George Gilder Quotes About Socialism

Quotes about: Socialism

• If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

  George Gilder

  Jobs, Children, Government

• History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

  George Gilder

  Debt, Prosperity, Socialism

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.198, Regnery Publishing

• [The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.

  George Gilder

  Dog, Zero, Struggle

• Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from risk. But the result is to shield them from knowledge of the real dangers and opportunities.

  George Gilder

  Real, Opportunity, Risk

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.246, Regnery Publishing

• Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.

  George Gilder

  Creativity, Ideas, Creative

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