"Thou shalt not covet"
means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another
man's
goods -- which is something which
Socialists, whether
Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away."
John Chamberlain
"The
inherent
vice of capitalism
is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of
socialism
is the equal sharing of misery."
Winston
Churchill
"My
friends, I must tell you
that
a socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom.
Although
it is now put forward in the main by people who have a good grounding
in
the liberalism and radicalism of the early part of this century, there
can be no doubt that socialism is inseparably interwoven with
totalitarianism
and the abject worship of the state. It is not alone that
property,
in all its forms, is struck at; but that liberty, in all its forms, is
challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism."
Winston
Churchill
"Just as
feudalism was an advance
over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism,
socialism
is the next step after capitalism........... Socialism in America will
come through the ballot box."
Gus
Hall, Communist Party USA,
Cleveland
Plain-Dealer, 1996
"The
function of socialism is
to
raise suffering to a higher level."
Norman
Mailer
"We know that
violent
measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as
socialism
grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by
social
development, in which education must play a part."
Karl Marx in a
Chicago
Tribune Interview
"God
is dead, but fifty
thousand social workers have risen to take his place."
J. D. McCoughey
"Socialism
is the religion
people get when they lose their religion."
Richard John
Neuhaus,
First Things, August/September, 2000
"...(I)f
fairness is important,
what is really fair? We may say something like, "People have a right to
food, a right to
housing,
and a right to a good job for decent pay." But from an economist's
perspective,
all those rights
involve
making finite goods meet infinite wants. Unless the fair society
generates
tremendous economic
growth - which societies that put fairness first have trouble
doing--the
goods will
come from
redistribution.
Try rephrasing the rights statement thus: "People have a right to my
food,
a
right to my housing,
and a right to my good job for my decent pay."
P.J. O'Rourke
"To grasp the true
meaning of socialism, imagine a world
where everything is designed by
the post office, even the sleaze."
P.J. O'Rourke
'Democracy
and socialism have nothing in common save one word: equality, socialism
seeks equality in restraint and servitude, while democracy seeks
equality
in liberty."
Alexis
de Tocqueville
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