Liberty Quotes - Page 12

Right isn't always legal.

In spite of its alluring name, the welfare state stands or falls by compulsion. It is compulsion imposed upon us with the state’s power to punish noncompliance. Once this is clear, it is equally clear that the welfare state is an evil the same as every restriction of freedom.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

To live your life without oppression, making love the way you wish, loving those you wish to be with - is to live on the right of the spectrum.

Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being offended.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy.

When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

He who let's the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this-that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person.

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.

Mai whispers, “Why did she have to leave? When she was there, I knew where I had her; she was safe.”
“You of all people,” Nicholas says, “should know that freedom is more important than being safe.

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule.

Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.

Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly “reforming” their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact they’re always busy “reforming” is an implicit admission that they didn’t get it right the first 50 times.