It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation.

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god.

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private property, not politics, "public education" or the creation of national mythology that allowed humankind to transition from prehistory to history. Just as trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private property have always been on the forefront of civilization's advancement, so were they also the driving force behind civilization's emergence.

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

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.

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers.

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

The history of modern philosophy is the history of losing and regaining the awareness of the fact that there is no third way between the Absolute and the absurd.

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski