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#1

“The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.”
― Karl Hess

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#2

“I have received your new book against the human race, and thank you for it. Never was such a cleverness used in the design of making us all stupid. One longs, in reading your book, to walk on all fours. But as I have lost that habit for more than sixty years, I feel unhappily the impossibility of resuming it. Nor can I embark in search of the savages of Canada, because the maladies to which I am condemned render a European surgeon necessary to me; because war is going on in those regions; and because the example of our actions has made the savages nearly as bad as ourselves. [in response to Rousseau's "The Social Contract"]”
― Voltaire

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#3

“It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscience, refuse to financially support the bureaucracy that actually does the killing. Apparently, the state takes money more seriously than life.”
― Karl Hess

tags: anarchy, army, authoritarianism, beaurocracy, coercion, collectivism, communism, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, non-aggression-principle, politics, socialism, state, statism, taxation, theft, totalitarianism, war

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#4

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
― Frédéric Bastiat

tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, countries, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nations, socialism, statism, taxation, taxes, theft, thugs, voluntaryism

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#5

“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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#6

“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”
― George Orwell, The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell

tags: authoritarianism, libertarianism, politics

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#7

“I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator — that's beyond my conceit. I therefore have no choice but to find something suspect even in the humblest believer. Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us, in Fulke Greville's unforgettable line, "Created sick — Commanded to be well." And there are totalitarian insinuations to back this up if its appeal should fail. Christians, for example, declare me redeemed by a human sacrifice that occurred thousands of years before I was born. I didn't ask for it, and would willingly have foregone it, but there it is: I'm claimed and saved whether I wish it or not. And if I refuse the unsolicited gift? Well, there are still some vague mutterings about an eternity of torment for my ingratitude. That is somewhat worse than a Big Brother state, because there could be no hope of its eventually passing away.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

tags: arrogance, authoritarianism, religion

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#8

“The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals.”
― Glenn Greenwald

tags: authoritarianism, liberty, nsa, privacy, spying, surveillance, surveillance-society

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#9

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim MORRISON

tags: freedom, individuality, inspirational, mask, personality, revolution, truth

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#10

“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child

tags: doctrine, equal-rights, freedom, liberty, morality, rights

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#11

“A right delayed is a right denied.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: liberty

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#12

“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

tags: liberty, majority-v-minority, philosophy

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#13

“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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#14

“Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.”
― Jose Rizal

tags: freedom, liberty

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#15

“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: crime, government, innocence, law, libertarian

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#16

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
― Frederic Bastiat

tags: bastiat, france, government, history, liberal, libertarian, philosophy

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#17

“I'm not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers.
I'm scared of the thousands of millions of people that hallucinate them to be "authority", and so do their bidding, and pay for their empires, and carry out their orders.
I don't care if there's one looney with a stupid moustache. He's not a threat if the people do not believe in "authority".”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarchy, ancap, delusion, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, statism, superstition, voluntaryism

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#18

“When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.”
― Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson

tags: liberty, productivity

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#19

“Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.”
― Doug Stanhope

tags: anarchy, countries, delusions, irrationality, libertarian, statism

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#20

“United States: the country where liberty is a statue.”
― Nicanor Parra , Artefactos

tags: america, freedom, liberty

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#21

“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.”
― Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine

tags: education, freedom, libertarian, liberty, political, statism, taxes, totalitarianism

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#22

“Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on "society's" jailing the criminal; the emphasis would necessarily be on compelling the criminal to make restitution to the victim of his crime. The present system, in which the victim is not recompensed but instead has to pay taxes to support the incarceration of his own attacker — would be evident nonsense in a world that focuses on the defense of property rights and therefore on the victim of crime.”
― Murray N. Rothbard

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, austrian-school-of-economics, crime-and-punishment, dispute-resolution, free-society, freedom, libertarian, liberty, prison

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#23

“Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill Jews, gypsies, and Slavs in Europe; they did not fire-bomb scores of large German and Japanese cities and drop nuclear bombs on two of them; they did not carry out a ‘Great Leap Forward’ that killed scores of millions of Chinese; they did not attempt to kill everybody with any appreciable education in Cambodia; they did not launch one aggressive war after another; they did not implement trade sanctions that killed perhaps 500,000 Iraqi children.

In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy’s mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state’s mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.”
― Robert Higgs

tags: anarchism, anarchy, chaos, genocide, government, killing, mayhem, state, statism

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#24

“Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the powerful few.”
― A.E. Samaan

tags: capitalism, capitalist, centrally-planned, centrally-planned-economies, centrally-planned-societies, crony-capitalism, cronyism, libertarian, libertarianism, liberty, socialism, socialist, statism, statist

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#25

“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could present grievances, on whom the pressures of power could be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.”
― Hannah Arendt

tags: anarchy, bureaucracy, communism, evil, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, minarchy, socialism, state, statism, taxation, theft, totalitarian, voluntaryism

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#26

“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#27

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war

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#28

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: conflict, politics, war

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#29

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#30

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

tags: education

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