If an agency is the ultimate judge in every case of conflict, then it is also judge in all conflicts involving itself.… — 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… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That… — 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… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
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… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
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… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“First, with the establishment of a state and territorially defined state borders, “immigration” takes on an entirely new meaning. In a natural order, immigration… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that there are… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“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
