The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.
L. Neil SmithPeople in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
L. Neil SmithPoliticians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.
L. Neil SmithThe trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.
L. Neil Smith