{"author":"Larken Rose","author_id":"Larken+Rose","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"Dear Anarcho-Communist,If you and I ever find ourselves in a stateless society, have no fear. Just mention that you are a communist, and I promise I will never try to 'oppress' and 'exploit' you by offering to trade with you, or by offering to pay you to do work.Sincerely,Larken Rose.","author":"Larken Rose","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","ancom","coercion","collectivism","communism","freedom","laissez-faire","libertarian","libertopia","liberty","non-aggression-principle","socialism","society","statism","superstition","voluntaryism"],"id":15926,"author_id":"Larken+Rose"},{"text":"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'.","author":"Larken Rose","tags":["anarchy","ancap","delusion","freedom","government","libertarian","liberty","statism","superstition","voluntaryism"],"id":17972,"author_id":"Larken+Rose"},{"text":"There is nothing virtuous or noble about being 'tolerant' of people whose attitudes and behaviors you approve of. If you don't defend the freedom of even those individuals whose attitudes and behaviors you find disgusting, narrow-minded and offensive, then you are not tolerant. To 'tolerate' doesn't mean you like it or approve of it; it means only that you ALLOW it to EXIST--I.E., you refrain from violently interfering. The people who look to 'government' to FORCE people to be 'nice' are not tolerant.","author":"Larken Rose","tags":["anarchy","ancap","coercion","collectivism","democracy","enforcement","evil","free","freedom","idiocracy","laissez-faire","law","libertarian","liberty","mob-rule","non-aggression-principle","politics","socialism","society","statism","statists","violence","voluntaryism","voluntaryist","zombies"],"id":82304,"author_id":"Larken+Rose"},{"text":"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.","author":"Larken Rose","tags":["anarchy","austrian-school-of-economics","bureaucracy","coercion","freedom","government","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","roads","slavery","socialism","statism","taxation","technology","theft","utopia","voluntaryism"],"id":222610,"author_id":"Larken+Rose"},{"text":"When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.","author":"Larken Rose","tags":["anarchist","anarchy","ancap","coercion","delusion","democracy","freedom","government","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","non-aggression-principle","political","politics","self-knowledge","statism","superstition","totalitarianism","tyranny","voluntaryism","voting"],"id":252759,"author_id":"Larken+Rose"},{"text":"The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed, regardless of the response. To beg for the blessing of “authority” is to accept that the choice is the master’s alone to make, which means that the person is already, by definition, a slave.","author":"Larken Rose","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","coercion","collectivism","communism","democracy","evil","free","free-markets","freedom","government","individual-freedom","individual-rights","individualism","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","masters","natural-law","natural-rights","non-aggression-principle","petition","politics","rulers","socialism","state","statism","subjugation","theft","totalitarian","trade","voluntaryism","voluntaryist"],"id":256156,"author_id":"Larken+Rose"},{"text":"Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based 'philosophy,' which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it 'progressive'.","author":"Larken Rose","tags":["aggression","anarchy","ancap","coercion","collectivism","communism","evil","free-markets","government","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","non-aggression-principle","politics","regime","socialism","totalitarian","tyranny","voluntaryism"],"id":267376,"author_id":"Larken+Rose"},{"text":"Having a Constitutional political party is a little like telling a car-jacker, 'You're not allowed to do what you're doing! And if you don't stop it right now, we are going to ask you to order yourself to be nice! And if that doesn't work, we are going to try to elect a new car-jacker, who we hope will tell himself not to steal our cars! ... But at least we're not like those silly utopian anarchist kooks out there who refuse to work within the system for change! Those crazy people say there should be NO car-jackers at all!","author":"Larken Rose","tags":["anarchy","ancap","capitalism","coercion","communism","freedom","government","libertarian","liberty","socialism","statism","taxation","theft","voluntaryism"],"id":287014,"author_id":"Larken+Rose"},{"text":"Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using different words, 'property taxes' are just a Mafia turf racket using different words. For the former, if you earn a living on the gang's turf, they extort you. For the latter, if you own property in their territory, they extort you. The fact that most people still imagine both to be legitimate and acceptable shows just how powerful authoritarian indoctrination is. Meanwhile, even a brief objective examination of the concepts should make anyone see the lunacy of it. 'Wait, so every time I produce anything or trade with anyone, I have to give a cut to the local crime lord??' 'Wait, so I have to keep paying every year, for the privilege of keeping the property I already finished paying for??' And not only do most people not make such obvious observations, but if they hear someone else pointing out such things, the well-trained Stockholm Syndrome slaves usually make arguments condoning their own victimization. Thus is the power of the mind control that comes from repeated exposure to BS political mythology and propaganda.","author":"Larken Rose","tags":["anarchy","ancap","brainwashing","coercion","collectivism","communism","evil","force","free","free-market","freedom","government","indoctrination","initiation-of-force","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","mafia","media","non-aggression-principle","peace","politics","propaganda","public","public-education","school","schooling","slavery","socialism","statism","taxation","theft","trade","violence","voluntaryism"],"id":314196,"author_id":"Larken+Rose"},{"text":"It's amazing the amount of anger, hostility and hatred some people show towards those of us who want to leave them in freedom. Hysterically, some statists characterize that as the voluntaryists trying to 'force' their views on everyone else. 'You're oppressing me, by leaving me alone, and wanting me to leave you alone!' Meanwhile, they wildly cheer when some politician promises to extort and control them. Go figure.","author":"Larken Rose","tags":["anarchy","ancap","coercion","freedom","government","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","non-aggression-principle","politics","statism","voluntaryism"],"id":327244,"author_id":"Larken+Rose"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}