Voluntaryism Quotes
Voluntaryism Quote of the day
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.
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.
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.
In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.
Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.
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.
Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.
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.
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 most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.
The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.
No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.
Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.
The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.
A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.
We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.
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.
They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.
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.
