Socialism Quotes - Page 9

• The purpose of a just government is to prevent plunder, not facilitate it.

  Glenn Beck

  Government, Purpose, Plunder

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• In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.

  Elena Kagan

  Greatness, Past, Golden

  "Komrade Kagan" by Mark Alexander, patriotpost.us. May 13, 2010.

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• The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either.

  Jo Grimond

  Party, Believe, Political

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• We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

  Hugo Chavez

  Economic Models, Lifestyle, Destroying

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• Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Country, Children

  Thomas F. Jackson, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2007). “From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice”, p.230, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Power, Men

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• The first duty of a man is to think for himself

  Jose Marti

  Life, Hope, Philosophy

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• Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change.

  Douglas Holtz-Eakin

  Welfare, Barack

  "Obama advisor pushes back on 'redistribution'" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. October 27, 2008.

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• Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest clout, whose who are the best lobbyists, those who go and they grab. And whether it's the medical industrial complex, or the banking industry, or the military industrial complex, that's who ends up controlling our government...

  Ron Paul

  Military, Government, Lobbyists

  Ron Paul's speech at New Hampshire Homeschool Meet and Greet, www.youtube.com. September 30, 2007.

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• Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  1963 Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28 Aug, during the March on Washington.

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• The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Liberty, Libertarian, Wealth

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• Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Needs, Poverty

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• It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. It began quite openly as a reaction against the liberalism of the French Revolution. The French writers who laid its foundation had no doubt that their ideas could be put into practice only by a strong dictatorial government. The first of modern planners, Saint-Simon, predicted that those who did not obey his proposed planning boards would be 'treated as cattle'.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Strong, Government, Practice

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• The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Finals, Path

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• Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.

  Walter Lippmann

  Selfish, Stupid, Corruption

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface to Morals”, p.250, Transaction Publishers

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• I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Past, Years

  "Eisenhower: The Inside Story". Book by Robert J. Donovan, p. 336, 1956.

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• Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

  Karl Liebknecht

  War, Capitalism

  "Where Will Peace Come From?". www.marxists.org. November 2, 1912.

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• Anarchism is "stateless socialism."

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Anarchy, Anarchism

  "Stateless Socialism: Anarchism". "The Political Philosophy of Bakunin" by G.P. Maximoff, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1953.

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• Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton's positions are far more in line with the German National Socialism approach than Trump could even dream of being.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Lines, Clinton

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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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• Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.

  James Cook

  People, Triumph, Prejudice

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• Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.

  Jose Antonio Viera-Gallo

  Bicycle

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• We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, Achieve

  "Activities of the Council of People's Commissars". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp. 459-61, January 24, 1918.

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• Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Steps, Transformation, Economic

  Ludwig von Mises (2015). “Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism”, p.28, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The Socialist Party will no longer be running a candidate for president. The Democratic Party is leading this country to Socialism much faster than we could ever hope to.

  Norman Thomas

  Country, Running, Party

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