“Hence, contrary to the conclusion arrived at by the public goods theorists, logic forces one to accept the result that only a pure market system can safeguard the rationality, from the point of view of the consumers, of a decision… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“Since money or other resources must be withdrawn from possible alternative uses to finance the supposedly desirable public goods, the only relevant and appropriate question is whether or not these alternative uses to which the money could be put (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
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
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
“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
The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“if the power of government rests on the widespread acceptance of false indeed absurd and foolish ideas, then the only genuine protection is the… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share
With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share
