De Molinari Quotes

#1. Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is it not then strange and unreasonable that it accepts them in the security industry?

Gustave De Molinari

#2. Frankl hypothesized that we have three parts to our nature:

Stephen R. Covey

#3. We have seen that improved agents of destruction advance production by continually enlarging its outlets. The security of civilisation has been assured neither by the arts of peace nor yet by those of war, but by the cooperation of both

Gustave De Molinari

#4. The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.

Gustave De Molinari

#5. I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.

Valerie Bertinelli

#6. Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid.

Gustave De Molinari

#7. I bask in their heatedness as before a woodstove. My own apathy is bone chilling.

Lionel Shriver

#8. War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

Gustave De Molinari

#9. We always trotted everywhere at Camp Arthur Currie. I never did find out who Currie was, but he must have been a trackman.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. Choose carefully. Success in life depends on the choices you make.

Debasish Mridha

#11. My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

Sidney Poitier

#12. In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.

Morris Raphael Cohen

#13. So that there is enough to keep life together, it matters little what it is.

G.A. Henty

#14. Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.

Gustave De Molinari

#15. In some ways, you kind of take a personality and drop it on the ground, and it breaks into a bunch of little pieces, and you kind of water those pieces, and it grows into characters. So they're all me in a way.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#16. You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

Ira Glass

#17. What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the product destined in part to consumption and in part to savings, in order to apply it to less productive or even destructive ends, and more rarely to savings.

Gustave De Molinari

#18. Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.

Gustave De Molinari

#19. If God meant woman to rule over man, He would have taken her out of Adam's head. Had He designed her to be his slave, He would have taken her out of his feet. But God took woman out of man's side, for He made her to be a helpmate and an equal to him. - Augustine

Michael O'Donnell

#20. Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

Gustave De Molinari