believe that only territorial options are rightful, rational and practicable. – JZ, 19.2.12.

THOUGHT: A really original thought is still as rare as a piece of gold in the gutter.” - Christian Morgenstern, Stufen, 1918, P.122. - ORIGINAL, IDEAS

THOUGHT: Besides, why should we be cowed by the name of action? 'Tis a trick of the senses, - no more. We know that the ancestor of every action is a thought…. To think is to act.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Essays: First Series (1841), "Spiritual Laws". - Alas, too much action is rather thoughtless, by people who have no sound idea on it! - JZ, 27.11.02. – And sometimes much thinking is too much separated from freedom to act or even the will to act when one is free to do so. – JZ, 1.4.09. - & ACTION, IDEAS

THOUGHT: But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” - George Orwell. – We have so far listed most of the chemical and biological poisons and found anti-dotes for most of them. We still have to do the same for certain words, notions, myths, errors, prejudices, false assumptions etc., in an electronic encyclopedia readily and cheaply accessible to all, almost everywhere, with portable computers of mobile phones. – JZ, 23.1.08. - LANGUAGE, WORDS, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BEST REFUTATIONS OF POPULAR ERRORS, MYTHS & PREJUDICES, FLAWED TERMS OR DEFINITIONS

THOUGHT: Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.” - Bishop Steere. - IDEAS, INDIVIDUALISM, INDIVIDUALITY, PERSONALITIES AS OPPOSED TO MERE PERSONS

THOUGHT: Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.” - René Descartes, (1596-1650), A Discourse on Method, (1637), Part III. – If we really had our brain in our absolute power then we could achieve much more with it. Alas, we are largely depending on its biological hardware and software, often as unreliable as the hardware and software of our computers. – We can try to train it but cannot force it to be creative, logical, discriminating and consistent enough and to throw out all of the rubbish that gets thrown into it. – Our stomach is in some respects more discriminating and throws up unsuitable food, as already G. C. Lichtenberg remarked. - JZ, 14.4.09. -  POWER.

THOUGHT: Good thoughts are the mainspring of human progress. They bring the unseen p the unimaginable – into the realities that bless our lives. – From a FEE reply envelope. - IDEAS, PROGRESS, IDEAS ARCHIVE, SUPER-COMPUTER PROJECT, SLOGANS FOR LIBERTY

THOUGHT: If there is any principle of the constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought – not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), U.S. Supreme Court Justice, United States v. Schwimmer, 1929. - This freedom, if taken literally, is insufficient, without freedom of expression, communication, information, association, disassociation and assembly & disassembly. Moreover, full freedom of action and experimentation are also required, to test hypotheses, principles, assumptions and theories sufficiently, to either prove or disprove them. - JZ, 23.11.06, 14.4.09. - FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, ESPECIALLY FOR DISSENTERS, ALSO FREEDOM OF ACTION & EXPERIMENTATION FOR DISSENTER

THOUGHT: Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it - but thoughts are the most real things in the galaxy.” - Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy, 3/4, in ASTOUNDING SF, Br. Ed., 3/58, p.82. – Also the most destructive things, when they are flawed, as far as the possibilities of human actions upon false thoughts go. – JZ, 14.4.09. - & REALITY, IDEAS, ERRORS, PREJUDICES, FALSE CONCLUSIONS, JUDGMENTS, OPINIONS

THOUGHT: There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.” – Fredericks, Maxims of Napoleon. – Compare the remark already Sophocles made: “Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.” – quoted in FRAGMENTS, No. 584. - MIND, IDEAS VS. FORCE, VIOLENCE, SWORD, WAR, POLITICAL POWER

THOUGHT: This persistence of thought-inertia is the leading idea of modern history. Except as reflected in himself, man has no reason for assuming unity in the universe, or an ultimate substance, or a prime-motor. The a priori insistence on this unity ended by fatiguing the more active- or reactive- minds; and Lord Bacon tried to stop it. He urged society to lay aside the idea of evolving the universe from a thought, and to try evolving thought from the universe. The mind should observe and register forces - take them apart and put them together- without assuming unity at all. "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." "The imagination must be given not wings but weights." As Galileo reversed the action of earth and sun (*), Bacon reversed the relation of thought to force. The mind was thenceforth to follow the movement of matter, and unity must be left to shift for itself.” - Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907. – (*) Our view of the action … - JZ ) INERTIA, BACON, GOD, MIND, SCIENCE, PROGRESS

THOUGHT: thought did not evolve nature, but nature evolved thought.” - Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907. - & NATURE, GOD & MAN

THOUGHT: Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible. Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions and comfortable habits. Thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of well-tried wisdom of the ages.” – Bertrand Russell, quoted in Harper, Russell and the Anarchists, p. 75.

THOUGHT: Three hostile newspapers are more to be feared than 1000 bayonets.” – Napoleon I. – Most governments have learnt how to put up with them and to counter them by their own statist propaganda, in combination with popular errors, myths and prejudices, which are still not systematically refuted in suitable reference works. – JZ, 15.4.09. - MIND, IDEAS VS. FORCE, VIOLENCE, SWORD, WAR, POLITICAL POWER, PRESS, MASS MEDIA, NEWSPAPERS

THOUGHT: Too much is merely believed. Too little is really thought through.” - JZ tr. of: “Geglaubt zu viel, nachgedacht zu wenig.“ - Christian Butterbach, in email copy I received on 25.7.08. – JZ

THOUGHTS, IDEAS & GODS: Thoughts become things; choose the good ones, by trying God’s patience. – An entry on Facebook, 24.1.12.  – Has any God so far had and properly communicated any good ideas to us? I do not know of any. Do you? If there were a God, and a good one at that, one would hardly try his patience by doing this. One would then only try the patience of a bad God. – Like most religious ideas they are either irrational, muddled, all too general as a guide or flawed. – JZ, 24.1.12, 15.2.12. – GOD, RELIGION, CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM, IDEAS ARCHIVE

THREATS: I don’t want to be misunderstood ever suggesting, or approving, anyone saying to anyone else, ‘You do so-and-so or I will do such-and-such to you.’ That is a threat, an attempt to invade another’s area of responsibility, to infringe human rights, to dictate another’s decision and acts.” – John Hospers, Rose Wilder Lane, LIBERTARIAN REVIEW, 4/79. - GOVERNMENT, LAWS, TERRITORIALISM

THREATS: It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him. – Edwin Feulner, president of The Heritage Foundation – FEAR, TERRORISM, HIGH PENALTIES, PERSUASION, FORCE, INTIMIDATION, STATISM, GOVERNMENTALISM, TERRITORIALISM, WRONGFUL LAWS

THREATS: The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H. L. Mencken - - Most of them even government-made! - Territorial governments need them in order to stay in power. - JZ, 22. 11. 06. - DANGERS, ENEMIES, EMERGENCIES, CRISES, FEAR, PANIC, PERCEIVED OR IMAGINED THREATS, TERRITORIALISM, GOVERNMENTS

THREATS: You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences.” – Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah, p.195. – Not in the long run, but in the medium and short term, while all too many rights and liberties are not yet known or appreciated and used, it is precisely threats and wrongful actions against individual dissenters and masses of people that make totalitarianism and terrorism all too effective for all too long. – JZ, 31.7.08. – POWER, TERRITORIALISM, TERRORISM

THRIFT: Capitalism derives its name from the fact that capital is essential to the success of any venture, whether it involves an individual, a corporation, or a nation-state. Capital is formed by thrift. The person who accumulates capital is personally rewarded and, at the same time, a public benefactor.” – Percy E. Greaves, THE FREEMAN, 3/77. – Cooperative savings or credit unions can also save capital and productive cooperatives could gradually build up a capital of their own, by going into debt, issuing bonds, to purchase the enterprise their members work in, and repaying them with part of the returns from the additional productivity they could thus achieve. – JZ, 2.8.08. SAVINGS, CAPITAL, PURCHASE OF ENTERPRISES, COOPERATIVES, EXTENDING CAPITALIST INCENTIVES TO EVERY PRESENT MERE EMPLOYEE

THRIFT: Thrift in inflationary times, that ends up with large “savings” in form of largely depreciated paper money, is not rational thrift but a form of self-destruction. The most thrifty way to utilized fast depreciating currencies is to spend them as soon as possible, turning them in commodities of some lasting value. – Those who often speak about thrift and savings do rarely talk about a sound precondition for sound savings and investments, like stable and competing currencies, using sound and self-selected value standards, gold clauses etc. and also freedom from taxes, regulations and other interventions, like price controls, monopolies. - JZ, 15.2.86, 25.7.08. –

TIES, BONDS, FETTERS, COMPULSORY UNITY OR UNIFICATION: Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings." - Jalaludin Rumi

TIGER ECONOMIES, JAPAN & SINGAPORE, COMPETITION: The ‘tigers’ had different governments and very different histories, but they all had one important thing in common; they relied on exports and they wanted to compete with the best companies and countries in the world. That meant that their businesses had to be internationally competitive. And we can see the results. Japan transformed itself from a cruel imperial power to a democratic trading nation that became a model for others. Singapore faced a communist insurrection, was kicked out of the Malaysian federation and later abandoned by Britain, yet it built a wealthy society that is known throughout the world as the Switzerland of Asia. – How much more could they have achieved under full economic, political and social freedom, via exterritorially autonomous communities of volunteers? Still all too much territorial statism was involved in or, rather, obstructed their free development. - JZ, 8.4.12. – POSITIVE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Q.

TIGER ECONOMIES, NEW ONES: In more recent years, the success of Japan and the four ‘tigers’ has been emulated by a new group of Asian nations; Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand. In the 1990s the World Bank described the success of these nations in a study called ‘The East Asian Miracle’. Here is how the World Bank described their economic take-off. Between 1960 and 1985 real income per capita increased more than four times in Japan and the four ‘tigers’, and more than doubled in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. - Rupert Murdoch, in a speech, undated, beginnings, taken from a transcript, pages 2&3. – POSITIVE SIGNS OF THE TIMES

TIGHTNESS OF THE ECONOMY: The economy is tight, indeed, it’s hanging in a noose put around its neck by the government. – JZ, 19.8.75.

TIME: And the fight against time is the only activity worthy of the man who feels and knows that there is something eternal in him.” – Louis Pauwels & Jaques Bergier, Eternal Man, p.136. – DEATH, LONGEVITY, LIFE EXTENSION

TIME: By losing present time we lose all time.” - 1977 Collins Desk Calendar.

TIME: Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time: for that is the stuff life is made of.” – Benjamin Franklin. – LIFE, WASTING TIME, AMUSEMENTS, DISTRACTIONS

TIME: It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.” – Bernard DeFoutenelle. - Without all the other preconditions it might be easy and fast to save the world and its peoples from all its present dangers. We do now have the technical facilities to mobilize our best ideas and talents very fast and comprehensively for all kinds or rightful projects, for which interested people would gladly volunteers, even if this means a reduction in income for a while. - Really meaningful, useful and promising work is wanted too, not only a large paycheck. - JZ, 22. 11. 06. – Nor do we have to confine our remaining leisure time to tourism, sports, movies, music and other forms of relaxation, distraction or entertainment. – Labors of love do not have to be confined to relatively trivial crafts or hobbies, either. – At least not while there are still major problems to be solved – many to most of them in free collaboration with others. - JZ, 14.4.09. - IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY, FOOLISHNESS, CARELESSNESS, PREJUDICES, LEISURE, ENTERTAINMENT, TOURISM, SPORTSM, WASTING TIME & ENERGY

TIME: Make the most of today – you will never have it again.” - 1977 Collins Desk Calendar. – TODAY, ACT NOW, NO DELAYS! NO EXCUSES!

TIME: Men of business are accustomed to quote the maxim that ‘time is money’; but it is more; the proper improvement of it is self-culture, self-improvement, and the growth of character.” – Samuiel Smiles, Self-help, p.322.

TIME: My time sense is vanishing. It takes an effort to remember the correct date. When typing I am just as likely to type any other date than the present one. It takes an extra effort to remember or find out the current date and then it does not stay long in my memory, either. Most likely this just indicates that my inbuilt time clock, time sense and memory is old, flawed and running down, rather than an indication that time is not a flowing reality, with fixed and fleeting definite moments, a mere category of our thinking, to which we are not inevitably tied. If we could really and willfully bridge time and space … - JZ, 5.7.07, 19.10.07. - & DATES

TIME: Nobody really needs LSD to see the cosmic importance of every minute.” – Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminati Papers, p.57. – For every minute could be used creatively or to resist destruction. – JZ, 17.11.82.

TIME: Nothing is more precious than time, and yet nothing less valued.” - 1977 Collins Desk Calendar.

TIME: Ordinary people think merely how they will spend their time; a man of intellect tries to use it.” – Schopenhauer, Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life.

TIME: Over 300 years ago, English clergyman Thomas Fuller wrote a line that has as much sting today: “Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.” – Sydney Harris, READER’S DIGEST, 9/79, p. 165. – Times and conditions can make it either easy for creative, inventive and innovative people and freedom and justice lovers or they can make it very hard. Usually, the latter has happened. But, even in the best times the best people can also waste much time instead of using it thoughtfully and productively. – Oh, how much time have I wasted in my life or was forced to waste! - JZ, 14.7.08. – EXCUSES, MATURITY, WISDOM

TIME: People who achieve things in life discipline their time.” - - 1977 Collins Desk Calendar. – They cannot discipline their time but they can discipline their use of their time. JZ, 14.7.08. – SELF-MANAGEMENT, SUCCESS

TIME: The concept of time is merely a verbal concept of time and thereby, probably, largely a false and misleading idea of it. – JZ, 10.6.07,19.9.08.

TIME: The eternity of time does not lie in time itself, since time is only a concept of or form of thinking. It is the notion of the eternity of the life energy, like that of other natural forces, operating independently of time and space. When and where life forces appear may likewise not be bound to time and space. – Freely expressed after Kant and Ulrich von Beckerath, in a letter by the latter to Mr. Bailony, 25.9.50. – ETERNITY, SPACE, LIFE FORCE

TIME: The idea of time passing is an illusion, albeit a tenacious one.” - Albert Einstein – The idea of just passing or wasting the time, with some amusements, is even worse. – JZ, 7.8.08.

TIME: The removal of a tyrant and the proclamation of individual freedoms does not change the horse and buggy to a new Chevrolet overnight. It takes time in a climate of freedom for individuals to develop their creative talents, with the resultant material and peripheral benefits.” – John C. Sparks, THE FREEMAN, 2/78. – True, but have we, seriously enough examined all options for speeding up this development process? I would strongly deny that. – JZ, 14.7.08. – IDEAS ARCHIVE, REFUTATIONS ENCYCLOPEDIA, LIBERTARIAN LIBRARY, ENCYCLOPEDIA, BIBLIOGRAPHY, ABSTRACTS, INDEXES, REVIEWS ETC., TYRANNICIDE

TIME: The time of your life is the one commodity you can sell but never buy back.” – Bob Black, quoted in THE CONNECTION 139, p.56. – Is T.C. fully online by now? – JZ, 2.8.08. - LIFE, WORK

TIME: The times encourage the man of the times to change the times.” – Lee Correy, Manna, ANALOG 7/83. – Instead of waiting for “the” leader, prophet or guru, we should, as Leonard E. Read said, “release all creative energies!” – The Ideas Archive or Super-computer project and a Talent Registry or Market would be important steps in that direction. – JZ, 1.8.08. - LEADERSHIP, CREATIVE ENERGIES

TIME: There is time enough!” – “Lost time is never found again.” – Leonard E. Read, in the contents listing to “The Path of Duty.” – , WASTING TIME

TIME: Time and its limited life span for us remains our greatest enemy, whether we are aware of this or not. And yet we do not even know what time is, except that it ends our usually all too short life by death and provides different observations on the same objects. If we could also master space, time and gravity … JZ, 27.6.07, 25.10.07. - LIFE SPAN, DEATH, AGING & ENEMIES

TIME: Time cuts down all, Both great and small.” – Anonymous. - - Some too soon. Others not soon enough. - JZ, 25. 11. 06.

TIME: Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals.” – H. L. Mencken. - The long persistence of murder, robbery, rape, slavery, taxation and of territorial governments and their wars and oppressions does not make them right. - JZ, 27.11.02. - CUSTOM, HABIT, LEGALIZATION, MORALITY,

TIME: Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” - Hector Berlioz - HISTORY

TIME: Time is our only irreplaceable natural resource. – JZ, 14.6.80. – NATURAL RESOURCES

TIME: Time is running out.” – From a statist advertisement on energy policy, at the time of President Carter. – How much time have we got left to try to prevent the general nuclear holocaust? – JZ, 25.10.08.

TIME: Time is the bridge that always burns behind us”. – Paul Anderson, The Burning Bridge, ASTOUNDING SF, April 1960.

TIME: Time is the possibility of different observations on the same object.” – Schopenhauer? – (“Zeit ist die Moeglichkeit entgegengesetzter Bestimmungen an demselben Objekt.”)

TIME: Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.” – Ray Cummings, The Time Professor, 1920, 1st. page. - Maybe, for the same people, although including the news, too much can happen at the same time for most people to cope with it or even to think about it sufficiently. Thus most people of necessity ignore most of what is happening in the world most of the time. - But at least for different people and at different places almost everything happens at the same time in an all-over view, as good statistics reveal. Not only birth and deaths, marriages and divorces. – JZ, 14.7.08.

TIME: Waste no time, budget it, use it, you’ve got all there is.” – 1977 Collins Desk Calendar.

TIME: Waste of time is the first and in principle the deadliest of sins.” – Max Weber, Protestant Ethic and Capitalism.

TIME: We are free only as long as we can say ‘My time is my own’.” – G. B. Shaw, in A. Andrews Quotations, p. 179. - FREEDOM, LEISURE, INDEPENDENCE

TIME: We must not waste time for that’s the stuff life’s made of.” – David Belasco, 1853-1931, Israel Zangwill, 1864-1926, Lore and Maurice Cowan, compilers, The Wit of the Jews, Leslie Frewin, London, 1970, p.78. – It should not be wasted, either, merely on going on living and existing and having some fun. – JZ – LIFE, AIMS, PURPOSES, REASONABLE & MORAL ACTIONS

TIME: We must use time as a tool not as a couch.” – J. F. Kennedy, in A. Andrews Quotations, p.183. - PRODUCTIVITY, DELAYS

TIME: Yet, with time available, all could be mastered. There is no concept ever expressed by any human mind that cannot be comprehended by any other normal human mind if time is available and it is taken in the proper order and context and with the proper preparatory work. – R. A. Laffertyin SF story “The Six Fingers of Time”. - PATIENCE, LEARNING, MASTERING ANYTHING

TIME: You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.” - W. E. Gladstone, 1809-1898, Andrews Quotes, p.386. – As if certain present trends were inevitable and could not be changed. The Nazis and the Soviets, too, believed that time would be on their side. Only with the best principles, ideas and actions can and will time be on our side. Have we assembled, published, examined and discussed them as yet, sufficiently? – JZ, 23.10.08. - FUTURE, TRENDS, DEVELOPMENTS, PROGRESS, IDEAS ARCHIVE, FREEDOM LIBRARY ON A DISC

TIME: You will never have any more time than you have today.” - 1977 Collins Desk Calendar.

TIMING IS ALL: Intelligence sees how to. Wisdom sees when to.” – Gwen Ross, ANALOG 9/97, P. 145.

TIMING: All times were, in his estimation, the proper times for pursuing what was right to be done, and no time so particularly proper as the present instant.” – Hoare, II-323, on Granville Sharp, according to an article on gradualism in DANDELION, Fall 79. – GRADUALISM, DOING WHAT IS RIGHT - RIGHT NOW

TIMING: The appreciation of correct timing is one half of success.” – Murville. – (“Das Wissen um den richtigen Zeitpunkt ist der halbe Erfolg.”) – I tried, in vain, to push libertarian microfilm options while PCs and the Internet became popular. – JZ, 31.7.08. – SUCCESS

TIT FOR TAT: - There is nothing but tit for tat in this world, though sometimes it be a little difficult to trace for the scores are older than we ourselves, and there has never as yet been a settling-day since things were. You get entertainment pretty much in proportion as you give.” – Robert Louis Stevenson. - EXCHANGE RATHER THAN CHARITY, EMPLOYMENT RATHER THAN HANDOUTS, SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. Compare: TANSTAAFL & Bastiat’s: “Society Is Exchange!” Also: Actions as well as non-actions do have consequences, sooner or later.

TITANIC: Thanks to our beloved territorial governments we had the equivalent of over 100 000 disasters like that of the Titanic in this century. And when one considers the destruction of property as well, then these governments are at least a million-fold as destructive as are e.g. natural causes like icebergs in shipping lanes. – JZ, 3.6.96. – GOVERNMENT CAUSED CATASTROPHES VS. NATURAL ONES, TERRITORIALISM

TITANIC: Why this continuing concern with an old shipping accident like that of the Titanic, which was certainly not an intended one, when during WW I and WW II thousands of ships were intentionally and systematically sunk, with the help of modern technology? – It seems that, just liked during election campaigns, the really important questions are never brought up. - JZ, 14.8.98, 16.7.08. - Q., VOTING, ELECTIONS, MAN-MADE CATASTROPHES, CRISES, WARS, TERRITORIALISM, GOVERNMENTS

TITLES: Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.” – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists, Man and Superman, 1903.

TOBACCO VS. CANNABIS:  Tobacco” No medical applications… Only one real use: 5,000,000 global deaths annually. Cannabis: Many medical applications. 100’s of various uses. 0 global deaths annually. - Sørengaard Srugis likes a photo. - Rationalist – Facebook, 209.10.12.

TOBACCO: An estimated 18 000 Australians die prematurely as a result of smoking.” – ABC News, 8.1.98. – The government, with its taxes on tobacco products is the main beneficiary of this drug addiction. Together with alcoholic drinks it kills, directly and indirectly, many more people than those drugs do, which the government has outlawed. – JZ, 16.7.08. – SMOKING, ALCOHOL, DRUGS

TOBACCO: Annual global deaths: Alcohol: 1.8 million, Cigarettes: 4.9 million, Pharmaceuticals: 3.5 million, Cannabis: 0 =Zero! - Bretigne Shaffer shared THC Finder's photo. - Wall Photos - Global Deaths - by: THC Finder – Facebook, 14.3.12.

TOBACCO: Cigarettes dull the faculties, stunt and retard the physical development, unsettle the mind, and rob the persistent user of will power and the ability to concentrate.” – Dick Merriwell – SMOKING, CIGARETTES, CIGARS

TOBACCO: The issue isn't should people smoke, the issue is should government regulate. It is an issue that calls for personal and corporate responsibility, not government regulation." - Jeremy Harris, Mayor, City and County of Honolulu, - hnlmayor@pixi.com  - hnlmayor@hula.net , SMOKING, PROHIBITION, REGULATIONS

TOBACCO: Tobacco, n. A plant whose leaves are most pleasure giving, not when smoked or snuffed, (*) but when eschewed.” – L. A. Rollins, Lucifer’s Lexicon. – (*) At least some think it gives them more pleasure if it is chewed. – JZ - SMOKING, NON-SMOKING

TOGETHERNESS: Compulsory togetherness is the problem, not the solution. The solution lies in voluntary togetherness and involuntary separatism – by all those, who do prefer them. – JZ, 1.1.92. – PANARCHISM, VOLUNTARISM, BROTHERHOOD

TOGETHERNESS: Let there be spaces in your togetherness.” – Kahli Gibran. – INDIVIDUALISM, ALONE

TOGETHERNESS: Personally, I can’t feel the slightest sense of togetherness with dopes. Nor do I feel that I have an inalienable right to inflict my presence on geniuses.” – John W. Campbell Jr., 8/58. – MERE PASSING & WASTING TIME, SOCIALIZING

TOGETHERNESS: Togetherness is a time-consuming thing. It consumes productive time …” - John Andrews, NATIONAL TIMES, 24.12.75.

TOGETHERNESS: Togetherness often and quite unnecessarily antagonizes – unless it is quite intentional and voluntary and has a sensible purpose. – JZ, 30.6.80, 14.7.08.

TOGETHERNESS: Too much ‘togetherness’ spells the death of the individual.” – Robert J. Robanowice, THE FREEMAN, 11/74.

TOKENISM: Tokenism” has even entered our language as a word to signify not so much minimal compliance with regulations as making an appearance of complying by doing one or a few times what is generally required.” – Clarence B. Carson, THE FREEMAN, Jan. 77, p.13. - It is at least a form of resistance against the wrongful interventionism of anti-discrimination laws, with the own affairs, choices, methods and practices. – JZ, 1.8.08, 25.3.11.

TOLERANCE: A basic aim of the socializing process should be to create the widest possible tolerance of diversity among the society's components.” - Frank Herbert, Hellstrom's Hive, p.172. - Why assume that there can only be ONE territorial society and that within it only a limited diversity must be tolerated? Why not rather have an over-all society, in which numerous and very diverse and exterritorially quite autonomous sub-societies have, internally, for their own members, whatever kinds of arrangements, institutions and personal laws they do desire for themselves? Society is a much too loose term and frequently all too carelessly used, as is instanced when not even a distinction is made between “State” and "society". - JZ, 6.10.01. - DIVERSITY, SOCIALIZING, PANARCHISM, STATE, SOCIETY, DIVERSITY

TOLERANCE: A direct alternative would be to quit the club and find a better one.” - Harry Browne: How I Found Freedom, p.75. & DISCRIMINATION, ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONS, EVE EXTERRITORIALLY AUTONOMOUS ONES, FOR VOLUNTEERS ONLY: PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: a free society permits any who wish to enslave themselves to others to do so. But if they have a psychological need for a slave's 'sense of belonging', why must other individuals without such a need be coerced into enslavement?” - Murray N. Rothbard, Power and Market, p.164. – One day I might get around to put all the somewhat panarchistic sounding remarks of M. N. R. together. - PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: a state that is not pleasing or delightful to me, how could I inflict that upon another?” – Samyutta Nikaya, v. 353. – BUDDHISM

TOLERANCE: Act toward others as you desire them to act toward you.” – Isocrates, 338 B.C.

TOLERANCE: Agree with me! A tolerance for differences (is) better then a demand for agreement. Truth is discovered by the correction of error; differences and disagreements are stepping stones to enlightenment. This law of polarity - tension of the opposites - (is) essential to personal growth.” - L. E. Read: Let Freedom Reign, VII, summary. - This law works also in the formulation of better slogans. False or imperfect slogans and aphorisms can and should be gradually corrected, by the same and different persons. Thus this collection should grow, be improved and become more truthful, more concise, clearer, in successively refined and enlarged editions. - JZ, 24.9.82. – Also in more selective and specialized editions. – JZ, 14.4.09.

TOLERANCE: All government obtains its power from the consent of those who are ruled - even in a dictatorship, but most especially in a democracy. As fewer and fewer consent to be ruled, yet at the same time impose neither threat nor force on others, government is inadvertently less potent. Finally, it ceases to be potent altogether. But that cessation comes at a time when the population, in the main, is prepared for liberty. Were we to obtain the disappearance of government by any other process, the population would not be ready, and the screams of outrage and anguish would quickly create a new government.” - LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, Winter 76.

TOLERANCE: All religions (*) must be tolerated, and the sole concern of the authorities (**) should be to see that one does not molest another, for here every man must be saved in his own way.” – Frederick the Great, Cabinet Order, June 22, 1740. – (*) world views – (**) society as a whole – JZ, 26.7.08. – As a young king and territorial ruler, he resorted to a war of conquest, conscription, taxation and even at least one other kidnap for his own gratification, incarcerated one Free Trader for life and would not permit individual and group secessionism. Like all “great” leaders he also had many great flaws. – JZ 26.7.08.

TOLERANCE: All religions must be tolerated ... for-every man must get to heaven in his own way.” - Frederick II, the Great: In re the Catholic Schools, 1740. - Even religions believing in human sacrifices? Only when the victims are willing, i.e., not brain-washed or drugged. - JZ, 19.11.02. - Even those which want to send involuntary human sacrifices to "heaven", as e.g., some intolerant religions and ideologies did? - F. was rather intolerant towards Free Traders. He ordered the lifelong imprisonment of an army officer who advocated it. - Informant: Ulrich von Beckerath. - JZ, 13.10.02. – All ideologies must be tolerated – but only for their subscribers, not when they pick on involuntary victims. – JZ, 14.4.09. - RELIGIONS, LIBERTY, IDEOLOGIES, ISMS

TOLERANCE: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the Law and the Prophets.” - Bible, Mathew: 7, 12. - CHRISTIANITY, GOLDEN RULE

TOLERANCE: Although every society (*) is based upon intolerance, every progress is based upon tolerance.” - G. B. Shaw, only in a JZ re-translation of the German version: “Kurz, wenn auch jede Gesellschaft auf Intoleranz gegruendet ist, so gruendet sich doch jeder Fortschriftt auf Tolerance.“ – In: G. B. Shaw, „So ist die Welt.“ - (*) Rather, every territorial State. How intolerant is e.g. a chess or a tennis club? – JZ, 20.7.08. – PROGRESS, STATE, TERRITORIALISM, VOLUNTARISM

TOLERANCE: Always have tolerance for other people’s ideas, even if you don’t agree with them.” – G. B. P., quoted in calendar. – Yes, if it remains a mere idea and no attempt is made to impose its practice upon dissenters. – Or if the ideas are to be practised only among volunteers. But the public expression of intolerably wrongful ideas should not be suffered in silence but spoken up or written up against, as a public duty, with all the politeness that is advisable. - JZ, 14.7.08.

TOLERANCE: Anarchism for the anarchists. According to you that should be punishment enough. – JZ, 2/75. – Statism only for the statists. – According to the anarchists, that should be punishment enough. – JZ 20.7.08. - PANARCHISM.

TOLERANCE: Anarchy for anarchists only. Archies for addicts to governments to each, exterritorially, the government or non-governmental society of his dreams. – JZ, 8.3.84, 15.7.08.

TOLERANCE: And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.” – Bible, Luke 6:31, King JaMes version. - Rather: If you want your (*) actions to be tolerated, tolerate the (*) actions of others! - JZ, 9/82, 14.4.09. - Now I would rather confine this to rightful actions only, those undertaken at the own expense and risk. For in our "democracies" a collective agreement on mutual interventionism, if only one gets enough votes on one's side, is all too common. - JZ, 19.11.02. – (*) tolerable, JZ, 14.4.09. - CHRISTIANITY

TOLERANCE: And the choice is simply that, between mutual acceptance of a way not oneself’s own, or blind misunderstanding and misinterpretation, leading to mutual annihilation.” – Gordon R. Dickinson, None but Man, p.222. – NUCLEAR WAR THREAT, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: And the key to cooperation is the responsibility upon both - we humans and ye Moldaug alike - to accept the other on the other's own terms, and judge them by their other standards.” - Gordon R. Dickson, None But Man, p.222. - ACCEPTANCE, STANDARDS, JUDGING, COOPERATION, PANARCHISM, COEXISTENCE, EXTERRITORIALITY

TOLERANCE: as Butterfield reminds us, toleration which had been a political necessity was turned into a religious ideal.” - David Nicholls, The Pluralist State, p.34. – Alas, the religious and in that sphere tolerant people have not yet learnt to systematically apply the principles and practices of tolerance to tolerant people the political, economic and social spheres. Nor have the non-religious ones learnt sufficiently from that example. Tolerance towards tolerant people, in all spheres, would be the best thing that people could teach themselves and others. – JZ, 26.7.08, 25.10.08.

TOLERANCE: As my poor father used to say when parsons came to call, 'he's not my sort, but pass the port, - thank god there's room for all’.” - S. A. P. Herbert, b. 1890.

TOLERANCE: At least tolerate others in possessing or doing the same, similar or different things. - JZ, 24.9.82.

TOLERANCE: Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.” – Thales, 464 B.C.

TOLERANCE: Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.” - Thomas A. Kempis, Imitation of Christ, I, 16. - ANGER, PERFECTION, HUMAN NATURE, HUMAN FALLIBILITY, HUMAN FAULTS

TOLERANCE: Become intolerant – but only against the intolerant! - JZ, 4.10.75, 14.4.09.

TOLERANCE: Become tolerant, otherwise: ‘We become what we fight’." - Ray (Roy?) Campbell, in a poem, 1965. - Tolerance is right and advisable only towards tolerant actions, not toward intolerant ones. - JZ

TOLERANCE: Before we learn to live with real aliens, from outer space, we’d better learn to live with ourselves. – JZ, 15.12.85. - MAN, MANKIND, ALIENS, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: Before you criticize people, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’ve got a mile-long head start. And you have their shoes.” – The Lion , CONSIDERATION, JUDGMENT, UNDERSTANDING, JOKES

TOLERANCE: Being grown up means we can have our own way - at our own expense." - Source? – Panarchists demand no more but also no less – in all spheres so far still monopolized by territorial States. - CHILDREN, MATURITY, GROWING UP, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, SELF-RELIANCE

TOLERANCE: Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience. – Victor Frankl (1905-1997), The Will To Meaning. - & CONSCIENCE

TOLERANCE: Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience. – Victor Frankl (1905-1997), The Will To Meaning. – It should include tolerance towards voluntary and tolerant actions in every sphere, even those now monopolized by territorial governments. – JZ, 24.4.13.PANARCHISM, COMPETING GOVERNANCE, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY OR PERSONAL LAW FOR VOLUNTEERS, VS. STATES, STATISM & TERRITORIALISM

TOLERANCE: Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.” – Victor Frankl (1905-1997), The Will To Meaning. – Freedom to act and experiment and to choose for oneself a political, economic and social system is not clearly enough indicated here, either, as an aspect of comprehensive tolerance. – JZ, 2.1.08. – The “conscience” of somebody else may demand that you cease reading certain books or uttering certain opinions, or that your wear certain clothing or abide by certain rituals. What is understood or misunderstood under “conscience” was never as yet a quite satisfactory guide. An ideal declaration of all genuine individual rights and liberties is long overdue. However, who is prepared to systematically work towards it, further improving all past drafts of this kind, especially the private ones. I encountered so far only a to me quite astonishing lack of interest in this sphere. – This in spite of the fact that via websites, emails and discs, all such drafts could be systematically examined, criticized and improved, with the best formulations taken from all of them, point by point, and improved further. A world-wide “parliament of man” – not of politicians – could do this job rather fast and effectively. Nevertheless, to my knowledge, it is not yet being tackled anywhere. – My own anthology of over 130 such digitized drafts (in PEACE PLANS 589/590, supplemented, may have come closest to such an attempt – but who is interested in it? – No wonder then, that all too many genuine individual rights and liberties still remain widely unrecognized or suppressed. - JZ, 14.4.09. – What if a misleading "conscience" or false premise persuades a man to become a mass murderer or to prepare to commit mass murder, e.g. by producing & stockpiling mass murder devices? His conscientious actions must be confined to his own sphere, his own life, his own property. - JZ, 23. 11. 06, 14.4.09.25.3.11. - INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS & LIBERTIES, AN IDEAL DECLARATION, , CONSCIENCE

TOLERANCE: Broadly recognizing that there are MANY ‘right ways of life” in this pluralistic society makes you a TOLERANT.” – FREEDOM TODAY, 9/75. - PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: Cherish reciprocal benevolence, which will make you as anxious for another’s welfare as your own.” – Aristippus, 365 B.C. – ALTRUISM, EGOISM

TOLERANCE: Chernyshevsky … was perpetually reminding his readers and himself that, in their zeal to help, the educators must not end by bullying their would-be beneficiaries; that what ‘we’ – the rational intellectuals – think good for the peasants may not be what they themselves want or need, and that to ram ‘our’ remedies down ‘their’ throats is not permitted.” – Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers, p.231.

TOLERANCE: Children are tolerant. They learn intolerance from us.” – Alice Miller, psychologist, in OMNI, 3/87. – Has she really observed enough children and parents to come to that conclusion? I have seen children acting intolerantly and cruelly towards other children, even brothers and sisters, in an intolerance they had not learned from their parents. – JZ, 26.7.08.

TOLERANCE: Desire nothing for yourself which you do not desire for others.” - Spinoza. - At least tolerate others in possessing or doing the same, similar or different things. - JZ, 24.9.82. - Why should I not desire quietness or any type of music or exercise or reading for myself, without desiring it also for all others? - JZ, 19.11.02. –

TOLERANCE: Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a censor morum over each other.” - Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia. – Let all secular ideologies or religions compete similarly with each other. – JZ, 14.4.09. - RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

TOLERANCE: Dissatisfied with the quality of defense they receive from the government, or with the price they must pay, they would elect to form a competing defense agency or 'government' within the area and subscribe to it.” - Rothbard, Power and Market, p.122. - Rothbard also brings an excellent defence of individual secessionism on page 142 of the same work. - I hereby offer my apology for having previously suggested, orally and in my booklet on tolerance, that R. would not have subscribed to the ideas of competing governments, tolerance for tolerant actions, panarchism, parallel institutions etc. The above quotes prove sufficiently that he does. I should have made a close check and not trusted my fallible memory too much. - JZ, 23.9.82. - What is needed for Rothbard as for every other major author is an alphabetization of his main ideas. - JZ, 19.11.02.) – COMPETING DEFENCE, PROTECTION & SECURITY AGENCIES, ROTHBARD

TOLERANCE: Do as you would be done by.” – English proverb. – That could sanction blood revenge. Better: Do as you ought to be done by and the decent, honest people will finally rally to your standard. Tolerance only towards the tolerant. – JZ, 12.7.86, 21.7.08.

TOLERANCE: Do for one who may do for you, that you may cause him thus to do.” – TheTale of the Eloquent Peasant, 109-110; original is from 1970 to 1640 B; trans. R. B. Parkinson. - Egyptian

TOLERANCE: Do I propose then, that every citizen shall be free to follow his own reason, and believe whatever this enlightened or deluded reason shall dictate to him? Certainly, provided he does not disturb the public order.” - Voltaire, A Treatise on Toleration, p.187. – The established “public order” is not always just and rational, a genuine order, that deserves to be upheld. – On the other hand, the official arbitrariness and coercion should not be replaced by even worse degrees of both, as happened in many revolutions. - JZ, 25.10.08.

TOLERANCE: Do not do to others that which would anger you if others did it to you.” – Socrates, 5th c. BCE.

TOLERANCE: Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you.” – Analects, 15:23, CONFUCIANISM

TOLERANCE: Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.” - G. B. Shaw

TOLERANCE: Do not get out of your way to get in the way of others! – JZ, 12.1.84.

TOLERANCE: Do not to others what you would not like others to do to you.” – Rabbi Hillel, 50 B.C.

TOLERANCE: Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him.” – Pittacus, 650 B.C.

TOLERANCE: Do to every man as thou would'st have him do to thee; and do not unto another what thou would'st not have him do to thee.” - Confucius, c. 500 B.C.

TOLERANCE: Do unto others as they would have you do unto them.” – Halen’s First Canon of Metalaw, quoted by G. Harry Stine, ANALOG, Sept. 87, p. 141. – Also when you are among the homosexuals or sado masochists? – JZ, n.d.

TOLERANCE: Do unto others as you say you do.” – Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought. – GOLDEN RULE

TOLERANCE: Do unto others as you would they should do unto you." – Jesus Christ

TOLERANCE: Do unto Vogarians as they have come to do unto you.” – Tom Godwin, The Helpful Hand of God, ANALOG, 12/61, p.80. – Do not merely offer your other cheek for another blow. – Moral rules should sufficiently cover all cases. If some “Vogarians” had murdered one or several members of your family, should you then endeavor to exterminate all “Vogarians” upon the “principle” of collective responsibility, or only hold responsible those, who are not only “Vogarians” but were really responsible for these criminal actions? - JZ, 25.10.08. – , INTOLERANCE TOWARDS THE INTOLERANT

TOLERANCE: Do whatever floats your boat, as long as it doesn’t sink mine, Paulie Cannoli shared Libertarian Party of Georgia's photo. – Facebook, 2.2.14. - VOLUNTARISM, PANARCHISM, PERSONAL LAW, VOLUNTARISM, POLYARCHISM, COMPETING GOVERNANCE

TOLERANCE: Do with your property, time and labor whatever you like. Just leave mine alone. - JZ, 8.12.76, 16.4.09.

TOLERANCE: Don't do unto others as you would have others not do unto you.” - Charles Blackwell. - But from this would, logically, still follow that you could impose upon others that what you are prepared to suffer or even welcome from them! - JZ

TOLERANCE: Don't ever think you know what's right for the other person. He might start thinking he knows what's right for you.” – Paul Williams, "Das Energi" – Think whatever you like – but do not interfere with the self-responsible actions of others. – JZ, 3.1.08. – MUTUAL TOLERANCE RATHER THAN INTOLERANCE. EVEN YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR ALL AT ALL OCCASIONS,

TOLERANCE: Don't question an alien custom. Tolerate it. You don't need to like it, but you have no business attacking it. You had just better learn to live with it.” - David Lewis Shausta , IF, Nov./Dec. 72, p.112. - Live aside it or parallel with it, according to your own customs, I would say. - JZ - And do grant asylum to their involuntary victims. - JZ, 19.11.02.

TOLERANCE: Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, and just be my friend.” - Albert Camus. – Or let each of us go his own and separate way! – JZ, 14.4.09.

TOLERANCE: Don't you think we are entitled to settle our own troubles in our own ways?” - Proverb.

TOLERANCE: Don’t do things you wouldn’t want to have done to you.” – British Humanist Society - HUMANISM

TOLERANCE: During the time of transition and whilst States are deprived of their power, we as anarchists conceded to the statists (in accordance with the principle of liberty) the right to be and remain statists, as long as they themselves bear the costs of their 'statist concepts' and confine their organization and its actions to its voluntary followers and do not constitute a danger for human society.” - LERNZIEL ANARCHIE, No. 3. - PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are great gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.” – John Stuart Mill, quoted in Sprading, Liberty and the Great Libertarians, p.137.

TOLERANCE: Encourage: To confirm a fool in a folly that is beginning to hurt him.” – Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary. – When there are numerous other, tolerant and better systems freely practised all around him, then the difference between his system and the successful other systems, should hurt him, as soon and as much as possible, to get him out of his self-chosen dead end. – JZ, 14.7.08.

TOLERANCE: Every action is right which or according to whose maxim, arbitrary actions of anybody can agree with arbitrary actions of everybody according to a general law of freedom.” - Kant, Rechtslehre, 35. - RIGHTS, FREEDOM, LIBERTIES, VS. ARBITRARINESS TOWARDS DISSENTERS

TOLERANCE: Every man takes care that his neighbor does not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well.” - Emerson, Conduct of Life: Worship.

TOLERANCE: Every revolutionary as well as every conservative has the right to his OWN utopia. - JZ 28.5.80. – Even terrorists have this right, as long as they do no longer act like terrorists. But their responsibility for their past terrorist actions does remain. It would be interesting to ponder how responsible all the anti-drug crusaders are, for all the damages by private terrorists, since these crusaders have made the drug trade so profitable that it also finances many if not most of the private terrorist actions that still occur. – Perhaps not only those, who make direct donations to terrorists should be held responsible? – JZ, 14.4.09. - UTOPIAS, REVOLUTIONS, REFORMS, PERSONAL LAWS, PANARCHIES, COMPETING GOVERNMENTS, FREE SOCIETIES, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY FOR VOLUNTEER COMMUNITIES

TOLERANCE: Everybody is right enough to be allowed to live as he pleases - at his expense and risk. - JZ, 15.2.81.

TOLERANCE: Everybody's deity is as good as anybody else's - indifferentism, I believe, is the theological term.” - H. Beam Piper: Temple Trouble, ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, 10/51, p.6.

TOLERANCE: Everyone is entitled to associate with like-minded people in order to try out social reform proposals within the group and at its expense and risk and to invite everyone to join, no matter whether the "experts" consider their principles to be right or wrong. – JZ, Free after U. v. Beckerath.

TOLERANCE: Everything you reprove in another, you must carefully avoid in yourself.” - Cicero.

TOLERANCE: Experimental freedom even for State-socialists - at their expense and risk! - JZ, 25.9.75. - Naturally, a rightful pre-condition for this is individual sovereignty, voluntarism and exterritorial autonomy for all communities of volunteers, doing only their own things for or to themselves. - JZ, 19.11.02, 14.4.09.

TOLERANCE: Faith should not be compelled!” – And jet, almost everywhere and all the time, it largely still is, at least in politics and, sometimes, even still in religion. – JZ, 9.12.82, 14.7.08. – PANARCHISM, TERRITORIALISM, POLITICS

TOLERANCE: For anarchists tolerance is not merely a question of necessity or utility but it is their fundamental ideal.” - Red Leber, NEUES BEGINNEN, Jan./Feb. 1970. – However, tolerance towards those statist volunteers, who would do their own things only among their own volunteers, is still a new ideas to all too many anarchists, intent on abolishing the State instead of merely the imposition of the State upon those, who do not want it. In this they rather follow the example of the territorial State, which imposes itself, or is imposed, by the statists, upon the anarchists. Since the statists are still much more numerous than are the anarchists, the change to a tolerant policy towards tolerant statists (admittedly, also only a tiny number as well) should have occurred to most of them long ago. Anarchism only for anarchists! They could have gained that in collaboration with the adherents of all other isms, all other minorities, who would be satisfied with voluntary exterritorial autonomy for themselves. Instead, anarchists engage in much infighting, having not even accepted panarchism or self-determination for all kinds of anarchists. Instead, like most political parties, they constantly fight against all other isms. What a waste of time and energy is involved and also what a postponement of their own ideal for themselves! They have persisted with this intolerance in the face of numerous historical examples of extensive – although never complete - tolerance – and of the numerous minor spheres of individually determined and self-chosen actions and associations, in our daily lives, which amount to a kind of panarchism at least regarding minor and relatively trivial affairs and associations. They have also largely ignored the great precedent of religious tolerance or religious freedom, although it includes toleration for atheists, humanists, rationalists etc. Instead, they should have demanded the application of its principle to the adherents of all secular ideologies. They should also have paid attention to the tolerance demonstrated among natural scientists and technologists in their experiments. In this respect they too, are, usually, their own worst enemies. For they keep insisting on the general compliance with or acceptance of the particular anarchist ideals which they favor not only among all other kinds of anarchists but also by all kinds of people, the majority of them still being statists. To that extent they, too, are authoritarians, territorialists, fundamentalists, fanatics, with, so far, all too few exceptions. – Add to this the fact that their secondary ideals, expressed in a multitude of hyphenated anarchists and their opposites, seem often more important to them than their primary one: The absence of an unwanted rule over themselves. In one word: voluntarism. People, who can understand them? Anarchists certainly do not seem to understand themselves, nor do they want to understand themselves. I offer as evidence the zero-response rate from anarchists to the kind of anarchist spectrum that has been online now for several years at www.butterbach.net/piot1.htm, although its incompleteness alone should have provoked further such entries to this list. In the meantime, I have myself collected a few other entries that should be added to the list – but why bother, when anarchists are so little prepared to think about anarchism? In this they seem to be as unwilling to think and learn as are most religious fundamentalists. - JZ, 14.4.09, 25.3.11. - ANARCHISM, PANARCHISM, VOLUNTARISM, TERRITORIALISM, VOLUNTARY GOVERNMENTS, COMPETING GOVERNMENT, TOLERANT STATISM, INTOLERANCE, LACK OF INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY,

TOLERANCE: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.” - Old Testament, Isaiah, 1v, 8. (55:8) - RED., PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate. – Henry J. Hyde, U.S. Congressman, Speech, 5/3/91. – Tolerance for free speech should be extended not only to tolerance for freedom of the press and other media, but also to tolerance for all kinds of tolerant actions among volunteers, doing their own things, in freedom of contract, freedom of association, freedom to experiment, freedom to err and make mistakes, among themselves, at their own risk and expense, i.e. for or against themselves. –The thing we hate we should be free not to engage in but should not be allowed to outlaw them for others, doing them only among themselves. If e.g. violent criminals committed their crimes only among themselves, I would rather say: good riddance of at least some of them. – JZ, 24.4.13.

TOLERANCE: Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.” – Henry J. Hyde, U.S. Congressman, Speech, 5/3/91 - FOR FREE SPEECH

TOLERANCE: Freedom consists in the authority to do everything that does not infringe the natural and equal rights of others.” - Classical freedom definition.

TOLERANCE: Freedom is the only thing you cannot have without also granting it to others.” - Source?

TOLERANCE: Freedom of citizens to choose their own way of life, subject to the rights of others.” - Federal Platform of the Liberal Party of Australia, 1946, point c. - Well, by now almost everyone knows how modern liberals interpret such a clause. - JZ - All political parties seem to believe that all promises can and ought to be broken whenever it suits them. - JZ, 19.11.02. – MODERN LIBERALS, PARTIES

TOLERANCE: Freedom of inquiry and expression are not so much to be tolerated as to be actively encouraged.” - Butler Shaffer, The Wizards of Ozymandias, chapter 77. – The same is true for freedom of action, e.g. that exemplified by panarchies or polyarchies. – JZ, 20.2.05. - OPINIONS, ACTIONS, EXPERIMENTS, PANARCHISM, VOLUNTARISM, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY

TOLERANCE: Freedom requires tolerance of foolishness. ... Without this tolerance for the freedom of others, no one's freedoms are secure." - Dr. Donald J. Boudreaux - & FREEDOM

TOLERANCE: From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, that all ideologies are mere fictions, the modern relativist deduces that everybody is free to create for himself his own ideology and to attempt to carry it out with all possible energy.” - Mussolini, quoted with negative comment by M. Stanton Evans in Outside Looking In, p.17, an anthology edited by Dorothy Buckton Jones. – Obviously, he was not prepared to let others do their own things, among themselves, if he could prevent it. – Should one expect consistency from any politicians, not to speak of morality? – JZ, 11.10.08.

TOLERANCE: From the recognition of individual rights and liberties follows sufficient respect for them to lead to tolerance for all actions that do respect individual rights and liberties, however much one does disagree with actions committed within their framework. – JZ 3 05 - RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: Funny how people always try to change each other." - From film: The Man I Love, an Ida Lupino movie. - "Tragic" or tragic-comical, rather. – JZ

TOLERANCE: Give it a go.” - Australian saying, meaning: try it, experiment with it, but always at your own risk and expense. It is not an invitation to murder or mass murder. - JZ

TOLERANCE: Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.” - R. G. Ingersoll, Limitations of Toleration. - If you claim a 'right' to steal, would that make it right if you conceded to everyone else the same right? - - This would make it right at most within a society of thieves of a Welfare State society that applied its rules only among its own voluntary members. - JZ, 11.10.08.

TOLERANCE: Good astronomers do not get angry because a star is in the “wrong” place for a more beautiful design. We must be just a cool in meeting what we perceive as “wrong-headedness” during a presentation. The sense of personal triumph that follows conversion of hostile attitudes into support for an idea is the highest reward of a good presentation. As Edmund Burke remarked: ‘He who opposes me, and does not destroy me, strengthens me’.“ – Henry M. Boettinger, Moving Mountains, p.132. – Cool the opposition and then try to sway it to your side or to disarm it by maximum tolerance for all tolerant actions. – PERSUASION, PRESENTATION, , RED., ANGER, COOLNESS, KEEPING COOL

TOLERANCE: Handle people with gloves, but issues bare-fisted.” - Dagobert D. Runes, A Book of Contemplation, p.71. – Also in his A Dictionary of Thought. If issues and new institutions and methods are only offered in tolerant experiments among volunteers, then these experimenters might be freely criticized but otherwise handled quite tolerantly, with kid-gloves, if you like. – Freedom not only for utterances but also for voluntary and self-responsible actions. - JZ, 19.7.08. – POLITENESS, CONSIDERATENESS, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant of others.” - Hosea Ballou.

TOLERANCE: have a deep sense of TOLERANCE, to recognize that there is no ‘One Only Right Way’ of life as bigot propounds … But that there are MANY ways, each right to the extent that it enables its followers to live happily without interfering with the equal rights of non-interfering others to seek happiness in their own ways.” – FREEDOM TODAY, 9/75, Selected sentences from “Lucky You”. – PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: Have a stab at anything.” Supposedly an Australian characteristic. - Column 8, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 12.12.70. - Not at other bodies or ways of life, only regarding your own ways! - JZ – Alas, the Australian laws and regulations, institutions and bureaucracies have become just as interventionist as those of most other territorial States. – JZ, 14.4.09.

TOLERANCE: He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.” - Thomas Paine, 1737-1809.

TOLERANCE: Hence it is advisable to set up a system wherein each individual may satisfy his selfishness to the fullest extent compatible with the like liberty of others, all further philanthropic and co-operative effort being left optional.” - Henry Meulen, Free Banking, p.9. – Alas, in his last correspondence with Ulrich von Beckerath Henry Meulen opposed panarchism, just as he opposed full monetary freedom in his prior correspondence with him. And this after decades of correspondence between these two advocates of Free Banking. Letter exchanges, like oral debates and discussions, are rarely enlightening enough. We haven’t given flow-chart discussions their chances as yet, especially not in their modern electronic form of “argument mapping”, as developed by Paul Monk et al and described online. I have strong hopes that once we do, we will finally settle many questions which have remained unsettled for all too long. – JZ, 14.4.09.

TOLERANCE: How come that we imagine that we can really live with ten-thousands of laws that are unknown and unknowable to us, but not with people, who are only somewhat different from us in their nature, thinking and actions, with their systems, beliefs and lifestyles, who simply want to be left alone, minding their own business just as we want to be left alone in our own affairs? What makes us enemies? Nothing but the errors, prejudices, fallacies, false assumptions and conclusions - the inherent intolerance of territorial nationalism with its multitude of intolerant laws and institutions. – JZ, 15.12.85, 12.5.87, 26.7.08. - As if freedom of expression were enough without freedom to act - tolerantly. - JZ, 25.3.11.

TOLERANCE: How large is your tolerance for cannibalism, e.g. “roast suckling coolie?” – Poul Anderson, at the end of “Welcome” in “Past Times”.

TOLERANCE: How shall we ever learn toleration for what we do not believe? The last lesson a man ever learns  is, that liberty of thought and speech is the right for all mankind; that the man who denies every article of our creed is to be allowed to preach just as often and just as loud as we ourselves. We have learned this, - been taught it by persecution on the question of slavery. No matter whose the lips that would speak, they must be free and ungagged. That us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinions, who dares to give free scope to his opponent. Persecution is really want of faith in our creed. …” - Wendell Phillips, quoted in Sprading, Liberty and the Great Libertarians, p.161.

TOLERANCE: I always believe a man should be allowed to do one thing badly – provided he does not inflict his mistakes on others.” – from John Wayne movie “Tycoon”. – PANARCHISM, FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT, RIGHT TO MAKE MISTAKES

TOLERANCE: I am myself my own commander.” - (Egomet sum mihi imperator.) – Plautus, Mercator, I. 853. ( Act v, sc. 2.) – He should have added: And I allow everyone else to be his own! – JZ, 7.7.82. – SELF-DETERMINATION, SELF-GOVERNMENT, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: I am not a totalitarian but a tolerant anarchist. I would let the others have all the government they can stand. - JZ, 1.1.77. – STATISM, GOVERNMENTALISM, PANARCHISM, FREEDOM OF ACTION FOR ALL TOLERANT ACTIONS & ORGANIZATIONS

TOLERANCE: I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilised.” - J. S. Mill. - Just be tolerant towards whatever members of other communities will do merely among, for and to themselves. - JZ - And do offer asylum and protection to its involuntary victims, e.g., slaves, women, children and other oppressed people, its drop-outs, refugees, defectors, deserters, individual secessionists. - JZ, 19.11.02, 14.4.09. - CIVILIZATION. – We talk and write so much about it, as if it already existed or as if we fully knew all that it requires. – JZ, 17.4.09. COLONIALISM, CIVILIZATION, CULTURE, COERCION

TOLERANCE: I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you're not in this world to live up to mine." - Bruce Lee, quoted on Facebook, 3.4.12 by Jim Davidson - FOR ALL TOLERANT PEOPLE

TOLERANCE: I am not marching in his parade.” - From film "Extraordinary Seaman".

TOLERANCE: I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.” - H. L. Mencken – Quoted by LearnLiberty on Facebook, 29.10.12. - & LIBERTY

TOLERANCE: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." – Voltaire, The Friends of Voltaire. – I disapprove of what you intend to do – but I will defend to the death your right to do it – to yourself. – JZ, 26.12.07. - TOWARDS ALL BUT THE INTOLERANT, FREEDOM OF ACTION, FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: I do assuredly believe that subjects must be tolerant towards their ruler; ... I am saying ... that there are limits to what subjects need tolerate, just as ... there are limits to what a sovereign should tolerate.” - Maurice Cranston, Political Dialogues, 37, in summing up Locke. - But should there be territorial rulers and territorial sovereignty in the first place? - JZ, 19.11.02. – TERRITORIALISM, SOVEREIGNTY, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY

TOLERANCE: I do not mean that a man  should have no definite persuasions. I only wish men to achieve sufficient understanding to entertain the possibility that they may, after all, be wrong. Toleration comes with the awareness of how limited our knowledge is.” - Locke, summarized, in Maurice Cranston, Political Dialogues, p.40.

TOLERANCE: I hate everything you say but will fight to the death for your right to say it.” - Remark ascribed to Voltaire. It ought to be extended to freedom of action: “… for your right to do it, to and for yourself and like-minded people.” - JZ - FREEDOM OF ACTION, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: I have no right to interfere with an institution which promotes economic and social ideas which are repugnant to me. On the other hand, there should be no obligation on my part to support such an institution. Thus, both the institution and I have freedom of choice, with commensurate responsibilities for the results of that choice. This is the very essence of libertarianism.” - Moreell: Log 1/136. - LIBERTARIANISM

TOLERANCE: I hold that it is allowable in all, and in the more thoughtful and cultivated often a duty, to assert and promulgate, with all the force they are capable of, their opinion of what is good or bad, admirable or contemptible, but not to compel others to conform to that opinion.” - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty. – But the opinionated ought to be at complete liberty to conform themselves to their opinions in all their self-concerned actions. – JZ, 6.4.89. – PANARCHISM, FREEDOM OF ACTION & EXPERIMENTATION

TOLERANCE: I never consider a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. – Thomas Jefferson - & FRIENDSHIP

TOLERANCE: I see no practical means of moving toward a free society, a state of liberty, save by the emergence of self-control and self-discipline These virtues are taught and not imposed. In the end, education and self-control, precept and example, must be relied upon. And I see no procedure at all that does not entail risk. To be a libertarian, a person must be so devoted to liberty that he is willing to let others be free, too, despite his anxiety that each of them might do something wrong.” LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, Winter 76. – SELF-CONTROL, SELF-DISCIPLINE

TOLERANCE: I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality. I know too well the weakness and uncertainty of human reason to wonder at its different results.” – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Mrs. John Adams, 1804. – Alas, he, too, did not extend his tolerance to all tolerantly practised actions and remained stuck in the territorialist model for political, economic and social actions. And this in spite of the personal law tradition going back a very long time. But then everything good comes only very rarely, if ever, together. – JZ, 20.7.08. – PANARCHISM, FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT

TOLERANCE: I’m not in this world to live up to your expectatonss and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. – Bruce Lee, quoted by Scott Molon Labe Twist sharing Anonymous ART of Revolution's photo. – Facebook, 8.7.13.

TOLERANCE: I’m not religious but I believe in religious freedom or religious tolerance, so much so that I want its principle and practice extended into the social, economic and political spheres, too, as a precondition to realizing and preserving anything that is worthwhile. What is not worthwhile will tend to perish by its own flaws. – JZ, 105.90, 26.7.08. - PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me life my life the way I want to. – Jimi Hendrix, quoted by Kevin Davis –– A murderer, rapist robber and fraudster might also make the same claim and state the same “justification”. He should have added some qualification, e.g.: Indeed, as long as you do also let them live their lives undisturbed. -  John Zube - Facebook, 6.10.13.

TOLERANCE: I’ve never advocated tolerance for statists, anymore than I would advocate tolerance for murderers or thieves. Period.” – Jim Downard, LIBERTARIAN CONNECTION 106, p.16. – What if all these murderers and thieves confined all their activities to their own voluntary community members only, and confined e.g. their laws on abortions and euthanasia, duels and brawls, armed clashes as well as taxation only to their own volunteers? Likewise any kind of Welfare State activities to their own safety net insurance company? – JZ, 1.11.82, 17.7.08. – PANARCHISM, TERRITORIALISM, VOLUNTARISM

TOLERANCE: If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) - SELF-DETERMINATION, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as being in a state of impermissible 'anarchy’, why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighborhood? Each block? Each house? Each person? But, of course, if each person may secede from government, we have virtually arrived at the purely free society, where defence is supplied along with all other services by the free market and where the invasive State has ceased to exist.” – Murray N. Rothbard, Power and Market, p.3. - However, non-invasive 'States' with voluntary members and exterritorially organized under personal laws within the old State borders, may long continue - but they are then essentially only private protective associations. Would you call the English monarchy no longer a monarchy just because it has no longer absolute or extensive monarchical powers over all of the population? - JZ, 23.9.82, 14.4.09, 25.3.11, 25.3.11. – PANARCHISM, SECESSIONISM, PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE, VOLUNTARISM

TOLERANCE: If governments had ever tried to dominate physical and mathematical opinions of the public as much as political or religious views, then we would have wars as well for and against differential calculus as we had for the holy trinity of God.” - Franz von Baader. – TERRITORIALISM, INTOLERANCE, UNIFORMITY

TOLERANCE: If he displeases us, we may express our distaste, and we may stay aloof from a person as well as from a thing that displeases us; but we shall not therefore feel called on to make his life uncomfortable. We shall reflect that he already bears, or will bear, the whole penalty of his error; if he spoils his life by mismanagement, we shall not, for that reason, desire to spoil it still further: instead of wishing to punish him, we shall rather endeavour to alleviate his punishment, by showing him how he may avoid or cure the evils his conduct tends to bring upon him. He may be to us an object of pity, perhaps of dislike, but not of anger or resentment; we shall not treat him like an enemy of society: the worst we shall think ourselves justified in doing is leaving him to himself, if we do not interfere benevolently by showing interest or concern for him. It is far otherwise if he has infringed the rules necessary for the protection of his fellow creatures, individually or collectively ...” - J. S. Mill, On Liberty, Great Books of the Western World edition, p. 305.

TOLERANCE: If someone wants to set up a socialist scheme with their own money, I may not approve of it, but it's their money. But to force me to subsidize their socialist experiments - that's tyranny.” - Murray Weidenbaum, Reason, 9/81, p.44. – PANARCHISM, INTOLERANCE, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

TOLERANCE: If tolerance is tolerant of intolerance it fears being destroyed by intolerance. If it is intolerant of intolerance, then it destroys itself.” – Arthur E. Morgan, In ANTIOCH NEWS, Antioch College, Jan. 1934. – Tolerance towards intolerance can indeed become self-destructive. But intolerance towards intolerance is quite justified and merely defensive rather than aggressive. It does not destroy tolerance towards tolerant actions, but helps to uphold it. – JZ, 6.11.85, 20.7.08. – , PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: If tolerance of diversity involves an admitted element of risk, intolerance involves the certainty of destruction. - JZ, 1975, free after: “If tolerance of diversity involves an admitted element of risk to national unity, intolerance involves a certainty that unity will be destroyed.” - Alan Barth, The Loyalty of Free Men, 1951.

TOLERANCE: If you are desirous to prevent the overrunning of a state by any sect, show it toleration.” —Voltaire – I wonder to what extent even most of the present terrorists would become tolerant and tolerable in their endeavors – once they got the right to practise their own panarchy among themselves. – They would then certainly have much less to complain about and many more people would be critical of them and demand that they should to their own things, among themselves, rather than terrorize other people. Then nobody would prevent them from engaging in self-government or self-management, in their style and in accordance with their ideology or faith. - JZ, 18.9.08. – TERRORISM

TOLERANCE: In a great empire, whose domination extends over as many different peoples, as there are different faiths among men, intolerance would be the most dangerous mistake.” – Empress Catherine II of Russia (Catherine the Great) - But intolerance is inherent not only in large territories but also in small republics and democracies. Empires and territorial States can only stand so much tolerance for tolerant actions. If there is more then they tend to disintegrate into little territorial empires. If they practise full tolerance then they tend to disappear or become reduced to the number of their voluntary followers – under their own personal laws. However, they might gain followers all over the world, according to their attractiveness to them and would have to tolerate other world empires of this kind, just like the Catholic Church, a world-wide institution, has finally learnt to tolerate other religions - practised anywhere in the world, in a tolerant way. – JZ, 22.7.86, Judging by the number of published utopias and by that of popular errors, myths and prejudices, there are probably even more different kinds of secular faiths than there are religious ones. – Nevertheless, the tolerant actions of all of these different kinds of peoples should be tolerated, too, when exterritorially, i.e., tolerantly, practised among themselves. - 26.7.08. - PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: In a republic we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction. (*) Wide differences of opinion (**) in matters of religious, political and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted.” (**) – Theodore Roosevelt, Speech at the Sorbonne, April 23, 1910. – (*) and actions - - (**) and freedom, justice, peace, progress and prosperity are not to be severely reduced. – JZ, 5.7.86, 20.7.08. – PANARCHISM, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY FOR VOLUNTARY COMMUNITIES.

TOLERANCE: In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then, they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew … Then they came for the Catholics. I didn’t speak up then because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up.” – Reverend Martin Niemoeller, German Lutheran pastor arrested by the Gestapo in 1937. - ONE CAN BE TOO TOLERANT OF INTOLERANCE

TOLERANCE: In one age the persecutor burnt the heretic; in another, he crushed him with penal laws; in a third, he withheld from him places of emolument and dignity; in a fourth, he subjected him to the excommunication of society. Each stage of advancing toleration marks a stage of the decline of the spirit of dogmatism and of the increase of the spirit of truth.” - W. E. H. Lecky, quoted in Sprading: Liberty and the Great Libertarians, p.57.

TOLERANCE: In order that a society may be free, a great many people must exhibit a much higher level of tolerance for individual eccentricity than has hitherto prevailed. The believer in freedom, then, is like a salesman trying to persuade people to buy a product, by telling them that, chances are, there are things about it they won't much like after they get it! That's a hard sell! Freedom means putting up with a lot of things you don't like, and living with a lot of people you can barely stand. Freedom of speech and press, of religion and economics, means that other people will say, print, believe and produce things which we might find distasteful. Freedom doesn't come cheap; it costs, and those unable or unwilling to pay the price will never achieve freedom, nor will they retain the freedom they now enjoy.” - E. Opitz, THE FREEMAN, 7/75, p.43. - The principle: To each the government of free society of his or her dreams - does NOT require any SACRIFICES from ANYONE! - Unless they consider getting rid of some of their prejudices to be a sacrifice. - JZ, 19.11.02. -

TOLERANCE: informed by Robert Nozick’s suggestion in “Anarchy, State, and Utopia” that freedom is a filter permitting many different utopias to flourish.” – Michael Grossberg, REASON, 12/82, p.49. – Even the utopias of the statists – but this time only at their own expense and risk! Which makes a great difference, will limit their life-span and also shrink them, slowly to fast. – JZ, 23.10.08. - Compare Nozick's concept of "meta-utopia". Just another expression for voluntarism in every sphere. - JZ, 25.3.11. - PANARCHISM, META-UTOPIA, COEXISTENCE OF VARIOUS UTOPIAS, ALL FOR VOLUNTEERS ONLY, FREEDOM

TOLERANCE: Institutionalized intolerance allows and concedes! - JZ

TOLERANCE: Intolerant behavior is intolerable. (Intolerant actions are intolerable.) - JZ, 25.9.75.

TOLERANCE: Is high population density a vice or a virtue? Well, that all depends. As that great mythical Irish bartender, Mr. Dooley, once put it: 'As the Frenchman said, as he drank from the fire extinguisher, "Each to his own taste".' - B. R. Rogge, THE FREEMAN, 3/75. – Individual preferences differ. – How many different drinks are there by now? – JZ, 14.4.09. – In a few countries by now 90% of the population prefers to live in cities. – JZ, 28.4.09, 25.3.11. - JOKES

TOLERANCE: Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life? The master said, Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” - Confucius, Analects, Bk XV, ch.23. – GOLDEN RULE, RECIPROCITY

TOLERANCE: isn't there room for everybody's dream?” - of Keith Laumer & Rosa George Brown: Earthblood, p. 115. – There isn’t for all territorialist dreams. But there is for the practice of all exterritorialist dreams among their believers. – JZ, 14.4.09.

TOLERANCE: Isn’t it time for men to work out their own destinies?” – Jack Williamson & James E. Gunn, Star Bridge, p.201. - MEN, DESTINIES, CHOICE, PANARCHISM, POLITICIANS, BUREAUCRATS, PRIME MINISTERS, PRESIDENTS, RULERS, LEADERSHIP; SELF-GOVERNMENT, SELF-DETERMINATION, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, VOLUNTARISM

TOLERANCE: it don't matter much what any of us are, just so we get along with one another." - Clifford D. Simak, Way Station, p.43. – MAN, PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE

TOLERANCE: It is certain that many people in this nation do not want freedom. I think they are mistaken. But I have no more right to take their government, their crutch, away from them than they have to force me to lean on it. My understanding of freedom recognizes man's enormous individuality. Some will always disagree. Am I to banish disagreement?” - Robert LeFevre, LEFEVRE’S JOURNAL, Winter 75, p.118.

TOLERANCE: It is decisive that in the interest of equal freedom for all, we tolerate opinions and actions which we not only dislike but even despise. The main point is that everybody has the widest opportunity to live according to his own taste, regardless of the contrary preferences of others: to manage under a mutual agreement, to renounce impositions of preferences. – K. H. Z. Solneman, LERNZIEL ANARCHIE, Nr.2., S.12.

TOLERANCE: It is evident that the most fair-minded man must become intolerant if you place him in a position where he has only the unpleasant choice either to eat or be eaten, either to submit to his neighbour's views or force his own views upon his neighbour. Cut the cord,, give us full freedom for differing amongst ourselves, and it at once becomes possible for a man to hold by his own convictions and yet be completely tolerant of what his neighbour says and does.” - Auberon Herbert, Essays, Mack ed., p.64.

TOLERANCE: It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honor to whatever in them is worthy or honor.” – Decree of Asoka, Buddhist emperor of India, 264-228 B.C. – Criticizing supposed flaws in other sects is not aggression. But suppressing their rituals, beliefs and actions is. – Ulrich von Beckerath pointed out to me that Buddha even recommended the study of other religions and that Buddhists never organized a book burning. But much of the Buddhist literature was destroyed when Buddhist monks appealed to the populations not to follow their princes any longer into their wars against each other. That kind of Buddhism was exterminated by the princes. – Does any book on this exist? Alas, the library of Ulrich von Beckerath was destroyed in Nov. 1943. - JZ, 20.7.08. – BUDDHISM, BOOK BURNINGS.

TOLERANCE: It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.” - Lin Yutang. - VOLUNTARISM

TOLERANCE: It is often believed that too much tolerance would somewhat weaken a society. But if it is tolerance, not e.g. for crimes, for aggressive actions, for intolerable actions, but merely consistent tolerance only - for all kinds of creative and tolerant actions or self-responsible actions, then a society is thereby strengthened rather than weakened. - JZ, 23.9.82, 14.4.09.

TOLERANCE: It takes all kinds to make a world.” - Proverb. - But we do not have to tolerate tyrants, oppressors, monopolists and exploiters with involuntary victims. - JZ, 19.11.02.

TOLERANCE: Jedem Tierchen sein Plaesierchen!” - German Proverb, meaning: “To each little animal its own little pleasures!” One should add: at its own expense and risk. - JZ

TOLERANCE: Judge not, that ye be not judged.” - St. Mathew, 7, 1. - Judge not even a murderer or a mass murderer? - Do not sit in judgment on non-offensive people, people who have done others no harm or wrong. - JZ - Judge all your internal affairs only according to the rules of your own voluntary community. - JZ, 19.11.02.

TOLERANCE: Let friends and enemies associate and separate themselves with and from each other, in war and in peace - and you have the basic foundation for a lasting and just peace in freedom. - JZ 16.7.79. - The separation or association decision is to be mode by every individual involved. - JZ, 23.9.82.

TOLERANCE: let individuals live by their own values as long as they do not impose them on others.” – Fred Foldvary, THE CONNECTION 115, p.91. – VALUES, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: Let people ... pursue their own values in peace. Both groups might have to forgo the joy of coercing the unbeliever, but they would at least be free of the unbelievers breathing down their own necks.” - Murray Rothbard, in discussing education, in reason, 9/81, p. 46.

TOLERANCE: Let there be no violence in religion,” Mohammed had cautioned. “ … fight for the religion of God against those who fight against you, but transgress not by attacking them first.” – Henry Grady Weaver, The Mainspring of Human Progress, revised edition, FEE, 1953, p.115. – How do so many of the Islamic fundamentalists manage to still overlook this passage by their prophet? – I wish that it would be produced as a car sticker, at least bilingual, in English and Arabic, and cheaply offered for sale. – Perhaps one should add: Wherever there is religious freedom, do practise it as well! - JZ, 14.4.09. - RELIGION, MOHAMMED, VIOLENCE, DEFENCE, NOT AGGRESSION – Bold print added by me. – JZ

TOLERANCE: Let those who understand this to be a call to intolerance bear in mind the dictum of Etienne Gilson: tolerance is a meaningless concept except as practised by a fervent believer. How can the modern relativist exercise tolerance if he doesn't believe in anything to begin with? It is not hard to exhibit toleration toward a point of view if you have no point of view of your own with which that point of view conflicts. It is the man who believes, and only he, who is capable of exhibiting the virtue of tolerance. - - Even then, the balance is often off. We all know men who believe firmly in a set of principles, but for whom it appears to be more important to display an exemplary tolerance toward those who disagree, than to affirm their own beliefs. Surely, one should stand by one's views, evenly and quietly, even if in doing so it becomes necessary to rend the stillness of sweet modulation.” – William F. Buckley: Up from Liberalism, p.100. - Buckley has, apparently, not come up far enough to accept freedom of action or tolerance for tolerant actions or at least here he justifies only a determined and intolerant defence of truths in verbal battles. - In this limited sphere, I do not mind his kind of intolerance, either, but rather welcome it, in its proper place. As for tolerance for tolerant actions, I would not care why a particular person would be tolerant towards tolerant actions, as long as he is! - JZ, 23.9.82.

TOLERANCE: Let tolerance grow to its limits. No tolerance for the intolerant. – JZ, 3.5.92.

TOLERANCE: Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet”, said the cock to the horse.” – English proverb. – Do not ridicule good horse sense. Horses do only rarely step either carelessly or intentionally on other animals – unless greatly provoked or threatened. – JZ, 20.11.85.

TOLERANCE: Let us have the same relations politically and economically as we have in music, theatre, painting, poetry etc. Each chooses or produces his own favorite types and does not interfere with the choices others make for themselves. JZ 26.7.87. - TO EACH HIS OWN, EVEN IN THE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC & SOCIAL SPHERES, NOW MONOPOLIZED BY TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS

TOLERANCE: Liberty must be tested by its friends, not by its enemies.” – Sprading, Freedom, p.138. – PANARCHISM, VOLUNTARISM, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM

TOLERANCE: like the anarchist, the individualist advocate of tolerance distrusts not merely State power, but public power; ...” - B. R. Barber: Superman and Common Men, p.94.

TOLERANCE: Live and let live is the rule of common justice.” - Sir Rober L'Estrange, Fables of Aesop, 127. - JUSTICE

TOLERANCE: Look, he said quietly, I have my troubles. I have things wrong with me. But I'm not blind. I'm not stupid. You wouldn't tell me to my face that I couldn't handle problems that are strictly my own, would you?” - Theodore Sturgeon: The Stars are the Styx. - Galaxy Reader of SF, p.236. – RED.,

TOLERANCE: Man has a right to think all things, speak all things, write all things, but not to impose his opinions.” - Macchiavelli. - Instead of 'impose his opinions' I would rather say: 'force people to act in accordance with them.' - JZ, 11/78.

TOLERANCE: Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. – John Stuart Mill in www.strike-the-root.com  - SELF-INTEREST, COMMON INTEREST, COMMON GOOD, PUBLIC INTEREST, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY VS. TERRITORIAL OR NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, PANARCHISM, VOLUNTARISM

TOLERANCE: Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to life as seems good to the rest.” – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty. - PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: Many to most people are rebels with a cause – however wrongly it may be conceived and executed. Let them have their cause and its experimental practice – but among themselves only and at their own risk and expense. Then they will cease to be rebels and bother others. “Peace on Earth!” – through good will towards all, even towards rebels, as far as that is morally and rationally possible. – JZ, 23.4.83, 14.7.08, 25.3.11.

TOLERANCE: May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.” – Plato, 4th c. BCE.

TOLERANCE: Men must be "free to try their ideas in a competitive and voluntary market." - John C. Sparks. – FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT

TOLERANCE: Mises makes a poignant plea for tolerance: “Liberalism”, he says, “must be intolerant of every kind of intolerance.” It proclaims tolerance for every religious faith and every metaphysical belief, not out of indifference for these “higher” things, but from the conviction that the assurance of peace within society must take precedence over everything and everyone.” “Only tolerance”, he says, “can create and preserve the condition of social peace without which humanity must relapse into the barbari9sm and penury of centuries long past.” - Sheldon L. Richman, Mises’s Blueprint for the Free Society, in: Llewellyn H. Rockwell, ed., The Economics of Liberty, Mises Institute, 1990, p. 362. - Here Mises forgot again about freedom of action and experimentation for minorities. See his remark under MINORITY AUTONOMY VS. MAJORITY DICTATES. – JZ, 4.10.07. - VS. INTOLERANCE

TOLERANCE: Most intolerance seems to me to be based on notions of collective instead of individual responsibility. Let us try to start another "cult", one based on tolerance for all tolerant people and on intolerance only for all intolerant people. John Zube – FACEBOOK, 17.9.13.

TOLERANCE: Most of the others came down heavily for the herd, often making explicit such principles as “The greatest good for the greatest number” or “Do as you would wish others to do.” Immanuel Kant said, “We know … by vivid and immediate feelings, that we must avoid behavior which, if adopted by all men, would render social life impossible.” – R. C. W. Ettinger, Man Into Superman, p.147. – TERRITORIALISM, MAJORITIES, DEMOCRACY, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: Most people are too enamored with their favorite reform system or ideology to be inclined towards tolerance in the sphere of actions or experimental freedom for the follower of other systems. And this in spite of the fact that such liberty would give them, too, the greatest chance. – JZ,10.4.86, 26.7.08, 25.3.11. – PANARCHISM, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM

TOLERANCE: Most revolutions are just like severe fevers, eliminating reason, morality and tolerance and, like war, victimizing more people than they liberate. To most of them Goethe’s saying applies: “There is no more terrible sight to behold than ignorance in action.” – Naturally, this applies only to territorialist revolutions, which are by this characteristic largely intolerant. Revolutions only aiming at exterritorial autonomy of all factions, movements, ideologies, beliefs and systems, would tend to be very tolerant, liberating and enlightening and would have only power-mongers, fanatics, terrorists and aggressors as their “victims”. – JZ, 25.9.84, 3.8.08, 25.3.11. – REVOLUTIONS, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: Must stop at the threshold of monstrosity.” – Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought.

TOLERANCE: Never cut what you can untie.” - Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824. - Compare the proposals on abolishing or destroying the State. Reducing them to rule over voluntary victims is easier to achieve and provides a just punishment for them at the same time. - JZ, 19.11.02. – PANARCHISM, VOLUNTARISM, NON-VIOLENCE, WHEN POSSIBLE & EFFICIENT ENOUGH

TOLERANCE: Never do unto others that which you would not have them do unto you. If you wouldn’t have other control your life, then never try to control anyone else. If you wouldn’t have others hinder you from producing, freely exchanging, owning the fruits of your labor, competing, traveling, then don’t inhibit these practices among your fellowmen. …” - Leonard E. Read, Castles in the Air, p.159. – But criminals with involuntary victims must be sufficiently controlled. – JZ, 15.7.08, 25.3.11. – Much better than the State does it. Especially those criminals at the top of it. – JZ, 23.10.08.

TOLERANCE: Never question a man's politics or his choice of a wife: they're his private affair.” - Mary Hays Weik, quoting her father, a Lincoln Scholar, in WINDOW ON THE WORLD, 2/76. - They are not private affairs, as far as territorial politics is concerned (apart from secret voting, which is another wrong, according to Lysander Spooner) but they should both be completely private. - Racial immigration policies restrict even the choice of wives, at least by imposing quotas on certain ethnic groups. - JZ, 20.11.78, 24.9.82, 11.10.08, 25.3.11.

TOLERANCE: No government has the right to force individuals not to do something which they may desire to do at their own risk, provided that they, in turn, do not force their will on others or put others at risk.” - From a discussion paper of the Workers Party on drugs.

TOLERANCE: No human creature is understood by any other human creature. At the most, from habit, patience, interest, friendship, they accept or tolerate each other.” – Taine

TOLERANCE: No man can ever build another man’s dream.” – Terry Carr & Alexei Panshin, Star Dream, GALAXY, May 69, p. 64. – Actually, many good ideas have been realized and sufficiently published not by the originators but by those who did appreciate them. – Just let’s make all the good dreams and also the well-meant ones readily accessible to all potential builders and activists. - JZ, 23.10.08. – PANARCHISM, IDEAS ARCHIVE

TOLERANCE: No man has a right in America to treat any other man 'tolerantly' for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.” - Wendell L. Wilkie. - One can very well class it as a right to be tolerated in one's tolerant actions, in the some way as a small step towards the desired tolerance, privacy, is already recognized as a right. And, between rational beings, it would be an equal right. - JZ, 23.9.82.

TOLERANCE: No one is my enemy, none a stranger and everyone is my friend.” – Guru Arjan Dev: AG 1299. – SIKHISM. - I lived for almost 12 years under Hitler, saw him only once from some distance and only heard his raucous and rabble-rousing voice on the primitive little radio that he had spread cheaply – it could not receive foreign broadcasts. He was certainly neither my friend nor my hero – JZ, 31.3.09, 25.3.11.

TOLERANCE: No one utopia is ideal for all.” – Michael Greenberg, REASON, 12/82 p.49. – I would rather say: No single territorial utopia can be ideal for all inhabitants. – Let the imperfect people with flawed ideals have their own utopia – among themselves. – JZ, 14.7.08. – All the still living anarchists and libertarians who made public statements in the direction of panarchism still ought to be systematically approached with panarchistic ideas. They may be among the future public opinion-makers on the subject. – JZ, 23.10.08. - PANARCHISM, UTOPIAS. PANARCHISM WOULD PROVIDE A “META-UTOPIA” FOR ALL THE DIVERSE UTOPIAS, TERRITORIALISM OR EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY?

TOLERANCE: Nobody is wholly tolerant. The more you believe in tolerance, the less you can tolerate the intolerant.” - R. Q. in READER'S DIGEST, 7/66.

TOLERANCE: Nobody may be forced to adapt his lifestyle to any temporarily prevailing theory. - Thus the State may not interfere with any law in any theoretical scientific dispute and any scientific experiment in the economic, social, juridical and political sphere - as long as they take place exclusively at the expense and risk of the experimenters.” – JZ, Free after U. v. Beckerath. - EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, EXPERTS, THEORIES, CHOICE

TOLERANCE: None of you (truly) believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.” – Number 13 of Iman ‘Al-Nawawi’s Forty Hadiths. - ISLAM

TOLERANCE: Nor was tolerance the result of religious indifference, as is sometimes suggested, much more is it true to say that religious indifference is the result of toleration.” – David Nicholls, The Pluralist State, p.33. – Alas, religious indifference does not automatically aris in all people by toleration. But then even religious tolerance did not, under the rise of the territorial State, reach the degree of full exterritorial autonomy for the voluntary communities of religious - and other people. The long-term effect of this extended kind of tolerance for all tolerant actions is still to be experienced. – JZ, 26.7.08, 25.3.11. - FANATICISM, FUNDAMENTALISM, INTOLERANCE, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: Not all others should be or could always be treated as you wish to be treated. Especially not those who are very intolerant even to mere opinions and self-concerned actions. – JZ, n.d., 26.7.08.

TOLERANCE: Not confrontation but toleration. Let only your free words and free actions “confront” those of others and appeal mainly to the long-term understanding, judgment and appreciation of the difference. Any territoritorial population, yes even any family- and friendship circle can or should have great tolerance for the diverse actions of their members, without interfering with family and friendship relationships. The best husband and wife relationship and those between loving couples are also largely based on a great degree of mutual tolerance. – JZ, 19.6.91, 25.7.08,25.3.11.

TOLERANCE: Not only should you forgive your enemies, but you should also forgive your friends.” – P. K. Shaw. – As long as no offences against fundamental human rights were involved or none are to be expected any more from them and they have indemnified their victims. – But should one ever forgive mass murderers? - JZ,15.7.08. - FRIENDSHIP, AMNESTY, ENEMIES, FORGIVENESS, PRISONERS OF WAR,

TOLERANCE: Nothing can be excluded from life. It is all one thing.” – Frank Herbert, The Godmakers, p.138. – As if all the organized mass murders, repressions and robberies, all quite contrary to individual rights and liberties, were quite natural actions and developments, inseparately connected to the nature of man and his societies. Already Herbert Spencer pointed out the existence of several dozen quite peaceful societies and tribes. Later sociologists and anthropologists listed about 65. The territorial monopoly organizations that lead to repression, exploitation, mass murder, war, revolutions and civil war are still not clearly seen for what they are and cause. – JZ, 18.7.08. – , STATES, WAR, TAXATION, DICTATORSHIPS, PANARCHISM, GOVERNMENTS, RULERS, INTOLERANCE, WARFARE STATE

TOLERANCE: Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.” – Woodrow Wilson. – WAR, INTOLERANCE

TOLERANCE: One going to take a pointed stick to pinch a baby bird should first try it on himself and feel how it hurts.”- YORUBA

TOLERANCE: one individual’s paradise may be another’s purgatory.” – Michael Grossberg, REASON, 12/82, p. 49. PANARCHISM. – To EACH HIS OWN UTOPIA!

TOLERANCE: One man's poison is not necessarily the other fellow's.” - Moral by Aesop Mi. – To each his own self-chosen poison! Why should we be as tolerant only with regard to alcoholic drinks? – JZ, 14.4.09.

TOLERANCE: one must seek ways of reaching agreement; or if agreement is not possible, we must (learn to? - JZ) know how to tolerate each other … (for? – JZ) nobody can be absolutely certain of being in the right. …” - Errico Malatesta, Life and Ideas, p.30. – I do not agree eith the nihilism, relativism, or subjectivism in the last part of his statement, at least when it comes to the application and interpretation of well formulated and genuine individual rights and liberties. - The "ethics" of emergency situations cannot be rightly generalized. - These exceptions merely indicate the rule for the normal cases. - JZ, 25.3.11. - AGREEMENTS

TOLERANCE: One of the main troubles is that most of those who want to be free themselves are not willing to concede the same freedom to others. - JZ, 19.8.75. - Or, rather, they concede only the freedom to do exactly the same! - JZ, 3.8.78. - TERRITORIALISM

TOLERANCE: one of those bits of the rough that the wise take with the smooth and leave unmentioned except on those occasions of extreme provocation when the whole catalogue of one’s dissatisfactions is reviewed.” – John Wyndham, “More Spinned Against”, in “Jizzle”, p.183. – MISTAKES, FLAWS, ACCEPTANCE,

TOLERANCE: One should always allow the people what they want - if it is at their expense and risk. - JZ, 3.7.82.

TOLERANCE: One should be ‘contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow against himself.” – Thomas Hobbes

TOLERANCE: Only whoever feels secure is tolerant. – Carstens – (“Nur wer sich sicher fuehlt, ist tolerant.”) – Fanatics, fundamentalists and terrorists do also feel secure in their convictions. But they also know that they are not quite free to practise them among themselves. That is one of the main motives for them to become so intolerant that they even become terrorists. They combine this conviction with the belief that everyone else would conspire against them, to keep them unfree. Consequently, they hold all other people collectively responsible. They also know that they are not numerous enough to get their ideal realized by persuasion attempts or voting. Thus they resort to terrorism, if they take their “ideals” serious. If, however, they could freely secede, to do their own things for or to themselves, but among themselves only, at their own risk and expense, few of them would consider terrorist actions and even fewer of them would actually engage in them, if any at all, unless they are, really, mental cases. – JZ, 21.7.08, 25.3.11. – TERRORISM, FUNDAMENTALISM, BOMB THROWERS, SUICIDE BOMBERS, FANATICISM & FREEDOM OF ACTION OR FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT UNDER EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY & PERSONAL LAWS: PANARCHISM, POLYARCHISM ETC.

TOLERANCE: Ours must be perfect tolerance but also entire conviction.” – J. N. Figgis, in David Nicholls, The Pluralist State, p.143. – Perfect tolerance requires intolerance towards the intolerant and untolerable! – JZ, 17.4.09.

TOLERANCE: Paddle your own canoe.” - Frederick Marryat, Settlers in Canada, ch.8, 1840.

TOLERANCE: People could do anything they wanted to do if they were willing to pay for it.” - Lee Correy, Remodeling of Eve, ANALOG 7/79, p. 151. – Buy and sell women and children as sex slaves or sacrificial victims? - Even the best rule needs to be somewhat qualified. – JZ, 11.10.08.

TOLERANCE: People get in the habit of taking their ways to be the only right and decent ways.” – Poul Anderson, The Tale of the Cat, ANALOG 2/98, p.133. – RIGHT WAY, RIGHTEOUSNESS, INTOLERANCE

TOLERANCE: People ought to be "free to choose - individually or collectively - whatever economic, social, moral, etc. system they want." - Jerry Millett, Texas, ANALOG, June 61. - PANARCHISM, CHOICE, CONSUMER SOVEREIGNTY, PUBLIC SERVICES, SYSTEMS, INSTITUTIONS, LAWS, PERSONAL LAW

TOLERANCE: people pursue their own values in peace. Both groups might have to forgo the joy of coercing the unbeliever, but they would at least be free of the unbelievers breathing down their own necks.” - Murray Rothbard, in discussing education, in REASON 9/81, p. 46.

TOLERANCE: People who wish to live in a 'virtuous' society, surrounded by others who share their ideas of virtue ... would be free to set up their own communities and to contract with each other so as to prevent the 'sinful' from buying or renting within them. Those who wished to live communally could set up their own communes. But nobody would have a right to force his way of life upon his neighbor.” - David Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom, XIII / XIV. - Only with the last 3 words does he indicate that he may not only have in mind territorial utopian colonies or proprietary communities but also personal law associations. - JZ 24.9.82. – PANARCHISM, PERSONAL LAW

TOLERANCE: People with as different notions of life, as e.g. the Penguin International Thesaurus of Quotations indicates, should not be forced into a single territorial State, society or community. Only if they are not so forced will their voluntary membership become some kind of asset for them, at least as a learning opportunity, rather than merely a burden they have unnecessarily picked up. Only under voluntary participation will they tend to grow and mature as human beings and allowing others their ways of living. Let 100 of even a million flowers bloom all in their own way. – JZ, 4.9.82, 14.7.08. – PANARCHISM, VOLUNTARISM, EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM

TOLERANCE: Permit other persons to express themselves publicly and to act, among themselves, in their own buildings and at their own risk and expense, even in ways that seem to mentally and physically hurt you. – However I would draw the line at public or private human sacrifices, torture, child abuse, actions against involuntary victims, like private incarcerations, and against those not yet old enough to give a sufficiently informed consent. – With regard to abortions we may have to wait until enlightenment is sufficiently spread. We should not risk a civil war in an attempt to abolish or suppress it at once. – Only mutual tolerance is very extensively practicable and right. Otherwise it becomes unilateral intolerance towards the “tolerant” victim. JZ, 3.8.92 & 26.7.08.

TOLERANCE: Plant the seeds of tolerance.” - Dagobert D. Runes, Handbook of Reason, p.60.

TOLERANCE: Pray you use your freedom, // And, so far as you please, allow me mine, // To hear you only; not to be compelled // To take your moral potions.” – Massinger, The Duke of Milan, Act iv, sc. 3. - PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: rational beings are created for one another, … toleration is a part of justice, and … men are not intentional evildoers. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Penguin Books, abridged edition, 1995, p.17. – Most mature people would act in this way. Alas, there are still some criminals and aggressors with involuntary victims and all genuine individual rights and liberties are not yet generally known and respected. – JZ, 3.3.12. - MAN, RATIONAL BEINGS, JUSTICE, CIVILIZED LIFE

TOLERANCE: Regard your neighbour’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbour’s loss as your own loss.” – T’ai ShangKanYoing P’ien, - TAOISM.

TOLERANCE: remind… them that there were ways other than their own.” - Stephen L. Burns, Eden Tag, ANALOG 12/00, p.115. - DIVERSITY, INTOLERANCE, ALTERNATIVES, RED

TOLERANCE: Respect for others, tolerance of their ideas and foibles, compassion in their misfortunes, are the marks of the truly civilized human being.” - IPA FACTS, 12/68.

TOLERANCE: Rising to moral heights: I must so act toward others as I would have them act toward me.” - Leonard E. Read, The Love of Liberty.

TOLERANCE: Roger Williams, indeed, the Welch founder of Rhode Island, preached, as early as 1631, the principles of an unlimited toleration, extending to Catholics, Jews, and even infidels. Milton stopped a long way short of this. …” - John Morley, On Compromise, p.268.

TOLERANCE: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the English poet and critic, writing in 1809, gives us wise counsel: “The only true spirit of tolerance consists in our conscientious toleration of each other’s intolerance.” That is to say that tolerance is never a slipshod or bungling achievement. It has to be conscientious, that is, based on reason of the highest order.” – NOTES FROM FEE, 12/78. - I would rather say that tolerance towards those people acting intolerant towards tolerant people, is quite intolerable for a rational and just mind. – Only tolerance merely towards the verbal expression of intolerant ideas and opinions can go very far but it should not be extended to their practice upon peaceful dissenters, who would rather be left alone to do their own things among themselves. - JZ, 14.7.08.

TOLERANCE: Schisms, splitting up and polarizations are desirable, tolerable, neutral or even progressive – provided all polarized etc. groups are merely made up of volunteers and these remain tolerant enough of members of other and different groups, societies and communities, with all of them merely doing their own things for or to their own members. – JZ, 18.12.83, 14.7.08. - PANARCHISM, SCHISMS, POLARIZATION ETC.

TOLERANCE: Shaftesbury: Supposing a man is completely indifferent? Is he not then a model of tolerance? -- Locke: The indifferent man has no occasion to be tolerant since the indifferent man, by definition, has no particular dislike. - Shaftesbury: But in your “Letters for Toleration” people are called upon not only to tolerate what they dislike but what they disapprove of. - Locke: I have used the word 'dislike' very broadly, to include 'disapproval' and even 'fear of.’ That is the most difficult thing of all, to tolerate what we fear.” - Maurice Cranston, Political Dialogues, p.32.

TOLERANCE: Since even the question of all religions has so far not been any further settled than on the basis of religious tolerance (alas, not yet universally accepted), why do you expect a wide-spread agreement on political, economic and social questions, among the populations of whole territories, upon any other basis than the equivalent to religious freedom and tolerance for all actions and free experiments in these other three spheres, among the volunteers of these kinds of communities, all doing their own things only for or to themselves? - JZ, Dec. 92, 25.7.08.

TOLERANCE: So central is this passive, mechanistic freedom to tolerance, that the judgmental process which toleration entails is permanently skewed in favour of forbearance. It is always intolerance that requires justification.” - Benjamin R. Barber, Superman and Common Men, p.85.

TOLERANCE: So long as a man rides his hobby-horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him, - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?” - Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768.

TOLERANCE: Sometimes the best way to convince somebody he is wrong is to let him have his way.” – Rod O’Donnell. – Provided he can have it at his own risk and expense only. I would not give a robber what he wants, if I could prevent it. – JZ, 26.7.08. – PANARCHISM, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM

TOLERANCE: Spencer knows full well the limitations of government and warns us that human freedom can only flourish where the (*) State is absent. Breaking with all those philosophers before him who sacrificed the individual to the state, he develops a social system which has the virtue of enthroning the individual as the sovereign power in all human activity. No longer is the individual to be the subject of the State; from hence-forth he is to be the source of value, free to determine how far he will give himself to society and how far he will preserve his privacy ...” - Kropotkin on Spencer, according to Reichert, Partisans of Freedom, p.268. – (*) territorial – JZ - INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, HERBERT SPENCER

TOLERANCE: Stars can shine only in the dark.” - Proverbial wisdom. - Leave others free to choose darkness for themselves. - At least they would set deterrent examples. - JZ, 19.11.02.

TOLERANCE: Start when ready: anyone can begin the practice of freedom whenever he chooses to do so. It is easy, and one need not wait upon other persons to agree before he begins. No committee resolutions or elections or laws are needed for a person to begin the practice of freedom. One need merely resolve not to impose his will - legally or illegally - upon his peaceful fellow men in their religions, their economic theories, their attitudes, their morals, their mores, or whatever. And then start to practice it.” - Dean Russell, Ideas on Liberty, THE FREEMAN, 11/75. - While this attitude expresses and reveals a considerable scope for liberty and tolerance, numerous tolerant actions are not tolerated by laws and regulations. – JZ, 24.9.82. Or by tradition- or custom-bound neighbors. – If only it were that easy! Freedom, individual rights and liberties could already have spread from anyone thus starting the process off. – How many does it need to start it off? Or how well known and respected must be the person who could successfully start it off, as above suggested? – I hold that none of the present “great” political leaders would be as much respected and followed. - JZ, 11.10.08.

TOLERANCE: Steven’s mind was so tolerant that he could have attended a lynching every day without becoming critical.” – Thorne Smith – TOLERANCE AS TOLERANCE EVEN FOR QUITE INTOLERANT & INTOLERABLE ACTIONS.

TOLERANCE: Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.” - Analects: 15, 23. - CONFUCIANISM, JUSTICE, LOVE

TOLERANCE: Takes all kinds to make a world.” - Proverb. – Compare: “The stars shine only in the dark.”

TOLERANCE: that’s the beauty of having a principled stance against coercion. In a libertarian courtroom, it’s not the person for whom we have the most empathy who wins, it’s the one whose rights have been violated. The non-aggression principle does not discriminate. Not between black and white, male and female nor even between “likable empathetic person” and “absolute jerk.” A free society tolerates absolute jerks - as long as they don’t violate anyone else’s rights. ... What needs addressing from a libertarian standpoint are not the attitudes, thoughts and feelings of our culture. What needs addressing are (at the very least) the evil laws that violate the rights of people who have committed no real crime. Get rid of those laws and you’ve also gotten rid of their unfair application." - ‪http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/.../libertarians-and... EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Libertarians and 'Privilege' - Rob James : Brilliant! This debate is a perfect example of "muddying the waters" as to what Libertarianism actually means. Thank you, Bretigne, for filtering out the muck by analyzing the issues properly from the true (non-coercive) libertarian viewpoint! - All the wrongful laws are based upon territorialism. With it done away, we would have only personal laws which individuals wanted for themselves in their societies, communities and governance systems of volunteers, for their own affairs. That means experimental freedom, freedom of contract and association in the most important spheres, genuine self-governance, self-determination, consent, voluntarism, panarchism, polyarchism, call it what you want but do consider its essence and its consequences. - John Zube – Facebook, 24.2.14. - Rob James liked that comment. He also mentioned that he loves www.panarchy.org.

TOLERANCE: The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.” - John Billings, 1818-1885.

TOLERANCE: The best way to defeat an enemy is to make a friend of him.” Sign on St. John's, Kings Cross, ca. 1970. And the best way to do that is to tolerate and give scope to his differences. - JZ - To the extent that they are tolerable, i.e., do not infringe anyone's rights and liberties without the victim's consent. - JZ, 19.11.02, 25.3.11.

TOLERANCE: The camel in the fable takes exception to all other animals for not having a hump and the Ruritanian criticises the Laputanian for not being a Ruritanian.” - L. v. Mises, Human Action, p.8. - From such a general approval of tolerance to approval for individual sovereignty and its consequences seems to be more than a simple mental step for most people. Well, even the original advocates of non-conformism and dissent were often themselves still intolerant towards atheists and certain sects. - JZ, 24.9.81.

TOLERANCE: The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.” - Eric Hoffer - SELF-RESPECT

TOLERANCE: The continuance of liberty depends upon strict reciprocity in tolerance: there is no obligation to provide platforms for people who plot for the downfall of our free society.” - Rhodes Boyson, 1985, VIII.

TOLERANCE: The creative and initiatory behavior pattern is one of nature's rarest and most valuable. To make its activity dependent on majority approval is one of the most absurd human inventions. - JZ, 29.12.75. - Except where the very survival of mankind is involved. E.g. referendum against nuclear power installations. - JZ 24/9/82. – NUCLEAR REACTORS – POTENTIAL NUCLEAR “WEAPONS” FACTORIES)

TOLERANCE: The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community. – David D. Boaz (1997) – True only for those libertarians, who do not claim a territorial monopoly for their “limited” government. – JZ, 19.4.13. -LIBERTARIANISM, STATE SOCIALISM

TOLERANCE: The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can’t tolerate a libertarian community.” – David D. Boaz (1997) - UNDER LIBERTARIANISM & UNDER STATE SOCIALISM

TOLERANCE: The disposition to be patient with the opinions or practices of others; forbearance, catholicity of spirit.” - Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

TOLERANCE: The finest fruit of civilisation, however, has been the increasingly general recognition of the desirability of permitting the individual to form his own interpretation of the word (happiness), provided that his search for happiness does not interfere with the normal activities of others to a greater extent than is the rule in the community wherein he dwells.” – Henry Meulen, Free Banking, p.8. - I do not agree with his qualification. Is locally customary interference o.k., even towards strangers, or other dissenters, who never subscribed to these conventions? - JZ

TOLERANCE: The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of man; but none of them could develop institutions which would include the enemy, the unbeliever.” – Geoffrey Gorer, THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, Nov. 27, 1966. – The enemy or the non-believer should not have been included but simply left alone. Buddhists probably came closest to tolerance towards believers in other religions and, possibly, also towards non-believers and this without centuries of prior religious warfare. – JZ, 25.7.08. - RELIGIONS

TOLERANCE: The future could be theirs, not ours,” Flandry thought. Kathryn would reply: "Why can't it be everybody's?" - Poul Anderson, Rebel Worlds, p.102.

TOLERANCE: The Golden Rule is the only moral absolute. We either love people or we use them as things.” - Dr. H. G. Pearce. - Compare Kant's teachings on people as ends rather than mere means. - JZ – We do not have to love them but we should allow them to do their own things for or to themselves. – JZ, 14.4.09. - GOLDEN RULE, LOVE, JUSTICE, TO EACH HIS OWN CHOICES, AT THE OWN EXPENSE & RISK.

TOLERANCE: The good, as I conceive it, is happiness, happiness for each man after his own heart, and for each hour according to its inspiration.” - George Santayana, Soliloquies in England.

TOLERANCE: The government and its supporters should pay their own bills. – JZ, 5.12.83. - VOLUNTARY TAXATION, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: the great human liberty, which, destroying all the dogmatic, metaphysical, political and juridical fetters by which everybody today is loaded down, will give to everybody, collectivities as well as individuals, full autonomy in their activities and their development, delivered once and for all from all inspectors, directors and guardians.” - Jerome Tuccille, Radical Libertarianism, p.32/33. – PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.” – Source? – Let them even act on their beliefs – at their own risk and expense! – JZ, 5.1.08.

TOLERANCE: The inconveniences which are strictly inseparable from the unfavorable judgment of others, are the only ones to which a person should ever be subjected for that portion of his conduct and character which concerns his own good, but which does not affect the interest of others in their relations with him. Acts injurious to others require a totally different treatment.” – John S. Mill, On Liberty.

TOLERANCE: The law imprinted on the hearts of all men is to love the members of society as themselves.” – Roman Pagan - The hearts of private and official criminals, who are victimizing me, are certainly not so imprinted. - Nobody is obliged to love all others but merely to be just towards them or tolerant, to the extent that the others are tolerant. - JZ, 25.3.11. - LOVE, JUSTICE

TOLERANCE: The Libertarians say: Let those who believe in religion have religion; let those who believe in government, have government; but also let those who believe in liberty, have liberty, and do not compel them to accept a religion or a government they do not want.” - Sprading: Liberty and the Great Libertarians, p.22. – LIBERTARIANISM, PANARCHISM, VOLUNTARISM

TOLERANCE: The local and racial variations still will exist, of course, and that is as it should be, but overriding all of these will be a tolerance that will make for what one might be tempted to call a brotherhood.” - Clifford D. Simak, Way Station, p.120. - Panarchistic, exterritorial and voluntary autonomy is much easier to achieve for all than is brotherhood among all. - JZ, 6.10.01. - DIVERSITY, VARIETY, MAN, PANARCHISM, BROTHERHOOD

TOLERANCE: The more sects there are, the less danger in each. Multiplicity enfeebles them.” - Voltaire, A Treatise on Toleration, p.165.

TOLERANCE: The most consistent Real Liberals, and certainly current Libertarians, saw clearly that moral consistency demanded toleration not just for thoughts and beliefs – the most intimate function of all human conscience – but also for action in accordance with thought. Tolerance for the latter without equal tolerance for the former was rightly see to be a sham of the highest order.” – Walter E. Grinder, An Introduction to Libertarian Thought, p.4. - PANARCHSIM

TOLERANCE: The most important one of all - freedom to try.” - John C. Sparks. - EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM

TOLERANCE: The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is keeping from imposing it on others.” – Marcel Proust - INTOLERANCE

TOLERANCE: The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way.” – John Stuart Mill.

TOLERANCE: the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling  him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise.” - J. S. Mill, On Liberty, Great Books of the Western World edition, p.271.

TOLERANCE: The only real test of civilization.” – Arthur Helps. Compare: “Freedom for diversity!” – If only we were already as tolerant towards the subscribers, contributors and practitioners of different political, economic and social systems as we are already towards different sports, fashions, hobbies, writings, plays, music, paintings, sculptures, leisure activities, shopping and consumption habits, religions, dances, philosophies, gadgets, etc. There are many private spheres in which we do take tolerance already largely for granted. – JZ, 23.10.08.

TOLERANCE: The people, organizations and individuals, do have the right to undertake, at the own expense and risk, social experiments - even when these are based on errors and when they are making mistakes. The freedom to correct their errors and to learn from the own experiences and then to undertake, at the own expense and risk, new experiments, belongs to all human rights. – JZ, Free after Ulrich von Beckerath. – FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: The principle of tyranny: anyone not for me is against me. The principle of tolerance: anyone not against me is for me.” – Thomas Szasz, Heresies, p.29. - TYRANNY

TOLERANCE: The problem with tolerance is that it is often a symptom of indifference.” - Richard Geis in SF REVIEW. - That is no problem or at least no more so than that most of today's atheism is based on religious indifference. We can only hope that people will become indifferent towards all myths, i.e. be no longer captivated by them and act on them. The few who still are and act on them at their expense and risk in their own voluntary circles will then be rather harmless atavisms. - JZ, 23.9.82. – I look forward to the day when people are no longer interested in upholding authoritarian, coercive, collectivistic and territorial statism! But I would become disgusted with them if they continue to remain disinterested in their great variety of exterritorial, voluntary, self-governing and self-managing alternatives to it, in accordance with their individual preferences. – JZ, 4.4.09, 25.3.11. - , INDIFFERENCE, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” - Aldous Huxley - & PROPAGANDA

TOLERANCE: The race could save one-half of its wasted labor // Would each reform himself (*) and spare his neighbor.” – Frank Putnam, Reform. – (*) And likeminded people only – sparing all others. – JZ, 5.6.82, 25.3.11. - PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: The reformist assumption underlying liberal thought had been set forth by Jean-Jacques Rousseau more than a century and a half before, when he wrote of compelling men to be free. To this Mencken's answer was no. Although he believed in liberty, he did not 'believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.' Although he did not think the Klan, the DAR or the WCTU 'useful or honest', he was against any law that prohibited such organizations. Nor did he wish to propose 'quackeries' for civilization's ills; he advocated neither closing them or killing them. Instead, he argued that liberty should be irrevocably defended - to the limits of the feasible and the tolerable. This rejection of the Liberal's reformist nostrums was based on the notion that liberty as a “Ding an sich”. In light of this, perhaps, we can better understand why he desired to curtail the police powers of the Pure Food and Drug Commission. His commitment to liberty was, indeed, radical.” - R. Dale Grinder, LIBERTARIAN ANALYSIS, Vol. I, No. 3

TOLERANCE: The relationship between tolerance and freedom is inherent. Intolerance is underwritten by government favoritism and violence. When people are free – meaning that they are also necessary deprived of force (*) – they find ways to get along.” – Charles Murray, What it Means to Be a Libertarian, 1997. – (*) Of the option to use force, and be it only by territorial voting, except in self-defence. – JZ, 16.7.08. - INTOLERANCE, FREEDOM, VIOLENCE, FAVORITISM, GOD

TOLERANCE: The stars shine best in darkness - and all the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle - and a single candle can light a million others.” - 2 Proverbs, combined. - FREEDOM OF ACTION, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, PANARCHISM, EXAMPLES, DEMONSTRATIONS, FREEDOM OF ACTION AT THE OWN RISK & EXPENSE

TOLERANCE: The State may not force any services upon the citizens which they are willing and able to supply themselves or which they do not want for themselves. – JZ, free after Ulrich von Beckerath.

TOLERANCE: the test of a free society is its tolerance of what is deplored or despised by a majority of its members ... free societies are better fitted to survive than closed societies.” - A. Bartholini, 1597-1643. – It is often assumed that tolerance would weaken a society. But only tolerance for tolerant actions is meant. A free society, because it upholds freedom and rights, would not tolerate crimes or terrorist actions against the rights and liberties of others. Against these it would be rightfully and efficiently intolerant. Tolerance for voluntary actions within one’s own sphere or voluntary community would not weaken but strengthen any free society or community. Even totalitarians could become tolerated – on that limited basis. Their deterrent examples would e.g. strengthen the knowledge and appreciation of rights and liberties among the rest, their observers, living, perhaps, right next door. – JZ, 23.9.82, 11.10.08.

TOLERANCE: The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.” - Ralph W. Stockton – Under panarchism we would not need the courage for a prolonged liberation struggle but merely the strength of our convictions to place our bets, our labor, thoughts, assets and ideas behind a attempt to realize our ideals together with like-minded people among ourselves. Even if we should fail to realize our ideals in the way that we had thought suitable for them, our companionship and common efforts should be pleasurable. – JZ, 8.8.08. - PANARCHISM, TERRITORIALISM, FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT

TOLERANCE: The trouble with being tolerant is that people will think you don’t understand the problem.” – Merle L. Meacham

TOLERANCE: The truly intolerant people are the ones who want tolerance for themselves but are prepared to show none for others.” - John Laws, Book of Uncommon Sense, PAN, 1995, 189. - & INTOLERANCE – Not prepared to show any for others? – JZ

TOLERANCE: The uncomfortable conviction that the other fellow may be right after all.” – TRAFFIC SAFETY.

TOLERANCE: Their meeting ground must be their common desire for truth. Let us be extremely tolerant of diversity of opinions. But let us be brutally intolerant of lies and insincerity. (By insincerity I mean the attitude that refuses to admit its real motives.)” - Gustav Stolper, This Age of Fable. - This is one of the many liberal sayings for freedom of information and expression, which wrongly assumes that there is a sharp and insuperable dividing line between freedom to express an opinion and freedom to act on it. But there is no clear distinction between an assault by noise (a shout into one's ear from close-by) and a slap in the face. Both amount to assault. A demagogue manipulating an excited crowd into aggressive actions may never get his hands dirty himself - but is at least as guilty as the direct aggressors are that put his slogans into operation. In short, there are limits for freedom of speech as there are limits for actions towards others. You have no authority to shout other people down in their own homes etc. as you have none to run their lives - except when they authorize you to do so. – JZ, n.d. - Moreover, how brutal and intolerant may one be towards lies and insincerity – rather than merely ignoring them, at least the liars and the insincere? When there are some other people present, who might be thus deceived, only then is there something like a duty to speak up against them – provided one is free to do so. – JZ, 11.10.08. – PANARCHISM, FREEDOM OF ACTION, FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT

TOLERANCE: Their meeting ground must be their common desire for truth. Let us be extremely tolerant of diversity of opinions. But let us be brutally intolerant of lies and insincerity. (By insincerity I mean the attitude that refuses to admit its real motives.) - Gustav Stolper: This Age of Fable. - This is one of the many liberal sayings for freedom of information and expression which wrongly assumes that there is a sharp and insuperable dividing line between freedom to express an opinion and freedom to act on it. But there is no clear distinction between an assault by noise (a shout into one's ear from close-by) and a slap in the face. Both amount to assault. A demagogue manipulating an excited crowd into aggressive actions may never get his hands dirty himself - but is at least as guilty as the direct aggressors are that put his slogans into operation. In short, there are limits for freedom of speech as there are limits for actions towards others. You have no authority to shout other people down in their own homes etc., no more so than any authority to run their lives - except when they authorize you to do so and this must be done by all the adult individuals involved, only aggressive criminals and mental cases excepted. - JZ, n.d. & 19.11.02. - IN THE SPHERE OF ACTIONS

TOLERANCE: There are nine and sixty ways of writing tribal lays - and every single one of them is right!” - Rudyard Kipling. - I would add: for voluntary members of the tribe. - JZ

TOLERANCE: There are only few friends of tolerance left in the West.” – MISES, Omnipotent Government, p.11. – And perhaps none in the East. – JZ, 21.9.75. – It is not impossible that by now there are more tolerant people in the East than in the West. – JZ, 14.7.08. – SPREAD OR SHORTAGE OF TOLERANCE.

TOLERANCE: There can be no better instructions in ... all transactions in temporal goods than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor present to himself these commandments: 'What ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them,’ and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' If these were followed out, then everything would instruct and arrange itself; then no law books nor courts nor judicial actions would be required; all things would quietly and simply be set to rights, for everyone's heart and conscience would guide him.” - Martin Luther, Werke, Vol. vi, p.49, quoted by Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. ( Luther as an anarchist! ) - ANARCHISM, GOLDEN RULE

TOLERANCE: There is a natural freedom to promote one's well-being without infringing the rights of others.” - Source? – Alas, it remains largely suppressed by territorial States. – JZ, 14.4.09.

TOLERANCE: There is no standard to decide whether one ideal is superior to another and whether it has the asserted obligatory power for all. But there is a standard to decide whether anyone - as an individual or a collective demands more freedom of action at the expense of the equal freedom of others. … - K. H. Z. Solneman - LERNZIEL ANARCHIE, Nr. 2., S.12. – Alas, my father remained unaware that he simply put Kant’s definition of rights into other words. – JZ, 14.4.09. - The existing official and private declarations of rights and liberties do certainly need many corrections and supplements, they are still very flawed and incomplete. But an as perfect declaration as human beings can and should provide for themselves is certainly not superfluous but, potentially, very helpful as a guide even if not book, no map or guide is quite absolute and perfect. - JZ, 25.3.11.

TOLERANCE: There is nothing wrong or intolerant in intolerantly (verbally) advocating tolerance (for words and actions) for all but the intolerant (towards words and actions). – JZ, 1969, 6.8.91.

TOLERANCE: There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.” - Eric Hoffer. – Or fully approving of each other. – JZ, 4.1.08. – Full mutual approval is not even the rule in most of the relatively happy marriages. – JZ, 14.4.09. – LIVE & LET LIVE, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: There’s no reason to believe any of this, … Of course not … If you disbelieve me, you only have to have the courage of your convictions and ignore what I’ve said. … Certainly you don’t believe I’m trying to talk you into anything? … The future may hold more than many think. - Gordon R. Dickson, Necromancer, 1963, Sphere Books edition of 1989, p.184 & 185. - FOR ALL TOLERANT PEOPLE, MUTUAL TOLERANCE, PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE UNDER EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY & VOLUNTARISM, INCLUDING INDIVIDUAL SECESSIONISM

TOLERANCE: Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.” - Bible, St. Mathew, 7,12.

TOLERANCE: This is not to say that conflict would cease: men would (*) persist in their disagreements in the common (**) pursuit of their uncommon interests, but their disagreements would be bounded by a fundamental procedural consensus. Agreeing about how to disagree, they could cooperate in establishing the limits of conflict. Under such circumstances, revolution became obsolete. At least according to the dream.” - B. R. Barber, Superman and Common Men, p.100. - (*) I would replace 'would' by 'can'. - (**) I would rather say 'separate' than 'common'. JZ,. 24.3.82.

TOLERANCE: This is the beauty of anarcho-libertarianism: utter and complete toleration for any and all styles of life so long as they are voluntary and non-aggressive in nature. Only under such a system can the capitalist and socialist mentality coexist peacefully without infringing on the rights of other individuals and communities.” - J. Tuccille, Radical Libertarianism, p.60. – Did he anywhere stand up for full exterritorial autonomy for all kinds of utopians, reformers and believers, libertarians, naturally, included, but also xyz different kinds of statists? – JZ, 14.4.09. ANARCHO-LIBERTARIANISM, ANARCHO-CAPITALISM, LAISSEZ FAIRE, FREE MARKET, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.” - Brahmanism:Mahabharata, 5, 1517. – Another version: This is the sum of the duty; do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you.” – Mahabharata 5:1517. – HINDUISM HARM, PAIN, WRONGS, DUTY, BUDDHISM

TOLERANCE: Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.” - Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan, Preface. - One could qualify that: Almost all societies so far expressed an excessive degree of intolerance ... - JZ – Better still: All territorial States, as apart from all genuine societies or communities! – St. Joan fought for a unified territorial France, just another State! And that one even under an absolute monarch! – The various French peoples might have been no worse ruled or possibly even better under an English King and later, largely, the English Parliament. But neither would have been rightful alternatives to free choices for individuals for themselves. - JZ, 14.4.09.

TOLERANCE: Thought, action, ways of life, to each his own: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.” - The Bible (Isaiah 55:8).

TOLERANCE: To each his own prophet, leader, economic, political and social plan, method or system. None to be territorially imposed upon any non-criminal, and peaceful dissenters. – JZ, 4.10.98.

TOLERANCE: To each his own spleen - or insights, in his own free experiments, in all spheres, especially the political, economic and social spheres, not only the religious and arts spheres, especially when it comes to monetary and financial freedom alternatives, always at the own expense and risk, together with as many other volunteers as he or she can sign up, under full exterritorial autonomy. Few of them would do any worse than our territorial governments and many would do better, some would do much better and their market share would increase, at least slowly, if not fast. No more territorial monopolies for any leader, party, movement or ideology! Tolerance for all tolerant people. Intolerance only towards the intolerant ones. – JZ, 24.5.11, on Facebook, to Shanu Athiparambath Rev., 18.1.13. - FOR ALL TOLERANT PEOPLE, EXLPERIMENTAL FREEDOM UNDER PERSONAL LAW OR EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY FOR ALMOST ALL

TOLERANCE: To enthrone reason is to discard error; to accept tolerance is to destroy prejudices.” – Sprading, Liberty and the Great Libertarians, p.106. - Even reason should only be enthroned or enforced among those who voluntarily subscribed to it. Others, acting unreasonably only towards themselves, should be left to their own systems - as their fastest way to learn from their own errors and mistakes. – JZ, 14.7.08. - PREJUDICES, ERRORS, MISTAKES, PANARCHISM, REASON

TOLERANCE: To everyone his own way out, even a self-destructive one!” - JZ, 10.9.80, 24.9.82.

TOLERANCE: To tolerate everything is to teach nothing.” - Dr. F. K. Kinsman, 1868-1944. - This overlooks that one can also learn from observing the mistakes of others. - JZ, 24.9.82. – One can teach something else than the bad examples set by others. – JZ, 11.10.08.

TOLERANCE: Tolerable: that may be born, that can bear or endure, supportable, bearable, allowed, countenanced, sufferable, allowable.” - Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

TOLERANCE: Tolerable: that may be endured, supportable ( physically or mentally ); fairly good.” - Nuttal's Concise Standard Dictionary.

TOLERANCE: Tolerance and solidarity to achieve peaceful co-existence ...” - Robert Jungk: The Everyman Project, 71. - Solidarity? With Nazis, Soviets, religious fanatics? Or, rather, with their victims? Solidarity, like loyalty, or courage, is not a value in itself. It depends entirely upon the cause that its supports. If that is wrong then solidarity to that cause becomes a negative value, like, e.g., solidarity with coercive and monopolistic trade unionists. - JZ, 19.11.02. - SOLIDARITY

TOLERANCE: tolerance becomes a death warrant for legitimacy.” - Benjamin R. Barber, Supermen and Common Men, p.92. - About time! - JZ, 19.11.02.

TOLERANCE: Tolerance cannot be maintained against intolerance, unless this intolerance can be indifferently considered as merely a harmless private spleen. In no case should licence be granted for the destruction of liberty.“ – Karl Jaspers. – JZ tr. of: “Toleranz kann nicht bestehen gegen Intoleranz, wenn diese nicht als ungefaehrliche, private Verschrobenheit gleichgueltig behandelt werden darf. Es darf keine Freiheit geben zur Zerstoerung der Freiheit.“

TOLERANCE: Tolerance does not at all mean giving up the own convictions but their full preservation under respect for opposite views and a common search for a foundation upon which all convictions can peacefully coexist with each other, none of them at the expense of the other, with each having a sphere for its realization. – K. H. Z. Solneman, (Kurt H. Zube), 9.9.46 in a clipping he marked with DÖN. (Deutsch-Oesterreichische Nachrichten?) - My tr. of the German version: “Toleranz bedeutet keineswegs Aufgabe der eigenen Ueberzeugungen, sondern volle Wahrung derselben by Achtung auf gegnerische Ueberzeugungen und gemeinsames Suchen nach einer Basis, auf welcher alln Ueberzeugungen nebeneinander, keiner aber auf Kosten der anderen, eine Auswirkunsmoeglichkeit geboten wird.“ - PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: tolerance for rebels!” – Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune, p.23. – As long as they confine their rebellion to freely doing their own things for or to themselves. – JZ, 15.7.08. – PANARCHISM, RADICALS, EXTREMISTS, FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT

TOLERANCE: Tolerance in the face of determined evil . . . is certainly no virtue. (Unknown)

TOLERANCE: Tolerance is a better guarantee of freedom than brotherly love; for a man may love his brother so much that he feels himself thereby appointed his brother's keeper. – Everett Dean Martin (1880-1941), Liberty, 1930.FREEDOM, LOVE, BROTHERHOOD, LIBERTY, GUARANTIES

TOLERANCE: Tolerance is an act of forbearance resulting from a particular kind of judgment or calculation: namely, the judgment that the harm or potential harm (*) of a given act or belief is less costly (by some specifiable (**) Standard) than the abridgement of the act or belief. - - Or, inverted and stated in the affirmative: Tolerance is an act of forbearance resulting from a particular kind of judgment or calculation: namely, the judgment that the actor's (***) general freedom of action is more valuable than the prevention of a particularly harmful (*) or potentially harmful (*) act or belief.” (****) - Benjamin R.  Barber, Supermen and Common Men, p.84. – (*) Not just 'harm' but "wrong”. - If I set up a second and competing barber shop then I will possibly 'harm' the first barber by reducing his turnover but I would do him no 'wrong' (whatever unionists and professionals 'think' about this) because he is not entitled to the continuing custom of his previous customers. – (**) Specifications can be too individualistic and hard to communicate. Thus one should state: specifiable to others than the actor or believer. – (***) Here I would insert: "and other people's". – (****) To the whole passage I would add: "or of an act or belief supposedly harmful or potentially harmful to the actor." - That would be largely a matter of more or less objective specifications - subject of a new science, as U. von Beckerath used to say.

TOLERANCE: Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. – Robert Green Ingersoll, 1833-1899, quoted by Nizam Ahmad sharing The Debate Room's photo. - & HUMAN RIGHTS

TOLERANCE: Tolerance is the acceptance of disassociation …” – John W. Campbell in: The John W. Campbell Letters, vol. 1, 1985 Eds.: Perry A. Chapdelaine, Sr., et al., AC Projects Inc., ISBN 0-931150-16-7, p.151. - & DISASSOCIATION

TOLERANCE: Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” – G. K. Chesterton. One can also be so convinced of one’s case that one can become tolerant of all others that have not yet reached this state of enlightenment and therefore becomes tolerant towards their tolerant actions. – JZ, 26.7.08. –

TOLERANCE: Tolerance is the virtue of wisdom.“ – K. Peltzer, An den Rand geschrieben. – (“Toleranz ist die Tugend der Weisheit.”)

TOLERANCE: Toleration is what separates libertarianism from competing doctrines, at least when it comes to society and culture. If some principle of non-harm orients our political compass, toleration is a moral guide. I realize that might sound a little funny to anyone who’s spent five minutes on Facebook with a rabid Rothbardian. And, of course, self-styled progressives bandy the term about, too. But the classical liberal form is the original—and most resilient—sense of toleration (or tolerance), because it does not carry with it any baggage that might corrode the rule of law, or the freedoms of expression and conscience. - What has liberated great swaths of humanity is not just the idea that people should be as free as possible; it’s the idea that in order for this great pluralist project to succeed, we have to embrace a virtue that allows us to coexist peacefully with others who may not share our particular ideas about the good life (values, religion, ethnicity, culture, or lifestyle preferences). Classical liberals have always accepted the idea that people are seekers and strivers looking for something. Of course there are a billion paths to happiness, life meaning, and well-being. Accepting that, we have to put the pursuit of happiness first, which requires admitting that we’re all different, one to the next, and we will take different paths. Toleration starts with conscientiously agreeing not to obstruct another’s path." - Rob James via FEE - All You Need Is Toleration - fee.org

TOLERANCE: Tolerance of diversity, if individual idiosyncrasy and cultural pluralism, may increase while remaining responsible. (Much “tolerance” heretofore has just been a closing of the eyes and rejection of responsibility.) There is likely to be a strong tendency to live and let live, when psychopaths and neurotics are few.” – R. C. W. Ettinger, Man into Superman, p.145. - PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: Tolerance preserves minorities instead of destroying them.” - W. G. P.

TOLERANCE: Tolerance should only be a passing attitude. It should lead to recognition. To tolerate means to insult.” - Goethe, “Sprueche in Prosa”. – JZ tr. of: “Toleranz sollte eignetlich nur eine voruebergehende Gesinning sein; sie muss zur Anerkennung fuehren. Dulden heisst beleidigen.“ - Tolerance to any new experiment among volunteers means much more. It is always required, for all the new experiments and acceptance should happen only gradually, by volunteers. Tolerance for new experiments is not insulting. It shows respect for other innovators, reformers and scientists and their attempts to prove their case. – Moreover, people have the right to make mistakes at their own risk and expense. – To each his own! Panarchism! - JZ, 15.9.08. –

TOLERANCE: Tolerance, except for tolerance towards the intolerant. - Every concept is misunderstood and many to most invite misunderstandings, especially very general ones, e.g., freedom, equality, democracy, liberalism, anarchism, leadership, government, control, authority, voting, etc. - JZ, 13.8.99. - & INTOLERANCE

TOLERANCE: Tolerance: The disposition to be patient with the opinions or practices of others; forbearance, catholicity of spirit.” - Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

TOLERANCE: Tolerate: To allow to exist or be done or practice without authoritative interference or molestation, permit, to put up with.” – Source?

TOLERANCE: Tolerate: to suffer to be or to be done without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit, especially by not preventing. (L. tolero, bear ).” - Nuttal's Concise Standard Dictionary.

TOLERANCE: Toleration : ... the allowance of that which is not approved of; the practical recognition by a state, and its concession to its citizens, of the rights of private judgment, especially in matters of religion.“- Nuttal's Concise Standard Dictionary.

TOLERANCE: Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding the liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it.” - Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man. - That applies only to tolerance and rights as privileges, granted as royal gifts or divine or priestly concessions. Generalized tolerance can only be introduced as a mutual concession or exchange between rational beings, in their rational self-interest. It leads to full individual and minority autonomy - on an exterritorial basis, leaves no collectivist territorial sovereignty and is thus the true opposite to intolerance. - JZ, 24.9.82. –

TOLERANCE: toleration is odious to the intolerant; freedom to oppressors, property to robbers; and all kinds and degrees of prosperity to the envious.” – Edmund Burke, in a speech to the Electors of Bristol.

TOLERANCE: Toleration leads to comprehension.” - Lao Tzu, Medhurst edition, p.50. - Free experimentation leads to enlightenment. - JZ, 19.11.02. - & EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF ACTION

TOLERANCE: Toleration, in fine, never led to civil war; intolerance has covered the earth with carnage.” – Voltaire, A Treatise on Toleration, p. 165.

TOLERANCE: Toleration: ... the allowance of that which is not approved of; the practical recognition by a state, and its concession to its citizens, of the rights of private judgment, especially in matters of religion.” - Nuttal's Concise Standard Dictionary - Institutionalized intolerance allows and concedes! - JZ

TOLERANCE: Toleration: The action or practice of toleration or allowing what is not actually approved; forbearance, sufferance.” – Source?

TOLERANCE: Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery." – Cicero - LearnLiberty - Would you agree? Why or why not? - Too many people still mix up genuine freedom, rights and liberties with arbitrariness, although they are opposites, e.g. the Welfare "rights" or claims. – John Zube - Facebook, 12.1.13. – FREEDOM FOR ALL VS. ARBITRARINES BY SOME AGAINST OTHERS

TOLERANCE: Treat others at least as good as you wish to be treated yourself.” – LITTLE FREE PRESS. – Within reason. You cannot e.g. provide everybody with the treats you sometimes treat yourself with from your earnings. But, certainly, do not offer them any unprovoked violence or aggression. – JZ, 15.7.08. – LAW, NATURAL LAW, SELF-RESPECT PLUS RESPECT FOR THE RIGHTS & LIBERTIES OF OTHERS

TOLERANCE: Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your superiors.” - Seneca, Epistle 47:11, 1st c. BCE. –- That could be nasty, in both cases! – He was finally ordered by his emperor to commit suicide! – But he offered better advice to his friends. - JZ, 31.3.09.

TOLERANCE: True and generalized tolerance does also require intolerance against the intolerant: "It was the 'lex talionis’ - or the Golden Rule in reverse: Be done by as you do to others." - Damon Knight, Rule Golden, p.42. – Even to the extent of: "An eye for an eye?" – Under panarchism different juridical and penal systems would be practised among their volunteers. Some might even revive that old rule. – JZ, 11.10.08.

TOLERANCE: Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. – Mohandas GandhiThe heart has no brain, no principles, no knowledge. At most one can say that we ascribe to it, quite wrongly, feelings and instincts. But they, too, are largely placed in the brain and in the spinal cord and the nerves of the body. – JZ, 19.4.13. - TRUTHS, COERCION, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, TRUTHS, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, PRIVACY

TOLERANCE: Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.” – Mohandas Gandhi - & TRUTH

TOLERANCE: Tsze-kung asked, saying: "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" - The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." - Confucius: Analects. - RECIPROCITY, MUTUALISM, EQUAL RIGHTS & LIBERTIES

TOLERANCE: Vices are not crimes.” - Lysander Spooner - VICES, VICTIMLESS CRIMES, CRIMES

TOLERANCE: We consider that to be moral which a person considers to be right: also that he should have a perfect right to practise his morality, providing it does not interfere with the liberty of another.”- D. W. Brookhouse, in Bob James: Australian Anarchism, p.9.

TOLERANCE: We don’t have to like each other to get along.” – Morris West, The Navigator, p.228.

TOLERANCE: We don’t want any … society of the common man stifling the (*) uncommon man.” (**) – Kenneth F. Gantz: Not in Solitude. – (*) creative and tolerant actions of the … (**) Stifling their actions is only permissible in the defence of life, liberty and property rights of the common man, should the uncommon man, as a supposedly “great” leader, try to restrict them. – JZ, 3.9.82, 15.7.08.

TOLERANCE: We have resolved to grant to all Christians as well as all others the liberty to practise the religion they prefer,  in order that whatever exists of divinity or celestial power may help and favor us and all who are under our government.” - Constantin the Great, Edict of Milan, 313, quoted by Adams, the Education of Henry Adams. – It did not take the “Christians” very long to eliminate the passage underlined by me. – JZ, 11.10.08.

TOLERANCE: We have the right to choose the society most acceptable to us.” - J. S. Mill, On Liberty, Great Books of the Western World edition, p.304. – Even societies and communities or any kind of governance that is only exterritorially autonomous, under personal laws. – JZ, 14.4.09. FREE SOCIETY, COMPETING GOVERNMENTS, CHOICE, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY & SECESSIONISM, VOLUNTARISM, PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: We must not mistake rapid for wise action, or violent language for firmness. Our must b perfect tolerance, but also entire conviction; unwearied thought and courage immovable; above all faith …” - J. N Figgis, The Church and the Secular Theory of the State, on p.143 in David Nicholls, The Pluralist State.

TOLERANCE: We must take back our nation from all the people who think that anything that offends them should be removed.” - Unknown American. – The very concept of a nation, a people, a country, a single territorial state, is a very intolerant concept and it misleads many into quite intolerant and wrongful actions against the own countrymen and against “foreigners”, against individual rights and liberties, even to the construction and keeping in readiness of ABC mass murder devices. – JZ, 4.1.08, 25.3.11.

TOLERANCE: We practice non-aggression by being tolerant.” - Dr. Mary J. Ruwart, Healing Our World, chapter 1: The Golden Rule. - NON-AGGRESSION, PEACE, WAR

TOLERANCE: We should agree upon a convention conceding to every group the right to practise the principles of its ideal social order within the circle of like-minded people. For society as a whole, the most important rule would be the one delineating the aspirations of any group against those of all others. The principle of this limitation must be the same as that which can claim general applicability in describing personal liberty: the principle that freedom consists in the chance to do anything that does not limit the sane freedom of others.” - Free translation by JZ of Karl Walker, Demokratie und Menschenrechte (Democracy and Human Rights), S. 101.

TOLERANCE: We should conduct ourselves towards others as we would have them act towards us.” – Aristotle, 385 B.C. – THE GOLDEN RULE

TOLERANCE: Well, for those who like that sort of thing I should think that is just about the sort of thing they would like.” - Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1965 – RED.

TOLERANCE: What can you do about rats who allow rat poison (fluorides) to be put into their (and our) drinking water and think it is a good thing? Little to nothing! Let them die out in their own mad way and let us opt out of their rat race to death. - JZ, 7/76. – Just make sure that your own water supply is free of it. – JZ, 14.4.09. - COMPULSORY FLUORIDATION

TOLERANCE: What freedom except the choice of submission would you allow dissenters to your system? – JZ, 5.12.83, 14.7.08. - PANARCHISM, Q.

TOLERANCE: What good is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” – Henry David Thoreau, submitted by G. Harry Stine to ANALOG, 3.86, p.116. - PEACE, FREEDOM, JUSTICE

TOLERANCE: What helps it if man wins the whole world - but cannot stand himself - cannot be tolerant? - JZ, 2.10.75. - Then, obviously, he will lose it again and perish! He has already prepared the means for his destruction. - JZ, 3.8.78.

TOLERANCE: What is hateful to thyself do not unto they neighbor.” - Babylonian Talmud, Shabbath, p. 31 a. – Other versions: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. This is the law; all the rest is commentary.” – Talmud, Shabbat 31a. - What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.” - Talmud: Shabbat, 31. – Another version: What is hateful to you,  do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.” - Talmud: Shabbat, 31. JUDAISM, GOLDEN RULE

TOLERANCE: What is hateful to yourself, do not to your fellow-man. If you wish that nobody should harm you in connection with what belongs to you, you must not harm him in that way; if you wish that nobody should take away from you what is yours, do not take away from another what is his. … Thus did Rabbi Akiba teach me …” (*) - Abot d’R. Nathan (vers. II), 26, 4.27a. Quoted in: Lewis Bowne, The Wisdom of Israel. p.207. (*) Footnote by Browne: “Akiba’s teaching was not new. Hillel had already taught: ‘What is harmful to you, do not to your fellow-creature.’” (**) (Sab. 31a); and he in turn was echoing Tobit 4:15, and Leviticus 19:18.” (**) - I would not extend that e.g. to insect pests which are pestering me. Nor do I consider totalitarians etc. to be fellow creatures, as long as they extend their intolerant practices to others than their own voluntary victims. – JZ, 26.7.08. - PROPERTY RIGHTS

TOLERANCE: What is Liberty without Universal Toleration?” – William Blake, Complete Writings, 615, 158, 395, 879, 40, quoted in Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible, p.79. – Toleration even for the intolerant would be self-defeating. – JZ, 19.7.08. – LIBERTY

TOLERANCE: What is the 1) ethical, 2) philosophical, or 3) epistemological argument for requiring continued tolerance of ideas whose discrediting is the purpose of education to effect? What ethical code (in the Bible? in Plato? Kant? Hume”) requires “honest respect” for any divergent conviction? Even John Stuart Mill did not ask more than that a question be not considered as closed as long as any one man adhered to it, he did not require that that man, flourishing the map of a flat world, be seated in a chair of science at Yale.” – John Chamberlain, in introduction to W. F. Buckley, God and Man at Yale. – Should one be neutral and tolerant towards the expression of all kinds of ideas? Or try one’s best to refute some of them? – Even tolerance for freedom of expression and tolerance for freedom of action are not yet clearly enough distinguished. One can be very tolerant towards some false or absurd opinions and very intolerant towards certain intolerant actions. – JZ, 15.7.08. - ACADEMIC FREEDOM, VALUES, EDUCATION, Q.,

TOLERANCE: What judgment could I pass upon them worse than the judgment they pass upon themselves?” – Frank Herbert, The Mind Bomb, IF-SF, Oct. 69, p.18. – All those, who want to share the property of others, if panarchistically and exterritorially confined to voluntary victims, would by their “policy” prepare a bad fate for themselves. Likewise, e.g. the protectionists and the believers in central banking. However, they could and should “share” with their believers their own parts of all the assets which e.g. the politicians, bureaucrats and militarists do hold in their names. – JZ, 23.1.95, 18.7.08. - PANARCHISM, PRIVATIZATION, EXPROPRIATING POLITICIANS & BUREAUCRATS

TOLERANCE: What was it my mother used to say? Live and let live. Now, dear reader, that’s tolerance.” - John Laws, Book of Uncommon Sense, PAN, 1995, p.80.

TOLERANCE: What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy’s point of view.” - Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter: The Light of Other Days, p.79. – Perhaps the electronic “argument mapping” as developed and described by Paul Monk et al on the Internet, does come already close to such a machine. – JZ, 15.4.09. - UNDERSTANDING, PREJUDICES, ERRORS, MYTHS, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BEST REFUTATIONS,

TOLERANCE: What you do not want to be done to you that you ought not to do to anyone else! – (Was du nicht willst dass man dir thu, das fueg' auch keinen andem zu! – Quod tibi fieri non vis, alteri ne feceris!) – Another version: What you do not want others to do to you, do not do unto others. - Alexander Severus. - GOLDEN RULE

TOLERANCE: What you wish your neighbors to be to you, such be also to them.” – Sextus, a Pythagorean, 406 B.C. – NEIGHBORLINESS, JUSTICE, RECIPROCITY, BENEVOLENCE, GOOD WILL

TOLERANCE: What you would avoid suffering yourself, seek not to impose on others. – Epictetus, ca. 100 C.E.

TOLERANCE: What's one man's poison is another man's drug.” - Father Ronald Knox, 1888-1957.

TOLERANCE: What’s right is what works for you ... and no two yous are alike. A good thing about the Gathering, maybe the best thing, is it gives you a chance to look around and find what way of life suits you the closest - or start a new way, if you can corral a few disciples.” - Poul Anderson, Fire Time, p.153.

TOLERANCE: Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should not do to thee, do not do that to them. This is the whole Law. The rest is explanation.” - Ha-Babli.

TOLERANCE: When we put ourselves in the other person's place, we're less likely to want to put him in his place.” - F. D. in READER'S DIGEST, 1/77.

TOLERANCE: When we reflect how difficult it is to move or deflect the great machine of society, how impossible to advance the notions of a whole people suddenly to the ideal right, we see the wisdom of Solon’s remark that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.” – Thomas Jefferson, Writings, Vol. x, p.255. - - Minorities can bear more! No non-invasive person or group should be reformed against his will. Interventionists do each other no wrong if they confine their interventions to their own intentional community members.  – JZ, 7.7.82. – EXTERRITORIAL & VOLUNTARY AUTONOMY OR PERSONAL LAWS VS. TERRITORIALLY IMPOSED UNIFORMITY, PANARCHISM, NATIONALISM

TOLERANCE: Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. - Wendell L. Wilkie – quoted by Flo Hoffman – Facebook, 17.6.13. - LIBERTY, PANARCHISM, HATE, RIGHTS

TOLERANCE: Where there is discord – separation of interests can settle it in most cases. – JZ, 12.2.84. – TO EACH HIS OWN! PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.” – Walter Lippmann. - He magnanimously accords to others the right to be wrong. – Dr. Lawrence J. Peter

TOLERANCE: Which is the maximum of tolerance and which is its optimum? JZ, 11.1.93. – Tolerance towards all tolerant actions in all spheres. – JZ, 25.7.08. - PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: While I may strongly disapprove of what you do or want to do with your life and property and among like-minded people, I still more strongly uphold your right to do so. – JZ, 1.5.93, free after a remark ascribed to Voltaire. - PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: While my mother believes in the Golden Rule, she also advocates a second maxim, which she terms her Iron Rule: 'Don't do for others what they wouldn't take the trouble to do for themselves!" - Mrs. D. Fulton, THE READER'S DIGEST, Jan. 65. – GOLDEN RULE, IRON RULE, WELFARE STATE, MEDDLING, DO-GOODERS, ALTRUISM, SELFISHNESS

TOLERANCE: Whoever tolerates the intolerant does thereby become partly responsible for their crimes.” – Helvétius – (“Wer die Intoleranten duldet, macht sich an ihren Verbrechen mitschuldig.”) – Thus, who is quite innocent regarding the crimes committed by territorial States? – JZ, 21.7.08. – TERRITORIALISM, STATISM, WELFARE STATE

TOLERANCE: Why shouldn’ every alternative be permissible – at the own expense and risk of whose, who do want it for themselves? – (Warum sollte nicht jede Alternative erlaubt sein, fuer die, die sie wollen, auf eigne Kosten und eigne Gefahr? ) – JZ, n.d. & 25.3.11.

TOLERANCE: Wish for your neighbors nothing else than what you wish for yourself.” – Arab proverb, in JZ tr. from the German version: “Wuensche deinen Naechsten nichts anderes als dir selbst.” – Quoted in HILDESHEIMER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG, 24.6.1958, a clipping by my father, K.H.Z. – But beware, their tastes, opinions, habits, customs, preference and ideas may be quite different. Tolerate among all others other kinds of thinking and actions than you desire for yourself. Otherwise your wishes for your fellow men may turn into your commands and their wishes into enforcement attempts towards you, in which they may be the victors and enforce their wishes for your life. – JZ, 24.10.84, 26.7.08.

TOLERANCE: With the multiplication of sects grows the spirit of toleration which is nothing else but the recognition of the sovereignty of others.” - S. P. Andrews, The Science of Society, 1848, p.14. - & INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY

TOLERANCE: Words are what men live by.” - John Wayne in "Comancheros". - Allow them to do so! - JZ

TOLERANCE: You can't make it the same world for all people.” - From film on F. D. Roosevelt. – Pres. Bush II still tries! So did and do Welfare statists like F. D. Roosevelt. – JZ, 11.10.08.

TOLERANCE: You can’t make all feet fit the same pair of shoes.” – Vic Thomas, 25.9.82. - PANARCHISM

TOLERANCE: You contend that I am wrong to practice Catholicism; and I contend that you are wrong to practice Lutheranism. Let us leave it to God to judge. Why should I strike at you, or why should you strike at me? If it is not good that one of us should strike at the other, how can it be good that we should delegate to a third party, who controls the public police force, the authority to strike at one of us in order to please the other?” - From a discussion paper of the Workers Party on drugs. ?” - F. Bastiat, quoted in G. C. Roche III: Frederic Bastiat, A Man Alone, p.193.

TOLERANCE: You contend that I am wrong to teach my son science and philosophy; I believe you are wrong to teach yours Greek and Latin. Let us both follow the dictates of our conscience. Let us allow the law of responsibility to operate for our families. It will punish the one who is wrong. Let us not call in human law; it could well punish the one who is not wrong.” - F. Bastiat, quoted in G. C. Roche III: Frederic Bastiat, A Man Alone, p.193.

TOLERANCE: You do your thing, I’ll do mine. They do their thing - and everything can be wonderful - according to our different standards. - JZ, 30.1.78. - You do your things, together with your kind of volunteers and let me do my things, together with my kind. – JZ, 15.4.14. - MUTUAL TOLERANCE, VOLUNTARISM

TOLERANCE: You don't have to blow out the other fellow's light to let your own shine.” - Bernard Baruch. - EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, COMPETITION, PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE

TOLERANCE: You don’t tell me what to do and I don’t tell you. – Robert Sheckley, The Never-Ending Western Movie, in Science Fiction Discoveries, ed. By Carol and Frederik Pohl, Bantam Book, 1976, p.45. – We should not try to tell any territorial government what do to, either, with our part of a territorial majoritarian vote, nor should a territorial government tell us what to do with its “positive legislation”. – Genuine SELF-government is the thing to be realized. - JZ, 7.12.12.  - MUTUAL, LEAVE OTHERS ALONE, VOTING, TERRITORIALISM, STATISM, LEGISLATION

TOLERANCE: You may be against our aims - but we are for yours! - JZ, 26.2.76. - If only you pursue them for yourself, while leaving us alone! - JZ,  3.8.78, 19.11.02. - If only you pursue them only for yourself and like-minded people! - JZ, 3.8.78, 11.10.08

 

 


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