Politics Quotes

"Good political institutions are not enough."

"Politics without ethics is tyranny."

"Democracy demands that we question authority, including scientific authority."

"Systems that claim to be beyond criticism are systems that should be criticized most."

"Authority without accountability is tyranny."

"The role of the critic is to disturb the comfortable, not comfort the disturbed."

"Interventionism is the policy of interfering with the market process."

"Many present-day planners and intellectuals are socialists."

"Planning is the substitution of conscious thought for the forces of the market."

"Regulations imposed on the business of insurance are virtually useless."

"Socialism is not in the least what its label pretends it to be."

"Welfare is the most charitable form of government."

"U.S. military spending is enormous and serves largely to enrich corporations."

"We accept the framework of a market economy as given, though it's one of the most remarkable systems of thought control ever devised."

"Politics affects every aspect of our daily lives."

"A society that fears new thought is a society in decline."

"The attempt to make heaven on earth produces hell."

"Capitalism has not failed; it has not yet been tried."

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure."

"Government cannot create value; it can only redistribute it."

"Taxation is the price of keeping the state in existence."

"The most effective way to silence dissent is to claim that you're trying to help."

"One of the basic tenets of propaganda is that you repeat the same message endlessly."

"Manufacturing consent is not a conspiracy; it's a natural consequence of concentrated power and media."

"We are all victims of the system, but some have more agency to change it than others."

"Our institutions are designed to manage rather than liberate human potential."

"The most effective propaganda is that which goes unrecognized as propaganda."

"The conflict between economic power and democracy is fundamental to modern society."

"Markets are never free; they are always shaped by power and law."

"The relationship between language and power is one of the fundamental questions of our time."