Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff Quotes

“What if the new political spectrum has on one side those people who want to be left alone, those who want to be free, those who don't hurt people or take their stuff, and on the other extreme of this new scale stands anyone who wants to use government power to tell you how to live your life?”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

“If Thomas Jefferson was the idealist, and George Washington the leader, and James Madison the architect, Samuel Adams the community organizer, then Franklin would have been the Yoda of the founding generation.”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

“In the fight for freedom, the Internet is everything, and we should fight to protect it from government encroachment and censorship.”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

“MK: But if you were to open to a page in the New York Times, they would describe a libertarian as socially moderate and fiscally conservative. I never thought that was quite right. I always thought it was about our relationship with the government and whether or not we got to control our own lives. JUSTIN AMASH: That’s right. It’s just about being able to make decisions for your own lives. So, there are very socially conservative libertarians. I’m a fairly socially conservative libertarian. And there are other libertarians who are not as socially conservative. But the idea is that we should have a government that allows us to make those decisions for our own lives, and we can decide as a society whether we like those values or not. And if you disagree with someone, you’re free to tell them. But we don’t need government imposing one viewpoint on everyone.”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

“Do you believe in the freedom of individuals to determine their own futures and solve problems cooperatively working together, or do you believe that a powerful but benevolent government can and should rearrange outcomes and make things better?”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

“Like Ronald Reagan in 1976, today we may have to beat the Republicans before we can beat the Democrats.”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

“You can’t tax your way to a balanced budget without tanking the job creation that actually generates tax receipts. I”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

“The Internet is a force multiplier for free people because we naturally fit with its ethos. Everything is transparent, and there are simple rules. No one gets to tell anyone else what to do. But people are constantly coming together in common purpose, based upon mutually agreed-upon goals, to bigger ends. That is precisely how freedom works. That’s why freedom is trending online. Freedom is breaking down barriers to knowing.”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

“We have the ability, at least theoretically, to find every single person in the world who believes in individual freedom and who has access to the Internet. We can connect with them, share ideas, books, and strategies. We can gather and coalesce, build a virtual division of labor, and generate a new accountability against the many instances of government overreach and tyranny happening every day, all over the world. Together, acting in voluntary cooperation, we can create a “greater social intelligence” and social awareness unlike anything possible before. Compare”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

“Incumbent corporations—“big business”—often lobby for, and get, new complexity as a strategy to keep underfunded upstart competitors out of the market. In reality, monopoly market power is typically the by-product of this unholy collusion between complexity-mongers in and outside government. Market share can only be protected permanently in partnership with the power monopolists inside government. Complexity”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

“I don’t want to “grow up.” I don’t want to if growing up means abandoning the principle that individuals matter, that you shouldn’t hurt people or take their stuff. I don’t want to give up on values that have gotten me down the road of life this far. I won’t “grow up,” if that means not seeking ideals, taking chances, and taking responsibility for my own failures. I don’t want to compromise, at least not on the things that really matter. I don’t want to split the difference on someone else’s bad idea, and then pat myself on the back for “getting something done.” I have no plans to fall in line. I”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

“I would like other people, and the government, to stay out of my personal business. I plan to return the favor. 6.”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

“Social justice,” the seeming opposite of plain old justice, requires someone to rearrange things by force. It’s all about power, and who gets to assert their power over you. The rules are always situational, and your situation is always less important than the situations the deciders find themselves in. Someone else, defined by someone else’s values, gets to decide. Of”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

“When you get past all the acrimony and all the name-calling, the question we are all debating is really quite simple: Do you believe in the freedom of individuals to determine their own futures and solve problems cooperatively working together, or do you believe that a powerful but benevolent government can and should rearrange outcomes and make things better? More”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

“DON’T HURT PEOPLE, AND don’t take their stuff. That’s it, in a nutshell. Everyone should be free to live their lives as they think best, free from meddling by politicians and government bureaucrats, as long as they don’t hurt other people, or take other people’s stuff.”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

“The American ideal is about your liberty, not their power. It’s no longer Republican versus Democrat. It’s not about good government or bad government. It’s not even “liberal” versus “conservative.” It’s about limiting the government’s monopoly on force and unleashing our freedom to try, to choose, to take responsibility, and to make things better. It is about the political elites and the insiders they collude with versus America. It’s Them versus Us, for sure.”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

“This is the “progressive” mind-set: Freedom, as a governing philosophy, is just old-fashioned, past its use-by date. Anachronistic. Today, we know better. The right people, the smart, good people, can be trusted to get government right. They just need our trust, our money, and more power. Old superstitions and a libertarian skepticism of centralized power are getting in the way of progress.”
― Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto