Libertarianism Quotes

• There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

  

  Friedrich August von Hayek
  • People
  • Differences
  • Equal

• Libertarianism is neither of the left nor of the right. It is unique. It is sui generis. It is apart from left and right. The left right political spectrum simply has no room for libertarianism. Think of an equilateral triangle, with libertarianism at one corner, the left at a second corner and the right at the third corner. We are equally distant from both of those misbegotten political economic philosophies. No, better yet, think in terms of an isosceles triangle, with us at the top and the two of them at the bottom, indicating they have more in common with each other than with us.

  

  Walter Block
  • Political
  • Unique
  • Philosophy

• My contact with Cato was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the idea of minimal government. And like Trotskyites, the guys from Cato can talk you to death.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Death
  • Government
  • Ideologues

• Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Way
  • Believes
  • Libertarianism

• A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.

  

  William A. Niskanen
  • Church
  • Liberty
  • Dramatic

• I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Bad
  • Rap
  • Reflection

• The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • People
  • Helping
  • Communism

• One of the reasons I'm drawn to civil libertarianism as opposed to communitarianism is that I don't worry so much about the rights of the majority; a majority is quite capable of enforcing and protecting its own rights.

  

  Wendy Kaminer
  • Rights
  • Majority
  • Libertarianism

• Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.

  

  Karl Hess
  • Modern
  • Individualism
  • Rejected

• The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.

  

  David Boaz
  • Community
  • Existence
  • Difference