Murray Rothbard Quotes

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

Liberty belongs only to those who have the gift of reason.

In school, no one teaches you to look for things that are right for you.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Education is freedom.

You've got to make sure every decision you make is right for you as a person. If you think you can go to a better club than the one you're at, then, regardless of what anyone says, you should go.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes are concerned, I've made them and acknowledged them as mistakes, not regrets. I consider my life a success. There's nothing that I would re-do. I've always done what I felt was right.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

One creates oneself.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual?

Minute by minute, you decide who you are and who you're likely to be. You make the choices hour by hour, just in the present. I don't believe there's some roadmap laid out that we're headed towards.

Within what gifts you are given you can change certain events in your life and some people choose not to do that.

My goal is never to push anyone to do anything other than think.

You cannot force somebody to be a different person.

Every choice leads you somewhere, but it might not be where you truly want to be if the decision is based on someone else. It could lead to regrets and what-ifs, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't still have valuable experiences.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.