Socialist Quotes - Page 21

• To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

  Dennis Prager

  Idiot, Failing, Socialism

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• You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, Doctrine, Genius

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.129, Wildside Press LLC

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• To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1929.

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• More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution.

  Adolf Hitler

  Easter, Uprising, People

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• I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.

  Jack London

  Men, White Man, Firsts

  Jack London (1999). “The Valley of the Moon”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• I'm just a socialist at heart.

  Ted Turner

  Heart, Politics

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• I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings.

  David Lloyd

  Strong

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• My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

  Alan King

  Father, Smart, Hero

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• As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present rotten and irrational system cannot endure; because the day is past for your man on horseback. The slaves won't stand for it. They are too many, and willy-nilly they'll drag down the would-be equestrian before he gets astride. You can't get away from them, and you'll have to swallow the whole slave-morality. It's not a nice mess, I'll allow. But it's been a-brewing and swallow it you must.

  Jack London

  Nice, Past, Men

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with far less justice, about the Eixample itself. And all its critics concurred that the basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist.

  Robert Hughes

  Mistake, Hands, Cities

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• I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.

  Anita Roddick

  Thinking, Leader, Wealth

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• I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.

  Barack Obama

  Used, Young, Used To Be

  "The diplomat-studded and desirable neighborhood the Obamas look set to call home" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2016.

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• The main fighter for the DSP [Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei or German Socialist Party], as I have said, was Julius Streicher, then a teacher in Nuremberg. At first he, too, had a holy conviction of the mission and the future of his movement.

  Adolf Hitler

  Teacher, Party, Firsts

  Adolf Hitler (1943). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.

  Martin Amis

  Determination, Russia, Ideas

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you can't talk about a socialist revolution.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Talking, Events

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

  Karl Marx

  Christian, Giving, Asceticism

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.94, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens - all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate.

  Jacques Barzun

  Country, War, Party

  Jacques Barzun (1958). “Darwin, Marx, Wagner: critique of a heritage”, Doubleday Books

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• In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.

  John Lennon

  Class, Wings, Two

  "Playboy" Interview with David Sheff, September 1980.

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• Everyone knows Bob Beckel views, radical left wing, socialist. He says he's a Democrat. But what may surprise you is that he actually has a conservative brother.

  Sean Hannity

  Brother, Views, Wings

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones, some communist ones, and many where economics are not separated out of the broader fabric of life (such as sharing and gift giving, and mutual support).

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Mutual Support, Fabric Of Life, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I tend to not use the word "socialist," because even though more young adults in the United States in a poll say they support socialism than do capitalism, the word socialism doesn't have a lot of meaning in this country.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Country, Support, Adults

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Thinking, Important, World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The ultimate goal of the whole policy of peaceful co-existence was to make progress on the basic goal laid down by Lenin of a world largely composed of socialist, communist states, in which the Soviet Union would be the prime mover.

  Paul Nitze

  Goal, Peaceful, Progress

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• It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fire, Perfectly Normal, Ordinary

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• Traditionally Marxism attracts the oppressed. This, however, is not the case in the Arab nation... The socialist programs in Arab history did not always come from the poor, but from men who had known no oppression and became the leaders of the poor. The Arab nation has never been as class-conscious as other nations.

  Saddam Hussein

  Men, Class, Leader

  "Saddam Hussein: a political biography". Book by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, 2002.

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