Care Quote by Bob Black

If the State does not enjoy a monopoly of violence, which then gives it the power to order people's lives and to compel them…

— Murray Bookchin

“But you see, "libertarian" has a special meaning in the United States. The United Statesis off the spectrum of the main tradition in this…

— Noam Chomsky

The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called "taxation" and use the proceeds to…

— Murray Rothbard

If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band,…

— Murray Rothbard

“Libertarians are not the brightest lights in the candelabra, a fact that is evident from the alternatives they tend to offer to public prevention…

— Michael Lind

“Libertarianism is the view that each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects…

— David Boaz

Libertarianism is the simple morality we learned as children: Don’t strike first, don’t steal or cheat, keep your promises. If you inadvertently fail to…

— Mary Ruwart

Instead of a bumbling and inefficient tool of society, the radical [libertarian] sees the State itself, in its very nature, as coercive, exploitative, parasitic,…

— Murray Rothbard

Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public.…

— Murray Rothbard

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

— Tom G. Palmer

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared…

— Harry Browne

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human…

— Noam Chomsky