If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialist.
The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.
The more the state “plans” the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.
It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program – on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off – than on any positive task.