Philosophy Quotes - Page 28

• In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.

  George Orwell

  Country, Russia, Socialist Countries

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think, 1947-1948”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Party, Political, Liberty

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• If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we don't have to believe that we mean better than them. We have to believe that we do better than them. We measure morality by what happens not what is intended.

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, Mean, Political

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• The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem of inventing for oneself a liberalism according to one's own tastes and passing it off as an evolution from past ideas.

  Ralph Raico

  Past, Ideas, Political

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• Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests sought to exploit the public, the great mass of consumers and taxpayers.

  Ralph Raico

  Mean, Political, Competition

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• With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.

  Ralph Raico

  Political, Granted, Economics

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• As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to appalling poverty and state absolutism. There was nothing in the socialist doctrine of the time that would suggest otherwise.

  Ralph Raico

  Men, Goal, Political

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• The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

  Robert Reich

  Opportunity, Equality, Differences

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". A BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

  George Reisman

  Loss, Eugenics, Political

  George Reisman (1979). “The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government's On-going Destruction of the American Economic System Through Price Controls”, Green Hill Pub

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• Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.

  Eugen Richter

  Political, Economics, Economic Freedom

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• If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Weed, Mean, Political

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• If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Believe, People, Political

  Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (2013). “Fascism versus Capitalism”, p.79, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.

  Murray Rothbard

  Rights, Political, Might

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• The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Essence, Political, Poverty

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• In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided to borrow a bit more and do even better.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Successful, Political

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• It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Running, Political, Economics

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• The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our bills we wouldn't have all this debt. The reason we have to raise the debt ceiling is because we can't pay our bills and we have to borrow money because we don't have any money to pay our bills.

  Peter Schiff

  America, Political, President

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• And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by investing in themselves people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare.

  Theodore Schultz

  Men, People, Political

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• Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times... to a hundred times more than the, uh... real engineer? A real engineer build bridges, a financial engineer build, build dreams. And when those dream turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.

  Andrew Sheng

  Dream, Real, Bridges

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• O philosophy, you leader of life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Leadership, Leader

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• The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars have directly stressed that state interventions create corporatist forms... the formation, let alone the political capabilities, of such purely socioeconomic phenomena as interest groups and classes depends in significant measure on the structures and activities of the very states the social actors, in turn, seek to influence.

  Theda Skocpol

  Class, Political, Stressed

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• Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.

  Theda Skocpol

  Political, Action, Economics

  Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol, Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on States and Social Structures, Joint Committee on Latin American Studies (1985). “Bringing the State Back In”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity. The dissenter submits, that no party has a right to compel him to contribute to the support of doctrines, which do not meet his approbation. The rate-payer may as reasonably argue, that no one is justified in forcing him to subscribe towards the maintenance of persons, whom he does not consider deserving of relief.

  Herbert Spencer

  Party, Support, Political

  Herbert Spencer (1843). “The Proper Sphere of Government: a Reprint of a Series of Letters, Originally Published in “The Nonconformist.””, p.10

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• RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and fail to provide effective market discipline Facing prices that are too low, systemically important firms will take on too much risk."

  Gary H. Stern

  Discipline, Political, Risk

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• Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is growing in the United States. He deplores the perverse effects of minimum wage laws, and the legal minimum is regularly raised each 3 or 5 years. He brands usury laws as a medieval superstition, but no state hurries to repeal its law.

  George Stigler

  Years, Law, Giving

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