Hospers Quotes & Sayings

If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty. — John Hospers

We can literally unplug a country from the Internet. We ought to think about unplugging them. — Richard A. Clarke

Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid — Charles Lamb

Sarah. Sarah. Sarah. I can't get away from myself. — A.S. King

Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become ... a far greater aggressor. — John Hospers

My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death. — Laila Ali

Let us imitate nature - not each other. — Debasish Mridha

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle. — Mignon McLaughlin

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war. — John Hospers

Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience. — Haruki Murakami

You can run away from your life and your past, but there's no way to distance yourself from your own heart. — Kristin Hannah

The tyranny of a majority can be just as cruel as the tyranny of a single dictator, depending on the degree of enlightenment or stupidity of the voting majority. — John Hospers

Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to the question whether or not we shall be struck down by a dread disease: "it's all a matter of luck." It is important to keep this in mind, for people almost always forget it, with consequences in human intolerance and unnecessary suffering that are incalculable. — John Hospers

By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments ... The major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments-that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity. — John Hospers

An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the entire income of every American living west of the Mississippi. If this trend continues, America will gradually sink into the status of a Third World nation - more unemployment, more shackles on production, more poverty. — John Hospers

To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel. — Dante Alighieri

Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can at least change jobs," but you can't avoid having a job - just as under statism one can at least change nationalities but you can't avoid subjection to one nation-state or another. But freedom means more than the right to change masters. — Bob Black

More than almost any current book, DTU will wake the reader from his dogmatic slumbers. It is eminently readable, challenging, and provocative. — John Hospers

In the very next election, the American people elected 63 new Republicans to the House of Representatives - the largest sweep of Congress for any party since 1948. Even liberal Massachusetts elected a Republican senator solely because of his vow to vote against Obamacare. — Ann Coulter