Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold. But if the physical makeup of our world would have been different or is to become different from… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
If an agency is the ultimate judge in every case of conflict, then it is also judge in all conflicts involving itself. Consequently, instead of merely preventing and resolving conflict, a monopolist of ultimate decision making will also cause and provoke conflict in order to settle it to his own advantage. That is, if one can only appeal to the… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share
It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“However, not only external expansion of state power is brought about by the ideology of nationalism. War as the natural outgrowth of nationalism is also the means of strengthening the state’s internal powers of exploitation and expropriation. Each war is also an internal emergency situation, and an emergency requires and seems to justify the acceptance of the state’s increasing its… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share
The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such a contract. I have a lot of contracts in my files, but nowhere is there one like this. The state is the result of aggressive force and subjugation. It has evolved without contractual foundation, just… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share
“First, with the establishment of a state and territorially defined state borders, “immigration” takes on an entirely new meaning. In a natural order, immigration is a person’s migration from one neighborhood-community into a different one (micro-migration). In contrast, under statist conditions immigration is immigration by “foreigners” from across state borders, and the decision whom to exclude or include, and under… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share
More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around? But more money makes its monopolistic producer (the central bank) and its earliest recipients (the government and big, government-connected banks and their major clients) richer at the expense of… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share
“In accordance with his high time preference, he may want to be a vagabond, a drifter, a drunkard, a junkie, a daydreamer, or simply… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Thanks to the central bank, most ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists ‘explaining,’… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
