148 Quotes About Collectivism
- Author Jeffrey Tucker
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Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through competition but through the myth of the social contract.
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- Author Jeffrey Tucker
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Commerce tends toward rewarding inclusion, broadness, and liberality. Tribal loyalties, ethnic and religious bigotries, and irrational prejudices are bad for business. The merchant class has been conventionally distrusted by tribalist leaders -- from the ancient to the modern world -- precisely because merchantcraft tends to break down barriers between groups.
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- Author Jeffrey Tucker
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Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.
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- Author Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
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The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.
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- Author Jeffrey Tucker
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Without anarchy, there would be chaos.
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- Author Lysander Spooner
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No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.
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- Author Herbert Spencer
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They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.
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- Author Albert Jay Nock
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I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except for the flavouring.
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- Author Lawrence W. Reed
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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.
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