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Socialism ruins societies because it misunderstands human nature.

Michael J. Knowles

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Because Human Human Nature Nature Ruins Socialism Societies

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Michael J. Knowles
American - Author
Born: March 18, 1990

We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.

Gloria Steinem

There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took slavery; from medieval society brutal domination; from capitalism exploitation; and from socialism the name.

Slavoj Žižek

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Ludwig von Mises

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

David Horowitz

In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

David Horowitz

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

Frans de Waal

Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.

Pope Pius IX

The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.

V. S. Pritchett

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?

Fidel Castro

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

Richard Engel

We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing about human nature. If you look at human societies and human interactions, you can find anything. You find selfishness, you find altruism, you find sympathy.

Noam Chomsky

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.

Ilana Mercer

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints

Ludwig von Mises

We usually forget that apart from making a living on this earth, human beings live in societies and these societies have cultures. It is only through having cultures that mankind on this earth has an ordered and meaningful life. Music and drama are two of the many important manifestation of a culture. They are important because they represent the expressions emanating from the power of human artistic creativity

Tunku Abdul Rahman

If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.

Pope Pius XI

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