Stephan Kinsella

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“Nowadays the job of the judge is not to do justice. The judge is more of a functionary . He's like a civil servant whose job is to interpret words written down by another branch of the government, whether those words are just or not.”

― Stephan Kinsella

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"The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the printing press came along and the authorities worried that they couldn't control official thought as easily."

― Stephan Kinsella

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"We’re against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government."

― Stephan Kinsella

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"In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence of market cooperation."

― Stephan Kinsella

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"We must recognize that only scarce resources are ownable; second, that the body is a type of scarce resource; third, that the mode of acquiring title to external objects is different from the basis of ownership of one's own body."

― Stephan Kinsella

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"The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore has a better claim to it than any third party (and any third party seeking to dispute my self-ownership must presuppose the principle of self-ownership in the first place since he is acting as a self-owner)."

― Stephan Kinsella

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"Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist."

― Stephan Kinsella