Socialist Quotes - Page 17

• Barack Obama's devastating. His policies and his presidency are devastating. But I have this confidence that he's not gonna succeed in total transforming this country into a Western European socialist democracy where the vast majority of the population just lays down and accepts it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Democracy, Majority

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. As National Socialists we are dedicated to working with boldness, but also with love of the Volk and our landscape in mind. These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

  Fritz Todt

  Engineering, Mind, Landscape

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 270, June 1935.

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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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• Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

  Mary McCarthy

  Scratches, Socialism, Snob

  Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

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• Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Book, Sophie, Conviction

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.601, Delphi Classics

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• The aggressor too should know that the preemptive use of nuclear weapons would not insure victory. With modern detection systems and the combat readiness of the Soviet Union's strategic nuclear forces, the United States would not be able to deal a crippling blow to the socialist countries. The aggressor will not be able to evade an all-crushing retaliatory strike.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  Crush, Country, Blow

  "Physics and Nuclear Arms Today" by David Hafemeister, (p. 94), 1991.

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• I was a National-Socialist and I remain one...The Germany of today is no longer a great nation, it has become a province of Europe.

  Joachim Peiper

  Europe, Germany, Today

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• We have won on the Arlov, Kursk, Belgorod, and Kharkov grounds. We won because the country was being defended not only by the army but by the entire Soviet people. The Socialist economy, Soviet political structure, and Marxist-Leninist ideology proved their unarguable excellence against the Fascist economy, Fascist political structure, and Fascist ideology of Germany.

  Ivan Bagramyan

  Country, Army, Socialist Economy

  "I. C. Bagramyan: A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal", Yerevan, 1987.

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• The key to the defeat and eventually the end of imperialism as a a whole is the unity of all socialist countries and progressive forces in capitalist countries.

  Tim Buck

  Country, Keys, Socialist Countries

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• They say that Japan's rigorous building codes and regulations saved thousands of lives over there. Or, as Republicans here saw it, it 'fostered a socialist, anti-business environment that's worse than being dead.'

  Bill Maher

  Japan, Regulation, Saws

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• We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

  William Pfaff

  Socialist Economy, Earth, Seems

  "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 27, 1989.

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• If we enjoy the benefits of peace, it is only because we have an excellent armed force and a fine socialist economy. Let us exert all efforts so that our further development may be strong and mighty, so that our numerous enemies may think well and long before they decide to attack our fatherland, and so that if they attack, they will quickly regret it.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  Strong, Regret, Thinking

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• In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I saw that nothing came of it: first of all, that socialism was not achieved anywhere, and that in certain countries which called themselves socialist, the situation of women was no better than it was in so-called capitalist countries.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Country, Progress, Saws

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, not just that China and Russia, after all that revolution, have become capitalist economies, not just that the working class has been ruined in the United States and its unions dismantled, not just that Greece has been brought to its knees, or that Cuba will soon be assimilated into the free market - it is also that the language of the Left, the discourse of the Left, has been marginalised and is sought to be eradicated.

  Arundhati Roy

  Capitalist Economy, Iran, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In fact, what were called the socialist countries in Eastern Europe were the most anti-socialist systems in the world. Workers had more rights in the United States and England than they had in Russia, and it was somehow still called socialism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Russia, Rights

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• People are interested in authentic long-term, socialist goals, which is not what is usually called socialism. They should be thinking through carefully how the projected society should work, but not in extensive detail because a lot of things just have to be learned by experiment and we don't know enough to plan societies in detail by any means. But, general guidelines could be worked out and many of the specific problems can be discussed. That should just be part of people's popular consciousness. That's how a transition to socialism could take place.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

  George Orwell

  Water, Poetry, Literature

  The Road toWigan Pier ch. 11 (1937)

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• The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).

  Herman E. Daly

  Technology, Men, Law

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• The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.

  Newt Gingrich

  Leadership, Money, Party

  "Gingrich: CBO a 'reactionary socialist institution'" By Charles Riley, money.cnn.com. November 22, 2011.

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• We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

  Ai Weiwei

  Luxury, Desire, Today

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• The National Socialist state refuses to admit female labour in factories merely because such labour is cheap. There is, of course, a certain amount of industrial work which can only be performed by women, but an essential condition is that this sort of work should not be injurious to health.

  Adolf Hitler

  Essentials, Female, Factories

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• In the West everybody recognizes the need for a private sector, pretty much, even the one Socialist group understands this now, and so there tends to be debate about how much public sector intervention you think is needed for a variety of reasons, and there are very important differences on party lines that should be fought out.

  Barney Frank

  Party, Thinking, Differences

  "The Political Scene: Barney's Frank Opinions". Interview with Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. December 9, 2011.

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• The goals of development are always and everywhere stated in terms of consumer value packages standardized around the North Atlantic-and therefore always and everywhere imply more privileges for a few... Underdevelopment is the result of a state of mind common to both socialist and capitalist countries. Present development goals are neither desirable nor reasonable. Unfortunately antiimperialism is no antidote.

  Ivan Illich

  Country, Goal, Mind

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• I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, People, Doe

  Source: www.heavenonearthdocumentary.com

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• In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities. In socialist society everyone is obliged to work, although he does not, in return for his labour receive according to his requirements, but according to the quantity and quality of the work he has performed.

  J. Stalin

  Quality, Doe, Unemployment

  Source: www.marxists.org

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