Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can. — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public space and actions. To sing their own songs. To make their own inventions..To build and not just to… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary and the… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Government programs aim at getting money for poor people. Our hope was that knowledge would in the long run be more useful, provide more… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
The fundamental question of politics has always been whether there should be politics. — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on wages and… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
“It is flawed by one thing: the abstraction of patriotism. People who will damn the government from morning till night, and oppose the State… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver out of… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes.… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
