The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for […]
Socialism Quotes
Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the […]
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.
You can be social minded without being a socialist.
Capitalism is based on the assumption that you can win. Socialism is based on the assumption that you can break even… Mysticism is based on the assumption that you can quit the game.
All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it.
Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave.
If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true […]
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates, and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is families under siege, war in the streets, unapologetic expropriation of property, the precipitous decline of the rule of law, the rapid rise of corruption, the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The […]