“The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.” IfsWorldHumansDreamWould BeActionLawForceMoralCasesFantasyImpossibleEconomicTheoryBehaviorIdealsAssumingNotionGreedLibertarianAbstractConsistentAbidingSystematicUtopianCalculatingHuman ActionsEconomic TheoryImpossible Dream Author:David Graeber
“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.” MatterTruthLawFreedomLibertyEthicsConscienceArgumentMajorityLibertarianTreatment Book:Gandhigrams Source: Gandhigrams
“Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state's laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism.” ThinkingMenMadeSaidStatesPhilosophyLawVoiceCrimeMassMen And WomenPropertyLibertarianStealingImmigrationCommitGuiltyAliensBordersIndividualismPrivate PropertyDeterminismImmigration Laws Author:Ilana Mercer
“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.” KnowsSuccessLawPoliticalMethodLibertarianSecurePresidentialGrantsExecutionObnoxiousBad LawsStrict Laws Author:Ulysses S. Grant
“If you do not assume the law of non-contradiction, you have nothing to argue about. If you do not assume the principles of sound reason, you have nothing to argue with. If you do not assume libertarian free will, you have no one to argue against. If you do not assume morality to be an objective commodity, you have no reason to argue in the first place.” IfsFirstsReasonLawSoundPrinciplesMoralityAssumingLibertarianArguingObjectivesContradictionNo ReasonFree WillCommodity Author:William J. Murray