To: Roscoe
No, Koestler's warning about 20th Century socialist ideologues, such as yourself.
To: headsonpikes
Wasn't it George Orwell who coined the phrase "think in slogans and talk in bullets"?
Russell Kirk said, "In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless....The radical reformer, proclaiming himself omniscient, strikes down every rival, to arrive at the Terrestrial Paradise more swiftly."
To: headsonpikes
roscoe is a statist.
To: headsonpikes
"If a man speculates on what "society" should do for the poor [or any other group], he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that mens lives belong to society and that HE, as a member of society, has the right to dispose of them, to set their goals or to plan the "distribution of their efforts."
Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness
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