Central Planning Quotes

A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

Given a choice between patterns of subsistence that are relatively unfavorable to the cultivator but which yield a greater return in manpower or grain to the state and those patterns that benefit the cultivator but deprive the state, the ruler will choose the former every time. The ruler, then, maximizes the state-accessible product, if necessary, at the expense of the overall wealth of the realm and its subjects.

Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.