The state doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you want to obey. — H L Mencken
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anaarkei quotes a man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years lysander spooner anaarkei quotes abuse of power comes as no surprise jenny holzer anaarkei quotes aggression against rights is aggression no matter how many citizens agree to the oppression murray rothbard anaarkei quotes an anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size jakub wisniewski anaarkei quotes an armed society is a polite society robert heinlein anaarkei quotes an atheist that believes in the state is just another theist stefan molyneux anaarkei quotes anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving the statue stefan molyneux anaarkei quotes authority has always attracted the lowest elements of the human race all through history mankind has been bullied by scum robert lefevre anaarkei quotes capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism murray rothbard anaarkei quotes collectivism rots the brain daniel jarick anaarkei quotes concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it milton friedman anaarkei quotes democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance h l mencken anaarkei quotes disobedience is the true foundation of liberty the obedient must be slaves henry david thoreau anaarkei quotes each and every time someone says there ought to be a law they are saying that men with guns should enforce their will on innocent others michael barnett anaarkei quotes every socialist is a disguised dictator ludwig von mises anaarkei quotes everything the state says is a lie and everything it has it has stolen friedrich neitzsche anaarkei quotes extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence carl sagan anaarkei quotes facts are injurious to the regressive mindset where ones feelings matter more than the rights of others daniel jarick anaarkei quotes facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored aldous huxley anaarkei quotes for every action there is an equal and opposite government program bob wells anaarkei quotes for every thousand hacking at the branches of evil there is one who is striking at the root henry david thoreau anaarkei quotes freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric thomas sowell anaarkei quotes give me liberty or give me death patrick henry anaarkei quotes government can not do anything helpful for us that we can not as a community do for ourselves jeffrey tucker anaarkei quotes government is a disease masquerading as its own cure robert lefevre anaarkei quotes government is an institution of war theft murder rape and predation the absence of which it is said would lead to disorder butler shaffer anaarkei quotes government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else frederic bastiat anaarkei quotes government will begin representing the people by ceasing to exist larken rose anaarkei quotes groups are grammatical fictions only individuals exist and each individual is different robert anton wilson anaarkei quotes happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of ones values ayn rand anaarkei quotes how long do politicians have to keep promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric thomas sowell anaarkei quotes human beings are not random events thomas sowell anaarkei quotes i dont want to believe i want to know carl sagan anaarkei quotes i want a government so small its theorised about by particle physicists davi barke anaarkei quotes if a businessman makes a mistake he suffers the consequences if a bureaucrat makes a mistake you suffer the consequences ayn rand anaarkei quotes if government played by the same rules as the rest of us it would cease to be government sheldon richman anaarkei quotes if liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear george orwell anaarkei quotes if men are good you dont need government if men are evil or ambivalent you dont dare have one robert lefevre anaarkei quotes if there is not justice for the people let there be no peace for the government emiliano zapata anaarkei quotes if you are not free to choose wrongly or irresponsibly you are not free at all jacob hornberger anaarkei quotes if your anti war activism is dependent on who is in office the problem is you angela keaton anaarkei quotes if your best argument against anarchism is that it will lead to the creation of a new inherently immoral state it is safe to say you have lost the debate daniel jarick anaarkei quotes in any compromise between food and poison it is only death that can win ayn rand anaarkei quotes it constantly amazes me that defenders of the free market are expected to offer certainty and perfection while government has only to make promises and express good intentions lawrence w reed anaarkei quotes it is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere voltaire anaarkei quotes it is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong thomas sowell anaarkei quotes it is in war that the state really comes into its own swelling in power in number in pride in absolute dominion over the economy and society murray rothbard anaarkei quotes it is not the strongest nor most intelligent species that survives but the one most adaptable to change charles darwin anaarkei quotes it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners albert camus anaarkei quotes its not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world its our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless l r knost anaarkei quotes journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed everything else is public relations george orwell anaarkei quotes justice is the righting of wrongs injustice is the wronging of rights daniel jarick anaarkei quotes law is an opinion with a gun stefan molyneux anaarkei quotes man is free at the moment he wishes to be voltaire anaarkei quotes most crimes with assault weapons are committed by government roderick t long anaarkei quotes most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie that one party can gain only at the expense of another milton friedman anaarkei quotes nationalism teaches you to take pride in shit you havent done and hate people youve never met doug stanhope anaarkei quotes never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it albert einstein anaarkei quotes no mans life liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session mark twain anaarkei quotes nobody has the right not to be offended just because youre offended doesnt mean youre in the right ricky gervais anaarkei quotes on a planet that increasingly resembles one huge maximum security prison the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break robert anton wilson anaarkei quotes our entire monetary system is nothing but a form of legalised theft mike maloney anaarkei quotes patriotism is a religion the egg from which wars are hatched guy de maupassant anaarkei quotes patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons bertrand russell anaarkei quotes people who cannot imagine order without imposition always end up favouring power over liberty jeffrey tucker anaarkei quotes political power grows out of the barrel of a gun mao zedong anaarkei quotes politics is the art of convincing decent people to forget that the lesser of two evils is still evil edward snowden anaarkei quotes prejudices are what fools use for reason voltaire anaarkei quotes relativism is the sign of a weak mind and its reaction to cognitive dissonance ray murphy anaarkei quotes should the occasion ever arise remind me not to make a government a give it a piece of paper with instructions on how to restrain itself jeffrey tucker anaarkei quotes socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water ludwig von mises anaarkei quotes statism is the utopian ideal that just the right amount of violence used by just the right people in just the right direction can perfect society keith hamburger anaarkei quotes that which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence christopher hitchens anaarkei quotes the content of your character is your choice day by day what you choose think and do is who you become heraclitus anaarkei quotes the continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state stefan molyneux anaarkei quotes the end move in politics is always to pick up a gun buckminster fuller anaarkei quotes the fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better thomas sowell anaarkei quotes the free market punishes irresponsibility government rewards it harry browne anaarkei quotes the further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those that speak it george orwell anaarkei quotes the greater the number of laws and enactments the more thieves and robbers there will be lao tsu anaarkei quotes the history of governments has been and always will be written in blood fire and tears the tannehills anaarkei quotes the income tax implies that government owns you jeffrey tucker anaarkei quotes the liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all protected william orville douglas anaarkei quotes the only reason you think that government is the solution is because you think that freedom is the problem alan lovejoy anaarkei quotes the purpose of morality is to teach you not to suffer and die but to enjoy yourself and live ayn rand anaarkei quotes the real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians george orwell anaarkei quotes the right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom william orville douglas anaarkei quotes the smallest minority on earth is the individual those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities ayn rand anaarkei quotes the state calls its own violence law but that of the individual crime max stirner anaarkei quotes the state doesnt just want you to obey it wants to make you want to obey h l mencken anaarkei quotes the state is a gang of thieves writ large murray rothbard anaarkei quotes the subjugation of the individual to the state leads to the most hideous oppression andrew bernstein anaarkei quotes the urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule h l mencken anaarkei quotes the way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas the way to combat falsehoods is with truth william orville douglas anaarkei quotes there aint no such thing as a free lunch robert heinlein anaarkei quotes there are just two rules of governance in a free society mind your own business and keep your hands to yourself p j orourke anaarkei quotes there can be no consent where it can not be withdrawn miguel duque anaarkei quotes there is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him robert heinlein anaarkei quotes they who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety benjamin franklin anaarkei quotes those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it lysander spooner anaarkei quotes to say i love you one must know first how to say the i ayn rand anaarkei quotes true ignorance is not the absence of knowledge but the refusal to acquire it karl popper anaarkei quotes truth is treason in an empire of lies ron paul anaarkei quotes underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself milton friedman anaarkei quotes war does not determine who is right only who is left bertrand russell anaarkei quotes war is mass murder conscription is slavery taxation is robbery murray rothbard anaarkei quotes war is peace freedom is slavery ignorance is strength george orwell anaarkei quotes what is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race thomas sowell anaarkei quotes when government criminalises almost everything it also trivialises the very concept of criminality gene healy anaarkei quotes who controls the past controls the future who controls the present controls the past george orwell anaarkei quotes whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech benjamin tucker anaarkei quotes yes books are dangerous they should be dangerous they contain ideas pete hautman anaarkei quotes you dont need a treaty to have free trade murray rothbard anaarkei quotes you were born free you got fucked out of half of it and wave a flag celebrating it doug stanhope
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