Hans-Hermann Hoppe Quotes

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.

People always say you can't win if you don't play

It is not the critic who counts

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

You've got to go out there and fight.

No tactic will work until you have the guts to DO the work!

I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice.

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.

The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the expert consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so.

Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!

A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.

Three turns should do it.

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.