Accepting Quote by Lord Acton

“Socialism is the fantastic younger brother of almost decrepit despotism, which it wants to succeed; its efforts are, therefore, in the deepest sense reactionary.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, - that is another matter.

— Lilian Whiting

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights...

— Ayn Rand

Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

— Leonard Read

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

— Arabella Weir

Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar…

— Denis Healey

By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“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

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

— John Stuart Mill