Central Planning Quotes

“All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.”
― A.E. Samaan

“The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.”
― A.E. Samaan

“Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.”
― A.E. Samaan

“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.”
― A.E. Samaan

“The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.”
― A.E. Samaan

“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.”
― James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

“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.”
― A.E. Samaan

“A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.”
― A.E. Samaan

“Centralization is an abomination! Decentralize everything! Leave nothing to the central planners.”
― A.E. Samaan

“The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.”
― A.E. Samaan

“Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.”
― A.E. Samaan

“Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.”
― A.E. Samaan

“Or, to express it differently, planning and competition can be combined only by planning for competition but not by planning against competition.
It is of the utmost importance to the argument of this book for the reader to keep in mind that the planning against which all our criticism is directed is solely the planning against competition — the planning which is to be substituted for competition. This is the more important, as we cannot, within the scope of this book, enter into a discussion of the very necessary planning which is required to make competition as effective and beneficial as possible. But as in current usage "planning" has become almost synonymous with the former kind of planning, it will sometimes be inevitable for the sake of brevity to refer to it simply as planning, even though this means leaving to our opponents a very good word meriting a better fate.”
― Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom

“Unfortunately, the hardest thing for people to understand is that maybe if you leave things alone, it'll be better than stepping in and trying to do something.”
― Milton Friedman

“The answer to this question is closely connected with that other question which arises here, that of who is to do the planning. It is about this question that all the dispute about “economic planning” centers. This is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning is to be done centrally, by one authority for the whole economic system, or is to be divided among many individuals. Planning in the specific sense in which the term is used in contemporary controversy necessarily means central planning—direction of the whole economic system according to one unified plan. Competition, on the other hand, means decentralized planning by many separate persons. The halfway house between the two, about which many people talk but which few like when they see it, is the delegation of planning to organized industries, or, in other words, monopoly.”
― Friedrich A. Hayek, The Use of Knowledge in Society

“[...]those more likely to be at the disposal of particular individuals and those which we should with greater confidence expect to find in the possession of an authority made up of suitably chosen experts. If it is today so widely assumed that the latter will be in a better position, this is because one kind of knowledge, namely, scientific knowledge, occupies now so prominent a place in public imagination that we tend to forget that it is not the only kind that is relevant. It may be admitted that, as far as scientific knowledge is concerned, a body of suitably chosen experts may be in the best position to command all the best knowledge available—though this is of course merely shifting the difficulty to the problem of selecting the experts. What I wish to point out is that, even assuming that this problem can be readily solved, it is only a small part of the wider problem.”
― Friedrich A. Hayek, The Use of Knowledge in Society

“Nothing in recent history makes any sense without a deep understanding of WWII and The Holocaust.”
― A.E. Samaan

“The Federal Reserve System had been established to prevent what actually happened. It was set up to avoid a situation in which you would have to close down banks, in which you would have a banking crisis. And yet, under the Federal Reserve system, you had the worst banking crisis in the history of the United States”
― Alan Ebenstein, The Indispensable Milton Friedman: Essays on Politics and Economics

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is that people operating separately, through their joint relations with one another, through market transactions, can achieve a greater degree of efficiency and of output than can a single central planner.”
― Milton Friedman

“Humans can engineer Architecture.
Architecture cannot engineer humans.”
― A.E. Samaan

“Seize the means of propaganda! Confiscate the central-planner’s ability to steer the collective as if it were livestock.”
― A.E. Samaan

“Seize the means of propaganda! Take the reigns from the central-planners. Deny them the ability to steer you like livestock.”
― A.E. Samaan