Anarchy | Wisdom and the Philosophy of Freedom

"The government of man over man is slavery. Whoever lays a hand on me to rule over me is a usurper and a tyrant. I declare him to be my enemy." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers. While freedom is forgotten by many there are always some who will never submit." Étienne de La Boétie

"America is a lunatic asylum." Ezra Pound

"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." Platon

"Hayekian democracy serves the function of making a capitalist market society appear to be ‘the people’s choice’ even though it has long been removed from democratic control." Wolfgang Streeck

"For the decline of capitalism to continue, that is to say, no revolutionary alternative is required, and certainly no masterplan of a better society displacing capitalism. Contemporary capitalism is vanishing on its own, collapsing from internal contradictions, and not least as a result of having vanquished its enemies - who, as noted, have often rescued capitalism from itself by forcing it to assume a new form. What comes after capitalism in its final crisis, now underway, is, I suggest, not socialism or some other defined social order, but a lasting interregnum - no new world system equilibrium a la Wallerstein, but a prolonged period of social entropy or disorder (and precisely for this reason a period of uncertainty and indeterminacy). It is an interesting problem for sociological theory whether and how a society can turn for a significant length of time into less than a society, a post-social society as it were, or a society lite, until it may or may not recover and again to become a society in the full meaning of the term." Wolfgang Streeck

"The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else." Henry Hazlitt

"Arbitrary government power is being multiplied daily by the now practically unchallenged assumption that wherever there is any problem of any kind to be solved, government is the agency to step in and solve it." Henry Hazlitt

"The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector." Henry Hazlitt

"...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself." Arthur Miller

"Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it." Hannah Arendt

"In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself." Henry A. Wallace

"A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence." Max Weber

"If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing to hold it together. Non-cooperation. We cannot be imprisoned without our cooperation. Their power is in our acquiescence." David Icke