Ancap Quotes

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In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life.

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save the world one transaction at a time.It is time for a new beginning.

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

It is only you, treading in the blessed path of peace and freedom, who can bring about the true regeneration of society, and with it the true happiness of your own lives.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with independent moral worth.

All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.

American Progressives have declared war on the sanctity and autonomy of the individual.

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and doubled lifespans.

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.