1) "The
problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s
money." -- Margaret Thatcher
2) "It is the
common error of Socialists to overlook the natural indolence of mankind; their
tendency to be passive, to be the slaves of habit, to persist indefinitely in a
course once chosen. Let them once attain any state of existence which they
consider tolerable, and the danger to be apprehended is that they will
thenceforth stagnate; will not exert themselves to improve, and by letting
their faculties rust, will lose even the energy required to preserve them from
deterioration. Competition may not be the best conceivable stimulus, but it is
at present a necessary one, and no one can foresee the time when it will not be
indispensable to progress." -- John Stuart Mill
3)
"Socialism is when government's taking care of you, you send all your
money to the government, the government decides how to spend it instead of
letting the people spend it and make all those decisions." -- Bob Latta
4) "We are
socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the
exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its
unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead
of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this
system under all conditions." -- Adolf Hitler
5) "What
distinguished Nazism from other brands of socialism and communism was not so
much that it included more aspects from the political right (though there were
some). What distinguished Nazism was that it forthrightly included a worldview
we now associate almost completely with the political left: identity politics.
This was what distinguished Nazism from doctrinaire communism, and it seems
hard to argue the marriage of one leftist vision to another can somehow produce
right-wing progeny." -- Jonah Goldberg
6) "The goal
of socialism is communism." -- Vladimir Lenin
7) "This
isn't new. Those who favor socialism always make the moral case for it. The
truth is, maybe they actually believe in it, but in the real world, socialism
harms, it weakens the economies of countries that have tried it. It just does.
Weaker economies hurt everybody in them. Socialism kills incentive,
opportunity, freedom. It is the opposite of what America is all about. Look,
socialism always harms the people it claims to help the most. It handicaps
them, leaving them weaker, less self-determined, less free." -- Bobby
Jindal
8) “When plunder
becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time
they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code
that glorifies it.” -- Frédéric Bastiat
9)
"Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist.
Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may
not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or
service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced
redistribution." -- Ben Shapiro
10) “I was guilty
of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and
aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.” --
Sidney Hook
11) "In
1989, for two hours' labor at the minimum wage, an American worker could
obtain, at a corner Sizzler, a feast more opulent, more nutritionally rich and
gastronomically diverse than anything available to almost all the citizens of
the socialist world (including the elite) at almost any price." -- David
Horowitz
12) “In practice,
socialism didn’t work. But socialism could never have worked because it is
based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance
of human economy.” -- David Horowitz
13) "I
believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a
loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty." --
John Mackey
14)
"Socialism values equality more than liberty." -- Dennis Prager
15)
"Socialism is for those who think most people are losers. Capitalism is
for those who think most people can take care of themselves." -- John
Hawkins
16)
"Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened
selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort,
enterprise and new activity." -- William Howard Taft
17) “Socialism
provides safety in numbers. And that’s OK, if you don’t mind trading your
name—your identity and individualism — for a number.” -- Jarod Kintz
18) “The
champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a
system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a
resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but
they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but
they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they
want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the
Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post
office." -- Ludwig von Mises
19)
"Socialists cry 'Power to the people', and raise the clenched fist as they
say it. We all know what they really mean--power over people, power to the
State." -- Margaret Thatcher
20) "The
inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent
virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." -- Winston
Churchill
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