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"It's good to have a norm against racism, but when you go to a taboo, that's a very black and white thing. There's no nuance, there's no grey zones, and all of a sudden this is a powerful piece of kryptonite that somebody can weaponise."
"The minute you don't agree with something they do, they'll come for you too. Don't for one minute think that you're safe. So why are you supporting this? Because it could happen to any one of you."
"Every country is run poorly, in my opinion. I don't think any country is run very well. Even Singapore is not run very well. They're too restrictive there."
“When Starmer came in in 2024, how many people across the entire British state changed jobs? Two hundred... One hundred ministers… and one hundred special advisors… And that’s it. And everybody else in that deep state stayed exactly the same.”
"You can vote your way into socialism, but you can only shoot your way out. They're never going to leave power."
“The struggle ultimately is not political. The struggle ultimately is philosophical.”
“There is only one freedom. The freedom to leave.”
"We know the formula for prosperity. "
"It’s not about the way you make decisions, it’s about consent. "
"We are starting to see symptoms of civilisational decline. "
"Shall we lock everyone down and then cripple supply chains, then pump as much money into the system as we can possibly get away with? "
"We're going down the wrong path ."
"The hardest pill to swallow is that democracy is socialsim ."
"We're in a 'shock and awe' situation in history, and a lot of people just do not know how to react to it. So what do they do? They just stay despondent and silent."
"We now have half a million civil servants in the United Kingdom. We used to run the entire empire on forty thousand. "
"You don't need to be ashamed for living and acting freely. This is just how it's supposed to be. "
"This is the hill that I'm happily going to die on, because I didn't start my life with two suitcases and two hundred dollars in my pocket for my American-born children to end up living in the same disaster that I had to run away from."
"You can only be as free as you are authentic to yourself ."
"I'm for all the liberties. If you're only for one liberty... If you're only involved in one thing and you have one passion then maybe find a different place . But if you're for all of it. If you want to live and let live, then this is your spot."
"How do we communicate that getting the government involved, paying for everything, or having a system in which the government's going to be giving you everything is not necessarily the right answer. "
"In some countries, we get our power from god. I'm some countries, we have a king who got his power from god. In some countries, it's just whoever is the baddest dude. Those are all answers, but the American answer, as I think of it, is: government operates from consent."
"The entire world wants the same thing. We all want freedom. We all want personal responsibility & individual liberty. "
"Whether you are Conservative or Democrat or voting for either, you're basically fighting in a territory of which version of Statism should prevail. "
"I don't believe that taxation is theft, and the reason I don't is because if you can go to Próspera and opt into their fee scheme, then you are no longer tax cattle."
"The sweet spot is when the short term and the long term are aligned... ...For most libertarian Americans, their life in New Hampshire will be better than wherever they are. So it works for them in the short term, and you've got that aspirational, transcendent thing in the distance that you're still chasing after...
"It was more of a requirement to be self-reliant. You just had to, or else you didn't make it. And so that self-reliance and independence—and that 'I'm going to take care of myself and I don't need you' attitude—is, I think, in our DNA. That was part of what motivated the founders to say: We can take care of ourse...
"Society is primarily authoritarian and t hey train us in authoritarianism from an early age and they reward authoritariansim and all the stories are authoritarian. So, to actually have that amount of programming, for normal people it's so hard to break out."
"The desire for conformity & order is stronger in most people than the desire for freedom. But what you can do in an open society is teach people that freedom, although it may not come naturally to most people, produces better outcomes: It makes people richer, it makes people happier and constraining your natural t...
"When everybody is talking about Free Cities, for me this is very interesting because if there is a model that has proven to be sustainable here on earth, there's little reason why those same fundamental frameworks couldn't be just adapted to people who want to do long term space missions or live in outer space . "
" They say Germans are romantics in the sense that they follow an ideal to the bitter end, maybe to their own detriment. But who knows? M aybe if they figure out that the ideal is freedom, then they will follow that to the bitter en...
"F rankly, if you don't stand your ground, you will always be fleeing. You will never have anything. Próspera got a commitment from the government of Honduras to have this arrangement for the next 45 years. At this point, the government i...
"When I start with a client, I ask them what they want. And usually, the typical way of answering this question is to first think about what is possible and then choose from that. Then I say 'What would you want if anything was possible?'."
"Achieve gender equality, ensure the rule of law, promote justice, and promote non-discrimination. These are the fancy words that they're using, but in reality, the deeper you go into this agenda, the more you realise that there's a plan here that aspires to absolute control over humanity."
"I think that what is significant with the pandemic is not that there was a virus, but how they used people to enforce their ideas against other people. And that is pretty scary because we like to think that we are much more modern today than, say 1930s Germany. But it was pretty obvious I think that during the pan...
"War is the health of the state . I don't think that many people really understand that. That's where the money is made: War, death, destruction. They love it. It gives them an excuse to run the money printer."
"You don't need motivation — you need to have a very clear understanding about your identity and only take on work that that identity is loyal to. Because the days up here, there's no motivation in the world that gets you up here on a bad day."
"If there was one thing I wanted to change in this world, it would have nothing to do with governments, laws, or taxes — it would simply be the way we relate to our children."
"You've got to understand. These people really do see most of us as useless eaters."
"I define addiction as any behavior that helps you avoid feeling your feelings. By that definition, most of us are addicts. And Fiat money is one of the biggest drugs of all."
"I remain disappointed, flummoxed, angry and aggravated that free market libertarianism has not made more headway because it seems to me to provide many, if not most of the answers to the barriers to human flourishing and removal of human suffering. "
" We are talking about forming new societies. I mean, it's a big topic, but I think the main things have been covered now. I think I can say that because it took me 30 years to get the knowledge to write the book and I have discussed this topic intensely with all kinds of people all over the world. I can say that we...
"Developing the technologies that would let people live in space habitats.. it's not trivial, but it's a whole lot easier than colonising a planet when you've got to get down and up. If we could get to the planet for free. I mean, if we had cheap transportation, if you had teleportation or something, then colonisin...
"I love starting from a positive approach and instead of asking myself 'How can I fight these governments?' as, unfortunately, many people still tend to do in the Free Cities space. The question I'm asking is 'How can those Free Cities actually contribute to the development of the host country.' "
"I believe that the ability to vote with your feet is true democracy. When you can relocate easily and decide what system, what jurisdiction works for you best."
"You are no longer dependent on elites to tell you what you're allowed to think and we should always be optimistic about that. I think, in a lot of ways, the insane censorship and this whole apparatus that's designed to keep us from speaking our minds is a reaction to the fact that we're winning the conversation jus...
"This is one thing that the state is very successful at. It has managed to make people feel good about their own complacency. "
"I think that the best can be the enemy of the good & the better , and sometimes we should be careful about saying that we have this vision of this fabulous idea, and overlook opportunities for incremental improvements to what exists now."
"We consider art a way of thinking, like a communication protocol. So when you want to talk about change of mindset. When you want to open minds, which is necessary if you want to spread freedom, art is one of the great tools. We've proved that."
"Every good story is ultimately libertarian in nature."
"One thing you are in control of is your attitude and your mind. You can always find a little bit of freedom there. That's really where liberty starts and ends."
"I realized they would rather let us be homeless and begging on the street than not do what we are told. And to me that was so wrong and so evil that I was like, if they can do that, they wouldn't have any issues taking our kids away if they decided we were unfit to parent them based on whatever they decided."
"We think that for historical reasons the world has converged on a small number of governance models and we think the world would be better if people could choose the kind of governance model they live under and not be limited by the range of choices that are available today."
