Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.

So, I’m a playwright. In Minneapolis. Which means that I find myself operating in a pretty lefty crowd, most of the time. And most of my energy goes towards arguing with that, and musing about...

I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except...

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

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

Growing economies are built by billions of actors behaving according to their own interests, coordinated through institutions that no one in particular created.Realizing this requires humility, a trait that is in short supply among would-be...

Librarian: taking the E.T. out of Libertarian.

The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break.

The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.

Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

The problems in every country are the same. Bureaucracy is strangling innovation. Overgrown political sectors are sucking away resources that could otherwise lead to growth. Regulations and taxes are punishing innovation. Public sector services are...

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor,...

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

…so that’s why I’m pleased to announce my endorsement of Sarah Palin for President in 2016: because you know that whoever gets elected is going to fuck you over. So why not vote for somebody...

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.

Due to state laws, the restaurant was nonsmoking, which as a nonsmoker pleases me, but as a Libertarian it pisses me off.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world,...

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did—as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.

You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think ‘how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?’.It’s incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was...

Okay. I’m not a white male. At least, not predominantly so. And as I mentioned before, I’m in an environment right now where race is really important. See, Chinese men are not that physically intimidating....

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

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we...

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

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

Ultimately, we need to take control over the money supply out of the hands of our governments and make the production of money again subject to the principle of free association. The first step to...

Statism ends with an eye roll.

Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d’être of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas...

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. &It is also in the interests of a tyrant...

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

Le fait est que le gouvernement, comme un bandit de grand chemin, dit à un individu: “La bourse ou la vie.” Quantité de taxes, ou même la plupart, sont payées sous la contrainte d’une telle...

We really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.

As regards the social apparatus of repression and coercion, the government, there cannot be any question of freedom. Government is essentially the negation of liberty. It is the recourse to violence or threat of violence...

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

fruited plains,” whatever the hell that means. I mean, America isn’t a place, it’s an ideal. It could happen in the Sahara Desert and still be America. For that matter, I’m the child of immigrants....

The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with independent moral worth.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives… I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that...

While liberals are in favor of any sexual activity engaged in by two consenting adults, when these consenting adults engage in trade or exchange, the liberals step in to harass, cripple, restrict, or prohibit that...

Camille Paglia is: ‘the nipple-pierced person’s Phyllis Schlafly who poses as a sexual renegade but is in fact the most dutiful of patriarchal daughters.

The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims...

A number of people who I’ve talked to about this assume that I got into a fight with the cops. (Because of, y’know, the militant politics.) I actually had an audience member come up to...

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go...

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that...

Private property is redundant. “Public property” is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn’t private it’s stolen.

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