Communism Quotes - Page 4

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice - the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation - the way of the State.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

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.

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

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

One man can change the world, look at Adolf Hitler.

An army of the people is invincible!

Those who are weak don't fight.
Those who are stronger might fight
for an hour.
Those who are stronger still might fight
for many years.
The strongest fight
their whole life.
They are the indispensable ones.