"Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else."

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Source : "Reflections on State and War". Talk in Auburn, Alabama, on the occasion of receiving the Mises Institute’s 2006 Gary G. Schlarbaum Liberty Prize, www.lewrockwell.com. December 02, 2006.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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“The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; he makes people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation and intellectual discourse. There isn't. It's just another gimmick, and it's no different than wanting to be with someone because they're thin or rich or the former lead singer of Whiskeytown.”
“Six feet of dirt make all men equal.”
“I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.”
“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”

Source : The Independent (UK), March 28, 2003.
“We look at each other without saying anything, both of us smiling like idiots. I heart is so full I canâ€™t believe it can possibly still beat without bursting right in front of me. My desire for him is so fierce Iâ€™m afraid to stand, because I know my knees will be too weak to hold me up, but thereâ€™s more than that. This great and bursting thing inside me is love.”
“Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.”
“There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.”
“Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.”

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