The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.

The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

Don’t kill yourself just because you think and feel you are empty. God needs empty vessels to fill!

Those who apparently do evil do it ultimately out of love, even if their actions are misguided for the moment.

I've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I've got a larger face.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth.

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

On the key to a successful Twitter account: Write the things that you think are funny and that's what's gonna click with people.

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

I'm a humanist and an optimist.

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.