An intellectual golden age produces sages. An intellectual dark age produces fools. An intellectual dark age that fancies itself golden produces intellectuals.

People accept false conspiracy theories, since they prefer to dread ridiculous things than to ignore them, and they dismiss true conspiracy theories, since they prefer to ridicule dreadful things than to acknowledge them.

An anarcho-capitalist is someone who agrees that the best way to eliminate the tragedy of the commons is to privatize it away, and realizes that state politics is the mother of all such tragedies.

Anarcho-capitalism is to “minimal statism” what a cure is to a painkiller.

What makes the difference between a gang and a state is the belief that there is a difference between a gang and a state.

Perhaps the most flagrant testimony to the intellectual shallowness of statism is that the typical statist believes that the fantastically hypothetical threat of a corporation monopolizing the supply of water is a devastating objection to libertarianism, but the painfully real threat of a state methodically exterminating tens of millions of individuals is not a devastating objection to statism.

Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions.

Nationalism: the love of tribal fictions inspired by the hatred of social realities.

If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.

Totalitarianism begins with using the word "we" without every I's permission.