{"quotes":[{"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":"In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["democracy","law-enforcement","peace-and-harmony","peace-on-earth","peaceful-coexistence","regulations","rule-of-law","the-masses","the-power-of-a-constitution","the-power-of-the-law","undermining-the-law"],"id":11416,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"My usual instruction to students when they are preparing to write their examinations is 'think before you answer the questions'. I am convinced that some multiple choice answers could be so close that you might not know the very one that answers the question correctly! Such is life. To choose your suitable dreams, you must think well!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["answer","answer-questions","choice","choose","close","commandment","convince","convinced","dreams","exam","examination","exams","food-for-thought","graduates","instruction","israelmore-ayivor","life","life-lessons","look-before-you-leap","make-a-choice","mentality","multiple","multiple-choice","positive-thinking","prepare","preparing","question-paper","regulations","rules","similar","students","think","think-well","thinkers","thinking","thought","words","write"],"id":36675,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"It's WW2 and there are wage controls in place. Instead of health care, companies decide to offer employees shoes. Having absorbed those costs, they later lobby for every company to be required to offer shoes. That calls forth regulation and monopolization of the shoe industry. Shoes are heavily subsidized. Every shoe must be approved. Producers must be domestic. They must adhere to a certain quality. They can't discriminate based on foot size or individual need. Prices rise, and some people lack shoes, so the Affordable Shoe Act forces everyone to buy into an official shoe plan or pay a fee. Here we have a perfect plan for making shoes egregiously expensive. The entire country would be consumed with the fear of being shoeless if they lose their job. The left wing calls for a single shoe provider to offer universal shoes and the right wing meekly suggests that shoe makers be permitted to sell across state lines.Meanwhile, libertarians suggest that we just forget the whole thing and let the market make and deliver shoes of every quality to anyone from anyone. Everyone screams that this is an insane and dangerous idea.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","coercion","collectivism","communism","economics","free","free-markets","freedom","government","interference","laissez-faire","law","libertarian","liberty","markets","monopoly","non-aggression-principle","politics","regulations","socialism","statism","trade","voluntaryism"],"id":36731,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.","author":"Baruch Spinoza","tags":["anarchy","coercion","drugs","ethics","freedom","government","immorality","legality","libertarian","liberty","morality","prohibition","regulations","state","statism","voluntaryism","war"],"id":59239,"author_id":"Baruch+Spinoza"},{"text":"Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","coercion","collectivism","economics","force","free-market","freedom","government","initiation","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","nap","non-aggression-principle","regulations","socialism","statism","violence","voluntaryism"],"id":74805,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or another faction will assert control in the name of society. Inevitably, the faction will be the most powerful in society -- that is, the state. This is why all attempts to create socialism in scarce goods or services devolve into totalitarian systems of top-down planning.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","itarian","capitalism","coercion","collective","collectivism","communism","economics","evil","free","free-market","freedom","government","individual","individualism","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","markets","non-aggression-principle","politics","regulations","socialism","statism","trade","voluntaryism","voluntaryist"],"id":90934,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"Ultimately a regulation is a signal of design failure...It is what we call a license to harm: a permit issued by a government to an industry so that it may dispense sickness, destruction, and death at an 'acceptable' rate.","author":"William McDonough","tags":["environment","industry","regulations"],"id":91519,"author_id":"William+McDonough"},{"text":"The overwhelming tendency of markets is to bring people together, break down prejudices, persuade people of the need to cooperate regardless of class, race, religion, sex/gender, and physical ability. The same is obviously and especially true of sexual orientation. It is the market that rewards people who put aside their biases and seek gains through trade. This is why states devoted to racialist and hateful policies always resort to violence in control of the marketplace.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","anti-racism","association","austrian-school-of-economics","coercion","evil","free-market","free-trade","freedom","government","laissez-faire","laws","libertarian","liberty","markets","racism","regulations","socialism","statism","tolerance","voluntaryism"],"id":121089,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["adversity","ambition","bravery","celebrity","commandments","cost","courage","difficulties","difficulties-of-life","dreams","existence","expensive","expensive-dreams","fame","famous","fear","fearlessness","free","freedom","hard","hard-work","hardship","laws","lessons","life","life-lessons","pain","pay","pay-the-price","peace","perseverance","persistence","political","price","reality","rebel","rebellion","regulations","responsibility","risk","rules","sacrifice","success","suffering","work","work-hard"],"id":145145,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}