Murray Rothbard Quotes

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

The state is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class for suppressing the resistance of its class enemies.

Why should I nationalize the industry. I shall nationalize the people.

Whether the state be Marxist or capitalist, it makes no difference. The dominant ideology is that of sovereignty.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state.

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.

The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism.

The media, the corporations, the politicians…have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it’s come to the point where they don’t need to give any reason at all.

I believe you can divide the people in to two basic groups, those who believe government is a necessary good and those who believe it is a necessary evil, those who want government to take care of them, those who want government to leave them alone.

If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.

The Statist has an insatiable appetite for control. His sights are set on his next meal even before he has fully digested his last. He is constantly agitating for government action. And in furtherance of that purpose, the Statist speaks in the tongue of the demagogue, concocting one pretext and grievance after another to manipulate public perceptions and build popular momentum for the divestiture of liberty and property from its rightful possessors.

One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.

All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.

Liberals want the family destroyed, they want religion destroned, because then you have loyalty directly to the state.

Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.

The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could -- or should -- be the property of the state.

There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say.

The left wants you to believe that true morality is defined by how much money you give the government, how much money you pay the government, how much money the government gets from you, because only the government does good stuff, only the government does good works, only the government cares about people. It's bogus.

No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.

[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.