Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski Quotes

Expressing fear that cheap foreign labor will "steal" one's job is the most disarmingly honest admission of professional incompetence.

Voter: someone smart enough to choose how to be fooled.

The history of modern philosophy is the history of losing and regaining the awareness of the fact that there is no third way between the Absolute and the absurd.

An entrepreneur is someone who sees a gain from trade where others see a tradeoff.

Economics without ethics is a caricature. Ethics without economics is a fairy tale.

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.

Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.

Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.

Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private property, not politics, "public education" or the creation of national mythology that allowed humankind to transition from prehistory to history. Just as trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private property have always been on the forefront of civilization's advancement, so were they also the driving force behind civilization's emergence.

Perhaps the most flagrant testimony to the intellectual shallowness of statism is that the typical statist believes that the fantastically hypothetical threat of a corporation monopolizing the supply of water is a devastating objection to libertarianism, but the painfully real threat of a state methodically exterminating tens of millions of individuals is not a devastating objection to statism.

Ethics is the politics of heaven. Politics is the ethics of hell.

To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled.

A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem.

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 surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.

A flourishing civilization seeks wisdom, glorifies heroism, and contemplates wonder. A dying civilization seeks power, glorifies survival, and contemplates confusion. An undead civilization seeks "wellness", glorifies "authenticity", and contemplates "self-expression".

If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?

Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation.

It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".

Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.

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.

An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.

Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem.

The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god.

The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.

To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means.

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.

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 anarcho-capitalist is someone who agrees that the best way to eliminate the tragedy of the commons is to privatize it away, and realizes that state politics is the mother of all such tragedies.

Entrepreneurs make profits by serving the needy. Politicians make profits by creating the needy.

Anarcho-capitalism is to "minimal statism" what a cure is to a painkiller.

A foolish environmentalist wants to save nature from the greed of the market by exposing it to the tragedy of the commons. A smart environmentalist wants to save nature from the tragedy of the commons by exposing it to the greed of the market.

Totalitarianism begins with using the word "we" without every I's permission.

The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.

For the greater good":
the phrase that always precedes
the greatest evil.

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