Thomas Woods Quotes

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Communism is akin to a disease that spreads like an epidemic.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

SOCIALISM—You have two cows, you give one to your neighbor; COMMUNISM—You have two cows, the government takes them both and gives you the milk; FASCISM—You have two cows, the government takes both and sells you the milk NAZISM—You have two cows, the government takes both and shoots you; CAPITALISM—You have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull; TRADE UNIONISM—You have two cows, they take them from you, shoot one, milk the other and throw the milk away; MORAL: Don't have anything to do with cows. They only bring you trouble.

The most influential utopian idea of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was socialism, which has failed everywhere. Under the banner of socialism, Stalin's U.S.S.R. and Mao's China gave us not utopias but ghastly anti-utopias.

Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

Heads will fall, heads will be chopped off, of course. But just think how good communism is! The state won’t bother us anymore, you women will be free, marriage problems won’t plague you anymore.

Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

I'm not a communist, but I'm not anti-communist either. I'm not afraid of communists, and declare that if a country wants to be communist, it has the right to be so.

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

Socialism ruins societies because it misunderstands human nature.

Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.

Communism is fascism with a human face.

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union - and we know how successful that was.

The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.