Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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“Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.”

― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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“There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The state, then, is the very institution that puts socialism into action; and as socialism rests on aggressive violence directed against innocent victims, aggressive violence is the nature of any state.”

― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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“Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a solution to the problem of possible conflict, because it is precisely the institution of a state which first makes conflict unavoidable and permanent.”

― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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“if the power of government rests on the widespread acceptance of false indeed absurd and foolish ideas, then the only genuine protection is the systematic attack of these ideas and the propagation and proliferation of true ones.”

― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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"What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool. Democratic politicians must appeal to these masses in order to be elected. Whoever is the best demagogue will win. Almost by necessity, then, democracy will lead to the perversion of truth, justice and beauty."

― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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"Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property."

― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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"Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government."

― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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"It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared to that, the victims of private crimes are almost negligible."

― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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"The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens."

― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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"An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms."

― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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"All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources, the overutilization and vandalization of factors of production, and the inferior quality of products and services."

― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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"More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, – it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise, why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around? But more money makes its monopolistic producer (the central bank) and its earliest recipients (the government and big, government-connected banks and their major clients) richer at the expense of making the money's late and latest receivers poorer."

― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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"Thanks to the central bank, most "monetary experts" and "leading macro-economists" can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists "explaining," like alchemists, how stones (paper) can be turned into bread (wealth)."

― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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"Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference."

― Hans-Hermann Hoppe