Socialism Quotes - Page 40

• The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism.

  Mao Zedong

  Thinking, People, Eras

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.147, Lulu.com

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• Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society. The contradiction between individual principle and social principle disappears.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Essence, Principles, Division

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• The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Power, Law, Numbers

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• National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.

  Adolf Hitler

  Order, Ties, Broken

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• Believe me, National Socialism would not be worth anything if it were to be confined to Germany and did not secure the rule of the superior race over the whole world for at least one or two thousand years.

  Adolf Hitler

  Believe, Years, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• National socialism is the determination to create a new man. There will no longer exist any individual arbitrary will, nor realms in which the individual belongs to himself. The time of happiness as a private matter is over.

  Adolf Hitler

  Determination, Men, Arbitrary

  "Hitler". Book by Joachim C. Fest, p. 533, 1974.

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• If the electrician who comes to mend my fuse blows it instead, so I should stop having electricity? I should cut off my light? Socialism is my light, can you understand that?

  Arnold Wesker

  Cutting, Blow, Light

  Arnold Wesker, Reade W. Dornan (1998). “Arnold Wesker: A Casebook”, p.140, Taylor & Francis

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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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• in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

  Nora Ephron

  Country, Socialist Countries, Luxury

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.171, Vintage

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• But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Determination, Eugenics, Self

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• We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Rome, Victory, Triumph

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• Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Transition, Regression, Crossroads

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• Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth.…And our nation will continue to degenerate unless we read and heed the words of the God of this land, Jesus Christ, and quit building up and upholding the secret combinations which the Book of Mormon tells us proved the downfall of both previous American civilizations.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Book, Teaching

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• The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

  H. G. Wells

  Taken, Character, World Religions

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• The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic realization. His New Deal involves such collective controls of the national business that it would be absurd to call it anything but socialism, were it not for a prejudice lingering on from the old individualist days against that word...Both Roosevelt and Stalin were attempting to produce a huge, modern, scientifically organized, socialist state, the one out of a warning crisis and the other out of a chaos.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, America, Prejudice

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• I don''t know if I like communism, and I don''t know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program . . .

  Fred Hampton

  Children, Kids, Hands

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• When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

  Alice Hamilton

  Silence, Textbooks, Magazines

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.93, Read Books Ltd

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