The Libertarian as Conservative (1984)
Context: You might object that what I’ve said may apply to the minarchist majority of libertarians, but not to the self-styled anarchists among them. Not so. To my mind a right-wing anarchist is just a minarchist who’d abolish the state to his own satisfaction by calling it something else. But this incestuous family squabble is no affair of mine. Both camps call for partial or complete privatization of state functions but neither questions the functions themselves. They don’t denounce what the state does, they just object to who’s doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display the least interest in libertarianism. Those on the receiving end of coercion don’t quibble over their coercers’ credentials. If you can’t pay or don’t want to, you don’t much care if your deprivation is called larceny or taxation or restitution or rent. If you like to control your own time, you distinguish employment from enslavement only in degree and duration.
“Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
As quoted in Mahatma, edit., D.G. Tendulkar, Vol. 7 (1945-1947), first edition, New Delhi, India, Publication Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (1953) p. 138 https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/Mahatma_Vol7.pdf <br class="br">1940s
Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) American economist of the Austrian School, libertarian political theorist, and historian
The Case Against the Fed (5 June 2009) http://mises.org/daily/3480.
“He had no credentials but himself.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, The Drum Major Instinct (1968)
Context: I know a man — and I just want to talk about him a minute, and maybe you will discover who I'm talking about as I go down the way because he was a great one. And he just went about serving. He was born in an obscure village, the child of a poor peasant woman. And then he grew up in still another obscure village, where he worked as a carpenter until he was thirty years old. Then for three years, he just got on his feet, and he was an itinerant preacher. And he went about doing some things. He didn't have much. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never owned a house. He never went to college. He never visited a big city. He never went two hundred miles from where he was born. He did none of the usual things that the world would associate with greatness. He had no credentials but himself.
Budd Hopkins (1931–2011) American UFO researcher, painter and sculptor
Hopkins, Budd. "The Hopkins Image Recognition Test (HIRT) for Children." In: Pritchard, Andrea & Pritchard, David E. & Mack, John E. & Kasey, Pam & Yapp, Claudia. Alien Discussions: Proceedings of the Abduction Study Conference. Cambridge: North Cambridge Press. p. 134.
Allen W. Wood (1942) academic
Kantian Ethics (2008)
“That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Ill doers in the end shall ill receive.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Canto XXXVII, stanza 106 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“If history was any guide, those best at violence might end up ruling over everyone else.”
Neal Stephenson book Seveneves
“Five Thousand Years Later” (p. 684)
Seveneves (2015), Part Three
Walter E. Williams (1936) American economist, commentator, and academic
Helping one's fellow man in need, by reaching into one's own pockets, is a laudable and praiseworthy goal. Doing the same through coercion and reaching into another's pockets has no redeeming features and is worthy of condemnation.
Evil Concealed by Money, 19 November 2008
2000s
