{"author":"Murray N. Rothbard","author_id":"Murray+N.+Rothbard","total_quotes":38,"quotes":[{"text":"Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on 'society's' jailing the criminal; the emphasis would necessarily be on compelling the criminal to make restitution to the victim of his crime. The present system, in which the victim is not recompensed but instead has to pay taxes to support the incarceration of his own attacker — would be evident nonsense in a world that focuses on the defense of property rights and therefore on the victim of crime.","author":"Murray N. Rothbard","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","austrian-school-of-economics","crime-and-punishment","dispute-resolution","free-society","freedom","libertarian","liberty","prison"],"id":14033,"author_id":"Murray+N.+Rothbard"},{"text":"The movement that I’m in favor of is a movement of libertarians who do not substitute whim for reason. Now some of them do, obviously, and I’m against that. I’m in favor of reason over whim. As far as I’m concerned, and I think the rest of the movement, too, we are anarcho-capitalists. In other words, we believe that capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can’t really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism.","author":"Murray N. Rothbard","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","cooperation","free","free-market","freedom","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","nap","non-aggression-principle","peace","trade","voluntaryism"],"id":23258,"author_id":"Murray+N.+Rothbard"},{"text":"It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.","author":"Murray N. Rothbard","tags":["anarchy","austrian-economics","austrian-school-of-economics","charity","coercion","communism","free-markets","freedom","libertarian","liberty","philosophy","socialism","statism","virtue","voluntaryism","welfare"],"id":43297,"author_id":"Murray+N.+Rothbard"},{"text":"Man has rights because they are natural rights. They are grounded in the nature of man: the individual's capacity for conscious choice, the necessity for him to use his mind and energy to adopt goals and values, to find out about the world, to pursue his ends in order to survive and prosper, his capacity and need to communicate and interact with other human beings and to participate in the division of labor.","author":"Murray N. Rothbard","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","cooperation","ethics","free","freedom","humanity","libertarian","liberty","natural-rights","society","trade","universal","voluntaryism"],"id":50456,"author_id":"Murray+N.+Rothbard"},{"text":"It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.","author":"Murray N. Rothbard","tags":["education","school"],"id":52853,"author_id":"Murray+N.+Rothbard"},{"text":"Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.","author":"Murray N. Rothbard","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","coercion","fair","free-markets","freedom","gang","government","interventionism","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","mafia","non-aggression-principle","protectionism","rulers","statism","taxation","theft","thieves","trade","voluntaryism"],"id":93467,"author_id":"Murray+N.+Rothbard"},{"text":"The very term ‘public utility’ … is an absurd one. Every good is useful ‘to the public,’ and almost every good … may be considered ‘necessary.’ Any designation of a few industries as ‘public utilities’ is completely arbitrary and unjustified.","author":"Murray N. Rothbard","tags":["aggression","anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","coercion","force","freedom","government","libertarian","liberty","mafia","nap","non-aggression-principle","socialism","socialized","state","statism","taxation","theft","violence","voluntaryism"],"id":118424,"author_id":"Murray+N.+Rothbard"},{"text":"I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.","author":"Murray N. Rothbard","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","coercion","freedom","government","initiation-of-force","libertarian","liberty","nap","non-aggression-principle","philosophy","socialism","statism","taxation","theft","voluntaryism"],"id":124501,"author_id":"Murray+N.+Rothbard"},{"text":"No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.","author":"Murray N. Rothbard","tags":["freedom","virtue"],"id":132021,"author_id":"Murray+N.+Rothbard"},{"text":"The first people to get the new money are the counterfeiters, which they use to buy various goods and services. The second receivers of the new money are the retailers who sell those goods to the counterfeiters. And on and on the new money ripples out through the system, going from one pocket or till to another. As it does so, there is an immediate redistribution effect. For first the counterfeiters, then the retailers, etc. Have new money and monetary income they use to bid up goods and services, increasing their demand and raising the prices of the goods that they purchase. But as prices of goods begin to rise in response to the higher quantity of money, those who haven't yet received the new money find the prices of the goods they buy have gone up, while their own selling prices or incomes have not risen. In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money toward the end of the chain, and still worse losers are the people (e.G., those on fixed incomes such as annuities, interest, or pensions) who never receive the new money at all.","author":"Murray N. Rothbard","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-economics","austrian-school-of-economics","capitalism","central-bank","counterfeiting","economics","free-market","freedom","government","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","socialism","statism","theft","voluntaryism"],"id":142706,"author_id":"Murray+N.+Rothbard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}