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• [What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny probably worse, because more irresponsible, than that of the State. The trouble with competitions is that somebody wins them. Professor Hayek denies that free capitalism necessarily leads to monopoly, but in practice that is where it has led, and since the vast majority of people would far rather have State regimentation than slumps and unemployment, the drift towards collectivism is bound to continue if popular opinion has any say in the matter.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Winning, Practice

  George Orwell (2003). “Orwell: The Observer Years”, Atlantic Books (UK)

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• We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.

  Ayn Rand

  Moving, Liberty, Socialism

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• The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Civilization, Invention, Century

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective - the race - is the source of his identity and value. ... The notion of 'diversity' entails exactly the same premises as racism - that one's ideas are determined by one's race and that the source of an individual's identity is his ethnic heritage.

  Peter Schwartz

  Ideas, Race, Diversity

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• Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is the political mode best suited to their disposition and their capacities. Under its regime, the citizen, like the soldier, is relieved of the burden of initiative and is divested of all responsibility, save for doing as he is told.

  Albert J. Nock

  Responsibility, Political, Soldier

  "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 319), 1943.

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• Social justice is collectivism. Social justice is the rights of a group. It denies individual responsibility. It's a negation of individual responsibility, so social justice is totally contrary to the Word of God.

  Ted Cruz

  Responsibility, Rights, Justice

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• I am not an individualist in the Western sense. Collectivism can become oppressive when it tries to dictate; the rights of the two should not clash.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Rights, Two, Trying

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it rightly insists that the 'behaviour' and the 'actions' of collectives, such as states or social groups, must be reduced to the behaviour and to the actions of human individuals. But the belief that the choice of such an individualist method implies the choice of a psychological method is mistaken.

  Karl Popper

  Mistake, Believe, Science

  "The Open Society and its Enemies".

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• All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.

  T. H. White

  Skulls, Form, Mistaken

  T.H. White (1988). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.124, University of Texas Press

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• Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth.

  Julian Simon

  Hands, Understanding, Wealth

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• The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Struggle, Important, Atheism

  William F. Buckley Jr. (2010). “Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus”, p.16, Encounter Books

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• Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Solitude, Ferrets

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• Look, this debate is basic: it's small government vs. big government. So how cowardly do folks like Blood and Frank Rich have to be that they can't man up and defend their love for collectivism? The only reason they scream race, is because that debate scares them. They know a racial accusation prevents dialogue, because such a harmful charge far outweighs any benefits of winning an argument.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Men, Winning, Blood

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• The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power.

  Albert J. Nock

  Ideas, Roots, Serious

  "Our Enemy, The State". Book by Albert Jay Nock, Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Press, 1950.

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• ... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Rights, Mind

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• Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive parasitic group-culture of mystics and altruists we live in, where people all around you seem a burdensome annoyance, a threat to your survival. Having been told from childhood that life is a zero-sum game in which you owe everything to others, at some level you worry all the time that someday the bastards will collect. And collect they do, every April 15th. Why do you think they call it collectivism?

  L. Neil Smith

  Zero, Thinking, Games

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• There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.

  Mustafa Akyol

  Islamic, Men, Ideas

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• The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial manifestations of a deeper struggle which is moral and spiritual and involves above all else whether man shall exist for the state, or the state for man, and whether freedom is of the spirit or a concession of a materialized society.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Struggle

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• Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state -
  leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Oppression, Individual, States

  Andrew Bernstein (2005). “The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-faire”, University Press of Amer

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• Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Demand, Firsts, Ethics

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• It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.

  Poul Anderson

  War, Technology, Names

  Poul Anderson (2011). “Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that hold hostage the federal [government]. People who have confused suffocating collectivism, which is bad, for a necessity to solve collective action problems, which is what all human endeavor is based on.

  Nick Hanauer

  Confused, Government, People

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter and friend of the United States and her terms as prime minister were marked as the beginning of the resurgence of the economy of the United Kingdom.

  Joe Lhota

  Government, Loyal, Kingdoms

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• Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

  Clay Shirky

  Wikipedia, Unending, Argumentation

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• The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.

  Pope John Paul II

  Teaching, Mean, Church

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