Socialism Quotes - Page 8

• The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Nine, Helping

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

  Adrian Rogers

  Wealth, Dividing

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• I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

  Hugo Chavez

  World, Path, Capitalism

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• The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.

  Josh Jones

  Song, Government, Liberty

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• Enough generations of socialist policies have now passed for us to judge their effects. They are bleak. Socialism undermines the character of a nation and of its citizens. In simpler words, socialism makes people worse.

  Dennis Prager

  Character, People, Judging

  "Socialism Makes People Worse" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 21, 2006.

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• Socialism is a monster which will die.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Monsters, Dies

  Blog of Janusz Korwin-Mikke, June 27, 2007.

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• Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Atheist, Buddhist

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, p. 375, 1965.

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• Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be a rotten failure in any but a physical sense. Even through it is altruism, socialism means materialism. You can guarantee the things of the body to every one, but you cannot guarantee the things of the spirit to every one; you can guarantee only that the opportunity to seek them shall not be denied to any one who chooses to seek them.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Mean, Successful, Men

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• Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of socialism existing in America.

  Tom L. Johnson

  School, Government, America

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• Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous and hateful suggestions and prejudices, create a system of social right-dealing and a tradition of right-feeling and action. Socialism is the schoolroom of true and noble Anarchism, wherein by training and restraint we shall make free men.

  H. G. Wells

  Mean, Men, Self

  H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.6600, e-artnow

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• To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.

  Michael Novak

  Lying, War, Fall

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• It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonweal. The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Wisdom, Rights, Confusion

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.148, TAN Books

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• The progress of the human race is effected by the operation of two forces which correspond in most respects to what in physics are often called, for want of better terms, the centripetal and centrifugal forces. These are the forces of convergence and divergence, the one tending to concentration of powers and properties, and the other to their separateness or the independence of parts. Socialism and Individualism are to appearance conflicting, though in reality complemental, in their relations to the societary movement.

  Joshua K. Ingalls

  Reality, Two, Race

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• Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spirit, Destruction, Type

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Commencement address at Harvard University, June 7, 1978.

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• We may first observe that communism and socialism - which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism - cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates a Creator such as the Declaration of Independence recognizes. The slaves of Statism must know no power, no authority, no source of blessing, no God, but the State.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Blessing, Independence, Together

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• "Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

  Pope Pius XI

  Christian, Wisdom, Religious

  Pope Pius XI (1935). “Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order”

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• Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.

  Frank Chodorov

  Russia, United States, Defeat

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• Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Power, Communism

  Report on the Work of the Council of People's Commissars, 22 Dec. 1920

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• Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to which path any rational and sane people should never follow again. Government planning brought poverty and ruin...Unfortunately, America is not absorbing the lessons that should be learned from the socialist experience and, instead, is following the same path of destruction.

  Richard Ebeling

  Country, America, Socialist Countries

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• The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, Discovery, America

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• When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."

  Adolf Hitler

  Money, Children, Freedom

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

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• All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with - and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Real, Government

  Harry S. Truman (1966). “Good old Harry: the wit and wisdom of Harry S. Truman”

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• Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

  Margaret Thatcher

  People, Ordinary, Might

  Margaret Thatcher's speech to Conservative Party conference at Winter Gardens in Blackpool, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 13, 1989.

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• As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Government, Degrees

  Tony Evans (2014). “One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country”, p.24, Moody Publishers

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• I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. Cinema is best served away from documentary neo-realism. I come from a tradition of post-post-Italian neo-realism in England, where we've produced the best television in the world. But to paraphrase Truffaut, the English have no visual imagination.

  Peter Greenaway

  Italian, Imagination, Cinema

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