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Hans-Hermann Hoppe has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy--implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs…
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Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has…
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What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and…
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If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of…
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A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That…
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No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would…
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An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms
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Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold.…
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Thanks to the central bank, most ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government…
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More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that…
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With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry…
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The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his…
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Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.
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This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be…
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Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside…
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Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.
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What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and…
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the…
— Chris Hedges
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The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects…
— James F. Cooper
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Nothing is more calculated to make a demagogue popular than a constantly reiterated demand for heavy taxes on the rich. Capital levies…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.
— Karl Kraus
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[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real.…
— H. L. Mencken
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The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.
— Harry Golden
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