Top Statism Quotes

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

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

Statism Definition

(n.) The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy.

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.

It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities;...

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensate...

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational...

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

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

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.

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

The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)

Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a solution to the problem of possible conflict, because it is precisely the institution of a state whi...

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

Producing laws is not an easier job than producing cars and food, so if the government is incompetent to produce cars or food, why do you expect it to do a good job producing the legal system within w...

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

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.

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...

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

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

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do...