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#1

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

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#2

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting

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#3

“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

tags: aggression, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, communism, economics, evil, free, free-market, freedom, government, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, state, statism, taxation, theft, trade, voluntaryism

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#4

“Every socialist is a disguised dictator.”
― Ludwig von Mises

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, communism, freedom, gangster-hero, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nap, nationalism, non-aggression-principle, politics, statism, taxation, theft, thieves, totalitarianism, violence, voluntaryism

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#5

“All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

tags: individualism

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#6

“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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#7

“Today's left would have us forget that the pseudo-science of eugenics was once all the rage among socialists.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

tags: eugenics, socialism

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#8

“It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.”
― Murray N. Rothbard

tags: anarchy, austrian-economics, austrian-school-of-economics, charity, coercion, communism, free-markets, freedom, libertarian, liberty, philosophy, socialism, statism, virtue, voluntaryism, welfare

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#9

“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point: never bother with leftists. Forget about these political prostitutes. Aim higher. [...] They serve a purpose only at the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in the United States: all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders. They are instrumental in the process of the subversion only to destabilize a nation. When their job is completed, they are not needed any more. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist-Leninists come to power—obviously they get offended—they think that they will come to power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.”
― Yuri Bezmenov

tags: beauty, civil-rights, communism, communists, defenders, destabilization, disillusioned, disillusionment, enemies, enemy, execution, idealism, instructors, instrumental, job, kgb, knowledge, marxism, marxists, nation, offended, offense, political, politics, power, professors, prostitutes, purpose, socialism, socialist, soviet, united-states, useful-idiots, worst

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#10

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

tags: government, lies, marxism, socialism

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#11

“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.”
― Albert Camus

tags: freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, socialism, statism, voluntaryism

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#12

“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and you'll make the first guy pissed off, but you'll make the second guy lazy and dependent on you. Then you can tell the second guy that the first guy is greedy for wanting to keep the fish he caught. Then the second guy will cheer for you to steal more fish. Then you can prohibit anyone from fishing without getting permission from you. Then you can expand the racket, stealing fish from more people and buying the loyalty of others. Then you can get the recipients of the stolen fish to act as your hired thugs. Then you can ... well, you know the rest.”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, austrian-school-of-economics, capitalism, coercion, collectivism, communism, evil, free-market, freedom, government, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, non-aggression-principle, politics, slavery, socialism, statism, superstition, taxation, theft, violence, voluntaryism, voluntaryist

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#13

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: capitalism, churchill, conservatism, freedom, morality, politics, pride, scotland, socialism, virtue

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#14

“But who would build the roads if there were no government?

You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this country and 7 billion people on the planet would just sit around in their houses and think “Gee, I’d like to go visit Fred, but I can't because there isn’t a flat thing outside for me to drive on, and I don’t know how to build it and the other 300 million or 7 billion people can’t possibly do it because there aren’t any politicians and tax collectors. If they were here then we could do it. If they were here to boss us around and steal our money and really inefficiently build the flat places, then we would be set. Then I would be comfortable and confident that I could get places. But I can’t go to Fred’s house or the market because we can’t possibly build a flat space from A to B. We can make these really small devices that enable us to contact people from all over the word that fits in our pockets; we can make machines that we drive around in, but no, we can’t possibly build a flat space.”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarchy, austrian-school-of-economics, bureaucracy, coercion, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, roads, slavery, socialism, statism, taxation, technology, theft, utopia, voluntaryism

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#15

“Guns are a necessary tool designed to help your people avoid a repeat of history.”
― A.E. Samaan

tags: bill-of-rights, democide, genocide, gun-control, gun-rights, second-amendment, self-defense

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#16

“Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.”
― A.E. Samaan

tags: constitution, constitutional-law, constitutional-rights, legality, libertarian, libertarianism, liberty-of-man, natural-rights, rights-of-man

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#17

“Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.”
― A.E. Samaan

tags: collectivist, communism, communist, democratic-socialism, government-regulation, revolution, socialist, statism, totalitarian, totalitarianism, utopian-socialism

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#18

“If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: anarchy, brainwashing, communism, freedom, government, indoctrination, leftists, libertarian, liberty, philosophy, socialism, statism, voluntaryism

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#19

“When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarchist, anarchy, ancap, coercion, delusion, democracy, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, non-aggression-principle, political, politics, self-knowledge, statism, superstition, totalitarianism, tyranny, voluntaryism, voting

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#20

“Dear Anarcho-Communist,

If you and I ever find ourselves in a stateless society, have no fear. Just mention that you are a communist, and I promise I will never try to "oppress" and "exploit" you by offering to trade with you, or by offering to pay you to do work.

Sincerely,

Larken Rose”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, ancom, coercion, collectivism, communism, freedom, laissez-faire, libertarian, libertopia, liberty, non-aggression-principle, socialism, society, statism, superstition, voluntaryism

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#21

“Collectivism is the "philosophy" of every cockroach and sewer rat: "If I want it, I must need it, and if I need it, I have a right to it, and if I have a right to it, it doesn't matter what I have to do to get it." The
fact that such an inherently animalistic, short-sighted, anti-human
viewpoint is now painted by some as compassionate and "progressive" does not make it any more sane, or any less dangerous.”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, communism, evil, free-markets, freedom, government, individual, individualism, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, natural-law, natural-rights, non-aggression-principle, philosophy, politics, rights, self-ownership, socialism, statism, voluntaryism

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#22

“For anyone who thinks "profit" is evil, I have a challenge for you: try NOT to get any profit in the next week. Profit simply means increasing how much valuable stuff you have, and if you don't profit, you die. Literally. For example, don't buy any food for a week, because when you buy food (or anything), it's because you value the food MORE than you value the money you trade for it. If you didn't, you wouldn't make the trade. So you PROFIT (and so does the seller) every time you buy something. And every time you sell something, or work for money, etc. So before condemning "profit" (or "greed" or "selfishness," for that matter), see if you can survive without it. Then stop repeating vague collectivist BS, and learn to distinguish between "win/win" events (voluntary exchange) where BOTH sides profit, and "win/lose" events, where one side benefits by harming the other side. By the way, "government" is ALWAYS the latter.”
― Larken Rose

tags: austrian-economics, capitalism, economics, free-market, laissez-faire

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#23

“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.... you have a dream.”
― A.E. Samaan

tags: anarchism, anarchist, anarchy, collectivism, collectivist, communism, communist, freedom, libertarian, liberty, political-theories, political-theory, utopia, utopian-socialism

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#24

“Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.”
― A.E. Samaan

tags: antifa, communism, communists, confederate-monuments, fascism, fascists, historic, historical, history, libertarian, liberty, monuments, propaganda, protests, socialists, statues, totalitarian, totalitarianism, totalitarians

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#25

“Despots are elected and deposed.
Laws are passed and repealed.
Nations rise and fall.
Individual liberty is eternal.”
― A.E. Samaan

tags: despots, individual-liberty, individual-rights, libertarian, libertarianism, liberty, tyranny, tyrants

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#26

“There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.”
― A.E. Samaan

tags: common-sense-philosophy, freedom, government-policy, immoral, libertarian, libertarianism, liberty, morality, political-theory, social-constructs, society

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#27

“We Libertarians believe in "Limited Government" precisely because we believe in unlimited liberty. Reduce one, and you decrease the other.”
― A.E. Samaan

tags: freedom, individual-liberty, libertarian, libertarianism, liberty, limited-government

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#28

“The libertarian philosophy doesn't explain the best way to grow a vegetable garden!" Why do some people talk as if there should be one concept or principle which is all you'll ever need to know in order to handle everything in life? Right now the PRIMARY threat to humanity--by a factor of a zillion--is the belief in "authority." And the solution--the ONLY solution--is for people to escape that superstition. Questions like, "But how do we care for the poor?" are 100% logically IRRELEVANT to proving that statism is immoral and destructive. "But gee, if I stop sawing off my toes with this steak knife, how will I balance my checkbook?" Why the hell do people imagine that anarchists have some obligation to explain how every aspect of everyone's life will work, just because they say, "Having a ruling class is immoral and irrational"? When someone tells you to stop advocating evil crap (e.g., statism), they don't suddenly acquire an obligation to explain the whole universe to you, or to guarantee that nothing bad will ever happen to anyone ever again.”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, exploitation, freedom, government, libertarian, state, statism, theft

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