“Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.” EvilPoliticsFreedomLibertyTradeLibertarianSocialismAnarchyFreeFree MarketCoercionStatismVoluntaryismMarketsLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of Economics Author:Murray N. Rothbard
“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects.” GovernmentFreedomLibertyTaxesLibertarianAnarchyStatismVoluntaryismAustrian School Of EconomicsAustrian Economics Author:Murray N. Rothbard
“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint and the power to create money, unused land ("the public domain"), streets and highways, rivers and coastal waters, and the means of delivering mail...the State relies on control of the levers of propaganda to persuade its subjects to obey or even exalt their rulers.” GovernmentForceFreedomLibertyViolenceLibertarianSocialismAnarchyTaxationFree MarketGangMonopolyTheftMafiaCollectivismStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsNapAustrian Economics Book:The Ethics of Liberty Source: The Ethics of Liberty
“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.” FreedomLibertyPrisonLibertarianAnarchyFree SocietyCrime And PunishmentAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsDispute Resolution Author:Murray N. Rothbard
“While liberals are in favor of any sexual activity engaged in by two consenting adults, when these consenting adults engage in trade or exchange, the liberals step in to harass, cripple, restrict, or prohibit that trade. And yet both the consenting sexual activity and the trade are similar expressions of liberty in action.” GovernmentForceFreedomLibertyViolenceLibertarianSocialismLiberalismAnarchyFree MarketTheftCoercionFree TradeStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireInitiationNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsNapAustrian Economics Author:Murray N. Rothbard
“The very term ‘public utility’ … is an absurd one. Every good is useful ‘to the public,’ and almost every good … may be considered ‘necessary.’ Any designation of a few industries as ‘public utilities’ is completely arbitrary and unjustified.” GovernmentForceFreedomLibertyViolenceLibertarianSocialismAnarchyAggressionTaxationTheftMafiaCoercionStateStatismVoluntaryismNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsNapSocialized Author:Murray N. Rothbard
“The movement that I’m in favor of is a movement of libertarians who do not substitute whim for reason. Now some of them do, obviously, and I’m against that. I’m in favor of reason over whim. As far as I’m concerned, and I think the rest of the movement, too, we are anarcho-capitalists. In other words, we believe that 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.” PeaceFreedomLibertyTradeLibertarianCooperationAnarchyFreeFree MarketVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsNap Author:Murray N. Rothbard
“L'endoctrinement de la jeunesse dans les écoles était l'un des principaux piliers de ces États esclavagistes. En vérité, la principale différence entre les horreurs du XXème siècle et les despotismes plus anciens est que ces tyrannies modernes ont dû reposer sur un soutien des masses plus direct, et que par conséquent l'alphabétisation obligatoire et l'endoctrinement ont joué un rôle crucial.” FreedomLibertyLibertarianSchoolingFrenchCollectivismIndoctrinationStatismVoluntaryismNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismLibertéAustrian School Of EconomicsGuerrePaixAnarchieLibertarienState SchoolséTatismePrincipe De Non AggressionEducation Nationale Author:Murray N. Rothbard
“Another tried-and-true method for bending subjects to the state's will is inducing guilt. Any increase in private well-being can be attacked as "unconscionable greed, "materialism",, or "excessive affluence." Profit-making can be attacked as "exploitation" and "usury", mutually beneficial exchanges are denounced as selfishness, and somehow, with the conclusion always being drawn that more resources should be siphoned from the private to the public sector. The induced guilt makes the public more ready to do just that. While individual persons tend to indulge in "selfish greed", the failure of the state's rulers to engage in exchanges is supposed to signify their devotion to higher and nobler causes, parasitic predation being apparently morally and aesthetically lofty as compared to peaceful and productive work.” Austrian School Of EconomicsFree MarketsCultural MarxismState Power Book:Anatomy of the State Source: Anatomy of the State
“Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.” GovernmentFreedomLibertyTradeLibertarianAnarchyRulersThievesTaxationGangTheftMafiaCoercionStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapFairAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsProtectionismFree MarketsInterventionism Author:Murray N. Rothbard