36 quotes found
“When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the c...”
“To accuse nations (not leaders or governments) is the hallmark of the demo-nationalist of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries; it leads to endless hatreds, feelings of revenge, misunderstandings,...”
“Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.”
“Socialists seem to think George Orwells 1984 is a suggestion, or at least are unashamed of mimicking the methods of the totalitarian state Orwell depicted. Libertarians know it to be a warning, and...”
“You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place?”
“Fuck socialism!No, really..... fuck socialism. Socialism sucks!”
“The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.”
“He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was heavy, compact, saturated with a single solvent-ad...”
“Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem.”
“Of all the simplifications to which the human spirit naturally inclines, unable to reconcile itself to the complexity of the real, there is none more dangerous than the attempt to integrate the who...”
“Deprived of the infinite, man has become what he always was: a supernumerary. He hardly counts; he forms part of the troupe called Humanity; if he misses a cue, he is hissed; and if he drops throug...”
“These ideas fit the experience of these Japanese women who often talked about searching for or trying to develop "self" (jibun). Cultivating or polishing self by doing tea ceremony or being a good ...”
“People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.”
“If collectivizing highly personal medical decisions is evil, then so follows that collectivized medicine is evil.”
“The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.”
“Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.”
“Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control populatio...”
“The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.”
“Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo didas one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.”
“The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions.”
