Socialism Quotes - Page 39

• When the coercive power of government is used to equalize incomes, it guarantees less prosperity across the board and spreads the misery, which is one of the many reasons Marxism and socialism have failed everywhere they've tried.

  David Limbaugh

  Government, Boards, Income

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• Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Father, Class, Middle

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

  James Cook

  Order, Tyrants, Made

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• The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.

  Tony Blair

  Progress, Battle, Century

  "Tony Blair's full speech". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 1999.

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• The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Fate, Heaven, Victory

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• Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.

  Roy Hattersley

  Europe, Labour

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• In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.

  Hugh Gaitskell

  Mean, Years, Lasts

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• How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance with the inflection of the voice? Welfare state, national socialism, radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary and a regiment of others ... these terms in today's usage, are generally compounds of confusion and prejudice. If our attitudes are muddled, our language is often to blame. A good tonic for clearer thinking is a dose of precise, legal definition.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

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• The Democrats, because they believe in socialism, redistribution, forced the banks and financial institutions to make the risky loans.

  Sean Hannity

  Believe, Financial, Loan

  "Hannity Referees Beckel Brothers Showdown". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2009.

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• I tend to not use the word "socialist," because even though more young adults in the United States in a poll say they support socialism than do capitalism, the word socialism doesn't have a lot of meaning in this country.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Country, Support, Adults

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• States can be more or less democratic, and so can socialism. I think any ideal society that exists on a large scale, which is what we most likely have in store for us as a human race, will involve some aspects of socialism.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Thinking, Race, Ideal Society

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Wish, Facts

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a series of essays called "The Iron Law of Oligarchy" and in these essays he discusses how no matter what sorts of freedoms are advertised or put into a society structure, that all societies, all form of governments - whether they be a Roman republic, whether they be a democracy, whether they be a Russian communist system, whatever, a tribe... a tribal council - all of the continuously, throughout the ages, have all converted back into an oligarchy.

  Immortal Technique

  Writing, Government, Law

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat: these two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Self, Law, Two

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Planning, Fantasy, Argument

  "Giants Refreshed II: The Escape from Serfdom: Friedrich von Hayek and the Restoration of Liberty" in Times Literary Supplement ( p. 11), January 14, 2000.

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• Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.

  Karl Kautsky

  Democracy, Unthinkable

  John Hans Kautsky, Karl Kautsky (1924). “Karl Kautsky: Marxism, Revolution, and Democracy”, p.217, Transaction Publishers

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• By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality.

  Dwight Macdonald

  Mean, Men, Personality

  Dwight Macdonald (1953). “The Root is Man: Two Essays in Politics”

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• Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

  Terry Eagleton

  Democracy, Negation, Completion

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Why Marx Was Right”, p.202, Yale University Press

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• Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.

  Terry Eagleton

  Spurs, Tasks, Rational

  "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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• The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Soul, Shapes, Process

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.220, Routledge

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• I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National Party of Great Britain, representing not narrow class interest, nor the bigotry of the left wing intellectuals, but all those who support the British tradition of democracy, of personal freedom, of personal responsibility for one's own affairs and those of one's family, with the least possible interference from the State.

  Norman Tebbit

  Party, Responsibility, Class

  Speech to Epping Conservatives, November 17, 1969.

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• If the question is still asked why National Socialism combats the Jewish element in Germany so fanatically, the answer can only be, because National Socialism wishes to establish a real community of the people.  Since we are National Socialists, we cannot permit an alien race to impose itself upon our working people as their leaders.

  Adolf Hitler

  Real, Race, People

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• The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Division, Isolation, States

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• National Socialism would have every German decide for himself on spiritual questions, just as in the days of Frederick the Great.  The National Socialist state gives to the church what belongs to the church, and to the state what belongs to the state.

  Rudolf Hess

  Spiritual, Giving, Church

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• Socialisms not a word that I use. I say social democracy because I dont think the government needs to own all the means of production.

  David Cunliffe

  Mean, Thinking, Government

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