Tibor R. Machan

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It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved
- Tibor R. Machan
Collection: Moral
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If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.
- Tibor R. Machan
Collection: Equality
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The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than outright extortion, a gross violation of human liberty.
- Tibor R. Machan
Collection: Liberty
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This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It's only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen - that is what makes the crucial difference.
- Tibor R. Machan
Collection: Differences
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Fascism is [...] arbitrary rule by a charismatic head of state.
- Tibor R. Machan
Collection: Arbitrary
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Politicians are leeches, mostly.
- Tibor R. Machan
Collection: Political