Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation.

Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem.

Individualism turns a band into a society. Collectivism turns society into a mob.

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers.

A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.

The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.

If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?

If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.

The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.

Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.

The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.

Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.

Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.

Voter: someone smart enough to choose how to be fooled.

The history of modern philosophy is the history of losing and regaining the awareness of the fact that there is no third way between the Absolute and the absurd.

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 __he 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.