“The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.” MatterStatesGovernmentIndividualWealthPoorPowerEconomyRichClearImagineEffectsBecomingEconomicsIncomeWealthyConsideringDistribution Book:The Ethics of Redistribution Source: The Ethics of Redistribution
“Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.” GivenDemocracyClearShapesPatternsTyrannyIncubation Book:On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth Source: On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth