102 Quotes About Austrian-school-of-economics

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.

I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen.

There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint and the power to create money, unused land ("the public domain"), streets and highways, rivers and coastal waters, and the means of delivering mail...the State relies on control of the levers of propaganda to persuade its subjects to obey or even exalt their rulers.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.