Statism Quotes

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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

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

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

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.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

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

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

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.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

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.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

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

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

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 vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.

The real triumph of the state occurs when its subjects refer to it as “we, ” like football fans talking about the home team.

History is the same story with different costumes.

Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.

Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines.

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

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.