Murray Rothbard: Quote on Anarchism and Capitalism
“True # anarchism will be # capitalism , and true capitalism will be anarchism.”
Murray Rothbard
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Murray Rothbard on State Crimes and State Power
“[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State’s lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.”
Murray Rothbard
Thomas Sowell: Civil Rights Movement and Racism
“The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.”
Thomas Sowell
Murray Rothbard on Scarcity and the Free Market
“One of the most important features of our economic resources is their scarcity: land, labor, and capital goods factors are all scarce, and may all be put to various possible uses. The free market uses them ‘productively’ because the producers are guided, on the market, to produce what the consumers most need: automobiles, for example, rather than buggies.”
Murray Rothbard
Thomas Sowell Quote on Power and Social Justice
“So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create ‘social justice’ is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.”
Thomas Sowell
Freedom to Speak and Debate – Quote by Walter Lippmann
“Freedom to speak… can be maintained only by promoting debate.”
Walter Lippmann
Gorbachev and Abraham Lincoln – Quote by Murray Rothbard
“Gorbachev’s stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.”
Murray Rothbard
“Every Ceiling Reached Becomes a Floor” – Aldous Huxley
“Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.”
Aldous Huxley
The Danger of Division in Politics by Thomas Sowell
“Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.”
Thomas Sowell
“I aimed at the public’s heart” – Upton Sinclair
“I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”
Upton Sinclair