Anarchy Quote by Lysander Spooner

If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single…

— Lysander Spooner

It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft.…

— Murray Rothbard

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income…

— Cal Thomas

“For, you see, in the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?”

— Jeff Wheeler

“The average man, whatever his errors otherwise, at least sees clearly that government is something lying outside him and outside the generality of his…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers.”

— Lao Tzu

“What is government but theft by consent? You’ll be moving in a society of kindred spirits.”

— Scott Lynch

“By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect…

— John Maynard Keynes

“Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it.”

— Josh Lieb

“I knew the law would decide that I was his property, and would probably still give his daughter a claim to my children; but…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“For property is robbery, but then, we are all robbers or would-be robbers together, and have found it essential to organise our thieving, as…

— Samuel Butler

“Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of a part of themselves. It's a crime.”

— Haruki Murakami