{"quotes":[{"text":"No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.","author":"Wendy McElroy","tags":["anarchy","coercion","collectivism","communism","democracy","evil","feminism","freedom","individualism","libertarian","liberty","mob-rule","nap","non-aggression-principle","socialism","statism","taxation","theft","violence","voluntaryism"],"id":69389,"author_id":"Wendy+McElroy"},{"text":"Actually, in its essence, democracy is a totalitarian ideology, though not as extreme as Nazism, fascism or communism. In principle, no freedom is safe in a democracy, every aspect of the individual's life is potentially subject to government control. At the end of the day, the minority is completely at the mercy of the whims of the majority. Even if a democracy has a constitution limiting the powers of the government, this constitution too can be amended by the majority. The only fundamental right you have in a democracy, besides running for office, is the right to vote for a political party. With that solitary vote you hand over your independence and your freedom to the will of the majority.","author":"Frank Karsten","tags":["anarchy","ancap","coercion","communism","free-society","freedom","government","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","mafia","mob-rule","non-aggression-principle","politics","socialism","society","thugs","violence","voluntaryism","war"],"id":77773,"author_id":"Frank+Karsten"},{"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":"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["democracy","mob-rule","rights"],"id":132844,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["crowds","intelligence","mob-rule","mobs","people"],"id":235803,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"Voting on things is democratic, yes - but not on deciding on whether or not people should be equal or have human rights. That isn't democracy, it is mob rule.Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["deciding","democracy","democratic","equal","everybody","human-rights","mob-rule","nature","voting","yes"],"id":290668,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky - under each bulb - down to there, see that spark over the river which is not a star? - there are people whom you will never see and who are your masters. At the supper tables, in the drawing rooms, in their beds and in their cellars, in their studies and in their bathrooms. Speeding in the subways under your feet. Crawling up in elevators through vertical cracks around you. Jolting past you in every bus. Your masters, Gail Wynand. There is a net - longer than the cables that coil through the walls of this city, larger than the mesh of pipes that carry water, gas and refuse - there is another hidden net around you; it is strapped to you, and the wires lead to every hand in the city. They jerked the wires and you moved. You were a ruler of men. You held a leash. A leash is only a rope with a noose at both ends.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["civilization","democracy","follower","leader","living","masses","master","mob-rule","slave","society"],"id":364440,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don't fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism's bills, at least for a time. It's the difference between milking the cow and killing it. Socialism has no theory of wealth creation; it's just a destructive, envy-driven fantasy about redistributing it after something else (and somebody else) creates it first.","author":"Lawrence W. Reed","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","capitalism","coercion","collectivism","communism","democracy","evil","free","free-market","freedom","government","individualism","laissez-faire","legal","libertarian","liberty","mafia","markets","mob-rule","non-aggression-principle","plunder","politics","statism","taxation","theft","trade","voluntaryism"],"id":384949,"author_id":"Lawrence+W.+Reed"},{"text":"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["coercion","communism","control","economics","freedom","government","idiocracy","libertarian","liberty","mob-rule","politics","socialism","statism","taxation","theft","voluntaryism","vote","voting"],"id":411511,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.","author":"Auberon Herbert","tags":["anarchy","coercion","collectivism","communism","democracy","evil","free-markets","freedom","government","idiocracy","individual","individualism","libertarian","liberty","mob-rule","nap","non-aggression-principle","slavery","socialism","society","statism","totalitarian","voluntaryism"],"id":439828,"author_id":"Auberon+Herbert"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}