Quotes by Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

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

The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they dont need anyones permission to be free.

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

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

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.

The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.

Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.

Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.

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

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.

For the greater good:the phrase that always precedesthe greatest evil.

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

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.

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

Whenever one feels like saying “the money that billionaire spent on his fleet of yachts could have been used better by the public sector”“, one should ask oneself when was the last time one heard of a billionaire buying an army of tanks and a set of nuclear weapons.

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.

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

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.

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

“A civilization is glorious in its successes and tragic in its failures. An anti-civilization is terrifying in its successes and spectacular in its failures. A pseudo-civilization is annoying in its successes and ridiculous in its failures.”