Tibor R. Machan famous quotes

Politicians are leaches, mostly.
-- Tibor R. Machan

#Political #Politician

This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It's only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen - that is what makes the crucial difference.
-- Tibor R. Machan

#Differences #Liberty #Social

If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.
-- Tibor R. Machan

#Equality #Order #Law

It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved
-- Tibor R. Machan

#Moral #Human Life #Humans

The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than outright extortion, a gross violation of human liberty.
-- Tibor R. Machan

#Liberty #Taxation #Institutions

Fascism is [...] arbitrary rule by a charismatic head of state.
-- Tibor R. Machan

#Arbitrary #States #Fascism

Politicians are leeches, mostly.
-- Tibor R. Machan

#Political #Politician

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

Political development should start at the grassroots.

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.

If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.