Voluntaryism Quotes
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![Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1574793149i/19771050._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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![Frédéric Bastiat](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1244626107i/89275._UX200_CR0,17,200,200_.jpg)
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
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![Larken Rose](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1627116902i/2978257._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.”
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![Thomas Sowell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1230424337i/2056._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.”
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![Alexis de Tocqueville](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1448356574i/465._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.”
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![George K. Simon Jr.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1482432404i/6076550._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.”
― In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing With Manipulative People
― In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing With Manipulative People
![Murray N. Rothbard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1215371480i/46810._CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects.”
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![Larken Rose](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1627116902i/2978257._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I'm not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers.
I'm scared of the thousands of millions of people that hallucinate them to be "authority", and so do their bidding, and pay for their empires, and carry out their orders.
I don't care if there's one looney with a stupid moustache. He's not a threat if the people do not believe in "authority".”
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I'm scared of the thousands of millions of people that hallucinate them to be "authority", and so do their bidding, and pay for their empires, and carry out their orders.
I don't care if there's one looney with a stupid moustache. He's not a threat if the people do not believe in "authority".”
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![Larken Rose](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1627116902i/2978257._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and you'll make the first guy pissed off, but you'll make the second guy lazy and dependent on you. Then you can tell the second guy that the first guy is greedy for wanting to keep the fish he caught. Then the second guy will cheer for you to steal more fish. Then you can prohibit anyone from fishing without getting permission from you. Then you can expand the racket, stealing fish from more people and buying the loyalty of others. Then you can get the recipients of the stolen fish to act as your hired thugs. Then you can ... well, you know the rest.”
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Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and you'll make the first guy pissed off, but you'll make the second guy lazy and dependent on you. Then you can tell the second guy that the first guy is greedy for wanting to keep the fish he caught. Then the second guy will cheer for you to steal more fish. Then you can prohibit anyone from fishing without getting permission from you. Then you can expand the racket, stealing fish from more people and buying the loyalty of others. Then you can get the recipients of the stolen fish to act as your hired thugs. Then you can ... well, you know the rest.”
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![Ludwig von Mises](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1209485450i/46766._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.”
― Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
― Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
![Stefan Molyneux](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388630101i/882627._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”
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![Larken Rose](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1627116902i/2978257._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“But who would build the roads if there were no government?
You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this country and 7 billion people on the planet would just sit around in their houses and think “Gee, I’d like to go visit Fred, but I can't because there isn’t a flat thing outside for me to drive on, and I don’t know how to build it and the other 300 million or 7 billion people can’t possibly do it because there aren’t any politicians and tax collectors. If they were here then we could do it. If they were here to boss us around and steal our money and really inefficiently build the flat places, then we would be set. Then I would be comfortable and confident that I could get places. But I can’t go to Fred’s house or the market because we can’t possibly build a flat space from A to B. We can make these really small devices that enable us to contact people from all over the word that fits in our pockets; we can make machines that we drive around in, but no, we can’t possibly build a flat space.”
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You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this country and 7 billion people on the planet would just sit around in their houses and think “Gee, I’d like to go visit Fred, but I can't because there isn’t a flat thing outside for me to drive on, and I don’t know how to build it and the other 300 million or 7 billion people can’t possibly do it because there aren’t any politicians and tax collectors. If they were here then we could do it. If they were here to boss us around and steal our money and really inefficiently build the flat places, then we would be set. Then I would be comfortable and confident that I could get places. But I can’t go to Fred’s house or the market because we can’t possibly build a flat space from A to B. We can make these really small devices that enable us to contact people from all over the word that fits in our pockets; we can make machines that we drive around in, but no, we can’t possibly build a flat space.”
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![Stefan Molyneux](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388630101i/882627._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“SCREW CHILDREN!
That's the mantra of the world.
Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on "screw children", and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us.”
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That's the mantra of the world.
Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on "screw children", and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us.”
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![Stefan Molyneux](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388630101i/882627._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.”
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![Albert Camus](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1686463588i/957894._UY200_CR46,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.”
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![Larken Rose](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1627116902i/2978257._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If you personally advocate that I be caged if I don't pay for whatever "government" things YOU want, please don't pretend to be tolerant, or non-violent, or enlightened, or compassionate. Don't pretend you believe in "live and let live," and don't pretend you want peace, freedom or harmony. It's a simple truism that the only people in the world who are willing to "live and let live" are voluntaryists. So you can either PRETEND to care about and respect your fellow man while continuing to advocate widespread authoritarian violence, or you can embrace the concepts of self-ownership and peaceful coexistence, and become an anarchist.”
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![Stefan Molyneux](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388630101i/882627._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.”
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![Thomas Sowell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1230424337i/2056._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.”
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![Frank Herbert](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1591018335i/58._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem. It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane.”
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![Stefan Molyneux](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388630101i/882627._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.
They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.”
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They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.”
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![Murray N. Rothbard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1215371480i/46810._CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the State would soon collapse to take on no more status or breadth of existence than another Mafia gang.”
― The Ethics of Liberty
― The Ethics of Liberty
![Gustave de Molinari](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1371382555i/1026184._UX200_CR0,19,200,200_.jpg)
“Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.”
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![Stefan Molyneux](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388630101i/882627._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.”
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![Albert Jay Nock](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1514032597i/228606._UX200_CR0,56,200,200_.jpg)
“I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except for the flavouring.”
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