“What sickens me about left-wing people, especially the intellectuals, is their utter ignorance of the way things actually happen.” — George Orwell

“The contradictory nature of the socialist utopias is one explanation of the violence involved in the attempt to impose them: it takes infinite force to make people do what is impossible.” — Roger Scruton

“Socialists propose ‘redistribution of wealth’ because they are not capable of creating it themselves.” — Javier Milei

“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.” — John Stuart Mill

“There is no greater indictment of judges than the fact that honest men are afraid to go into court, while criminals swagger out through its revolving doors.” — Thomas Sowell

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” — Frederick Douglass

“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.” — James Madison

“America’s abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.” — Ayn Rand

“Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

“No one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he’s free.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Attempts to spread the wealth are, in fact, spreading poverty because you attack the people who are creating the most wealth—not only for themselves, but for society.” — Thomas Sowell

“‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded—and once they are suspended it is not difficult for anyone who has assumed such emergency powers to see to it that the emergency will persist.” — F. A. Hayek

Adam Smith: “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.”

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” — Aldous Huxley

“Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish. Too much handling will spoil it.” — Lao Tzu

“Most people who read ‘The Communist Manifesto’ probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of ‘the workers.’” — Thomas Sowell

“Beneath the rhetoric of diversity, democracy and tolerance that they so often preach, what truly lies is their blatant desire to eliminate dissent, criticism and ultimately freedom.” — Javier Milei