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We have become accustomed to the idea that a natural system like the human body or an ecosystem regulates itself. To explain the regulation, we look for feedback loops rather than a central planning and directing body. But somehow our intuitions about self-regulation without central direction do not carry over to the artificial systems of human society.
- — Herbert Simon
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- — Abraham Lincoln
One cannot say, by any stretch of the imagination, that the homesteaders, the producers, and the contractors who must surrender part of their assets to a government have demanded such a service. Instead, they must be coerced into accepting it, and this is conclusive proof of the fact that the service is not actually in demand at all. Hence, demand cannot be considered as a limit on the size of government. Insofar as it grows, the state grows by acting in open contradiction to demand.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at them.
- — Walter Bagehot
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
- — Charles de Gaulle
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
- — Isaiah Berlin
In a country whose currency is not convertible into gold, inflation leads to its continuous devaluation in terms of foreign currencies.
- — Michael A. Heilperin
Major political parties have been completely taken in by the new EU project. None of them really opposes it. They have become very corrupt. Who is going to defend our freedoms? It looks like we are heading towards some kind of collapse, some kind of crisis. The most likely outcome is that there will be an economic collapse in Europe, which in due time is bound to happen with this growth of expenses and taxes. The inability to create a competitive environment, the overregulation of the economy, the bureaucratisation, it is going to lead to economic collapse.
- — Vladimir Bukovsky
Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.
- — F.A. Hayek
If people behaved like governments, you’d call the cops.
- — Kelvin Throop
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