People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
L. Neil SmithPossibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.
L. Neil SmithWe live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.
L. Neil SmithWhat I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.
L. Neil SmithWe're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.
L. Neil SmithLet's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they died from too few. I'm not suggesting that the teachers should have carried guns not as franchised agents of the state. They should have carried guns as ordinary individuals, exercising a sacred right, and in performance of a solemn duty to protect the young lives that were placed very foolishly, as it turned out in their hands.
L. Neil Smith