Anarchy | Wisdom and the Philosophy of Freedom

"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action." Emma Goldman

"In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power." Edward Bernays

"Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities." Harry Edson Browne

"Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly." Harry Edson Browne

"In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermined problems in a ritually defined setting. The most radical alternative to school would be a network or service which gave each man the same opportunity to share his current concern with others motivated by the same concern." Ivan Illich

"Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed." Ivan Illich

"Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at." Murray Rothbard

"Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion." Murray Rothbard

"The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called "taxation" and use the proceeds to kill, enslave, and generally push people around. Therefore, any property in the hands of the State is in the hands of thieves, and should be liberated as quickly as possible. Any person or group who liberates such property, who confiscates or appropriates it from the State, is performing a virtuous act and a signal service to the cause of liberty." Murray Rothbard

"The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State." Murray Rothbard

"Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result." Murray Rothbard

"Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without." Milton Friedman

"When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty." G. Edward Griffin

"We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern." Walter Lippmann