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Quotes from Private Rights and Public Illusions — Tibor R. Machan

1939–2016 Hungary

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Regulatory policies are inherently redistributive; that is, they involve the seizure of earned income for purposes of allocating this income in ways the government’s policymakers believe are more important than do those whose income has been seized.

Private Rights and Public Illusions (1994)

If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.

Private Rights and Public Illusions (1994)

[T]here is little doubt that only a totalitarian government aims to take on every possible concern of the citizenry.

Private Rights and Public Illusions (1994)

While individualism was once widely hailed in Britain and especially the United States, today it is deemed amoral and heartless. The individualist viewpoint is unable to promise honestly that everyone will eventually be completely well-off. Critics find this defeatist and insist that ‘we must do better’ while calling upon the forces of the state to see that we do.

Private Rights and Public Illusions (1994)

[The media] assume, in the way they address politicians or report on social problems, that whatever is important to society must be a matter of public or state concern.

Private Rights and Public Illusions (1994)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tibor R. Machan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.