Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“Slavery and serfdom, while not unknown in tribal societies, expand enormously under the aegis of states.” — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
“We are never so free as when we own our sacred serfdom...” — Spurgeon C. H. (Charles Haddon Copy Share Image
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The Road To Serfdom is about capitalism. That’s why on the side of that road you’ll find me, in a kiosk, selling… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The Neo-Feudalism of UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is reviving serfdom as the condition of the future. If you let it.” — Rosa Koire Behind the Green Mask Copy Share Image
But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Engaged in a new form of serfdom---only bound now to banks and mortgage lenders instead of to lords---her more highly leveraged neighbors… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom -… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Ever read any [Friedrich] Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“This was laughable, of course, but that’s always the way with totalitarian regimes. Language gets turned on its head. Serfdom is freedom.… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“This was a cruelty made by history. Long after serfdom had been abolished the land captains exercised their right to flog the… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“Nothing he had brought to it of his nearest comparison, Raby with its thatch'd and benevolent romance of serfdom, had at all… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice… — Kenneth Cloke Copy Share Image
“The economic structure of capitalist society has grown out of the economic structure of feudal society. The dissolution of the latter set… — Karl marx Copy Share Image
“In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loyalty… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
.. the publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image