Murray Rothbard Quotes

In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

One of the most disruptive forces in politics is the feeling that wealth is concentrated in the hands of an alien people.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Negro Merchants would gain control of all the lands in the Colony, leaving nothing for all the laboring poor white Men.

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.

The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.