Creating Quote by Leonard Read Download Open image “Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.” — Leonard Read ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creating Creating wealth Incapable Inspirational Socialism Wealth
“In the vast library of socialist theory, and in all of Marx’s compendious works, there is not a chapter devoted to the creation of… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Socialism tends to destroy wealth. Socialism does this by draining its vitality away. It does this by destroying the desirability of wealth as a… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth. — Andrew Napolitano Copy Share Image
The harsh reality is that socialism not only destroys economic freedom, it severely limits the capability of everyone to reach maximum potential. It's a… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation. — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources. — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish. — Bill Owens Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.' — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish. — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence? — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all! — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism,… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally sound as… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
There is really nothing that can be done except by an individual. Only individuals can learn. Only individuals can think creatively. Only individuals can… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
How could you feel worthless when God has honoured you by creating you and choosing you to be with Him, in this life and… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever… — Stanley Clarke Copy Share Image
I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music. — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Without a vision there is no possibility of creating something larger than what al-ready exists. An entrepreneur has to be able to bring something… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know… — Fernando Alonso Copy Share Image
When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image