“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.”

“Any idiot can put up a website.”

“Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.”

“Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completel...”

“For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If...”

“It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal. Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, ...”

“As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with h...”

“If we start to think about trust as a public good (like clean air and water), we see that we can all benefit from higher levels of trust in terms of communicating with others, making financial tran...”

“It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.”