Quotes about libertarianism

Art should be for sale. The artist should not.

LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about.

The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to do things that would be immoral if an ordinary individual did ’em.

Scratch a “libertarian” these days, and you will find...a leftist.

With a [democratic] government anyone in principle can become a member of the ruling class or even the supreme power. The distinction between the rulers and the ruled as well as the class consciousness of the ruled become blurred. The illusion even arises that the distinction no longer exists: that with a public government no one is ruled by anyone, but everyone instead rules himself. Accordingly, public resistance against government power is systematically weakened. While exploitation and expro

Sometimes I fantasize about the US head of state as a super-lazy, super-moral libertarian despot and think, “That would certainly make everything easier,” even though I can’t think of one person who’d qualify, except maybe Willie Nelson.

If you are stuck in circumstances in which it takes Herculean efforts to get through the day— doing low-income work, obeying an authoritarian boss, buying clothes for the children, dealing with school issues, paying the rent or mortgage, fixing the car, negotiating with a spouse, paying taxes, and caring for older parents— it is not easy to pay close attention to larger political issues. Indeed you may wish that these issues would take care of themselves. It is not a huge jump from such a wish t

Global libertarianism would be a borderless world society.

Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem.

Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.

The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not.

Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They more or less inherit them. Against this unearned patrimony there have always been speakers and writers who embody Einstein's injunction to 'remember your humanity and forget the rest.' It would be immodest to claim membership in this fraternity/sorority, but I hope not to have done anything to outrage it. Despite the idiotic sneer that such principles are 'fashionable,' it

If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what

I love my country, not my government.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.

If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own needs, then only one way remains open to him: to make himself richer and others poorer by the violent oppression and spoliation of his fellow men.

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.

If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you.

Legalize the right to choose wrong.Legalize individual liberty.

Is liberty your compass needle? Do you live by it? Do you seek it out equally for yourself as for others? Is it your creed? Do you observe its tenets and principles? Are you truly free?

Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by.

There are those that want "freedom" from individual responsibility. Then there are those that want individual "liberty." I choose the latter. I am a Libertarian

We Libertarians believe in "Limited Government" precisely because we believe in unlimited liberty. Reduce one, and you decrease the other.

Faith and freedom is great, but it gets nowhere without faith in freedom.

Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results.

There are those that want freedom from individual responsibility, and then there are those that want individual liberty. "Freedom" and "liberty" no longer mean what they used to. A desire for dependence has been made fashionably desirable.

Liberty will never yield equality. Freewill produces a mess that you either accept or reject in favor of slavery.

You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place?

Centralization is an abomination! Decentralize everything! Leave nothing to the central planners.

Fuck socialism!No, really..... fuck socialism. Socialism sucks!

Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.

I do not believe in equality of results. I believe in "equal opportunity" and "equality before the law".

Workers of the world unite???? How'bout.... Staunch individualists disperse!!!

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say that in this case it would interfere to create a great evil; and I am not going to be turned from the discussion of that direct issue to bottomless botherations about Socialism and Individualism, or the relative advantages of always turning to the right and always turning to the left.

Before the mid-20th century, when American libertarians entangled themselves in conservative coalitions against the New Deal and Soviet Communism, "free market" thinkers largely saw themselves as liberals or radicals, not as conservatives. Libertarian writers, from Smith to Bastiat to Spencer, had little interest in tailoring their politics to conservative or "pro-business" measurements. They frequently identified capitalists, and their protectionist policies, as among the most dangerous enemies

It is infinitely better to rely on the pursuit of economic interest by landowners or street companies than to depend on the dubious “altruism” of bureaucrats and government officials.

There's something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust, and criminal

If a man loses his money through unwise market speculation or by playing the horses, he has been punished in a manner which we may call passive. By this I mean that another person has not taken special, socially overt steps to harm the "offender." This phenomenon has not received the attention it deserves.

The idea economy is a conversation. Try to channel or control that conversation and you will stop the chatter.

Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!

All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.

People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.

The "right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" begins with "life", and "life" begins at conception.

The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion.

Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.

Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.

Despots are elected and deposed.Laws are passed and repealed.Nations rise and fall.Individual liberty is eternal.

Statism is political fashion.Individual liberty is eternal.

Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"??

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian

Some that read this book will find its Libertarian and Constitutionalist slant a bit obtuse and maybe even off-putting. This author makes no apologies for viewing the history of the eugenics movement from this political perspective. It is the ethical and legal underpinnings of the American Revolution that remain as a guiding light while the eugenics movement continues to reemerge long after its alleged demise. Limited, or rather minimal government, goes a long way to curtail the disconnect that

The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.

Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.

Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine.

Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian.

I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian.

There is a very dangerous myth that #Hitler was solely fueled by racism. His desire to engineer society was pervasive. Racism alone cannot explain what happened in The Holocaust without also addressing Hitler's statist policies.

Liberty isn't everything. I just allows everything to happen.

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.

You can get to oppression through regulation, especially in an "Idea Economy" which necessitates liberty of the mind to explore.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty.

Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

Big government = oligarchy. Simple equation. Big government = loss of representation.

A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.

To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled.

Modern Western democracies no longer engage in such despotic assaults on freedom, Instead, they deprive people of liberty indirectly, by relieving them of responsibility for their own (allegedly self-injurious) actions and calling the intervention "treatment.

The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they don't need anyone's permission to be free.

A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem.

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

Many rabble-rousers for libertarianism, liberty and freedom are unwitting pawns of controllers they have never even considered.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private property, not politics, "public education" or the creation of national mythology that allowed humankind to transition from prehistory to history. Just as trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private property have always been on the forefront of civilization's advancement, so were they also the driving force behind civilization's emerge

It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed to the transfer of the ownership of railroads or cotton mills to the state. If a man says that sulphuric acid does not make a good hand lotion, he is not expressing hostility to sulphuric acid as such; he is simply giving his opinion concerning the limitations of its use.

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

Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions.

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

The opposite of Nazi is neither Republican nor Democrat, conservative or liberal. Totalitarianism's diametric opposite of is Libertarianism.

Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.

If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.

All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.

The real American ideal of cool which is building businesses, protecting freedom at home and abroad, taking responsibility for your actions, and leaving other people alone to live as they damn well please.

[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.

When you vote, you play Russian Roulette with a magazine fed pistol.

Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.