24 Quotes by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation and regulation-of private property owners.

Egalitarian and relativistic sentiments find steady support among ever new generations of adolescents. Owing to their still incomplete mental development, juveniles, especially of the male variety, are always susceptible to both ideas.

Intellectuals are now typically public employees, even if they work for nominally private institutions or foundations. Almost completely protected from the vagaries of consumer demand ("tenured"), their number has dramatically increased and their compensation is on average far above their genuine market value. At the same time the quality of their intellectual output has constantly fallen.

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.

Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.

Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.