Frederic Bastiat on Socialism
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object…
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Mises, Worship of the State
“The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or…
Friedrich Hayek on Emergencies
Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.
Thoma Sowell on Politics and Economics
“The reason that politics usually wins out over economics is that economics is limited to what is possible. A good politician can always do better…
Thomas Sowell on Life
“Life, in general, has never been close to fair. So the pretense that government can make it fair, is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to…
Ludwig Von Mises Products of Free Enterprise
“Enjoying all the new products which free enterprise provides, they are tormented by one thought only, that some people have become rich in creating these…
Thomas Sowell on Greed
Those who are always accusing people in the private sector of greed, almost never accuse government of greed, no matter what it does.
Ludwig von Mises On Man
“If one rejects laissez-faire on account of man’s fallibility and moral weakness, one must, for the same reason, also reject every kind of government action.”—…
Friedric Hayek Economic control
“To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.”— Friedrich Hayek
Objectobot on Capitalism
“It is astounding hypocrisy that capitalism, the most rapid system of progress and innovation ever created, is condemned for an instance of imperfection, while socialism,…
Bastiat on property rights
“As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose–that it may violate property instead of protecting it–then everyone…
Ayn Rand Root of Production
“Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by…
Ayn Rand, what is freedom?
“But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a…
Ayn Rand the New Ridicals
Let those who do care about the future, those willing to crusade for a perfect society, realize that the new radicals are the fighters for…
Ayn Rand, a right is a moral principle
A “right” is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man’s freedom of action in a social context. There is only one fundamental right, all…
The businessman carries scientific discoveries from the laboratory of the inventor
The businessman carries scientific discoveries from the laboratory of the inventor toindustrial plants, and transforms them into material products that fill men’s physical needs and…
Ayn Rand: Businessman vs Bureaucrat
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss.…
Ayn Rand goals of socialism abject failure
“The alleged goals of socialism were the abolition of poverty and the achievement of general prosperity. The results have been a terrifying failure. Instead of…
The Simpsons Ayn Rand on Racism
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic…
Ayn Rand on the Mind
You’ve been told your mind is incompetent tounderstand, that certainty is impossible, that there are no absolutes, that life is meaningless. It’s not true.
Ayn Rand acting on Altruist beliefs
Would you be willing and able to act on the belief that altruism is a moral ideal. That you must sacrificeeverything, everything you love, seek,…
Ayn Rand Proper role of government
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means, to protect him from physical violence. But a government that initiates…
Ayn Rand Facism vs Communism
Fascism and Communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory. Both are variants of statism, based on the collectivist…
Ayn Rand on America’s Wealth
If all the wealth spent on personal consumption by all the rich of the United States were expropriated and distributed among our population, it would…
Ayn Rand Rationalization
Since an emotion isexperienced as an immediate primary, but is, in fact, acomplex, derivative sum, it permits men to practice one of the ugliest of…
Ayn Rand, Entitlements and Rights
If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights… Any…
Ayn Rand on Truth and Faith
“An error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but…
Thomas Sowell Honest Man
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread amount a multitude of hypocrites.
Thomas Sowell on Rent Control
Not a single apartment building was built in Melbourne for years after World War 2 because of rent control laws.
Bastiat – The Law
“As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose–that it may violate property instead of protecting it–then everyone…
Ayn Rand Altruism Corrupts
It is altruism that has corrupted and perverted human benevolence by regarding the giver as an object of immolation, and the receiver as a helplessly…
Ayn Rand on Consent
Any undertaking that involves more than one man, requires the voluntary consent of every participant. Every one of them has the right to make his…
Ayn Rand Purpose of Morality
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand, Individual vs the State
The world conflict of today is the conflict of the individual against the state… The names change, but the essence, and the results remain the…
Ayn Rand, Freedom in Political context
Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, or freedom from the employer, or freedom from…
Ayn Rand on Egalitarianism
The motive of egalitarianism… is not the desire to help the poor, but to destroy the competent.
Ayn Rand on Hatred of the Good
“Envy is regarded by most people as a petty, superficial emotion and, therefore, it serves as a semihuman cover for so inhuman an emotion that…
To oppose war oppose statism
“If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.”
Principle of Individual Rights
“If men are to live together in a peaceful, productive, rational society and deal with oneanother to mutual benefit, they must accept the basic social…
Ayn Rand on Individualists
“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says:“I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s…
Civilized Society
“The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from socialrelationships, thus establishing the principle that if men wish to deal with…
Society is Doomed
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion. When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain…
Consistency Wins
“When men share the same basic premise, it is the most consistent ones who win. So long as men accept the altruist morality, they will…
Coming Looters
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is theleper’s bell of an approaching looter.”
So long as government holds power over the economy.
“So long as a government holds the power of economic control, it will necessarily create a special elite, an aristocracy of pull, it will attract the…
Futile to fight
“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. A merely negative trend or movement cannot win and,…
Thatcher on standards of living
The most debilitating myth was that the state could perpetually provide a higher standard of living regardless of individual effort. It can’t and it never…
Thomas Sowell Stupidest way to do things
It’s hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who…
Thomas Sowell on dumbed down education
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their…
Thomas Sowell, Left’s Ideas Do Not Work
“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find…
Ayn Rand on achieving something good by force
“An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picturegallery at the price of cutting out…
Ayn Rand, Know what you are fighting for
“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. A merely negative trend or movement cannot win and,…
Ayn Rand Government and Economic Control
“So long as a government holds the power of economic control, it will necessarily create a special elite, an aristocracy of pull, it will attract the…
Ayn Rand on Economic vs Political Power
“Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value. political power is exercised by…
Ayn Rand Justice by Inflation
“Justice does exist in the world, whether people choose to practice it or not. The men of ability are being avenged. The avenger is reality.…
Ayn Rand Power Seekers
“Power seekers have always known that if men are to be made submissive, the obstacle is not their feelings, their wishes or their instincts, but…
