[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Socialism works ... [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it's conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to… — Chevy Chase Copy Share Image
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“No. Charity, like Socialism, is an invention of the weak to exploit the strong and bring them to their knees." — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We've been at this 56 years and ... we love saying that we are a country in revolution, trying to create socialism,… — Mariela Castro Copy Share Image
We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class… — Michel Aflaq Copy Share Image
A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Marx and Engels openly declared that the progressive income tax and the death tax are 'economically untenable' and that they advocated them… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If we take the pope at his word and socialism is highly preferable to capitalism and he was really concerned about these… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When external and internal forces hostile to the development of socialism try to turn the development of a given socialist country in… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
“When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
The fundamental basis is this: Socialism requires that government becomes your God. That's why they have to destroy the concept of God.… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
“In our civilized societies we are rich. Why then are the many poor? Why this painful drudgery for the masses? Why, even… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I am a convinced advocate of economic and social equality because I know that, without it, liberty, justice, human dignity, morality, and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“I want to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power,… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Then all at once he´d hear his own voice enunciating clearly and firmly, feel its reverberance along the walls and ceiling, feel… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
“The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By using the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Fact check: The examples of failed socialism that critics use are not socialist democracies but authoritarian states led by corrupt, ruthless, and… — Jaboukie Young-White Copy Share Image
GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If Obama had his way no one would win a football game. Each score would be distributed equally and everyone gets a… — Rudy Espinoza Copy Share Image
The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism… — Tiny Tim Copy Share Image
And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Somebody once asked me what had attracted me to National Socialism. I replied without a shadow of hesitation: 'Its beauty.' — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety. — George Reisman Copy Share Image
Socialism means government dependency, rationed resources, and exorbitant taxation. It means the destruction of every incentive to achieve. — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility. — Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet Copy Share Image
His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“I do not object to Socialism because it will revolutionize our commerce, but because it will leave it so horribly the same.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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