Top Voluntaryism Quotes
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...
David D. Friedman
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freedom, legal, politics, liberty, law, libertarian, anarchy, austrian school of economics, coercion, statism
Voluntaryism Definition
(n.) The principle of supporting a religious system and its institutions by voluntary association and effort, rather than by the aid or patronage of the state.
Nearly all libertarians were once conservatives or progressives or independent statists of some stripe. But scarcely any conservatives, progressives, or independent statists were once libertarians. Th...
Robert Higgs
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change, freedom, knowledge, politics, society, evolution, liberty, libertarian, anarchy, voluntaryism
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...
Ayn Rand
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freedom, government, politics, slavery, communism, socialism, liberty, violence, libertarian, anarchy
When I argue with devout statists, sometimes other voluntaryists tell me that I'm wasting my time, opining that a particular statist is never going to "get it." I often respond by saying that that's r...
Larken Rose
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freedom, government, religion, liberty, libertarian, superstition, anarchy, coercion, statism, voluntaryism
Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing, both being essential and indivisible parts of liberty, both depending upon rights, which no body of men, whether called governments o...
Auberon Herbert
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freedom, government, politics, evil, liberty, violence, libertarian, individualism, coercion, statism
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...
Lysander Spooner
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freedom, society, philosophy, liberty, principles, libertarian, anarchy, voluntaryism, ancap, first principles