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#1

“War is Mass Murder, Conscription is Slavery, Taxation is Robbery.”
― Murray N. Rothbard

tags: anarcho-capitalism, economy, politics

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#2

“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.”
― Murray N. Rothbard

tags: economics

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#3

“Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can't really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism”
― Murray N. Rothbard

tags: anarchism, capitalism

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#4

“There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian”
― Murray N Rothbard

tags: keynes, keynesian, keynesianism, marx

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#5

“Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.”
― Murray N. Rothbard

tags: anarchist, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, communism, economics, evil, free, free-market, freedom, gang, government, individual, individualism, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, markets, non-aggression-principle, politics, principle, rights, socialism, statism, taxation, taxes, theft, trade, violence, voluntaryism

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#6

“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine the can design.”
― F. A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism

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#7

“From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time”
― Friedrich August von Hayek, Constitution of Liberty

tags: political_philosopy

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#8

“Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.”
― Friedrich von Hayek

tags: communism, fascism

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#9

“If socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists.”
― Friedrich Hayek

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#10

“The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.”
― Friedrich A. Hayek

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#11

“Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.”
― Friedrich Hayek

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, free-markets, freedom, libertarian, liberty, nap, non-aggression-principle, politics, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, violence, voluntaryism

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#12

“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.”
― Thomas Jefferson

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#13

“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.”
― Jeff Cooper, The Art of the Rifle

tags: arms, bill-of-rights, constitution, evil, freedom, good-and-evil, gun, gun-ammo, gun-control, gun-laws, gun-rights, guns, gunslinger, law, moral, morality, protection, rifle, rifles, right-to-bear-arms, right-to-keep-and-bear-arms, righteous, safety, second-amendment, tyranny

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#14

“Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: founding-fathers, freedom, government-corruption, gun-control, gun-laws, gun-rights, guns, liberty, politics, politics-of-the-united-states, resistance, second-amendment, self-defense, tyranny

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#15

“Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.”
― Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

tags: employment, jobs, minimum-wage

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#16

“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”
― Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

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#17

“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
― Frederic Bastiat, The Law

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#18

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
― Thomas Sowell

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#19

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
― Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays

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#20

“Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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― Thomas Sowell

tags: racism

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#21

“The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.”
― Frédéric Bastiat

tags: cause, defend

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#22

“The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless.”
― Israel M. Kirzner

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, economics, free, free-market, freedom, human-action, knowledge, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, markets, philosophy, psychology, self-knowledge, voluntaryism, wisdom

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#23

“The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with independent moral worth.”
― Israel M. Kirzner

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-economics, austrian-school-of-economics, capitalism, freedom, libertarian, liberty, statism, voluntaryism

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#24

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
― Alan Kay

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#25

“There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.”
― Frédéric Bastiat

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#26

“Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”
― Friedrich Hayek

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, force, freedom, government, indoctrination, libertarian, liberty, nap, non-aggression-principle, politics, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, violence, voluntaryism

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#27

“Nobody can be a great economist who is only an economist - and I am even tempted to add that the economist who is only an economist is likely to become a nuisance if not a positive danger.”
― Friedrich Hayek

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#28

“Civilization rests on the fact that we all benefit from knowledge which we do not possess.”
― Friedrich Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1: Rules and Order

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#29

“The fact that German anti-Semitism and anticapitalism spring from the same root is of great importance for the understanding of what has happened there, but this is rarely grasped by foreign observers.”
― Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom

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#30

“The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.”
― Friedrich Hayek

tags: anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, economics, evil, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, morals, non-aggression-principle, politics, statism, voluntaryism

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