{"quotes":[{"text":"Interest in temperament as an individual difference dimension of importance in one's behavior leads to reanalysis of both theoretical and methodological considerations relating to the construct.","author":"Moutasem Algharati","tags":["advice-for-daily-living","affection","allowance","behavioral-change","behaviors","consideration","consideration-of-others","construct","construction","decision","decisions-inspirational","differences","dimensions","dimensions-of-consciousness","experience","importance","individual-rights","intellectual","interesting-perspection-of-life","interesting","life-philosophy","life","long-term-relationships","love","relationship","short-inspirational","short-term","temper","temperament"],"id":13553,"author_id":"Moutasem+Algharati"},{"text":"Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.","author":"Rose Wilder Lane","tags":["economics","ethics","freedom","individual-rights","ownership","philosophy","politics","productivity","wealth"],"id":51140,"author_id":"Rose+Wilder+Lane"},{"text":"A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal thing; it is not collective. You don’t gain liberty because you belong to a group. So we don’t talk about women’s rights or gay rights or anything else. Everybody has an absolute equal right as an individual, and it comes to them naturally.","author":"Ron Paul","tags":["anarchy","ancap","coercion","collectivism","freedom","government","individual-rights","individualism","libertarian","liberty","natural-law","natural-rights","philosophy","statism","voluntaryism","voluntaryist"],"id":62819,"author_id":"Ron+Paul"},{"text":"Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.","author":"David D. Friedman","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","coercion","collectivism","communism","freedom","individual-rights","individualism","libertarian","liberty","non-aggression-principle","politics","property-rights","socialism","state","statism","voluntaryism"],"id":125854,"author_id":"David+D.+Friedman"},{"text":"Why should you desire to compel others; why should you seek to have power— that evil, bitter, mocking thing, which has been from of old, as it is today, the sorrow and curse of the world—over your fellow-men and fellow-women? Why should you desire to take from any man or woman their own will and intelligence, their free choice, their own self-guidance, their inalienable rights over themselves; why should you desire to make of them mere tools and instruments for your own advantage and interest; why should you desire to compel them to serve and follow your opinions instead of their own; why should you deny in them the soul—that suffers so deeply from all constraint—and treat them as a sheet of blank paper upon which you may write your own will and desires, of whatever kind they may happen to be? Who gave you the right, from where do you pretend to have received it, to degrade other men and women from their own true rank as human beings, taking from them their will, their conscience, and intelligence—in a word, all the best and highest part of their nature—turning them into mere empty worthless shells, mere shadows of the true man and women, mere counters in the game you are mad enough to play, and just because you are more numerous or stronger than they, to treat them as if they belonged not to themselves, but to you? Can you believe that good will ever come by morally and spiritually degrading your fellow-men? What happy and safe and permanent form of society can you hope to build on this pitiful plan of subjecting others, or being yourselves subjected by them?","author":"Auberon Herbert","tags":["coercion","democracy","freedom","government","individual-rights","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","minarchist","natural-law","natural-rights","non-aggression-principle","peace","politics","statism","voluntaryism"],"id":139578,"author_id":"Auberon+Herbert"},{"text":"When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such dichotomy as “human rights” versus “property rights.” No human rights can exist without property rights.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["ancap","capitalism","coercion","collectivism","communism","democracy","evil","freedom","government","individual-rights","individualism","initiation-of-force","libertarian","liberty","non-aggression-principle","philosophy","politics","socialism","statism","taxation","theft","voluntaryism"],"id":166549,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planners","central-planning","individual-liberty","individual-rights","individualist","libertarian","libertarian-party","libertarianism","progressives","progressivism","socialism","socialists"],"id":166678,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Statism is political fashion.Individual liberty is eternal.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["individual-liberty","individual-rights","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","natural-rights","statism","statist"],"id":177531,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["history","holocaust","individual-liberty","individual-rights","libertarian","liberty","wwii","wwii-history"],"id":206434,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"LENIN = 'Revolutionary Social Democracy'American Socialists = 'Democratic Socialism'. What is the difference? The USSR held democratic referendums too; all of which increased the power of the central planners and reduced the individual to nothingness.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planners","collectivism","communism","democracy","democratic-socialism","individual-rights","socialism","soviet-russia","soviet-union","ussr"],"id":221647,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}