Ancap Quotes

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

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

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.

Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based "philosophy, " which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it "progressive".

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.

We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny.

There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.

When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.