Roderick T. Long quotes

  • The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

  • The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

  • The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.

  • If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

  • If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.

  • There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.

  • The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

  • The only truly consistent are the dead.

  • I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

  • I didn't care about being the 'star. ' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.