My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.
One of the reasons I'm drawn to civil libertarianism as opposed to communitarianism is that I don't worry so much about the rights of the majority; a majority is quite capable of enforcing and protecting its own rights.
What I'd like to see developing is an American radicalism, libertarian in character, which relies, however weak, faint, and even mythic these traditions may be, on the American libertarian tradition. I don't mean right-wing libertarianism obviously.
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism.
Libertarianism and communism are equally crazy in opposite ways. Libertarians believe that it is possible to privatize everything without anarchy, while communists believe that it is possible to socialize everything without tyranny.
The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.
I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.
Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.
There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.
[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to make people do and be what liberals want. And that makes all the difference in the world.
