Voluntaryism Quotes

Voluntaryism 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.

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.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

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.

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

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.

Anarcho-capitalism: the realization that the only way to effectively govern the market is to have an effective market in governance.

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 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.

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

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

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.

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

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.

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity

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.

Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny.

An atheist who is a statist is just another theist.

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

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

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.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

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.

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

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.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

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.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

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

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.

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

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

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

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

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

Statism ends with an eye roll.

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.