C Hoppe Quotes

#1. We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

Hugh Shelton

#2. loved the poems so much that I decided to try writing one. Feels real good to just write out lines about whatever you're feeling. You should try it sometime." "It sounds very good, sir." "I wrote one for Cindy, but she didn't like it much, so I just write for myself now.

Imbolo Mbue

#3. I use nothing but homeopathic remedies, for my girls as well.

Mariel Hemingway

#4. I hope that my achievements in life shall be these-that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.

Carl Hoppe

#5. It is worth ascending unexiting heights if for nothing else than to see the big ones from nearer their own level.

Nan Shepherd

#6. If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

Art Hoppe

#7. There are challenges and opposition, everywhere! But we will fight the fight of faith!

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#9. We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

Art Hoppe

#10. 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.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#11. When we look at the past from beyond the perspective of sadness and error, without judgment, without right or wrong, understanding it was part of our chosen experience, then the past is healed. And by healing I mean that it is seen with wisdom and insight rather than judgment and scorn.

Linda Hoppe

#12. Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

Art Hoppe

#13. 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.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#15. 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.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#17. 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.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#18. I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.

Will Arnett

#19. Oh, thank me again!" said the count; "tell me till you are weary, that I have restored you to happiness; you do not know how much I require this assurance.

Alexandre Dumas

#20. Dancing is the first step to falling in love, after all.

Anne Leonard

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

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#22. The proper method of playing mixed doubles is to swipe the ball accidentally and straight at the woman opponent as hard and as accurately as possible. Male players must not only retain equanimity on their side of the net, but create dissension on the other.

Art Hoppe

#23. Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.

Vernon Duke

#24. 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.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#25. Between the radiant white of a clear conscience and the coal black of a conscience sullied by sin lie many shades of gray
where most of us live our lives. Not perfect but not beyond redemption.

Sherry L. Hoppe

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

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#27. 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.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#28. The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.

Iman

#29. 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.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#30. Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

Art Hoppe

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

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#32. We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.

Art Hoppe

#33. All is well in all of creation. There is nothing that needs to be fixed, nothing that needs to be changed, nothing that went wrong. It has just been an experience.

Geoffrey Hoppe

#34. 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.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#35. 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.'

Hans-Hermann Hoppe