Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.

Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation.

Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.

It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".

To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means.

A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.

The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.

Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.

An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.

It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.

Predator and prey move in silent gestures, on the seductive dance of death, in the shadows cast by the vultures of the night. ☥

Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom.

All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust?

Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others.

The country has to change. Productivity in Australia more generally has got to improve. Some of the highest manufacturing costs in the world are coming out of Australia.

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.