Quotes About Planned Economy

#1. A totalitarian regime thus has one political party, one educational system, one artistic creed, one centrally planned economy, one unified media, and one moral code. In a totalitarian state there are no independent schools, no private businesses, no grassroots organizations, and no critical thought.

Anne Applebaum

#2. It suffices here to say that the planned economy which the advocates of dictatorship wish to set up is precisely as socialistic as the Socialism propagated by the self-styled Social Democrats.

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

A.E. Samaan

#4. The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#5. The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Isabel Paterson

#6. In this sense socialism means the abolition of private enterprise, of private ownership of the means of production, and the creation of a system of "planned economy" in which the entrepreneur working for profit is replaced by a central planning body.

Friedrich Hayek

#7. Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier are simply different labels for much the same thing.

Leonard Read

#8. There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

Fidel Castro

#9. East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy. I share that belief.

Anthony Lewis

#10. The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.

A.E. Samaan

#11. A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

Larry Crabb

#12. Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about or have been taught about in seminary. To talk about the resurrection, think about those moments where in some way you have been resurrected.

Frederick Buechner

#13. The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

Robert Metcalfe

#14. To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.

Greg Carlson

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

A.E. Samaan

#16. Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. For building stable peace we must find ways to provide opportunities for people to live decent lives.

Muhammad Yunus

#17. I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

Larry Wall

#18. You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.

Frank Grillo

#19. For the last hundred years the big organizational question has been whether any given task was best taken on by the state, directing the effort in a planned way, or by businesses competing in a market.

Clay Shirky

#20. Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.

A.E. Samaan

#21. Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

Joe Rogan

#22. Care not who is richer or more learned than thou, if none be more generous and loving.

John Lancaster Spalding

#23. The goal of the working class is liberation from exploitation. This goal is not reached and cannot be reached by a new directing and governing class substituting itself for the bourgeoisie. It is only realized by the workers themselves being master over production. These

Noam Chomsky

#24. If everything I have become were not machine-made I might be able to take the risk of being human with you.

Jeanette Winterson

#25. Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

A.E. Samaan

#26. You can date every girl in town as far as I'm concerned. I hate you. I pray every night that you'll fall victim to some strange and unusual castration accident.

Kim Harrington

#27. Centralization is an abomination! Decentralize everything! Leave nothing to the central planners.

A.E. Samaan

#28. Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Brooks Stevens

#29. I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

Tim Robbins

#30. I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea. Jem's

Harper Lee

#31. Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.

Bootsy Collins