One of the most powerful crosscurrents to illiberalism in…

“Pilgrim of the heart, oneness in our vein - love is the revolution, Human is the name.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution…

— Kwame Nkrumah

“Naturally there was the notion of private property as a pragmatic concept, for individuals or groups have a proclivity to tend to their own…

— Ashim Shanker

“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It was in…

— Howard Zinn

The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“the egalitarian lifestyles of hunter-gatherers exist because the individuals care a lot about status. Individuals in these societies end up roughly equal because everyone…

— Paul Bloom

In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in…

— Ayn Rand

“For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang the ideals…

— Jürgen Habermas

“Originated by the green leading-edge in academia, this aperspectival madness of “no truth” leapt out of the universities, and morphed into an enormous variety…

— Ken Wilber

“When you can’t block people’s access to food and shelter, and you can’t stop them from leaving, how can you control them? The ubiquitous…

— Christopher Ryan

Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power.…

— Alex Tabarrok

“There is equality where all are slaves, as well as where all are free. This shows that equality, by itself, is not enough to…

— Bertrand Russell

Disregarding the value of religion and believing in egalitarianism are two misconceptions that cause America much trouble today.

— Charley Reese

“My good friends, things cannot go on well in England, nor ever will until everything shall be in common, when there shall be neither…

— John Ball

The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and that message…

— P. J. O'Rourke