39 quotes found
“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.”
“Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.”
“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.”
“The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private property, not politics, "public education...”
“Anarcho-capitalism: the realization that the only way to effectively govern the market is to have an effective market in governance.”
“Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.”
“For the greater good":the phrase that always precedesthe greatest evil.”
“It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".”
“The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god.”
“A fool believes that the society of the future will transcend the laws of economics. A person of reason hopes that it will finally learn to respect them.”
“Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.”
“Whenever one feels like saying the money that billionaire spent on his fleet of yachts could have been used better by the "public sector, one should ask oneself when was the last time one heard of ...”
“A foolish environmentalist wants to save nature from the greed of the market by exposing it to the tragedy of the commons. A smart environmentalist wants to save nature from the tragedy of the comm...”
“Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.”
“The history of modern philosophy is the history of losing and regaining the awareness of the fact that there is no third way between the Absolute and the absurd.”
“Voter: someone smart enough to choose how to be fooled.”
