Murray N. Rothbard
"It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling."
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"It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling."
"من الواضح أن حصر مصطلح "التعليم" في سنوات الدراسة الرسمية محض عبث."
Murray N. Rothbard
Education: Free & Compulsory
"“It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.”"
"THOUGHTS: The user wants an eloquent Arabic (Fusha) translation of the English quote. I need to capture the essence and poetic tone, not just a literal word-for-word translation.
Key concepts:
- "easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate'": This implies a superficial, showy compassion that costs nothing to the person displaying it.
- "if others are being forced to pay the cost": This is the crucial condition, highlighting the hypocrisy.
Let's break down potential Arabic equivalents for these concepts:
1. **"It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate'"**:
* "Easy": سهل، يسير
* "Conspicuously": بشكل واضح، بوضوح، علناً، جهاراً. For a more eloquent touch, perhaps something like "التظاهر بـ" (to pretend/feign) or "إظهار" (to show/display) with an adjective like "بجلاء" (clearly/manifestly) or "بوضوح" (clearly).
* "'Compassionate'": "متعاطف" (sympathetic), "رحيم" (merciful/compassionate), "شفوق" (compassionate/pitying). The quotation marks suggest a feigned or superficial compassion. So, "التعاطف الزائف" (false compassion) or "الشفقة المصطنعة" (fabricated pity) could work. Or simply using the word for compassion but implying its superficiality through context.
2. **"if others are being forced to pay the cost"**:
* "If": إذا، متى
* "Others": الآخرون
* "Are being forced": يُجبرون، يُكرهون
* "To pay the cost": يدفعون الثمن، يتحملون التكلفة، يتكبدون"
Murray N. Rothbard
"Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check."
Murray N. Rothbard
"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."
Murray N. Rothbard
"Libertarians are not supposed to be egalitarians… And yet there it is: egalitarianism has become the unspoken but very real driving force in the current Official movement. Once group egalitarianism becomes the norm, other groups than blacks will clamor for the privileges of ‘victim status.’ Sure enough, that jostling for victim privilege is now the major hallmark of American politics. The Official libertarians have so far not displayed enormous affinity for Latino or disabled ‘rights,’ but they are highly enthusiastic about the ‘rights’ of women and feminism generally. And in particular, libertarians have displayed great fervor for gay ‘rights’ and stress the evils of ‘discrimination’ against gays. So ardently are libertarians devoted to gay rights that the word ‘libertarian’ in the public press has now become almost a code word for champion of gay rights. Only his pro-gay agenda accounts for the ardor of Republican libertarians toward Massachusetts Governor Weld, whom they embrace as, in the current slogan, ‘fiscally conservative but socially tolerant.’ (The ‘fiscally conservative’ refers to a one-time budget cut followed, the next time around, by a compensatory budget increase.) ’Socially tolerant,’ in the current atmosphere, means a devotion to the entire Left cultural agenda, from gay rights to compulsory multicultural propaganda and condomization in the public schools."
Murray N. Rothbard
"Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can't really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism"
Murray N. Rothbard
"It’s true: greed has had a very bad press. I frankly don’t see anything wrong with greed. I think that the people who are always attacking greed would be more consistent with their position if they refused their next salary increase. I don’t see even the most Left-Wing scholar in this country scornfully burning his salary check. In other words, "greed" simply means that you are trying to relieve the nature given scarcity that man was born with. Greed will continue until the Garden of Eden arrives, when everything is superabundant, and we don’t have to worry about economics at all. We haven’t of course reached that point yet; we haven’t reached the point where everybody is burning his salary increases, or salary checks in general."
Murray N. Rothbard
"Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust, and criminal"
Murray N. Rothbard
"Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as 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 neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?"
Murray N. Rothbard
"The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as “taxation,” although in less regularized epochs it was often known as “tribute.” Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects."
Murray N. Rothbard
"It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society."
Murray N. Rothbard
"Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects."
Murray N. Rothbard
"The very term ‘public utility’ … is an absurd one. Every good is useful ‘to the public,’ and almost every good … may be considered ‘necessary.’ Any designation of a few industries as ‘public utilities’ is completely arbitrary and unjustified."
Murray N. Rothbard
"There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State."
Murray N. Rothbard
"I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual."
Murray N. Rothbard
"While liberals are in favor of any sexual activity engaged in by two consenting adults, when these consenting adults engage in trade or exchange, the liberals step in to harass, cripple, restrict, or prohibit that trade. And yet both the consenting sexual activity and the trade are similar expressions of liberty in action."
Murray N. Rothbard
"The first people to get the new money are the counterfeiters, which they use to buy various goods and services. The second receivers of the new money are the retailers who sell those goods to the counterfeiters. And on and on the new money ripples out through the system, going from one pocket or till to another. As it does so, there is an immediate redistribution effect. For first the counterfeiters, then the retailers, etc. have new money and monetary income they use to bid up goods and services, increasing their demand and raising the prices of the goods that they purchase. But as prices of goods begin to rise in response to the higher quantity of money, those who haven't yet received the new money find the prices of the goods they buy have gone up, while their own selling prices or incomes have not risen. In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money toward the end of the chain, and still worse losers are the people (e.g., those on fixed incomes such as annuities, interest, or pensions) who never receive the new money at all."
Murray N. Rothbard
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