Socialist Quotes - Page 11

• They fled. The American louts fled. Indeed, concerning the fighting waged by the heroes of the Arab Socialist Baath Party yesterday, one amazing thing really is the cowardice of the American soldiers. we had not anticipated this.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Party, Hero, Fighting

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• I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

  Hans Frank

  Party, Teaching, College

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• Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Country, Technology, Men

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• I don't like to just talk of Africa, and south of the Sahara in general. No, I'll talk about the Third World in general. I'll like to say this - we in the United States would never believe that another form of goverment - I don't care even if it's against the racism, etc. - it is hard to get the masses of people to believe or accept that a socialist government will relieve them of most of the problems.

  Huey Newton

  Believe, Socialist Government, Racism

  Source: www.afro.com

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• There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

  Jay McInerney

  Attention, World, Factory Workers

  "The interview: Jay McInerney" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.

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• I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically, since I now live in capitalism. It was certainly 'realism', but in another form - the capitalist form, as it were. It wasn't meant that seriously. It was more a slogan for that particular Happening at a furniture store.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Furniture, Form

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

  Ken Livingstone

  War, America, Issues

  "I would have loved to be PM" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2008.

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• It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

  Samora Machel

  Law, Socialist Economy, Essentials

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• Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Communism, Born, Made

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.

  William J. Casey

  Heart, Men, Tests

  Quoted in the Washington Post, 7 May 1987.

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• One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

  Michel de Certeau

  Communism, Demonstration, Used

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

  Karl Liebknecht

  World, Republic, Defeat

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• At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

  Douglas Sirk

  Party, Socialist Party

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• Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

  P. Chidambaram

  School, Harvard, Committed

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• I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.

  Ken Follett

  Christian, Might, Good Christian

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• My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.

  John Grierson

  Loss, Views, Would Be

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• My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

  Leon Askin

  Father, Years, Ardent

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

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• The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China's national conditions.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Socialist Countries, Self

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

  John Dramani Mahama

  Believe, Poverty, Politician

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• My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Dad, Thinking, Views

  "Jonathan Krohn, 15-Year-Old Conservative, Talks About ‘Extreme Views’ Of Anti-Obama Conservatives", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.

  Jon Voight

  Country, Strong, America

  "Voight: My Concerns for America". www.washingtontimes.com. July 28, 2008.

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• Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.

  Don Young

  Party, Enemy, Groups

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• I'm a very friendly socialist.

  China Mieville

  Friendly

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• America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation.

  Paul Broun

  America, Want, Nations

  "Broun not sure if Obama is citizen" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. March 5, 2010.

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• People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House.

  Tom Tancredo

  White, People, House

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. February 05, 2010.

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