Cases Quote by Herbert Spencer

Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state…

— Herbert Spencer

Any capitalism is superior to feudalism.

— Deng Xiaoping

Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the…

— Robert Higgs

Feudalism is an economic system where a few people own all the land and the others have no option but to be serfs on…

— Thomas Pogge

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

— John Sharp Williams

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the…

— Frank Herbert

“Often, this has only meant a change in tyranny. In other words, one ruling class is replaced by another—sometimes by one that is more…

— Isaac Asimov

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

— Aesop

This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where…

— Howard Nemerov

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

— Thomas Jefferson

Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We…

— George Orwell

As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities, so capitalism…

— Joshua K. Ingalls