Planned Society Quotes

#1. Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.

Roger Scruton

#2. In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

Lawrence Summers

#3. Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

Mark Skousen

#4. And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon.

Jack Kerouac

#5. These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. Everybody will live with the natural advantages of the country and the cultural associations of the town.

James P. Cannon

#6. The cause of the riots were the rioters

Dan Quayle

#7. We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Myles Munroe

#8. You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

Dale Archer

#9. The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

A.E. Samaan

#10. Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.

Ludwig Von Mises

#11. PROGRESSIVISM = EUGENICS: Centrally Planned economies tempt population control.

A.E. Samaan

#12. To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Josh Billings

#13. I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, his father simply couldn't stand the sight of sickness and especially his own son's sickness, because he thought all sickness was sickness of the will. Mr Willard had never been sick a day in his life.

Sylvia Plath

#14. This is the whistle-stop memoir of how a lower-middle-class girl from the north of England one day changed the way she lived her life and set off on a bumpy path that ultimately led her to her own slice of the happily-ever-after pie.

Tillie Cole

#15. The dream of a planned, fair, moral, ethical, cash-free society remains strong, particularly among socialists and liberals. It clearly represents a fundamental human instinct. But feudalism just did not work very well, if only because powerful people will not always obey moral imperatives.

Terence Kealey

#16. Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put it into operation.

Ralph Nader

#17. Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Finley Peter Dunne

#18. Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines.

A.E. Samaan

#19. Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

A.E. Samaan

#20. The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning ... And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning. All the same, have fun!
Pierre Anthon

Janne Teller

#21. Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism.

A.E. Samaan