Jeffrey Tucker Quotes

There is only a certain amount of wealth in the world, this thinking goes. Economics is a matter of acquiring and allocating, not creating. This was the view of the world’s smartest people, all top philosophers and not stupid people, for many thousands of years before the age of the enlightenment. It still is.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

80s music sounds so 80s now. But in the 80s, it just sounded like music.

The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here's one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the population.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save the world one transaction at a time.
It is time for a new beginning.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

A person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to support bad schools” or “all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.

But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the state can be the right means to help those who are poor or living at the margins of society. The state is their enemy, as it is for everyone else.

No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a state-managed society.