Top 44 Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski Quotes
#2. To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled.
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#3. An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.
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#4. Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation.
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#5. A fool believes that the society of the future will transcend the laws of economics. A person of reason hopes that it will finally learn to respect them.
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#6. Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.
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#8. A foolish environmentalist wants to save nature from the greed of the market by exposing it to the tragedy of the commons. A smart environmentalist wants to save nature from the tragedy of the commons by exposing it to the greed of the market.
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#9. Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions.
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#10. Unorganized morality is called sociability. Organized morality is called civilization. Unorganized immorality is called barbarity. Organized immorality is called statism.
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#11. The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers.
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#12. Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem.
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#13. Expressing fear that cheap foreign labor will "steal" one's job is the most disarmingly honest admission of professional incompetence.
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#14. Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.
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#15. Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.
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#17. The history of modern philosophy is the history of losing and regaining the awareness of the fact that there is no third way between the Absolute and the absurd.
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#21. The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.
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#24. The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.
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#25. It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".
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#26. To create a free society is not to accomplish the impossible task of convincing all people to abandon aggression, but to accomplish the essential task of convincing enough people to abandon the belief that aggression is ever legitimate.
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#29. Entrepreneurs make profits by serving the needy. Politicians make profits by creating the needy.
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#30. A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.
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#31. It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.
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#32. Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.
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#34. The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they don't need anyone's permission to be free.
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#36. To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means.
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#37. An anarcho-capitalist is someone who agrees that the best way to eliminate the tragedy of the commons is to privatize it away, and realizes that state politics is the mother of all such tragedies.
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#38. If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.
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#40. A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem.
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#41. Anarcho-capitalism: the realization that the only way to effectively govern the market is to have an effective market in governance.
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#42. The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.
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#43. Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.
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#44. Whenever one feels like saying "the money that billionaire spent on his fleet of yachts could have been used better by the "public sector"", one should ask oneself when was the last time one heard of a billionaire buying an army of tanks and a set of nuclear weapons.
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