Top 7 Quotes by Gustave de Molinari

Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.

Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.

Gustave de Molinari

Government, Guarantees That, People

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

Gustave de Molinari

War, Monopoly, Establishment

Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.35, Ludwig von Mises Institute

The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.

Gustave de Molinari

Evil, Liberty, Libertarian

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

Gustave de Molinari

War, Liberty, Natural

Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.59, Ludwig von Mises Institute

Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is it not then strange and unreasonable that it accepts them in the security industry?

Gustave de Molinari

Political, Branches, Strange

Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.28, Ludwig von Mises Institute

What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the product destined in part to consumption and in part to savings, in order to apply it to less productive or even destructive ends, and more rarely to savings.

Gustave de Molinari

Philosophy, Order, Political