Hans-Hermann Hoppe Quotes

#1. Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.

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#2. All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources, the overutilization and vandalization of factors of production, and the inferior quality of products and services.

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#3. An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

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#4. It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared to that, the victims of private crimes are almost negligible.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

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#7. Egalitarian and relativistic sentiments find steady support among ever new generations of adolescents. Owing to their still incomplete mental development, juveniles, especially of the male variety, are always susceptible to both ideas.

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#8. Public officials are permitted to finance or subsidize their own activities through taxes. That is, they are permitted to engage in and live off, what in private dealings between private law subjects is prohibited and considered 'theft' and 'stolen loot.'

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#9. In accordance with his high time preference, he may want to be a vagabond, a drifter, a drunkard, a junkie, a daydreamer, or simply a happy go-lucky kind of guy who likes to work as little as possible in order to enjoy each and every day to the fullest.

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#10. Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.

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#11. The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that
it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions
are positive rather than negative.

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#12. Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

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#13. One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy
implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs by-everyone else: a "tragedy of the commons" is created.

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#14. The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.

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#15. Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

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