Frederic Bastait, Letters to the Economist March 5, 2005 quotes
"The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
"The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."