Statism Quotes

36 quotes by 19 authors

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing. — Ayn Rand
Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism. — Ludwig von Mises
Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the… — Ayn Rand
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment… — Henry Hazlitt
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. Itâ€™s very easy to disguise a… — Ronald Reagan
And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls… — Paul Ryan
The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless, unchurched people for some kind of protection. When we… — Sam Shoemaker
American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically… — Robert Kuttner
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine....If you don't do this, one of these days you… — Ronald Reagan
Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can at least change… — Bob Black
Politically, the goal of todayâ€™s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is the erosion of… — Ayn Rand
Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny. — Ayn Rand
The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They… — Ayn Rand
If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that the individual is… — Ayn Rand
Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It… — Ayn Rand
The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government,… — Nathaniel Branden
What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's communism and Mussolini's fascism is… — Leonard Read
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. — Ronald Reagan
Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward… — Ludwig von Mises
We may first observe that communism and socialism--which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism--cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates… — J. Reuben Clark

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