Collectivism Quotes

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

~ Lucretia Mott

The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

~ Lysander Spooner

I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except for the flavouring.

~ Albert Jay Nock

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

~ Herbert Spencer

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

~ Stefan Molyneux

People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.

~ A.e. Samaan

If collectivizing highly personal medical decisions is evil, then so follows that collectivized medicine is evil.

~ A.e. Samaan

The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.

~ A.e. Samaan

FUCK UNITY!! What a pathetic way of thinking. How arrogant of Progressives to think that my hopes and dreams mirror their hopes and dreams. What an absolute bore.... what an total lack of originality or individuality... I believe in individual liberty. I am an extremist on the topic of individual liberty, precisely because I value original thinking and original accomplishments. Fuck unity of purpose. Fuck collectivism. My life is not your life. I have my own path. Get out of my way.

~ A.e. Samaan

Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.

~ A.e. Samaan

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian

~ A.e. Samaan

Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.

~ A.e. Samaan

Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine.

~ A.e. Samaan

Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.

~ A.e. Samaan

Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

~ A.e. Samaan

Government programs didn’t arise because the people demanded them or because the free market was unable to provide needed services. They arose because the politicians found them to be a convenient way to buy votes with other people’s money, a convenient way to enlarge their own power, a convenient way to reward their political cronies, and a convenient way to keep people dependent on government.

~ Harry Browne

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

~ Ron Paul

Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through competition but through the myth of the social contract.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged 'services' and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors. In so doing, it reveals the fraud at the heart of its impudent claims and gives sufficient proof that it is not a genuine protector, but a mere protection racket.

~ Robert Higgs

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 State would soon collapse to take on no more status or breadth of existence than another Mafia gang.

~ Murray N. Rothbard

The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.

~ Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

~ Friedrich A. Hayek

In spite of its alluring name, the welfare state stands or falls by compulsion. It is compulsion imposed upon us with the state’s power to punish noncompliance. Once this is clear, it is equally clear that the welfare state is an evil the same as every restriction of freedom.

~ Wilhelm Röpke

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

~ Gustave De Molinari

Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did—as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.

~ Lawrence W. Reed

For Americans, the car is the American way. Jay Gatsby roars through capitalism, individual freedom, and the good life. For China, the train is the metaphor. Everyone's on board, there's no chance to steer, and it's clickety-clack to collectivism's dreams.

~ Mei Fong

Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law.

~ A.e. Samaan

LENIN = Revolutionary Social DemocracyAmerican Socialists = Democratic Socialism. What is the difference? The USSR held democratic referendums too; all of which increased the power of the central planners and reduced the individual to nothingness.

~ A.e. Samaan

All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.

~ A.e. Samaan

Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question.

~ A.e. Samaan

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

~ Eric Hoffer

A world of fully developed individuals is immune to the cult of collectivism.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Information or allegations reflecting negatively on individuals or groups seen less sympathetically by the intelligentsia pass rapidly into the public domain with little scrutiny and much publicity. Two of the biggest proven hoaxes of our time have involved allegations of white men gang-raping a black woman-- first the Tawana Brawley hoax of 1987 and later the false rape charges against three Duke University students in 2006. In both cases, editorial indignation rang out across the land, without a speck of evidence to substantiate either of these charges. Moreover, the denunciations were not limited to the particular men accused, but were often extended to society at large, of whom these men were deemed to be symptoms or 'the tip of the iceberg.' In both cases, the charges fit a pre-existing vision, and that apparently made mundane facts unneces

~ Thomas Sowell

Living someone else's dream is truly a nightmare. None should forfeit their life's aspirations to toil for the goals of another. Unity of purpose is a sentence. Collectivism is a crime, theft of individual worth.

~ A.e. Samaan

It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy.

~ A.e. Samaan

The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument. And the emotional faculties are more highly developed in most men than the rational, paradoxically or especially even in those who regard themselves as intellectuals

~ Milton Friedman

Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.

~ A.e. Samaan