Top 52 Libertarian Socialism Quotes
#1. Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
Noam Chomsky
#2. You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.
A.E. Samaan
#3. The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.
A.E. Samaan
#4. You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place?
A.E. Samaan
#5. Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.
A.E. Samaan
#6. Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through competition but through the myth of the social contract.
Jeffrey Tucker
#7. The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.
A.E. Samaan
#8. Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine.
A.E. Samaan
#9. Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
Thomas Jefferson
#10. Fuck socialism!
No, really..... fuck socialism. Socialism sucks!
A.E. Samaan
#11. If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you.
A.E. Samaan
#12. Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.
A.E. Samaan
#13. The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
Thomas Sowell
#14. The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
Thomas Sowell
#15. Living someone else's dream is truly a nightmare. None should forfeit their life's aspirations to toil for the goals of another. Unity of purpose is a sentence. Collectivism is a crime; theft of individual worth.
A.E. Samaan
#16. The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers.
Lao-Tzu
#17. Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.
A.E. Samaan
#18. I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian
A.E. Samaan
#19. It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
Murray N. Rothbard
#20. When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
Frederic Bastiat
#22. A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.
Andrew Joseph Galambos
#23. Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.
A.E. Samaan
#24. All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.
A.E. Samaan
#25. In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.
Albert Jay Nock
#26. The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
Eric Hoffer
#27. Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.
A.E. Samaan
#28. A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.
A.E. Samaan
#29. If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
Mikhail Bakunin
#30. The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#31. The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.
A.E. Samaan
#32. Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?
A.E. Samaan
#33. The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.
David Boaz
#34. A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.
Milton Friedman
#35. The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.
A.E. Samaan
#36. Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.
A.E. Samaan
#37. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
#38. Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"??
A.E. Samaan
#39. A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule.
Ayn Rand
#40. A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment.
Rex Curry
#41. If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.
Stefan Molyneux
#42. 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.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#43. Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.
A.E. Samaan
#44. Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.
A.E. Samaan
#45. Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.
A.E. Samaan
#46. American Progressives have declared war on the sanctity and autonomy of the individual.
A.E. Samaan
#47. Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.
J.S.B. Morse
#49. Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism.
Murray Bookchin
#51. Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.
Stefan Molyneux
#52. All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.
A.E. Samaan
