Margaret Thatcher
‘The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.’
Die probleem met sosialisme is dat ander mense se geld uiteindelik uitgeput word.
Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931
If ever I believe in anything about social economics this explains it:
- You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.
- What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
- The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
- When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
- You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
“Like a gloomy and sinister paradox since its apparition until now, socialism suffered terrible and terrifying metamorphoses. With the name of the most human doctrine—Socialism—the most ominous and naughty crimes against humanity were done. The National Socialism of Hitler created Auschwitz and Majdanek and the People’s socialism of Stalin — Gulag and Kolima! And both of them buried more than fifty million people! That’s monstrous!”
― Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face