148 Quotes About Collectivism
- Author Stewart Stafford
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Capitalism celebrates the freedom of disparity, Communism propagandises the equality of misery.
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- Author A.E. Samaan
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Playing Russian Roulette puts you in a 1 in 6 chance of ending your life. Converting your nation’s economy to Socialism is about a 9 out of 10 chance that you will collapse the economy, eradicate your individual rights, and end life as you know it. Playing Russian Roulette is, incredibly, the more sane choice of the two.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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Socialism is nothing but an everyday, ordinary concern for society. If people philosophize it with the term socialism, that's their problem.
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- Author Christos Ikonomou
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The world is constructed in such a way as to relieve each of us of the responsibility of doing any personal good. We’re all free to do bad in a thousand ways, but good is always someone else’s affair. In our societies, the state has a monopoly on good. In order for a society to function in even the most basic way, the state has to have a monopoly on violence – but even more crucial is for the state to have a monopoly on good.
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- Author Jeffrey Tucker
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Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or another faction will assert control in the name of society. Inevitably, the faction will be the most powerful in society -- that is, the state. This is why all attempts to create socialism in scarce goods or services devolve into totalitarian systems of top-down planning.
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- Author Murray N. Rothbard
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Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.
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- Author Jay Leno
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I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve already done it. It’s called a nickel.
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- Author Ludwig von Mises
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What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologies. Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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- Author Jeffrey Tucker
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Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.
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