Hans Hermann Hoppe Quotes

#1. 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.'

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#2. 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.

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

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#4. 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.

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

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#6. Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children,.

Sam Brownback

#7. With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

Theodore White

#8. 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.

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#9. A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, then how do you send someone else's?

Jesse Ventura

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

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#11. And, for the record, I didn't murder anybody. I want to make that clear. It's entertainment and it brings about the message I believe Scott wants to portray in this movie. There are a few messages in the movie and I'm not going to tell you what they are, but Scott hits the nail on the head with him.

Ralph Sarchie

#12. Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

Anton Chekhov

#13. Creativity requires activity ... And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead.

Julia Cameron

#14. 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.

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

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#16. 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.

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

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#18. My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.

Karen Kingsbury

#19. Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

John Lydon

#20. Now, I want to remember all this. My life has known days of innocence when I had only to close my eyes in order not to see.

Albert Memmi

#21. 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.

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#22. When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

Howard Zinn

#23. 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.

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

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#25. 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.

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#26. And above all, you should not think of writing as a way of earning your living. If you do, your work will smell of your poverty. It will be colored by your weakness and be as thin as your hunger. There are other trades which you can take up: make boots, not books.

Marquis De Sade

#27. I definitely like to go out and dance. I'm a big vibe person when it comes to music so a song really has to make me feel a certain way in order for me to fall in love with it.

Britney Spears