Murray Rothbard Quotes


I do not go so far as the extreme male 'sexists' who contend that women should confine themselves to the home and children and that any search for alternative careers is unnatural. On the other hand, I do not see much more support for the opposite contention that domestic-type women are violating their natures.


Citations

Rothbard, Murray N. Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays. Libertarian Review Press, 1974.

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Abbot was apparently ignorant of the American women who did fight in the American Revolution, the War of 1812 or the Civil War where there were a few women who fought on both sides some of whom were decorated. Nor did he seem to acknowledge Joan of Arc and other female warriors in world history. But he would be truly shocked by the tens of thousands of “civilized” women who volunteered and served in the American military once they were allowed to do so and the “civilized” men who fought with them as compatriots.


Even as suave and sophisticated man as JFK was unsure of proper behavior with women involved in politics in the 1950s. In a way, this quotation shows us how far we have come in the half century following Kennedy’s statement.


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Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard
  • Born: March 2, 1926
  • Died: January 7, 1995
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Economist

Murray Newton Rothbard was an American heterodox economist of the Austrian School, economic historian and political theorist. Rothbard was the founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism, a staunch advocate of historical revisionism and a central figure in the 20th-century American libertarian movement. He wrote over twenty books on political theory, revisionist history, economics, and other subjects.