274 Quotes About Statism

Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the legally permitted prices, but also higher than they would be in a free market, since the legal risks must also be compensated. While small-scale black markets may function in secrecy, large-scale black markets usually require bribes to officials to look the other way.

The idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can’t create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.

The proposal to quit voting is basically revolutionary; it amounts to a shifting of power from one group to another, which is the essence of revolution. As soon as the nonvoting movement got up steam, the politicians would most assuredly start a counterrevolution. Measures to enforce voting would be instituted; fines would be imposed for violations, and prison sentences would be meted out to repeaters.

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.