Stephan Kinsella Quotes

#1. Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.

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#2. In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence of market cooperation.

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#3. We must recognize that only scarce resources are ownable; second, that the body is a type of scarce resource; third, that the mode of acquiring title to external objects is different from the basis of ownership of one's own body.

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#4. The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the printing press came along and the authorities worried that they couldn't control official thought as easily.

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#5. We're against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government.

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