Notable Quotable 50

Jan 15, 2023

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organised:

One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market.

The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

- Murray Rothbard

There is no moral argument that justifies using the coercive powers of government to force one person to bear the expense of taking care of another.

- Walter E. Williams

What is against Truth cannot be just.

- St. Augustine

You must be willing to wield a sword, even if you are a shopkeeper at heart.

- Robert Greene

The most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death that material prosperity bring enjoyment and happiness - even though all the proofs in history have shown that only lack and attempt cause a life worth living, that the material prosperity doesn't bring anything else than despair. These priests believe in technology still when they choke in their gas masks.

- Pentti Linkola

For a long time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

- T.S. Eliot

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilised society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

- Mark Skousen

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

- Oscar Wilde

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence.

Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.

- Carl Menger