63 Quotes by Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

The fundamental challenge of ancient man was to be wise. The fundamental challenge of medieval man was to be holy. The fundamental challenge of modern man was to be effective. The fundamental challenge of contemporary man is not to be ridiculous.

Voter: someone smart enough to choose how to be fooled.

Ancient people expressed their ideas through dialogues. Medieval people expressed their ideas through disputations. Modern people expressed their ideas through manifestos. Contemporary people express their ideas through temper tantrums.

If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers.

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 that aggression is ever legitimate.

To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled.

Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.

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.