Anarchy | Wisdom and the Philosophy of Freedom

"The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social order." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this?" Harry Browne

"There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's legal. There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare." Harry Browne

"A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second." Harry Browne

"Once we realize that government doesn't work, we'll know that the only way to improve government is by reducing its size - by doing away with laws, by getting rid of programs, by making government spend and tax less, by reducing government as far as we can." Harry Browne

"The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians." George Orwell

"Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can't really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism" Murray Rothbard

"If we look around, then, at the crucial problem areas of our society - the areas of crisis and failure - we find in each and every case a “red thread” marking and uniting them all: the thread of government. In every one of these cases, government either has totally run or heavily influenced the activity." Murray Rothbard

"I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual." Murray Rothbard

"If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and . . . try freedom." Murray Rothbard

"The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'" George Orwell

"You don't have to hold a position to be a leader." Henry Ford

"There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market." Lew Rockwell

"Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street." Joseph Goebbels