568 Quotes About Anarchy

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

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

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 him as a human being, necessarily remain with him during life; and, however capable of being trampled upon, are incapable of being blotted out, extinguished, annihilated, or separated or eliminated from his nature as a human being, or deprived of their inherent authority or obligation.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

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

The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with independent moral worth.