Karl Hess Quotes

#1. Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver out of the earnings of individuals rather than the profits of great corporations.

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#2. Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.

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#3. We do not want to lead or be led. We want to be free.

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#4. Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

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#5. The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.

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#6. In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no.

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#7. The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.

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#8. A 7-11 parking lot beat down is how life is.

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#9. Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.

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#10. All who love Liberty are enemies of the state.

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#11. No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.

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#12. The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.

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#13. To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.

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#14. The fundamental question of politics has always been whether there should be politics.

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#15. When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

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