Peter Thiel Quotes

In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called ‘social democracy.’ . . . We are in a deadly race between politics and technology. . . . The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.

The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

The possibility of a liberal capitalist democracy in South Africa is exactly nil. The racialist propaganda amongst the whites and their desire to maintain what they imagine to be a profitable situation makes it utterly unthinkable that there can be a political alignment that favours a liberal white group. In any case the political immorality, cowardice and vacillation of the so—called progressives amongst the whites render them utterly useless as a force against fascism.

Capitalist, democratic states put the emphasis on the private sector, which doesn't always deliver on social goods.

The way to get the communists out of the government is to get rid of the government jobs.

A capitalist democracy is a competitive society where predatory pressure groups struggle for wealth and prestige and jockey for power.

There has been no country with a democratic political sphere, past or present, whose economy has not been dominated by private ownership and market coordination.

We" are not the government; the government is not "us." The government does not in any accurate sense "represent" the majority of the people

Any woman who is single, a taxpayer and has sufficient property should be allowed to vote

If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim — and if they used both halves of their brains — then they'd be libertarians. Instead, they sabotage themselves, and their cause, by constantly generating one spurious reason after another to deprive other people of their freedom.

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

Capitalism’s intrinsic dynamism, however, produces insecurity along with benefits and so its advance has always met resistance…. It was only the creation of the modern welfare state in the middle of the 20th century that finally enabled capitalism and democracy to coexist in relative harmony.

Present day American capitalism—for all our misgivings about it—at least leaves room for free institutions to flower and survive.

In a capitalist democracy there are essentially two methods by which social choices can be made: voting, typically used to make ‘political’ decisions, and the market mechanism, typically used to make ‘economic’ decisions.

The path to democratic capitalism ended the previous world order of empires..

There's an oft-used shorthand for the technologist's view of the world. It is assumed that libertarianism dominates Silicon Valley, and that isn't wholly wrong. High-profile devotees of Ayn Rand can be found there.