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State PR

The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions are positive rather than negative.

Author Greg RavenPosted on September 7, 2018November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories demagoguesTags Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Legitimate concerns

If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade, and videos.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 31, 2016November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories informed electorate, socialismTags Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Government power vs. individual liberty

Once the principle of government — judicial monopoly and the power to tax — is incorrectly accepted as just, any notion of restraining government power and safeguarding individual liberty and property is illusory.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 28, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories government, taxationTags Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The power to covet

Everyone may openly covet everyone else’s property, as long as he appeals to democracy; and everyone may act on his desire for another man’s property, provided that he finds entrance into government.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 28, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories democracy, socialismTags Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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