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- The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to continue always at their original…
- All government wars are unjust.
- Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help…
- I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose…
- Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for such…
- All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government wars are unjust,…
- All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of…
- We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public; we…
- Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all…
- We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate sense 'represent' the…
- The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it…
- Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All…
- If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and…
- It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a…
- The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle