Contrary to what many people believe, the welfare state was originally a 'rightwing' invention. It was the arch-conservative Otton von Bismarck who… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“The only fundamental and possible Socialism is the socialization of the selective breeding of Man: in other terms, of human evolution We… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No word in our language not even "Socialism" has been employed more loosely than " Mysticism ." ... The history of the… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Since Americans are by nature individualistic and entrepreneurial, by definition, then, the socialist program is anti-American, to say nothing of totalitarian. Socialism… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
We may first observe that communism and socialism--which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism--cannot live with Christianity nor with any… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism,… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Hitler did not have Mussolini's revolutionary socialist background... Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the 'bourgeoisie' and 'capitalism' and… — Richard Pipes Copy Share Image
Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Socialists have generally been willing to grant that possibly, just possibly, capitalist economic production would outstrip socialist production. But no socialist has… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Vladimir Ilyich (Lenin), your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. Is it possible that you do… — Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“If you personally advocate that I be caged if I don't pay for whatever "government" things YOU want, please don't pretend to… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
“Socialists have advocated numerous ways of democratizing the economy, from setting up worker cooperatives to nationalizing major industries... At the core of… — Nathan J. Robinson Copy Share Image
The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Everything brought forward in favor of Socialism during the last hundred years, in thousands of writings and speeches, all the blood which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and… — John Burns Copy Share Image
I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw… — Joe Slovo Copy Share Image
“Y yo pregunto a los economistas políticos, a los moralistas, si han calculado el número de individuos que es necesario condenar a… — Almeida Garrett Copy Share Image
The many woes that afflict out nation are rooted in the morally bankrupt paradigms of socialism, interventionism, and empire that have held… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
First, we should become informed about communism, about socialism, and about Americanism. What better way can one become informed than by first… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
“I’m quoting, so pardon the sexist language, but somewhere or other he said: socialism is an effort to try to solve man’s… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Republicans paint everything that Democrats have been for as socialism, too far to the left, as extreme, and it didn't matter how… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
“It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people.… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
My view of democratic socialism builds on the success of many other countries around the world that have done a far better… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine…If you don't do this, one of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman,… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
The socialist system, however, forbids this fundamental freedom to choose one's own career. Under socialist conditions, there is only one economic authority,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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