“If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim and if they used both halves of their brains then they'd be libertarians. Instead, they sabotage themselves, and their cause, by constantly generating one spurious reason after another to deprive other people of their freedom.” PeopleIfsReasonUsedIndividualCausesBrainHalfLibertyClaimsLibertarianSabotageIndividual Liberty Author:L. Neil Smith
“Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death with its draconian curtailment of property and voting rights will become the biggest civil rights issue of all.” WellsRunningTechnologyIssuesRightsClaimsPropertyLibertarianExperimentsCivil RightsRadicalVotingRight To VoteEmulationDraconian Book:Accelerando Source: Accelerando
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” PhilosophyHumorEarthIndividualLibertyRightsEconomicClaimsDenyLibertarianMinoritiesLibertarianismSmallestDefendersLimited GovernmentIndividual LibertyIndividual RightsObjectivismMinority Government Book:The Virtue of Selfishness Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin".” EarthScienceJesusBornSunClaimsLibertarianVirginsFunny Religious Author:Robert Bellarmine
“Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.” FreedomInterestingLibertyRightsCitizensExerciseClaimsDenyLibertarianLibertarianismWeakeningConstitutional Rights Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit ... Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do ... He does not keep "protecting" you by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that.” DoeUseWishResponsibilityLibertyTakenEconomicCrimeDangerBenefitsClaimsDown AndLibertarianBowsLibertarianismHighwaymen Author:Lysander Spooner
“A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being for any reason whatever; nor will a libertarian advocate the initiation of force, or delegate it to anyone else. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.” BelieveHumansMayPersonsForceRealizingHuman BeingsLibertyPrinciplesFailingCircumstancesClaimsLibertarianLibertarianismConsistentlyInitiateDelegatesInitiation Author:L. Neil Smith
“Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.” KindReligionUniverseScientistClaimsLibertarian Author:Richard Dawkins