Absent Quote by Bob Black

“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

Like academic Marxists, who are their sisters under the skin, libertarians are far more interested in an ideal world than in the one where…

— Jacob Weisberg

“[The] term 'libertarian' itself, to be sure, raises a problem, notably, the specious identification of an anti-authoritarian ideology with a straggling movement for 'pure…

— Murray Bookchin

Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe,…

— Harry Browne

Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am…

— Ben Horowitz

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the…

— Harry Browne

Take a very striking case in point: the Russian Bolsheviks. [Vladimir] Lenin created an alleged workers' party, which in every way reflected the Czarist…

— Murray Bookchin

“Free spirits, the ambitious, ex-socialists, drug users, and sexual eccentrics often find an attractive political philosophy in libertarianism, the idea that individual freedom should…

— Robert Locke

It has been said that I am not a 'real' Libertarian. A certain faction of the Party has come to believe that the writings…

— Augustus Sol Invictus

Libertarians believe that the government should stay out of private lives on issues that don't have a bearing on society as a whole.

— Norah Vincent

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

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

— Karl Hess