Anarchy Quote by Emma Goldman

“The Old World belief is this: Individuals are cells in a greater organism. All men are naturally dependent, obedient, controlled by Authority. (Communists, Fascists…

— Rose Wilder Lane

Democracy in a socialist country is freedom in chains.

— Victor Banerjee

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right…

— Woodrow Wilson

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary

— Kathleen Norris

The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct…

— Ruth Benedict

The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but…

— Benedetto Croce

“The authority of society is imposed not arbitrarily or officially, but naturally. And it is because of this fact that its effect on the…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

— Epictetus

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be…

— Milton Friedman