What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.
Socialism Quotes
Authoritarian socialism has failed almost everywhere, but you will not find a single Marxist who will say it has failed because it was wrong or impractical. He will say it has failed because nobody went far enough with it.
Great Socialist statesmen aren’t made, they’re stillborn.
A sure way to keep you from reading it. (to Winston Churchill, on why he named his book “The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism”)
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn’t work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.
All socialism involves slavery.
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
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 […]
Did medical care and a bare sufficiency of rice and beans render freedom superfluous? Was I wrong to conclude from the fact that no refugees ever sought asylum in Cuba, that whatever its achievements, Cuban socialism was not what anybody wanted if offered a choice?
