Politics Quote by S.A. Smith

“Decentralized means learning cannot easily be curtailed by autocratic governments and is considerably more immune to socioeconomic upheaval.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

“The aristocrats, if such they could be called, generally hated the whole concept of the train on the basis that it would encourage the…

— Terry Pratchett

“The only thing worse than too much government is too little: in failed states, people suffer at least as much violence and injustice as…

— Tony Judt

“The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established…

— Karl Marx

“It was the ideas of the classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age-old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvement and freed…

— Ludwig von Mises

“A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it.”

— Paul Kriwaczek

Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to…

— Barry Goldwater

“Government can only reign over a classes-divided society.”

— Toba Beta

“Improve working conditions, render to labor what is justly due to labor, and thereby give the people security, comfort, and leisure Then, believe me,…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“Without the changes in political institutions and political power similar to those that emerged in England after 1688, there was little chance for absolutist…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to…

— John Dewey

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