Socialism Quotes - Page 36

• The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life.

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Believe, Goal

  "Football's debt to socialism" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2010.

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• Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.

  Pope Pius IX

  Mean, Pests, Communism

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• Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who cleaned up the food supply, pushed through the eight hour workday, and ended child labor. But liberals often forget that the progressives were imperialists, at home and abroad. They were the authors of Prohibition, the Palmer Raids, eugenics, loyalty oaths, and, in its modern incarnation, what many call “state capitalism.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Christian, Loyalty, Children

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• The future belongs to socialism

  Erich Honecker

  Erich Honecker (1976). “Report of the Central Committee to the 9th Congress of the Socialist Union Party of Germany, [Berlin, May 1976]”

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• Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

  Erich Honecker

  Eugenics, Progress, Able

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• I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism. I don't think it is possible under capitalism.

  Judi Bari

  Thinking, Sound, World

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• National Socialism is applied biology.

  Hans Schemm

  Biology

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• I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

  Janos Kadar

  Selfish, Party, Mean

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• Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to have a natural feel for united front politics, but without the vanguard party. The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Party, Connections, Cosmos

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• With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's overthrow of repressive state socialism. What an invaluable guide to the elusive exhilaration that motivated the actors and captivated all of us who followed the transformation with such hope! We can appreciate neither the ebullience of 1989 nor the disappointment with the quotidian reality that followed without understanding Kenney's 'carnival.'

  Charles S. Maier

  Disappointment, Reality, Hands

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• Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

  Felix Morley

  Opposites, Political, Federalism

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• The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is the result of proletarian democracy. To the degree that the proletariat mobilizes itself and the great masses of the people, the socialist revolution is advanced. The proletariat mobilizes itself as a self-acting force through its own committees, unions, parties, and other organizations.

  C. L. R. James

  Party, Struggle, Self

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• The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.

  John T. Flynn

  Dream, Lines, Dictator

  John T. Flynn (1949). “The Road Ahead”

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• Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.

  Lord Acton

  Enemy, Victory, Democracy

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• That democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces something so utterly different that few of those who wish it would be prepared to accept the consequences, many will not believe until the connection has been laid bare in all its aspects.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Believe, Democratic Socialism, Wish

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 2 : The Great Utopia, 1940 - 1943.

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• I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

  Alexander Dubcek

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

  Karel Capek

  Eugenics, Wages, Answers

  "On Relativism" by Karel Capek, 1925.

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• I think people have no idea what's coming down the pike. This is the crown jewel of socialism. And we only have next week to stop it....This is socialized medicine and like I said Sean this is the crown jewel of socialism....It's unconstitutional.

  Michele Bachmann

  Thinking, Next Week, Jewels

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• [The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.

  Newt Gingrich

  Care, Initiative, Clinton

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• And the other issue is Gore, $4.6 trillion - the single largest expansion of government in American history, from universal preschool, now, to prescriptions to health care - it is Socialism 101.

  Sean Hannity

  Government, Issues, Expansion

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• I don't have time to beat around the bush. The health-care plan as proposed by Mrs. Clinton is socialism. There's no soft way to peddle it. There is not other way to describe it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Care, Way, Clinton

  "Rush Limbaugh Show", www.mediamatters.org. December 16, 1993.

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• It is socialism. It moves the country in a direction which is not good for anyone, whether they be young or old. It charts a course from which there will be no turning back.

  Carl Curtis

  Country, Moving, Care

  Carl Thomas Curtis, Regis A. Courtemanche (1986). “Forty years against the tide: Congress and the welfare state”, Gateway Books

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• The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Long, Libertarian, Economy

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• But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was incompatible with democracy, and I don't think that there is a good theoretical or empirical basis for that view. The Road to Serfdom flunks the test of accuracy of prediction!

  Richard Posner

  Party, Thinking, Views

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• Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Brother, Past, Government

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