Top Ancap Quotes

Statism ends with an eye roll.

It is only you, treading in the blessed path of peace and freedom, who can bring about the true regeneration of society, and with it the true happiness of your own lives.

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market society. The card player wins money by outsmarting his antagonist. The businessman makes money by s...

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

Think what it implies when you say that a country needs leaders. In your day-to-day life, you interact with all sorts of other individuals. And that's all society is: the collective name for lots of I...

All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.

If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were given to every human being at his birth; what rights are, therefore, inherent in hi...

The disdain of profit is due to ignorance, and to an attitude that we may if we wish admire in the ascetic who has chosen to be content with a small share of the riches of this world, but which, when...

There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.

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 order yoursel...

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless.

The free market is not a system. It is not a policy dictated by anyone in particular. It is not something that Washington implements. It does not exist in any legislation, law, bill, regulation, or bo...

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

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 h...