Politics Quote by Auberon Waugh

“The Occidental snobbery which is invading us, the gunboats, rapid-fire guns, long-range rifles, explosives... what else? Everything which makes death collective, administrative and bureaucratic…

— Octave Mirbeau

“The state, rather, is a parasitic institution that lives off the wealth of its subjects, concealing its anti-social, predatory nature beneath a public-interest veneer.”

— Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr

“The tragic brilliance of politics and control is found in the ability to get the masses arguing over which poison they should drink.”

— Steve Maraboli

“It was all very well being a modern society, but the advent of prosperity and the growth of the towns was a poisoned cup…

— Alexander McCall Smith

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their…

— Benjamin Franklin

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

— Murray Rothbard

“Prosperity and democracy does seem to be a good way to wean a population off massive alcohol abuse.”

— Oliver Bullough

“Contemporary citizens have become more deluded in their servitude than any previous generation. Somnambulant automata, many critics have observed, sadly allowing slavery to be…

— David Parry

“The world has changed to permit ever more people in all corners of the globe to cooperate to their mutual betterment. The very prospect…

— Jeffrey Tucker

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the…

— Murray Rothbard

“For these new states this curse bears the germs of a deadly sickness. For the nation-state cannot exist once its principle of equality before…

— Hannah Arendt

“But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the…

— Jeffrey Tucker