Karl Hess Quotes

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• All who love Liberty are enemies of the state.
• Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for…
• We do not want to lead or be led. We want to be free.
• The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.
• Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange goods and services,…
• 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. From…
• What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a very few live…
• We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the…
• They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all it is. It…
• 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…
• No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius,…
• A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern…
• It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there…
• Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices…
• When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

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