Free Private Cities Quotes

“Politics is by its very nature cooperation-inhibiting intervention - it destroys liberty in every form it has. There is therefore no 'right' policy in the sense of liberty; only the consistent abstinence from politics produces and maintains liberty. Rolf W. Puster,
Philosopher”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. Abraham Lincoln,
President, who did it anyway”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“When looting becomes a way of life for a group in society, over time it creates a legal system that legalizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. Claude-Frédéric Bastiat,
Economist and Politician”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“The crux of past political utopias is that voluntary participation was never intended. Almost all of the classic utopian ideas are basically totalitarian, starting with Plato and his philosopher kings to Marx’s dictatorship of the proletariat and going right up to the current idea of a Great Transformation because of climate change.7 An enlightened minority gets its way, regardless of whether everyone or anyone else thinks it's a good idea or not. If this minority is replaced by a democratic majority, only the number of people who are being governed against their will changes, not the principle behind the scheme.”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“Liechtenstein is indeed the only country in the world that allows its municipalities to secede, thus granting them self-determination by virtue of its constitution.”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“Singapore's economy is considered one of the freest, most innovative, most competitive, dynamic and business-friendly in the world. There is no minimum wage and so the unemployment rate is also one of the lowest in the world. Singapore also has low tax rates, no corruption, good infrastructure and a skilled workforce, making it very attractive to foreign companies.”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“Anyone who expects reasonable decisions from politics has not understood that the will to power is greater than all reason. Roland Baader,
Economist and Publicist”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means. Henry Grady,
Journalist”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“Man, who is so keen on social acceptance that he has evolutionarily developed the habit of following the flock, forms his opinion intuitively at first according to the apparently prevailing view.[91] Only later does he adjust his arguments in order to achieve consistency with his previous world view.[92] Everyone is susceptible to this, regardless of intelligence or education.”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. Abraham Lincoln,
President, who did it anyway”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“Monaco has the lowest crime and poverty rate in the world, without border controls and despite tens of thousands of commuters and just as many visitors every day.”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“Monaco is considered the state with the lowest poverty rate and the highest life expectancy worldwide.”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“The combination of the minimum principle, non-liability and herd mentality means that sooner or later all democracies will become welfare states that will establish increasingly totalitarian rules and ultimately run out of money.”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“All political power tends to act without barriers and to extend its sphere of influence as far as possible. To control everything, not to leave any room in which things can happen freely without the intervention of the authorities, that is the goal to which every ruler secretly strives. Ludwig von Mises,
Economist”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“There is no provision at all for the separation of religion and society in Islam: [Sunnah and the Koran] form the basis of the Islamic faith, Islamic law and Islamic way of life.... Therefore, Islam is faith, ethics, social order and way of life at the same time.[”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“Therefore, in a democracy, everyone becomes a threat. Consequently, the desire for other people's property is systematically strengthened under democratic conditions. Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Philosopher and Democracy Critic”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“The philosopher Anthony de Jasay puts it this way: The constitution is like a chastity belt whose key is always within the wearer’s reach.[70]”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

“Politics thus becomes an invisible civil war, whose discreetness stems from the fact that the victims of state interference have no realistic chance of defending themselves. The peace achieved is illusory, based on the effective suppression of divergent interests.”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You