Quotes by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government is the ultimate arbiter, for the inhabitants of a given territory, regarding what is just and what is not, and it can determine unilaterally, i.e., without requiring the consent of those seeking justice or arbitration, the price that justice-seekers must pay to the government for providing this service.

Decision

Government

Justice

All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources, the overutilization and vandalization of factors of production, and the inferior quality of products and services.

Levels

Quality

Saving

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

Contradiction

States

Taxation

Contrary to any claim of a systematically “neutral” effect of taxation on production, the consequence of any such shortening of roundabout methods of production is a lower output produced. The price that invariably must be paid for taxation, and for every increase in taxation, is a coercively lowered productivity that in turn reduces the standard of living in terms of valuable assets provided for future consumption. Every act of taxation necessarily exerts a push away from more highly capitalized, more productive production processes in the direction of a hand-to-mouth-existence.

Hands

Mouths

Taxation

Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

Democracy

Justice

Rip

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

Democracies Have

Freedom

Taken

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

Dangerous Man

Democracy

Men

Different people rise to the top under socialism than under capitalism. The higher on the socialist hierarchy you look, the more you will find people who are too incompetent to do the job they are supposed to do.

Different

Jobs

People

Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold. But if the physical makeup of our world would have been different or is to become different from what it is now, some other commodity would have become or might become money. The market will decide.

Gold

Makeup

Our World

Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.

Egalitarianism

Ideas

Shapes

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Egalitarianism

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Finance

Foundation

Freedom

Funny

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Ideas

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Quotes by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources, the overutilization and vandalization of factors of production, and the inferior quality of products and services.

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

Different people rise to the top under socialism than under capitalism. The higher on the socialist hierarchy you look, the more you will find people who are too incompetent to do the job they are supposed to do.

Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.

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