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

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity — Stefan Molyneux

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege. — Stefan Molyneux

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love. — Stefan Molyneux

[Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism. — Mitch Daniels

The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not. — A.E. Samaan

Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence. — Stefan Molyneux

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government. — Marco Rubio

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. — Ayn Rand

Rights are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes. — Stefan Molyneux

The real triumph of the state occurs when its subjects refer to it as "we," like football fans talking about the home team. — Joseph Sobran

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

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

If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom. — Stefan Molyneux

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this
that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot. — Lysander Spooner

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny. — Ayn Rand

The man who is not permitted to own is owned. — George Santayana

Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves. — Stefan Molyneux

The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick. — Stefan Molyneux

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential. — Stefan Molyneux

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"? — Stefan Molyneux

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. — H.L. Mencken

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish. — Frederic Bastiat

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid. — Penn Jillette

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them. — Ludwig Von Mises

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men. — Rose Wilder Lane

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. — Isabel Paterson

History is the same story with different costumes. — Stefan Molyneux

Statism is an unnatural disaster. — Stefan Molyneux

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. — Milton Friedman

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels. — Stefan Molyneux

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

There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity. — Leonard Read

If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism. — Foster Friess

- Government -
Free Shit for Idiots — Stefan Molyneux

Statism ends with an eye roll. — Stefan Molyneux

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you. — Ron Paul

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in. — Doug Stanhope

All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle. — Stefan Molyneux

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism — Jonah Goldberg

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep. — Stefan Molyneux

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise - liberty and coercion. — Frederic Bastiat

Nationalism is pimped-out bigotry, designed to provoke a Stockholm Syndrome in the livestock. — Stefan Molyneux

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state. — Stefan Molyneux

Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law. — Isabel Paterson

An atheist who is a statist is just another theist. — Stefan Molyneux

Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist. — Murray N. Rothbard

To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. — Murray N. Rothbard

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force. — Ayn Rand

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing. — Ayn Rand

Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen. — Gustave De Molinari

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

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face. — Stefan Molyneux

Statism is political fashion.
Individual liberty is eternal. — A.E. Samaan

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism. — A.E. Samaan

Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking. — A.E. Samaan

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive — Stefan Molyneux

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true. — Stefan Molyneux

People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty. — Jeffrey Tucker

The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish. — Leonard Read

Statism and the advocacy of reason are philosophical opposites. They cannot coexist - neither in a philosophic system nor in a nation. — Leonard Peikoff

Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect."
"Yes, it is. But it is politically correct."
(The Rise of Political Correctness) — Angelo Codevilla

I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian. — A.E. Samaan

Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny. — Charles Forbes Rene De Montalembert

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly. — Isabel Paterson

Why the histories of states should have so persistently insinuated themselves in the place that might have been occupied by peoples merits reflection. — James C. Scott

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god. — Stefan Molyneux

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want. — Ludwig Von Mises

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion. — Ludwig Von Mises