George Reisman quotes

Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. (George Reisman)
The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss. View quote
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Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning. View quote
George Reisman
The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth. View quote
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Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety. View quote
George Reisman
If the individual is a means to the ends of the State, so too, of course, is his property. Just as he is owned by the State, his property is also owned by the State. View quote
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The green movement, in other words, is the red movement stripped of the veneer of reason and science and bent on the destruction of reason and science rather than take the trouble to learn what reason and science actually are. The green movement is the red movement no longer in its boisterous, arrogant youth, but in its demented old age. View quote
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Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy will be redeemed when the people have taken back their government from the criminal alliance of Communists, Socialists, New Dealers and the Eisenhower-Dewey Republicans. View quote
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Like the use of the word 'concupiscence' in an earlier age to describe sexual desire, the use of the word 'pollution' to describe essential aspects of the productive activities of an industrial society represents an attempt to defame an entirely proper human capacity by means of using an evil sounding name for it. View quote
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The identification of Nazi Germany as a socialist state was one of the many great contributions of Ludwig von Mises. View quote
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The requirements of enforcing a system of price and wage controls shed major light on the totalitarian nature of socialism - most obviously, of course, on that of the German or Nazi variant of socialism, but also on that of Soviet-style socialism as well. (George Reisman)
Nazis generally did not have to kill in order to seize the property of Germans other than Jews. This was because, as we have seen, they established socialism by stealth, through price controls, which served to maintain the outward guise and appearance of private ownership. The private owners were thus deprived of their property without knowing it and thus felt no need to defend it by force. View quote
George Reisman

George Reisman

Occupation: American Economist
Born: January 13, 1937
Quotes count: 12
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