Top 28 Hans Hoppe Quotes
#2. The more we give to others, the more we are increased.
Laozi
#3. Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.
Kai Greene
#4. 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
#5. An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
#6. 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
#7. If there's no unity in your work, then you've deliberately made yourself into that kind of person. You don't want that unity in your work. You've made some kind of satisfactory arrangement with your culture.
Milton Resnick
#8. 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
#9. The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.
Milton Friedman
#10. Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. And this - this board was - was impanelled in 1951. And it's gone through ups and downs in how the secretaries have used it. But I have put a premium on that advisory board.
Chuck Hagel
#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.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
#15. The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.
Iyanla Vanzant
#16. To wake, and sleep, and know that one is loved; to hear, as I hear now, the whisper of a footfall; to feel the touch of hands; these things, above all else, are to be desired. I count myself fortunate, in that, for a little while, I have known them.
Keith Roberts
#17. The previous Governments took pride in making laws, but I am happier removing laws. Let's open the windows, let some fresh air come in.
Narendra Modi
#18. Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
#19. People will follow what they see, and not what they are only told to do
Sunday Adelaja
#20. Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.
Orison Swett Marden
#21. Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
Pindar
#22. 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
#23. The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes.
Jean De La Bruyere
#24. Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
#25. 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
#27. The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
#28. 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
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