Aggression Quote by Stephan Kinsella

Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.

— Stephan Kinsella

I was always interested in science, truth, goodness and fairness. I have always been strongly individualistic and merit-oriented. This is probably because I was…

— Stephan Kinsella

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading − some…

— Stephan Kinsella

The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the…

— Stephan Kinsella

The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore has a…

— Stephan Kinsella

Artists are just entrepreneurs. It's up to them to figure out how or if they can make a monetary profit from their passion −…

— Stephan Kinsella

We’re against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government.

— Stephan Kinsella

The libertarian approach is a very symmetrical one: the non-aggression principle does not rule out force, but only the initiation of force. In other…

— Stephan Kinsella

There are any number of models artists can use to profit off of their talent and artistry. It is not up to the state…

— Stephan Kinsella

The Austrian theory of subjective value teaches us that there are many ways to incentivize or motivate or induce someone to commit an action…

— Stephan Kinsella

We must recognize that only scarce resources are ownable; second, that the body is a type of scarce resource; third, that the mode of…

— Stephan Kinsella

In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence…

— Stephan Kinsella