Anarchy | Wisdom and the Philosophy of Freedom

"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." Ayn Rand

"I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions." Jonathan Swift

"The state is a construct of the elites for protection racketeering." Rainer Mausfeld

"The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government." Milton Friedman

"Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents." John Taylor Gatto

"This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that." John Taylor Gatto

"Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally." Lafayette

"The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices - paid by others." Thomas Sowell

"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself." Milton Friedman

"Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages." Aldous Huxley

"I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights." Murray Rothbard