30 Quotes by Tom G. Palmer

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

Communitarians are typically much more cautious, but despite a lot of talk they rarely tell us much about what our common good might be.

I've been a fan of Stephen Hunter, film critic at the Washington Post, for some time. I've always found his reviews to be helpful guides to films.

Rather, classical liberals and libertarians argue that the system of justice should abstract from the concrete characteristics of individuals.

It's possible that the law would be innocuous and merely say that no legislation may violate Islam. The big problem is, who gets to determine that? Religious courts? Whose?

The issue of the common good is related to the beliefs of communitarians regarding the personality or the separate existence of groups.

Indeed, the federal government allocates about $185 billion in programs and services based on population figures provided by the Census Bureau.

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.