{"quotes":[{"text":"In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save the world one transaction at a time.It is time for a new beginning.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-economics","austrian-school-of-economics","banks","capitalism","coercion","economics","freedom","government","inflation","libertarian","liberty","money","national-debt","socialism","statism","taxation","voluntaryism"],"id":2784,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the legally permitted prices, but also higher than they would be in a free market, since the legal risks must also be compensated. While small-scale black markets may function in secrecy, large-scale black markets usually require bribes to officials to look the other way.","author":"Thomas Sowell","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-economics","austrian-school-of-economics","capitalism","coercion","evil","free-market","freedom","government","liberty","regulations","socialism","statism","voluntaryism"],"id":5716,"author_id":"Thomas+Sowell"},{"text":"To be sure, I am not speaking about Christian equality, whose real name is equity; but about this democratic and social equality, which is nothing but the canonization of envy and the chimera of jealous ineptitude. This equality was never anything but a mask which could not become reality without the abolition of all merit and virtue.","author":"Charles Forbes René de Montalembert","tags":["anarcho","anarchy","ancap","capitalism","coercion","communism","free-markets","freedom","government","liberal","libertarian","liberty","non-aggression-principle","socialism","statism","taxation","theft","tyranny","violence","voluntaryism"],"id":12182,"author_id":"Charles+Forbes+Ren%C3%A9+de+Montalembert"},{"text":"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.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["anarchy","ity","coercion","freedom","government","libertarian","liberty","peace","power","psychopath","regime","society","state","statism","voluntaryism"],"id":12303,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"},{"text":"Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.","author":"Friedrich A. Hayek","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","coercion","collectivism","free-markets","freedom","libertarian","liberty","nap","non-aggression-principle","politics","socialism","statism","taxation","theft","violence","voluntaryism"],"id":12785,"author_id":"Friedrich+A.+Hayek"},{"text":"There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The state, then, is the very institution that puts socialism into action; and as socialism rests on aggressive violence directed against innocent victims, aggressive violence is the nature of any state.","author":"Hans-Hermann Hoppe","tags":["aggression","anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","coercion","collectivism","communism","evil","free-markets","free-trade","freedom","government","individualism","initiation-of-force","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","nap","non-aggression-principle","politics","self-ownership","statism","voluntaryism","voluntaryist"],"id":14755,"author_id":"Hans-Hermann+Hoppe"},{"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":"Once you understand the economics of the Austrian School and the philosophy of liberty in the tradition of Rothbard, you never look at anything – not the state, the media, the central bank, the political class, nothing – the same way again.","author":"Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","capitalism","coercion","economics","free","free-market","free-trade","freedom","government","libertarian","liberty","markets","non-aggression-principle","politics","statism","voluntaryism"],"id":24464,"author_id":"Llewellyn+H.+Rockwell+Jr."},{"text":"Schooling that children are forced to endure—in which the subject matter is imposed by others and the “learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true interests—turns learning from a joyful activity into a chore, to be avoided whenever possible. Coercive schooling, which tragically is the norm in our society, suppresses curiosity and overrides children’s natural ways of learning. It also promotes anxiety, depression and feelings of helplessness that all too often reach pathological levels.","author":"Peter Gray","tags":["academics","alternative","children","coercion","education","freedom","homeschooling","indoctrination","kids","learn","learning","liberty","prussian-education-system","state-schools","unschooling","voluntaryism"],"id":27563,"author_id":"Peter+Gray"},{"text":"In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had to hold themselves together from the bottom up, ultimately.","author":"Gordon S. Wood","tags":["coercion","government","law","republicanism","virtue"],"id":27630,"author_id":"Gordon+S.+Wood"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":192,"pages":20,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}