{"quotes":[{"text":"People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["collectivism","communism","communists","libertarian","libertarian-party","libertarianism","liberty","progressives","progressivism","socialism","socialists","utopia","utopian","utopian-socialism","utopian-society","utopianism"],"id":15999,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","buy","buyer","buyers","capitalism","childfree","childless","collapse","communism","consumer","consumerism","consumers","credit","debt","deep","democracy","dictum","dictums","economies","economy","enjoy","epigram","epigrams","funny","gnome","gnomes","humor","humorous","humour","insightful","karl-marx","made-me-think","make-you-think","marxism","materialism","maxim","maxims","own","ownership","philosopher","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","realization","realize","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","selfish-selfishness","socialism","socialist","socialists","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful","world-economies"],"id":25717,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["collectivism","collectivists","communism","communists","freedom","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","progressive","progressivism","socialism","socialists"],"id":71516,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["charles-darwin","climate-change","environmentalists","eugenics","global-warming","government-regulation","karl-marx","malthusian","marxism","socialism","socialists","thomas-malthus"],"id":105942,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"If collectivizing highly personal medical decisions is evil, then so follows that collectivized medicine is evil.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["collectivism","communism","communists","libertarians","liberty","obamacare","socialism","socialists","socialized-medicine"],"id":155399,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["collectivism","libertarian","libertarianism","socialism","socialists","statism","statist"],"id":164883,"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":"If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["communism","communists","freedom","healthcare","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","single-payer-healthcare","socialism","socialists","socialized-healthcare","socialized-medicine"],"id":213853,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"American Progressives have declared war on the sanctity and autonomy of the individual.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","collectivists","communism","communists","democratic-socialism","libertarian","libertarianism","libertarians","progressive","progressives","socialism","socialists"],"id":221194,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Socialists try to convince us that the tea becomes sweet not because of sugar, but because of mixing.","author":"Janusz Korwin-Mikke","tags":["janusz-korwin-mikke","korwin-mikke","socialism","socialists"],"id":271768,"author_id":"Janusz+Korwin-Mikke"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}