However, the right of self-determination of which we speak is not the right of self-determination of nations, but rather the right of self-determination of the inhabitants of every territory large enough to form an independent administrative unit. If it were in any way possible to grant this right of self-determination to every individual person, it would have to be done.
Ludwig Von Mises, Liberalism
As regards the social apparatus of repression and coercion, the government, there cannot be any question of freedom. Government is essentially the negation of liberty. It is the recourse to violence or threat of violence in order to make all people obey the orders of the government, whether they like it or not. As far as the government's jurisdiction extends, there is coercion, not freedom. [...] It is beating, imprisoning, hanging. Whatever a government does it is ultimately supported by the actions of armed constables.
Ludwig von Mises, Liberty and Property
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey
Socialism is the abolition of rational economy.
Ludwig von Mises, Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth, 1920.
Les hommes naissent et demeurent libres et égaux en droits.
Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du citoyen, 1789, article premier
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
John Locke
Le monopole d'un gouvernement ne saurait valoir mieux que celui d'une boutique d'épiceries.
Gustave de Molinari
L'expansion du capitalisme tire ses origines et sa raison d'être de "l'anarchie" politique.
Jean Baechler, Le capitalisme
Oui, l'anarchie c'est l'ordre; car, le gouvernement c'est la guerre civile.
Anselme Bellegarrigue
Vous venez d'entendre ma profession de foi sérieuse et mûrement réfléchie ; quoique très ami de l'ordre, je suis, dans toute la force du terme, anarchiste.
Proudhon
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies, July 4, 1776
Do you support drug prohibition because it finances criminals at home or because it finances terrorists abroad?
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Market failure is the exception in the private market and the rule in the political market.
David D. Friedman
C'est pas la vitesse qu'il faut limiter, c'est les connards qui nous gouvernent qu'il faut limiter.
Un motard au Téléjournal
Nous autres laissez-fairistes, nous fondons, en dernière analyse, nos convictions sur la logique la plus élémentaire et la plus évidente, et l'absurdité de l'étatisme nous apparaît chaque jour plus choquante : que dire d'autre d'un dogme qui postule essentiellement que la violence agressive peut produire de la valeur et créer de l'ordre quand ce sont les hommes de l'Etat qui s'y livrent ?
François Guillaumat
[L'État] représente l'émergence de la contrainte, c'est-à-dire la négation de la liberté. L'Etat est l'ennemi qu'il faut savoir nommer.
Pascal Salin
Il s'ensuit qu'aucun homme, aucune fraction de la société, ni même la société entière ne peut, à proprement parler et dans un sens absolu, s'attribuer le droit de faire des lois.
Benjamin Constant
In this town just about anything you can name that's worth doing is against the law.
Sin City
I ain't heard that much worth listening to. Just a lot of guys laying down a lot of rules and regulations.
Cool Hand Luke
The state - a judicial monopoly - must be recognized as the source of de-civilization: states do not create law and order; they destroy it.
Hans Hermann Hoppe
-Well, how do they start a war?
-Well, one country offends another.
-How could one country offend another? You mean, there's a mountain over in germany gets mad at a field over in France?
All Quiet On The Western Front
- Sorry Luke, I'm just doing my job, you gotta appreciate that.
- Calling it your job don't make it right, boss.
Cool Hand Luke
Soldats ! Retournez vos fusils
Contre nos oppresseurs communs.
Jean-Paul Alandry
ANARCHISM: The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
Emma Goldman
Ou le communisme vaut mieux que la liberté, et, dans ce cas, il faut organiser toutes les industries en commun. Ou la liberté est préférable au communisme, et, dans ce cas, il faut rendre libres toutes les industries encore organisées en commun.
Gustave de Molinari
The paradox of "planning" is that it cannot plan, because of the absence of economic calculation. What is called a planned economy is no economy at all. It is just a system of groping about in the dark.
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted pcrson would get the job of whipping-master on a slave plantation.
Frank H. Knight, Lippmann's The Good Society, The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 46, No. 6. (Dec., 1938), p. 869.
The State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form.
Gandhi
Das Selbstbestimmungsrecht, von dem wir sprechen, ist jedoch nicht Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Nationen, sondern Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Bewohner eines jeden Gebietes, das groß genug ist, einen selbständigen Verwaltungsbezirk zu bilden. Wenn es irgend möglich wäre, jedem einzelnen Menschen dieses Selbstbestimmungsrecht einzuräumen, so müßte es geschehen.
Ludwig von Mises
Ein freier Mensch muß es ertragen können, daß seine Mitmenschen anders handeln und anders leben, als er es für richtig hält, und muß es sich abgewöhnen, sobald ihm etwas nicht gefällt, nach der Polizei zu rufen.
Ludwig von Mises
An earthworm expects to find a law, a printed law, for every circumstance. Even have laws for private matters such as contracts. Really.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress