Robert Higgs Quotes

Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

I enjoy talking about politics a great deal.

The anarchist is not at liberty to break the law because he reasons that all government is wrong.

Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

The fundamental question of political philosophy, one that precedes questions about how the state should be organized, is whether there should be any state at all. Why not have anarchy?

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They mistakenly think they want to get rid of government when instead they might just want to have greater access to power.

My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent to the extent that they're powerful, that's roughly accurate.

Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

Government is an unnecessary evil.

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.

Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the large, large scheme of things, only the big questions matter and the answers to those big questions are very, very depressing.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that.