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John Hospers
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“Racism is a particularly pernicious form of collectivism. Persons who cast racial slurs on others are not considering the individual merits or demerits of the person slurred; they may not know the individual at all, except that he is a member of some racial group (Jews, blacks, Ital ians, etc.). Though the person’s individual qualities may be quite different from many other members of the group, all this is ignored: all they know or care is that he is a member of that group.”
John Hospers (1918–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Justice versus Social Justice", as quoted in "White Supremacy Is Alien to Liberal and Libertarian Ideals" (7 August 2019), by J.D. Tuccille, Reason
“Liberty (or freedom) is the absence of coercion by other human beings.”
John Hospers (1918–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.”
John Hospers (1918–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A fascist is a student who, seeing the representatives of a chemical industry recruiting on campus, cries, ‘Let's chase the bastard off! We have the right to free speech but he doesn't!’”
John Hospers (1918–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.”
John Hospers (1918–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only proper role of government, according to libertarians, is that of the protector of the citizen against aggression by other individuals. The government, of course, should never initiate aggression; its proper role is as the embodiment of the retaliatory use of force against anyone who initiates its use.”
John Hospers (1918–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beware: the Government Is Armed and Dangerous.”
John Hospers (1918–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Government is the most dangerous institution known to man. Throughout history it has violated the rights of men more than any individual or group of individuals could do: it has killed people, enslaved them, sent them to forced labor and concentration camps, and regularly robbed and pillaged them of the fruits of their expended labor. Unlike individual criminals, government has the power to arrest and try; unlike individual criminals, it can surround and encompass a person totally, dominating every aspect of one's life, so that one has no recourse from it but to leave the country (and in totalitarian nations even that is prohibited).”
John Hospers (1918–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source