Democracy Quotes

“If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

“if the power of government rests on the widespread acceptance of false indeed absurd and foolish ideas, then the only genuine protection is the systematic attack of these ideas and the propagation and proliferation of true ones.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

“With a [democratic] government anyone in principle can become a member of the ruling class or even the supreme power. The distinction between the rulers and the ruled as well as the class consciousness of the ruled become blurred. The illusion even arises that the distinction no longer exists: that with a public government no one is ruled by anyone, but everyone instead rules himself. Accordingly, public resistance against government power is systematically weakened. While exploitation and expropriation before might have appeared plainly oppressive and evil to the public, they seem much less so, mankind being what it is, once anyone may freely enter the ranks of those who are at the receiving end. Consequently, [exploitation will increase], whether openly in the form of higher taxes or discretely as increased governmental money “creation” (inflation) or legislative regulation.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

“In accordance with his high time preference, he may want to be a vagabond, a drifter, a drunkard, a junkie, a daydreamer, or simply a happy go-lucky kind of guy who likes to work as little as possible in order to enjoy each and every day to the fullest.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

“Rich men still exist today, but more frequently than not they owe their fortune now directly or indirectly to the state. Hence, they are often more dependent on the state's continued favors more than people of far lesser wealth. They are typically no longer the heads of long established leading families but nouveaux riches. Their conduct is not marked by special virtue, dignity, or taste but is a reflection of the same proletarian mass-culture of present-orientedness, opportunism, and hedonism that the rich now share with everyone else; consequently, their opinions carry no more weight in public opinion than anyone else's.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

“Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

“Un miembro de la raza humana completamente incapaz de comprender la mayor productividad de la división del trabajo y la propiedad privada no es, propiamente hablando, una persona, sino que moralmente es como un animal —”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Monarquía, democracia y orden natural:Una visión austriaca de la era americana

“O estado é um monopolista territorial da compulsão: uma agência que se engaja em violações contínuas e institucionalizadas dos direitos de propriedade; uma agência que se dedica à exploração – sob a forma de expropriação, tributação e regulação – dos donos de propriedades privadas.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracia, o Deus que falhou

“Private property is as incompatible with democracy as it is with any other form of political rule. Rather than democracy, justice as well as economic efficiency require a pure and unrestricted private property society an "anarchy of production" in which no one rules anybody, and all producers' relations are voluntary and thus mutually beneficial.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

“More importantly, it must be made clear again that the idea of democracy is immoral as well as uneconomical. As for the moral status of majority rule, it must be pointed out that it allows for A and B to band together to rip off C, C and A in tum joining to rip off B, and then B and C conspiring against A, and so on. This is not justice but a moral outrage, and rather than treating democracy and democrats with respect, they should be treated with open contempt and ridiculed as moral frauds.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

“By compelling private land owners to subsidize ("protect") "endangered species" residing on their land through environmental legislation, there will be more and better-off animals, and fewer and worse-off humans.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

“All redistribution, regardless of the criterion on which it is based,
involves "taking" from the original owners and/ or producers (the "havers" of something) and "giving" to nonowners and nonproducers (the
"nonhavers" of something). The incentive to be an original owner or
producer of the thing in question is reduced, and the incentive to be a
non-owner and non-producer is raised. Accordingly, as a result of subsidizing individuals because they are poor, there will be more poverty. By
subsidizing people because they are unemployed, more unemployment
will be created. Supporting single mothers out of tax funds will lead to
an increase in single motherhood, "illegitimacy," and divorce.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

“من مقدمات صادقة لا يمكن ان نستنبط الا قضاية صحيحة
ولو ان تلك المستنبطة من مقدمات كاذبة ليست دائماً كاذبة”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

“كلما انخفضت درجة الاستغلال, زادت رغبة الرعاية في الإنتاج”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

“لا أحد يستطيق أن يمتلك كل شيء مرة واحدة وإلى الأبد”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

“A ilegitimidade do estado e o axioma da não agressão (segundo o qual não se permite a iniciação – ou a ameaça da iniciação – do uso da força física contra outras pessoas e os seus bens) não implicavam que todos tivessem a liberdade de escolher o seu próprio estilo de vida não agressivo? Isso não implicava que a vulgaridade, a obscenidade, a grosseria, o uso de drogas, a promiscuidade, a pornografia, a prostituição, o homossexualismo, a poligamia, a pedofilia ou qual- quer outra perversidade ou anormalidade imaginável, na medida em que constituíam crimes sem vítimas, fossem estilos de vida e atividades perfeitamente normais e legítimos? Portanto, não é de surpreender que, a partir do seu início, o movimento libertário atraiu um número anormalmente elevado de seguidores desequilibrados e perversos. Subsequentemente, o ambiente contracultural e a “tolerância” multicultural e relativista do movimento libertário atraiu um número ainda maior de desajustados, de fracassados (tanto em termos pessoais quanto em termos profissionais) ou de simples perdedores.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

“(...) The State says to its citizens "do not kidnap or enslave another man." And yet the State itself does precisely this in conscripting its citizens into its army. And the State says to its citizens "do not kill or murder your fellow men." And yet the State does precisely this once it has declared a "state of war" to exist...”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

“(...) It is absurd to believe that an agency which may tax without consent can be a property protector. Likewise, it is absurd to believe that an agency with legislative powers can preserve law and order. Rather, it must be recognized that the Constitution is itself unconstitutional, i.e., incompatible with the very doctrine of natural human rights that inspired the American Revolution...”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed