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The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that
it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions
are positive rather than negative.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Public officials are permitted to finance or subsidize their own activities through taxes. That is, they are permitted to engage in and live off, what in private dealings between private law subjects is prohibited and considered 'theft' and 'stolen loot.'

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

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

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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Born: September 2, 1949 (age 76)

Bio: Hans-Hermann Hoppe is a German-born American Austrian School economist, and libertarian/anarcho-capitalist philosopher.

Known for:

Democracy: The God That Failed (2001)
A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (1989)
The Economics and Ethics of Private Property (1993)
The Myth of National Defense (2003)
A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline (2015)

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