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A Quote by John V. Denson on war, state, liberty, freedom, economy, and society

We should learn from the war and welfare century that the greatest discovery in Western civilization was that liberty could be achieved only through the proper and effective limitation on the power of...

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A Quote by Ludwig von Mises on government, state, violence, and paradox

Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d’être to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man’s innate impulse to violence, only by recourse...

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A Quote by Ludwig von Mises on government, state, violence, freedom, liberty,...

Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them. Source:  Mises, Ludwig Von (1962)....

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A Quote by Frédéric Bastiat on government, state, and politics

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. Contributed by:  peter read more

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A Quote by Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi or Tolstoy on government, violence,...

In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other...

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A Quote by Murray Rothbard on state, thieves, gang, murray rothbard,...

The state is a gang of thieves writ large. Source:  http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090212123940AARCDco Contributed by:  Little Big O read more

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A Quote by Osho Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh on consciousness, mirror, reflection,...

You are just now, here, neither coming nor going. Everything passes by you; your consciousness reflects it but it does not get identified. When a lion roars in front of a mirror, do you think the...

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A Quote by Butler Shaffer on state and authority

The authority of the state is grounded in consensus-based definitions of reality, whose content the state insists on controlling. This is why so-called "public opinion polls," rather than factual...

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A Quote by Errico Malatesta on anarchism, state, violence, and anarchy

Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based on freedom of the individual, without the...

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A Quote by Lucy Parsons on anarchism, state, anarchy, iww, wobblies, power,...

"Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is this power reduced to a science. Governments never lead; they...

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