Voluntaryism Quotes

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

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

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.

Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.

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

Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.

Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.

I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen.

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.

The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve already done it. It’s called a nickel.

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.

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

A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.

Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based "philosophy, " which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it "progressive".

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

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.

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

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.

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.

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.

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

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.

Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny.

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

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.

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.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

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.

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

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.

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.

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.

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.