36 quotes found
“All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.”
“Collectivist ethical principle: man is not an end to himself, but is only a tool to serve the ends of others. Whether those others are a dictators gang, the nation, society, the race, (the) god(s),...”
“Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question.”
“A world of fully developed individuals is immune to the cult of collectivism.”
“The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.”
“It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy.”
“The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument. And the emo...”
“Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.”
“The essence of diversity is the individual's experience of it. Diversity is about personalised shades of experience emanating from universal colours of humanity, but each person takes from the univ...”
“Socialists seem to think George Orwell’s 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, an...”
“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.”
“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...”
“The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.”
“Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did—as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.”
