Socialism Quotes

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save the world one transaction at a time.It is time for a new beginning.

Government should be a floor upon which the good of the people flourishes, not a ceiling upon which people bump their heads!

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.

Things you call wrong, describe your levels of acceptance and understanding..

Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.

The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.

Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the powerful few.

Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian

Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.

Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.

Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

What did journalists know of tech, anyway? Who gave a damn about the press? We were the Good Guys. Changing the World. Doing the Important Stuff.

Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law.

Dealing with pain for surviving on this thirsty concrete

It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, ..

We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics.

Socialism and capitalism are not mutually exclusive. They can — and should — be used in tandem. Either alone is death by overdose. Balance.

Capitalism and socialism are tools. Each have pros and cons. For each task, use the one that makes the most sense.

People who dismiss all capitalism or all socialism are opposite ends of the same kind of stupid.

For now, we live in the mall, but I think it's closing soon.

Socialism is not panacea and capitalism is not entirely evil.

Capitalists grow wealth. Socialists redistribute wealth.... but population grows, so the Socialist population control kicks in in the form of eugenics.

...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt.

Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions?

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.

Every capitalist is rich, but every rich is not a capitalist.

Capitalism is an ability to stay rich and keep getting rich.

If everyone stopped pretendingcapitalism would drop dead

Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist.

Socialism is politicized envy.

My good friends, things cannot go on well in England, nor ever will until everything shall be in common, when there shall be neither vassal nor lord, and all distinctions levelled.

Men were springing up, a black avenging host was slowly germinating in the furrows, thrusting upward for the harvests of future ages. And very soon their germination would crack the earth asunder.