Socialism Quotes - Page 22

• Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

  William Joyce

  Heroism, Germany, Belief

  William Joyce (2013). “Twilight Over England”, p.66, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• And the only forms of socialism in the world that were then getting results - malign ones, as it was - were the Fascist and Soviet republics. Fascism is a form of socialism - you rebuild the country, you find a scapegoat, and you go from there.

  James Ellroy

  Country, Republic, World

  Interview by Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

  Lindsey Graham

  Wings, People, Giving

  "Estate Tax Debate". "PBS NewsHour" with Kwame Holman, www.pbs.org. June 8, 2000.

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• Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

  Michael Foot

  Apology, Fantastic, Ownership

  The Daily Herald, 1956.

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• As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These "humanitarian parts" are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its "antirent and anticapital parts," means to get rid of the poodle.

  Daniel De Leon

  Mean, Divorce, Cutting

  "Trimming the Poodle". "The Daily People" Newspaper, November 2, 1908.

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• Our anti-crisis policy is aimed at supporting domestic demand, providing social guarantees for the population, and creating new jobs. Like many countries, we have reduced production taxes, leaving money in the economy. We have optimised state spending.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Jobs, Honesty

  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the World Economic Forum, archive.premier.gov.ru. January 28, 2009.

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• We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and faith in our strength are bound to bring us success. There should be no place for despondency. The crisis can and must be fought by uniting our intellectual, spiritual and material resources.

  Vladimir Putin

  Spiritual, Honesty, Responsibility

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• Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing domestic social and economic problems in certain countries. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately.

  Vladimir Putin

  Honesty, Military, Responsibility

  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the World Economic Forum, archive.premier.gov.ru. January 28, 2009.

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• Developments since the rise of National Socialism make it probable that the continent will be freed from its Jewish destroyers of people and exploiters forever, and the German example after the German victory in World War II will also serve to bring about the destruction of the Jewish world tormentors on other continents.

  Julius Streicher

  War, People, Forever

  "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 57), 1997.

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• The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.

  L. Neil Smith

  Philosophy, Believe, Rights

  "Cambodian Road Trip". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 15, 2009.

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• Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation, a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism, no individuality, and ultimately, no individuation.

  L. Neil Smith

  Taken, Individual Differences, Medicine

  "Back to the Trees!". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. April 11, 2010.

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• There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took slavery; from medieval society brutal domination; from capitalism exploitation; and from socialism the name.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Names, Achievement, World

  Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Slavoj Žižek (2002). “Revolution at the Gates: A Selection of Writings from February to October 1917”, p.311, Verso

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• GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Demand, Answers, Argument

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.99, University of Georgia Press

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• [I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

  Adam Johnson

  Dog, Communism, Obedience

  Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.136, Random House

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• We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  African American, Baptists, Rich

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• Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ, nirvana. It is not a historical prospect, but a current mythology. Socialism, by contrast, is a realizable historical system which may one day be instituted in the world.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Religious, Historical, One Day

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• The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Real, Inspiration

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Destiny, Men, Rights

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Great Things, Humans

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Reviews”, p.473, Oscar Wilde

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• We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.

  Bernard Baruch

  Doe, Needs, Welfare

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• It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it.

  H. G. Wells

  Hate, Struggle, World Government

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• The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies [Marxism/fascism/socialism v. democracy/capitalism] to enable them [the Illuminati] to divide larger and larger portions of the human race into opposing camps so that they could be armed and then brainwashed into fighting and destroying each other.

  Myron Coureval Fagan

  Fighting, Race, Order

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• Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

  Winston Churchill

  Politics, Worship, States

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• Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, Rights, Tolerance

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• ...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an assault upon society and is branded as Socialism.

  Karl Marx

  Simple, Class, Circles

  Karl Marx (2008). “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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