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Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution. Ben Shapiro

Service Me You Capitalism Socialism Will Starve States Moral Give Something More Results Exchange Simply Voluntary Forced Sort Because Redistribution Altruism Exist Contrast Than Owe May Want Dislike Product Help

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. Bertrand Russell

Respect Tyranny Prison Submission Starvation Unnecessary Out Insofar Voluntary Beyond Opinion Goes Anything Public Should Avoid Public Opinion Keep Necessary

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. Mark Skousen

Success Failure World Build Pay Defeat Society State Complete Totalitarian Totalitarian State Totally Civilized Civilized Society Civilized World Higher Price Voluntary Failing Greater Ultimate Represents Tax While Taxation Planned Level

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. Blaise Pascal

Fault Illusion Evil Add Further Faults Recognize Voluntary Since Greater Greater Evil Unwilling Still Truly Them Full

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. Ron Paul

Capitalism Money Creation Savings System Determined Rates Voluntary Sound Contracts Bank Fiat Central Interest Central Bank Interest Rates Manipulated Credit

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind. Helena Blavatsky

Mind Will Thought Feeling Gesture Organic Every See Mental Emotion Volition Voluntary Motion Whether Produced Act Internal Mechanical External

Yes, I am 100% anarchist. Anarchy, to me, is a belief that all transactions, all activity, should be voluntary. It is a peaceful philosophy of not forcing anyone to do anything and not allowing anyone else to force you to do anything. Jeff Berwick

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. Jane Austen

Man Every Neighborhood Spies Voluntary Surrounded Every Man

We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary. Katha Pollitt

Good Peace Women Benefits Abortion Decision Sex Motherhood Move On Society Everyone Say Moreover Voluntary Move Whole Lives Right Need

The eighteenth century discovery that, in an institutional framework that facilitates voluntary exchanges among individuals, this process generates results that might be evaluated positively, produced 'economics,' as an independent academic discipline or science. James M. Buchanan

Science Discipline Economics Framework Positively Independent Results Exchanges Voluntary Individuals Institutional Academic Discovery Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Process Might Century Produced Among

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die. Peter Singer

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe. Charles Eastman

Family Natural Nothing Several Tribe Clan More Head Voluntary Chief Than Patriarchal Union Connection Larger

I like to call myself a voluntaryist. That means that I think that all human interaction should be on a voluntary basis. And that nobody should be able to use force or fraud in any human interaction whatsoever. Roger Ver

Myself Think Fraud Able Voluntary Nobody Like Force Call Whatsoever Any Human Interaction Should Means Use Basis

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will. Alexander Herzen

Obedience Corruption Political Organization Will Say Latter All Religions Religions Morality More Voluntary Makes Always Pernicious Been Than Any Former Use Based Why Violence Slavery

We have had significant success in the reduction of salt in food, but it has to be understood that this can only be achieved working with the industry on a voluntary basis... and it can only be done on an incremental basis. Andrew Lansley

Success Food Salt Incremental Significant Only Had Voluntary Industry Understood Reduction Done Achieved Working Basis

The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations. Auberon Herbert

Work Father Will Own Others State Responsibilities Restore Through Voluntary Stepped Between Combinations Forced Course Contributions Duties Which Them Themselves Workmen Now Reject

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. Boris Pasternak

Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service. Chen Shui-bian

Service Constitution Age Voting Military Compulsory Voluntary Implement New Also Years Replacement Gradually Current Want Lower Military Service

The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases. David Suzuki

Responsibility Approach Corporate Cases Voluntary Failed Social Many Social Responsibility

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