Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 10 of Robert Higgs’s excellent May 2005 study “Fear: The Foundation of Every Government’s Power” as this study is expanded, revised, and printed in Higgs’s 2007 book, Neither Liberty Nor Safety (link added):

Karl Marx famously declared that religion is the opiate of the people. Not so famously but equally correctly, Raymond Aron (1957) called collectivism, especially in its Marxist variant, “the opium of the intellectuals.”