Gustave de Molinari quotes

“Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.”
-- Gustave de Molinari

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“War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.”
-- Gustave de Molinari

Source : Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.35, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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“Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.”
-- Gustave de Molinari

Source : Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.59, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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“Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is it not then strange and unreasonable that it accepts them in the security industry?”
-- Gustave de Molinari

Source : Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.28, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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“The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.”
-- Gustave de Molinari

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“What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the product destined in part to consumption and in part to savings, in order to apply it to less productive or even destructive ends, and more rarely to savings.”
-- Gustave de Molinari

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“Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid.”
-- Gustave de Molinari

Source : Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.26, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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“The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.”

“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”

Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.

“You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.”

“If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.”

“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)”

Source : Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.81, Oxford University Press

“Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?”