communism

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

To be sure, I am not speaking about Christian equality, whose real name is equity; but about this democratic and social equality, which is nothing but the canonization of envy and the chimera of jealous ineptitude. This equality was never anything but a mask which could not become reality without the abolition of all merit and virtue.

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscience, refuse to financially support the bureaucracy that actually does the killing. Apparently, the state takes money more seriously than life.

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

Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the people decide only which of the oligarchs preselected for them as viable candidates will wield the whip used to flog them and will command the legion of willing accomplices and anointed lickspittles who perpetrate the countless violations of the people__ natural rights. Meanwhile, the masters soothe the masses by assuring them night and day that they _ the plundered and bullied multitudes who compose the electorate _ are themselves the government.

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.

Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny.

We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government. That is, libertarians believe that murder is murder and does not become sanctified by reasons of state if committed by the government. We believe that theft is theft and does not become legitimated because organized robbers call their theft "taxation." We believe that enslavement is enslavement even if the institution committing that act calls it "conscription." In short, the key to libertarian theory is that it makes no exceptions in its universal ethic for government.

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

But it also had many large posters with messages of a more peaceful nature. These extolled the country__ economic achievement since the Cultural Revolution, which was supposed to have liberated the forces of production and increased productivity. Of course, the Cultural Revolution had done just the opposite. Official lies like this, habitually indulged in and frequently displayed by the authorities, served no purpose except to create the impression that truth was unimportant. Pg. 400