Feudalism Quotes – Insights on Historical Social Order

"Different people rise to the top under socialism than under capitalism. The higher on the socialist hierarchy you look, the more you will find people who are too incompetent to do the job they are supposed to do."

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

"If we remain fearful, then we will be further stripped of power as we barrel towards this neofeudalistic state where there is a world of masters and serfs, a kind of permanent underclass. That's what's happening; that's what's being created. Rapacious corporate business interests have shattered all kinds of regulations and controls. They have carried out a coup d'etat in slow motion. And it's over; they've won."

Chris Hedges

"We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished."

Allan Bloom

"Each person seeks mastery over a world of slaves."

James M. Buchanan

"The immense wealth of the Jesuits has been bequeathed to them by wills made at the last hour!"

Giovanni Battista Nicolini

"Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee."

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization."

Nikola Tesla

"If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men."

Karl Popper

"In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society."

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master."

Ayn Rand

"The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal."

Ayn Rand

"Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt"

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable."

Aldous Huxley

"The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose."

Walter Lippmann

"If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your economic security, but it will guarantee the descent of the entire nation to a level of miserable poverty--as the practical results of every totalitarian economy, communist or fascist, have demonstrated."

Ayn Rand

"Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism."

Walter Lippmann

"It is curious to note too, that most of the bodies (Secret societies) which work these (sacred rites), such as the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, the Rite of Avignon, the Order of the Temple, Fesslors Rite, the Grand Council of the Emperors of the East and West, Sovereign Princes (of) Masons, etc, etc, are nearly all the 'offspring' of the Son's (Jesuits) of Ignatius Loyola. The Baron Hundt, Chevalier Ramsey, Tschoudy, Zinnendorf, and numerous others, who founded the 'grades' in these rites, worked under instructions from the General of the Jesuits."

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

"Imagine that Queen Elizabeth I, in her time, had the opportunity to give out a monopoly for playing cards within the kingdom. She knew she was going to give it to one of her courtiers. These courtiers would then all try to curry her favour. Meanwhile, they would not contribute anything to the product of the kingdom, in fact, they were wasting resources trying to secure a single prize. That, more or less, is rent seeking."

James M. Buchanan