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1 " If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is. "
― Ronald Reagan
2 " Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals are not selfish sexual competitors, so it ignores equilibria altogether. Conservatism pretends that there is only one possible equilibrium—a nostalgic version of the status quo—that society could play. Libertarianism ignores the possibility of equilibrium selection at the level of rational social discourse, and assumes that decentralized market dynamics will magically lead to equilibria that yield the highest aggregate social benefits. Far from being a scientific front for a particular set of political views, modern evolutionary psychology makes most standard views look simplistic and unimaginitive. "
― Geoffrey Miller , The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
3 " Global libertarianism would be a borderless world society. "
― Bryant McGill , Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
4 " Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest. "
― , Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America
5 " The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they don't need anyone's permission to be free. "
6 " Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery. "
― , The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty
7 " Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification. "
8 " Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties. "
