The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty
Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
Top 10 Best Quotes
“An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.”
“It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".”
“Entrepreneurs make profits by serving the needy. Politicians make profits by creating the needy.”
“Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.”
“Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.”
“A foolish environmentalist wants to save nature from the greed of the market by exposing it to the tragedy of the commons. A smart environmentalist wants to save nature from the tragedy of the commons by exposing it to the greed of the market.”
“Whenever one feels like saying “the money that billionaire spent on his fleet of yachts could have been used better by the "public sector”“, one should ask oneself when was the last time one heard of a billionaire buying an army of tanks and a set of nuclear weapons.”
“The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.”
“Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation.”
“Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.”
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