Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.
Socialism Quotes
The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist.
The socialist economy has become so strong, so vigorous that from the summits we have reached we can issue an open challenge of peaceful economic competition to the most powerful capitalist country – the United States of America.
Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannot be brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church… Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.
The socialist state requires greater and greater degrees of force to make it function. If resources and wealth are allocated on the basis of need rather than production, people will compete to be more needy rather than more productive.
The workers, through long and bitter political struggles, have succeeded in securing a somewhat improved form of the “free labor contract” for certain categories of workers. But taken as a whole, the present day economy does not differ much from “pure” capitalism. Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision […]
After all, you never could tell about these darn highbrows; and to be an out-and-out spiritualist would be almost like being a socialist!
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 […]
I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
