Socialism Quotes - Page 36

• It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They believe that the authorities of a socialist commonwealth would pay them higher salaries than those that they earn under capitalism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Believe, Envy, Feelings

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the most ambitious creations of the human spirit, . . .so magnificent, so daring, that it has rightly aroused the greatest admiration. If we wish to save the world from barbarism we have to refute Socialism, but we cannot thrust it carelessly aside.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Simple, Ideas, Wish

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• It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

  James Cook

  Failing, Capitalism

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• Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Management, Prove, Fanatics

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Goal, Common, Individual

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• What can prevent the coming of totalitarian socialism is only a thorough change in ideologies. What we need is an open positive endorsement of that system to which we owe all the wealth that distinguished our age from the conditions of ages gone by.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Age, Needs, Gone

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• The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Real, Fundamentals, Sides

  "The speech Donald Trump should give tonight to win it all" by Monica Crowley, www.washingtontimes.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private enterprise and maximum economic growth.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Growth, Assumption

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• All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources, the overutilization and vandalization of factors of production, and the inferior quality of products and services.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Quality, Levels, Saving

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• I would like to suggest to you that the extent to which government in America has departed from the original design of in habiting the destructive actions of man and invoking a common justice; the extent to which government has invaded the productive and creative areas; the extent to which the government in this country has assumed the responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of our people is a measure of the extent to which socialism has developed here in this land of ours.

  Leonard Read

  Country, Responsibility, Men

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• When the coercive power of government is used to equalize incomes, it guarantees less prosperity across the board and spreads the misery, which is one of the many reasons Marxism and socialism have failed everywhere they've tried.

  David Limbaugh

  Government, Boards, Income

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• Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Father, Class, Middle

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

  James Cook

  Order, Tyrants, Made

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• The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.

  Tony Blair

  Progress, Battle, Century

  "Tony Blair's full speech". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 1999.

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• The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Fate, Heaven, Victory

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• Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.

  Roy Hattersley

  Europe, Labour

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• In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.

  Hugh Gaitskell

  Mean, Years, Lasts

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• How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance with the inflection of the voice? Welfare state, national socialism, radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary and a regiment of others ... these terms in today's usage, are generally compounds of confusion and prejudice. If our attitudes are muddled, our language is often to blame. A good tonic for clearer thinking is a dose of precise, legal definition.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

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• The Democrats, because they believe in socialism, redistribution, forced the banks and financial institutions to make the risky loans.

  Sean Hannity

  Believe, Financial, Loan

  "Hannity Referees Beckel Brothers Showdown". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2009.

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• I tend to not use the word "socialist," because even though more young adults in the United States in a poll say they support socialism than do capitalism, the word socialism doesn't have a lot of meaning in this country.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Country, Support, Adults

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• States can be more or less democratic, and so can socialism. I think any ideal society that exists on a large scale, which is what we most likely have in store for us as a human race, will involve some aspects of socialism.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Thinking, Race, Ideal Society

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Wish, Facts

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a series of essays called "The Iron Law of Oligarchy" and in these essays he discusses how no matter what sorts of freedoms are advertised or put into a society structure, that all societies, all form of governments - whether they be a Roman republic, whether they be a democracy, whether they be a Russian communist system, whatever, a tribe... a tribal council - all of the continuously, throughout the ages, have all converted back into an oligarchy.

  Immortal Technique

  Writing, Government, Law

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat: these two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Self, Law, Two

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Planning, Fantasy, Argument

  "Giants Refreshed II: The Escape from Serfdom: Friedrich von Hayek and the Restoration of Liberty" in Times Literary Supplement ( p. 11), January 14, 2000.

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