{"quotes":[{"text":"Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planning","collective","collectivism","communism","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","planned-economies","planned-societies","progressives","socialist-utopia","utopia","utopian","utopian-socialism","utopianism"],"id":2724,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["big-government","bill-of-rights","central-planning","civil-rights","democide","diversity","ethnic-minorities","eugenics","genocide","individual-liberty","individualism","individuality","libertarian","libertarianism","planned-societies","totalitarianism"],"id":4395,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planners","central-planning","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","planned-economy","planned-society","socialism","utopia","utopianism"],"id":26759,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"All utopias are dystopias. The term 'dystopia' was coined by fools that believed a 'utopia' can be functional.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planners","central-planning","dystopia","dystopian","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","planned-economies","socialism","totalitarian","utopian-socialism","utopias"],"id":71001,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planners","central-planning","individual-liberty","individual-rights","individualist","libertarian","libertarian-party","libertarianism","progressives","progressivism","socialism","socialists"],"id":166678,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Centralization is an abomination! Decentralize everything! Leave nothing to the central planners.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planning","centralization","freedom","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","planned-economy"],"id":196863,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"The right to 'liberty' and 'pursuit' of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planners","central-planning","freedom","government-regulation","libertarian","liberty","planned-economy","progressivism","socialism"],"id":216141,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"The central planners of Democratic Socialism tighten their noose when people resist their plans and assert their rights. All Socialism is intended to devolve into Communism, and as a result, Totalitarianism.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planners","central-planning","communism","communist","democratic-socialism","dystopia","government-regulation","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","planned-economies","socialism","socialist","totalitarian","totalitarianism","utopia"],"id":250244,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Given a choice between patterns of subsistence that are relatively unfavorable to the cultivator but which yield a greater return in manpower or grain to the state and those patterns that benefit the cultivator but deprive the state, the ruler will choose the former every time. The ruler, then, maximizes the state-accessible product, if necessary, at the expense of the overall wealth of the realm and its subjects.","author":"James C. Scott","tags":["central-planning","centralization","economics","free-market","taxation"],"id":337291,"author_id":"James+C.+Scott"},{"text":"Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planning","eugenics","planned-societies","progressive","progressivism","racism","scientific-racism","statism"],"id":436231,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}