Quotes About Hoppe

#1. 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

#2. It sounds awful and sort of goody two-shoes, but I never eat between meals.

Ruth Rendell

#3. I wouldn't say I'm moving to America; I certainly would say that I'm just staying there; and I certainly wouldn't advise anyone to come here unless they've got an extensive CV in the U.K.; you have to build your career wherever you started from.

Nonso Anozie

#4. To become truly unmistakable I have to be willing to ditch the map, travel without a guidebook, and see where it leads me.

Srinivas Rao

#5. 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

#6. It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

Jake Barton

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

Art Hoppe

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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

Art Hoppe

#11. 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

#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. I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

John Key

#15. Accidentally cut a few strips outta his patient's brain. Interested in what would happen if he stitched them back in the wrong place. Patient woke up thinking he was a panda ice cream spatula.

Bradley Sands

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

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#17. 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

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

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. It's not your job to get people to like you, it's your job to like people.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#23. I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

Andy Warhol

#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. Wearing a hat is fun; people have a good time when they're wearing a hat.

Philip Treacy

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

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#30. You can renew your spirit and strength, if you take time to rest your soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. 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

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

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

Imelda Marcos

#37. 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