Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.
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A fool believes that the society of the future will transcend the laws of economics. A person of reason hopes that it will finally learn to respect them.
The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god.
For the greater good":the phrase that always precedesthe greatest evil.
It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.
An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.
Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.
The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.
Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.
A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem.
The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they don't need anyone's permission to be free.
To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means.
To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled.
To create a free society is not to accomplish the impossible task of convincing all people to abandon aggression, but to accomplish the essential task of convincing enough people to abandon the belief that aggression is ever legitimate.
A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.
It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".
Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.
Anarcho-capitalism: the realization that the only way to effectively govern the market is to have an effective market in governance.