Socialism Quotes - Page 20

• While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense of the difference between socialism and capitalism.

  Chris Matthews

  Thinking, Two, Differences

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The fact that younger people are more inclined to socialism may well come with the fact that so many young people's first experience with capitalism is as a debtor.

  Chris Matthews

  People, Debtors, May

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There is this idea of history as something you make, as a meaningful narrative with a beginning and an end, the end being a utopia of happiness that we'll reach through socialism or free trade or democracy, and then it will all be wonderful.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Meaningful, Ideas, Democracy

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, The Liberator Magazine, Volume 7.2, Issue 22, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Grandchildren, Evil, Unions

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• The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system, it is not the destruction of civilization in a material sense. The revolution desired by the leaders is moral and spiritual, it is an anarchy of ideas in which all the bases established nineteen centuries ago shall be overthrown, all the honored traditions trodden under foot, and, above all, the Christian ideal finally obliterated.

  Leon V. DePoncins

  Christian, Spiritual, Civilization

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• Let me tell you, communism does not work! Socialism does not work!

  Ted Cruz

  Doe, Communism, Let Me

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• Social justice is group psychology, it's group rights, it's collectivisim, and it's a negation of individual responsibility, which is what the Bible teaches. Individual responsibility. And of course, social justice leads very quickly to socialism, and ultimately to communism.

  Ted Cruz

  Responsibility, Rights, Justice

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• The fundamental basis is this: Socialism requires that government becomes your God. That's why they have to destroy the concept of God. They have to destroy all loyalties except loyalty to the government.

  Rafael Cruz

  Loyalty, Government, Fundamentals

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• There is a reason why you see such an antagonism to religion. Because communism necessitates the destruction of religion for one reason. Communism needs for government to be your God. So there cannot be any alliance to anything but government. So an alliance to God must be destroyed. That's why socialism and anti-religion go together.

  Rafael Cruz

  Government, Together, Needs

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Let's not forget that one poll after another clearly demonstrates that well over 50% of Russian citizens still wants both socialism and the USSR back. And the Russian government is listening.

  Andre Vltchek

  Government, Listening, Citizens

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I am very happy here [on Cuba], but I feel I have work to do in the United States. It's where I can identify with the total world struggle for socialism. But I think as a North American, as a Black North American, I have certain understandings - certain contributions - to make that are unique to the North Amerian experience.

  Huey Newton

  Struggle, Thinking, Unique

  Source: www.afro.com

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• I hear a lot of cries of socialism and certainly real disguises of "Why should I share my money with these people?" We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

  Questlove

  Real, People, Important

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• We're doing a horrible job, and by "we" I mean conservatives, Republicans, free marketers, anyone who believes in liberty is doing a horrible job if half of young people think socialism is a good idea.

  Ted Cruz

  Jobs, Believe, Mean

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing an effective job communicating that.

  Ted Cruz

  Jobs, Faces, Communicate

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• Art is socialism but life is capitalism.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Art, Life Is, Capitalism

  "Interview: Philosopher King Mike Birbiglia of 'Don't Think Twice'". Interview with Patrick Mcdonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. July 27, 2016.

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• I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Art, Wall, Writing

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!

  Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay

  Eugenics, Cry, Reckoning

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• We always come back to the same misunderstanding. The Jews because of their spirit of revolt, their exclusiveness and the Messianic tendencies which animate them are in essence revolutionaries, but they do not realize it and believe that they are working for 'progress.'...but that which they call justice is the triumph of Jewish principles in the world of which the two extremes are plutocracy and socialism. Present day Anti-Semitism is a revolt against the world of today, the product of Judaism.

  Leon V. DePoncins

  Believe, Essence, Two

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• The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the mark of the intellectual.

  Andrew Joseph Galambos

  Philosophy, Simple, Envy

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• I call both the left and right wings socialism. And today, the right-wingers love to think that they're capitalists, or free enterprisers, or what not. No they're not! The correct name for this is left-wing socialism or right-wing socialism - and both wings are on the same bird.

  Andrew Joseph Galambos

  Thinking, Names, Wings

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• 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

  Jobs, People, Different

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• It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.

  Salvador Allende

  Mean, Possibility, Harder

  Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com

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• In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Party, Ideas

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Victory, Bourgeoisie

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.

  Leon Trotsky

  Organization, Tasks, Socialist

  Source: www.marxists.org

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