Socialist Quotes - Page 13

• Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Confused, Politics, Libertarian

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• Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could be lost; or, a little more, it could be half... I say that, taking the extreme situation, half dies, half lives, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist.

  Mao Zedong

  War, People, Would Be

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• It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.

  Michal Kalecki

  Socialist Economy, Advantage, Characteristics

  Michal Kalecki (1971). “Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy 1933-1970”, p.97, CUP Archive

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• The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.

  Adolf Hitler

  Blood, Community, Humanity

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923-1943”

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• Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Suffering

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• There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's best for you'. But really what they want is the control of your life.

  Allen West

  Control Of Your Life, Agendas, Care

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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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• 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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• 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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• Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.

  Paul Samuelson

  Economy, Proof, Function

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• I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants. I'm a Christian Zionist, as well as a Christian feminist and a Christian socialist.

  Julie Burchill

  Christian, Believe, Feminist

  "For the love of Christ" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2008.

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• What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly.

  Glenn Beck

  Gun, Differences, Revolution

  Keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference, February, 2010.

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• The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds.

  Tod Wodicka

  Orange, Clouds, Squares

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• I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Together, Agnostic, Sin

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• In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement.

  George Orwell

  Country, Russia, Socialist Countries

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think, 1947-1948”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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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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• Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Peace, War

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Perfect, Half

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2923, Manonmani Publishers

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• One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.

  Tony Kushner

  Gay, Play, People

  Interview with Andrea Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

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• No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Philosophy, Evil

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

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• Ralph Nader choose the man with whom to share the responsibility of running a distant third, California activist Peter Camejo. You may remember that Camejo ran for president in 1976 on the Socialist Workers Party ticket. Actually, you might only remember that if you run a lesbian, vegetarian, bookstore.

  Jon Stewart

  Running, Party, Responsibility

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• All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Party, Technique

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Socialist Countries, Cities

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