Hans-Hermann Hoppe Quotes

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice.

Woe to those who make unjust laws.

The Court is corrupt: The fields are overgrown with weeds; the granaries are empty. Yet there are those dressed in fineries, With swords at their sides: Filled with food and drink, Possessed of too much wealth. This is called "Taking the lead in robbery.

Too many things that happen in this country give the impression that our system is blind in the right eye.

Those who have by an unrighteous power made merchandise of the earth, giving all to some, & none to others, declare themselves tyranicall & usurping.

Democracies can no longer tolerate bribery, fraud and dishonesty, especially as such practices disproportionately hurt the poor.

… cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

Some people in India want to increase corruption and dishonesty in the name of caste.

It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another in riches, we have palpably cast off justice, and lost the common good. I should like to know how any man can be just, who is deliberately aiming to get out of someone else what he wants for himself.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.