Statism Quotes
Statism Quote of the day
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.
People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.
Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.
Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.
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.
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.
Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.
Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.
If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.
When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.
The real triumph of the state occurs when its subjects refer to it as “we, ” like football fans talking about the home team.
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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.
The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.
Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.
The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)
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.
No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.
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.
Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.
Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect.” “Yes, it is. But it is politically correct.” (The Rise of Political Correctness)
Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.
Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.
When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.
