The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product...

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong...

Laugh, laugh at all my dreams!What I dream shall yet come true!Laugh at my belief in man,At my belief in you.Freedom still my soul demands,Unbartered for a calf of gold.For still I do believe in...

Government should be a floor upon which the good of the people flourishes, not a ceiling upon which people bump their heads!

The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself — without the assistance of governments.

The train resembles the Soviet type and is quite comfortable, but all socialist structures I have ever encountered have toilets stemming from a single model engineered by the Orthodox Church in Tsarist Russia to ensure...

In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.

Scholars and enlightened always want to define the differences between communism, socialism, fascism and other economic or political systems. It really doesn’t matter to those who are subjected to those societies how someone has articulated...

I am a degenerate modern semi-intellectual who would die if I did not get my early morning cup of tea and my New Statesman every Friday. Clearly I do not, in a sense, ‘want’ to...

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.

Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator.

Une éthique véritablement socialiste, c’est-à-dire qui cherche la justice sans supprimer la liberté, qui impose aux individus des charges mais sans abolir l’individualité, se trouvera fort embarrassée par les problèmes que pose la condition de...

Accepting experiences is through the understanding that everybody was born equal, no labels, no social status, no preconceptions just born a little person preparing to grow-up on what ever path is grown from development, environment...

What we do to others, we do to ourselves.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one’s intentions.

What is a Socialist?- That’s when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to...

The winner takes all mindset at the root of capitalism is a poison if left unchecked. That’s not to say capitalism is bad per sē, or that a more refined version of it cannot work...

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government. That is, libertarians believe that murder is murder and does not become sanctified by reasons of state...

I hardly think that any Socialist, nowadays, would seriously propose that an inspector should call every morning at each house to see that each citizen rose up and did manual labour for eight hours.

Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers’ system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

If Aliosha had come to the conclusion that neither God nor immortality existed, he would immediately have become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not only a question of the working classes; it...

Ono je to těžké. Kde hrozí bída, tam hrozí socialismus. A kde hrozí socialismus, tam hrozí bída.

Socialists try to convince us that the tea becomes sweet not because of sugar, but because of mixing.

He had the tendency, unfortunate for a new member of the committee, to like if not the rich themselves, at least their activities and surroundings, and to dislike the poor; a woman in rags toting...

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but...

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Socialists are convinced socialism will work if it’s only managed by the right people. It’s one of the reasons so many socialist countries wind up led by dictators. Socialist leaders inevitably become convinced that only...

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes,...

For my part, while I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic...

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all … The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of...

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. when the last of the chocolate was gone, his mother had clasped the child in...

When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character....

It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind, is a...

Anyone who objects to any government whatsoever as a form of socialism ought not to pull that socialist lever in their home, the one that makes their waste disappear in a whirlpool into the socialized...

Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It’s purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or...

Seeking social equality for disabilities doesn’t come from bullying or militancy, seeking social equality for disabilities comes is from realising the open-mindedness and acknowledgement of each person’s reality

Or why should one refrain from burning hatred, whatever its basis–race, class, or ideology? Such hatred is in fact corroding many hearts today. Atheist teachers in the West are bringing up a younger generation in...

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.”[Address to National Press Club in Washington DC, as quoted in Freedom...

Either ‘the group’ is superior or the individual is superior. Marxism, socialism, fascism, and pure democracy are all forms that give power to ‘the group’ and then use violence to force individuals to obey the...

I want to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power, no control.” Logan continued, “You are on an Indian reservation merely at the...

Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed that knowledge was communal. Dewey, the champion of socialism and collectivism, believed that...

If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the...