Hans-Hermann Hoppe

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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

It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“However, not only external expansion of state power is brought about by the ideology of nationalism. War as the natural outgrowth of…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“First, with the establishment of a state and territorially defined state borders, “immigration” takes on an entirely new meaning. In a natural…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“In accordance with his high time preference, he may want to be a vagabond, a drifter, a drunkard, a junkie, a daydreamer,…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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

The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Thanks to the central bank, most ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“if the power of government rests on the widespread acceptance of false indeed absurd and foolish ideas, then the only genuine protection…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Public officials are permitted to finance or subsidize their own activities through taxes. That is, they are permitted to engage in and…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“Without the continued existence of the democratic system and of publicly funded education and research, however, most current teachers and intellectuals would…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Contrary to any claim of a systematically “neutral” effect of taxation on production, the consequence of any such shortening of roundabout methods…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“Under democracy, the incentive structure is systematically changed. Egalitarian sentiments and envy are given free reign. Everyone, not just the king, is…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe