Voter: someone smart enough to choose how to be fooled.
The history of modern philosophy is the history of losing and regaining the awareness of the fact that there is no third way between the Absolute and the absurd.
Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.
A foolish environmentalist wants to save nature from the greed of the market by exposing it to the tragedy of the commons. A smart environmentalist wants to save nature from the tragedy of the commons...
Whenever one feels like saying “the money that billionaire spent on his fleet of yachts could have been used better by the "public sector”“, one should ask oneself when was the last time one heard of...
Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.
A fool believes that the society of the future will transcend the laws of economics. A person of reason hopes that it will finally learn to respect them.
The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god.
For the greater good":the phrase that always precedesthe greatest evil.
It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.
An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.
Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.
Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.
The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.
A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.
To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means.
A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem.
The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they don't need anyone's permission to be free.
To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled.
To create a free society is not to accomplish the impossible task of convincing all people to abandon aggression, but to accomplish the essential task of convincing enough people to abandon the belief...
