Via Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell:

I thought I had posted this famous quote before, but I can’t find it at the moment so here you are, just in case.

The late, great, Eric Engstrom once told me his analogy of socialism, “Socialism is like a piece of candy that gives you cancer. Later you start feeling sick. The offered cure is always another piece of socialist candy.”

Only an intellectual, indeed.