government” – the notion that some people actually have the moral right to rule over others – has caused immeasurable pain and suffering, injustice and oppression, enslavement and death.

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

because a propositional justification exists for doing one thing, but not for doing another.” But why should we be reasonable, is the next come-back. Again, the answer is obvious. For one, because it would be...

What is a price? It is a proposed point of agreement between a buyer and seller. The proposal is the key. It is not a marching order. Past prices represent deals done in history. Current...

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

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 …...

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

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...

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as “armed teens”?

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people,...

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.

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...

If you personally advocate that I be caged if I don’t pay for whatever “government” things YOU want, please don’t pretend to be tolerant, or non-violent, or enlightened, or compassionate. Don’t pretend you believe in...

Rights” are something made up by governments to make you feel like you’re buying something with your taxes.

A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government is the ultimate arbiter, for the inhabitants of a given...

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...

Statism ends with an eye roll.

All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

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

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

What makes anyone think that government officials are even trying to protect us? A government is not analogous to a hired security guard. Governments do not come into existence as social service organizations or as...

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity...

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

Having a Constitutional political party is a little like telling a car-jacker, “You’re not allowed to do what you’re doing! And if you don’t stop it right now, we are going to ask you to...

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.

foreigners” from across state borders, and the decision whom to exclude or include, and under what conditions, rests not with a multitude of independent private property owners or neighborhoods of owners but with a single...

If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the...

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.

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity

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

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong...

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true interests—turns learning from a joyful activity into a chore, to be avoided whenever possible. Coercive schooling, which tragically is the norm...

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...

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

I’m not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers. I’m scared of the thousands of millions of people that hallucinate them to be “authority”, and so do their bidding, and pay for...

Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

Man has rights because they are natural rights. They are grounded in the nature of man: the individual’s capacity for conscious choice, the necessity for him to use his mind and energy to adopt goals...

We’ve got this weird dysgenic situation where we’re basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

For anyone who thinks “profit” is evil, I have a challenge for you: try NOT to get any profit in the next week. Profit simply means increasing how much valuable stuff you have, and if...

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

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

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...