Collectivism Quotes
The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism.
Collectives can’t make money from virtues they make money from weakness. Where there are no weak, they create weak. Cowards hate strong people.
Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem.
Individualism turns a band into a society. Collectivism turns society into a mob.
I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve already done it. It’s called a nickel.
It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.
Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.
Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.
You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place?
Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.
Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.
No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.
If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.... you have a dream.
No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.
Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.
Some bow to the spirit of collectivism, while you ascend to the spirit of your own eclectic rhythms.
Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.
The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.
People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.
They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.
No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.
Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.
Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.
Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.
We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.
