Hans-Hermann Hoppe Quotes

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

I do not believe that Communism will overwhelm the free world.

What is the difference between democracy and democratic socialism? The same as between a chair and an electric chair.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

Socialism means slavery.

Socialism and communism are now so near each other that there is hardly any difference between them. In the past they differed from each other as does liberalism from democracy

Socialism was embraced by the greater part of the intelligentsia as the apparent heir of the liberal tradition: therefore it is not surprising that to them the idea of socialism's leading to the opposite of liberty should appear inconceivable.

The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

We thought we'd leave communism behind, and everything would turn out fine. But it turns out you can't leave this and become free, because these people don't understand what freedom is.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.