“We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.” ShouldPoliticalEnergyCommonBalanceEnvironmentalProductionsCommon SenseAgendasRegulationPolitical AgendasEnergy Production Author:Mac Thornberry
“State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.” MayStatesFormPoliticalInterestEconomicInvolvedEconomicsDirectManagementProductionsAriseSocialismFascismInitiativeLackingAssistanceInterventionInsufficient Author:Benito Mussolini
“[S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power -- to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. ... Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.” MenWarCountryPoliticalChoicesFightingViolenceProductionsCivil WarPerpetualLeaving MePolitical PowerFree CountryLooting Author:Ayn Rand
“By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality.” MenMeanStatesWould BePoliticalIndividualEconomicTalentPersonalityProductionsSocialismCooperativesTouchstonesEconomic PowerClassless Society Book:The Root is Man: Two Essays in Politics Source: The Root is Man: Two Essays in Politics
“Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.” DoePhilosophyPoliticalOrderSilenceShareExampleTruth IsRelationErrorsProductionsTraditionalThemeConfessionAffinityPolitical History Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
“'You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most odious collectivist, who believes religiously that government predation is a condition for production. Or, put simply, that the parasite created the host.” BelieveGovernmentPoliticalConditionsProductionsHostClosetsRemarksEpitaphParasites Author:Ilana Mercer
“Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of human civilization. They hope for a future where the means of economic production will be owned by all of the people instead of just a comparative handful. They feel that this minority control of production facilities is injurious to the large masses of people not only because of economic monopolies but because the political power inherent in this form of centralized economy does not augur for an ever expanding democratic way of life.” PeopleWorldWayWantFeelsHumansMeanDoeHandsFormPoliticalPoliticsNamesEconomyEconomicCivilizationMassCapitalismDemocraticProductionsWorthyRadicalLiberalismMinoritiesInherentExpandingJungleMonopolyHandfulFacilityPolitical PowerLaissez FaireHuman CivilizationLaissez Faire Capitalism Author:Saul Alinsky
“We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment, it is no longer the servant of men - it is their master. And, therefore, we know that economic liberty and political liberty are inseparable parts of the same ball of wax - that we must keep them both, or we shall lose them both.” KnowsMenWisdomGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsLosesLibertyEconomyEconomicMastersBallsCompetitionProductionsEmploymentAlternativesServantLiberalismEnterpriseDistributionMonopolyInseparable Author:Benjamin Franklin Fairless
“There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.” SelfReasonGovernmentTogetherPoliticalOrderProduceProductsProductionsReason WhyLatterCommonwealthSelf-government Author:Charlie Pierce