Gustave de Molinari | Anarchy is no guarantee
"Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will."
Gustave de Molinari
Zitate
Henry Hazlitt | The whole gospel of Karl Marx in a single sentence
"The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity."
Henry Hazlitt
Ernst Jünger | The most horrifying prospect is that of technocracy
"The most horrifying prospect is that of technocracy, controlled rule exercised by maimed and mutilating minds."
Ernst Jünger
Hans Hermann Hoppe | the greatest threat to human security
"The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death by Government, Rudolph Rummel estimates some 170 million government-caused deaths in the twentieth century. The historical evidence appears to indicate that, rather than protecting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of their citizens, governments must be considered the greatest threat to human security."
Prof. Hans Hermann Hoppe
Hans Hermann Hoppe | Democracy is a soft variant of communism
"Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else."
Prof. Hans Hermann Hoppe
Roland Baader | The only true human right
"The only true human right is the right to be left alone - by anyone you didn't invite or welcome"
Roland Baader
The Libertarian Pilot | rules of state power
"We were raised by people who dutifully follow the rules of state power. We were brought up to follow the rules & not question the state. But now malicious people make the rules. It's time to teach our children something different."
The Libertarian Pilot
Joost A.M. Meerloo | democratic or totalitarian
"In my own experience, I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party - democratic or totalitarian - through study and comparison of principles."
Joost A.M. Meerloo
George Orwell | everything else is public relations
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations."
George Orwell
Bertolt Brecht | And they were sawing off the branches
"And they were sawing off the branches on which they were sitting. While shouting across their experiences to one another on how to saw more efficiently. And they went crashing down into the deep. And those who watched them shook their heads and continued sawing vigorously"
Bertolt Brecht
John Adams | Fear is the foundation of most governments
"Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it."
John Adams
Hans-Hermann Hoppe | What is true, just, and beautiful
"What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool. Democratic politicians must appeal to these masses in order to be elected. Whoever is the best demagogue will win. Almost by necessity, then, democracy will lead to the perversion of truth, justice and beauty."
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Napoleon Bonaparte | There is no more good-natured, but also no more gullible people
"There is no more good-natured, but also no more gullible people than the Germans. No lie can be conceived treacherous enough, the Germans believe it. They follow a slogan which was given to them, to act against their own countrymen, rather than the real enemies of their country."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Jean-Claude Juncker | step by step until there is no turning back
"We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back."
Jean-Claude Juncker
Hannah Arendt | The real goal of totalitarian ideology
“The real goal of totalitarian ideology is not the transformation of the external conditions of human existence and not the revolutionary reorganization of the social order, but the transformation of human nature itself, which, as it is, constantly opposes the totalitarian process. … What is at stake in total domination is really the essence of man.”
Hannah Arendt
Emile Zola | If you shut up truth
"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."
Emile Zola
Gore Vidal | chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice
"At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice."
Gore Vidal
Carl Gustav Jung | The world will ask you who you are
"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you."
Carl Gustav Jung
Ignazio Silone | If at a future moment fascism will return
"If at a future moment fascism will return, it will not be so stupid as to say: 'I am fascism.' It will say: 'I am antifascism.'"
Ignazio Silone
Upton Sinclair | American journalism is a class institution
"American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor."
Upton Sinclair
Henry Kissinger | that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy
"that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal."
Henry Kissinger
Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Whoever is content with the world
"Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it."
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Noam Chomsky | course of intellectual self defense
"Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy."
Noam Chomsky
Murray Rothbard | The function of the statist ideologists
"The function of the statist ideologists is to weave the false set of Emperor's clothes, to convince the public of a massive double standard: that when the State commits the gravest of high crimes it is really not doing so, but doing something else that is necessary, proper, vital, and even – in former ages – by divine command. The age-old success of the ideologists of the State is perhaps the most gigantic hoax in the history of mankind"
Murray Rothbard
Ray McGovern | have in any real sense a free media
"In Washington 52 years now I've seen a lot of change but there's one change the dwarfs all the other changes in importance and that is that we no longer have in any real sense a free media and that is big that could not be bigger"
Ray McGovern
Caitlin Johnstone | power-serving worldview
"The predominant reason mainstream news reporters say things that aren’t true is because in order to be hired by mainstream news outlets, you need to jack your mind into a power-serving worldview that is not based in truth."
Caitlin Johnstone