Socialist Quotes - Page 6

• If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.

  James Connolly

  Army, Effort, Flags

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.124, Pluto Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.

  John T. Flynn

  Enemy, Planning, Mask

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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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• 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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• The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

  Alexander Kotov

  School, Development, World

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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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• The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

  David R. Brower

  Goal, Global Warming, Climate Change

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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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• I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.

  Philip Gibbs

  War, Sleep, Fighting

  Philip Gibbs (1950). “The Soul of the War”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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• The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is the result of proletarian democracy. To the degree that the proletariat mobilizes itself and the great masses of the people, the socialist revolution is advanced. The proletariat mobilizes itself as a self-acting force through its own committees, unions, parties, and other organizations.

  C. L. R. James

  Party, Struggle, Self

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.

  Arthur Scargill

  Party, Cutting, Views

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