Libertarian Quotes - Page 11

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

I'd describe myself as a sexual libertarian - but I'm not a libertine. "To each his own" is my motto.

The public firm can nowhere maintain itself in free competition with the private firm; it is possible today only where it has a monopoly that excludes competition. Even that alone is evidence of its lesser economic productivity.

People fear witches, and burn women.

Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern democracy is to say that nearly 300 million Americans are wrong, and a handful of nay-sayers are right.

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.

One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.

Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of reason, constructed through the methods of public relations, and exhibit so little regard for the real thing.