If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty.

All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it

term 'libertarian' itself, to be sure, raises a problem, notably, the specious identification of an anti-authoritarian ideology with a straggling movement for 'pure capitalism' and 'free trade.' This movement never created the word: it appropriated it from the anarchist movement of the [nineteenth] century. And it should be recovered by those anti-authoritarians ... who try to speak for dominated people as a whole, not for personal egotists who identify freedom with entrepreneurship and profit.