Karl Hess

I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary…

— Karl Hess

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military…

— Karl Hess

Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up…

— Karl Hess

Government programs aim at getting money for poor people. Our hope was that knowledge would in the long run be more useful,…

— Karl Hess

The fundamental question of politics has always been whether there should be politics.

— Karl Hess

The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.

— Karl Hess

Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live.…

— Karl Hess

A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected…

— Karl Hess

There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on…

— Karl Hess

“It is flawed by one thing: the abstraction of patriotism. People who will damn the government from morning till night, and oppose…

— Karl Hess

The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.

— Karl Hess

The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because…

— Karl Hess

Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver…

— Karl Hess

In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people…

— Karl Hess

We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your…

— Karl Hess

Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches…

— Karl Hess

What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a…

— Karl Hess

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

— Karl Hess

For loving, working, and creative people to throw off the yoke of power it is necessary to abolish power itself, not merely…

— Karl Hess

The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.

— Karl Hess

No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good…

— Karl Hess

My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public…

— Karl Hess

When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

— Karl Hess

A 7-11 parking lot beat down is how life is.

— Karl Hess

They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all…

— Karl Hess