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“My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don't fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism's bills, at least for a time. It's the difference between milking the cow and killing it. Socialism has no theory of wealth creation; it's just a destructive, envy-driven fantasy about redistributing it after something else (and somebody else) creates it first.”
― Lawrence W. Reed

“All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.”
― A.E. Samaan

tags: central-planners, central-planning, dystopia, dystopian, libertarian, libertarianism, liberty, planned-economies, socialism, totalitarian, utopian-socialism, utopias

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“Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.”
― Auberon Herbert

“A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”
― Ludwig von Mises

“There is nothing virtuous or noble about being "tolerant" of people whose attitudes and behaviors you approve of. If you don't defend the freedom of even those individuals whose attitudes and behaviors you find disgusting, narrow-minded and offensive, then you are not tolerant. To "tolerate" doesn't mean you like it or approve of it; it means only that you ALLOW it to EXIST--i.e., you refrain from violently interfering. The people who look to "government" to FORCE people to be "nice" are not tolerant.”
― Larken Rose