Socialist Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  Loss, Risk, Investment

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• No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Saint, Communism, Communist

  Ezra Taft Benson (1964). “Title of liberty”

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• A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.

  Ivan Illich

  Hands, Choices, Style

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• What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

  Don Feder

  Gun, Wings, Politics

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• Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

  Johann Most

  Revolutionary, Shame, Flushing

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• Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

  Ernest Mandel

  Luxury, Democracy, Essentials

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throwT words at each other.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Men, Thinking, People

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• Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

  David Hare

  Trying, Libertarian, Century

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.

  David Hare

  Party, Dinner, Argument

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff their ears so as not to hear, can fail to notice that all over the world the birth pangs of the old, capitalist society, which is pregnant with socialism, have begun.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Eye, People, Bourgeoisie

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• It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.

  Vladimir Lenin

  World, Socialism, States

  Address to the Party Central Committee on May 14, 1918. Collected Works, Volume 27, pp. 365-381,

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• If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?

  Vladimir Lenin

  Mean, Essence, Class

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Self, Class, Roots

  "Revolutionary Socialist Organization". Book by Rosa Luxemburg, www.marxists.org. 1934.

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• I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles are wanted and must be made on a large scale, the process will stamp its imprint on the society, whether that me be Magnitogorsk or Gary, Indiana.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Long, Stronger, Steel

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 2, p. 84, 1977.

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• As the books got more and more Zionist and less and less socialist, my entire generation, at least a large percentage of it, simply left Judaism. We became Buddhist and Hindu and atheist or agnostic, all of which (except Christian) were more in keeping with peaceful self-transformative ideas that did not bow down to militarism.

  Roseanne Barr

  Christian, Buddhist, Atheist

  "Roseanne Barr Says Israel Must End Their Blockade and Occupation of Gaza". Interview with Kathleen Wells, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Party, Struggle, Mean

  "Dirty Hands". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

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• If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Mean, Socialist Countries

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Pension Fund Revolution”, p.11, Routledge

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• Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly. To his contemporaries it appeared frivolous and contradictory to perform as both superman and socialist, sceptic and believer, legalist and heretic, high-brow and mob-orator. But feeling the duty to teach as well as to mirror mankind, Shaw did not accept himself as a contradictory being.

  Jacques Barzun

  Mirrors, Feelings, Gadflies

  "Bernard Shaw in Twilight" by Jacques Barzun in "The Kenyon Review", Volume 5, No. 3 (pp. 321-345), Part II, www.jstor.org. Summer 1943.

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