Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem.
– Jakub Boydar Winiewski
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- 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. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- 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. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can’t be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn’t a single war started by anarchists? – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Individualism turns a band into a society. Collectivism turns society into a mob. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Economics without ethics is a caricature. Ethics without economics is a fairy tale. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Anarcho-capitalism: the realization that the only way to effectively govern the market is to have an effective market in governance. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they don’t need anyone’s permission to be free. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Where faith increases, liberty follows.-The Liberty Book – The Liberty Book
- The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. – John Maynard Keynes
- Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. – John Paul II
- State can become threat to individual life, cause of individual liberty. – Kaushik
- If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you. – AE Samaan
- Diversity of thought is in demand, for boosting collective creativity and harnessing collective wisdom. – Pearl Zhu
- A bird, unable to fly, is still a bird; but a human unable to love is an inexpensive stone: like a piece of uric acid stone – Munia Khan
- Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. – James Madison
- It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live. – Dalai Lama XIV
- When people’s faith in the collective intelligence increases, falls to the same extent their own individual sense of responsibility. – MZRiffi
- Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity – Aldous Huxley
- I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – Thomas Carlyle
- The time to clean our city of any dirt begins individual action for collective clean communities. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The time to clean our city of any dirt begins with individual action for collective clean communities. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- I think, therefore I am an individual… not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am… Libertarian – AE Samaan
- I think, therefore I am an individual… not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am… Libertarian. – AE Samaan
- Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective – Namsoon Kang