Karl Hess
Sign in to saveAmerican journalist, writer and libertarian (1923–1994)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 25
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 361
- Total plays
- 719
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 29,100x
- GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers
· 2015 · cited 25,304x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,717x
- GROMACS: Fast, flexible, and free
· 2005 · cited 18,102x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
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Quotes
- “We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.”
- “Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.”
- “Radical and revolutionary movements seek not to revise but to revoke. The target of revocation should be obvious. The target is politics itself.””
- “Big business in America today and for some years has been openly at war with competition and, thus, at war with laissez-faire capitalism. ... The left's attack on corporate capitalism is, when examined, an attack on economic forms possible only in collusion between authoritarian government and bureaucratized, nonentrepreneurial business. It is unfortunate that many New Leftists are so uncritical as to accept this premise as indicating that all forms of capitalism are bad...”
- “Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left — which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.”
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