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• The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit.

  Margaret Sanger

  Money, Intelligent, Democracy

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• I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Book, Offering

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.

  Max Lerner

  Collective Effort, Sky, Pie

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• It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

  Mary McCarthy

  Girl, Hockey, Political

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Horse, Long, Racing

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• I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It's the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.

  Fidel Castro

  War, Thinking, Arrows

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• Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.

  Aldous Huxley

  Money, Reading, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “The Devils Of Loudun”, p.368, Random House

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• Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Money, Mean, Government

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• I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.

  Raul Castro

  Perfect, President, Cuba

  "Cuban President Raul Castro to Retire in 2018", will.illinois.edu. February 24, 2013.

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• Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Country, Police, Monsters

  "Les Temps modernes". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, p. 184, 1961.

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• If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Mean, Socialist Countries

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Pension Fund Revolution”, p.11, Routledge

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• Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Spiritual, Strong, Freedom

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.39, VM eBooks

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• where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had been customarily understood, economists like Mises and Hayek pursued a different path, one Nietzsche would never have dared to take: they made the market the very expression of morality.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Expression, Path, Different

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• The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Priorities, Language

  Speech at Labour Party Conference in Blackpool, 8 June 1949, in 'Report of the 48th Annual Conference' (1949) p. 172

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• Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Baby, Jobs, Cancer

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• If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich

  Jim Rogers

  Bail, Trouble, Rich

  "Jim Rogers: 'Abolish the Fed'". www.cnbc.com. March 12, 2008.

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• Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism; and with its traditionalistic, anti-intellectual, and often mystical propensities it will never, except in short periods of disillusionment, appeal to the young and all those others who believe that some changes are desirable if this world is to become a better place.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Believe, Intellectual, Elements

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich August von Hayek, 1944.

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• A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, "A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it." People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.

  Anthony de Mello

  Father, Heart, Relative Value

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.151, Image

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• The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

  Irving Kristol

  Political, Events, Century

  "Neo-Conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea". Book by Irving Kristol, September 20, 1995.

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• Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

  L. Neil Smith

  Philosophy, Self Esteem, Political

  "Alice Shrugged". December 18, 2008.

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• Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.

  Ilana Mercer

  Humanity, Vices, Vote

  "Can the Incredible Hulk Strike at Socialism?". www.ilanamercer.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Always moved by religious motives, the Church has condemned the various forms of Marxist Socialism; and she condemns them today, because it is her permanent right and duty to safeguard men from currents of thought and influence that jeopardize their eternal salvation.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Religious, Men

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• The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism.

  Frank Underhill

  Real, Division, World

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• The reason I like socialism is that it's kind of enforced Christianity. It's basically very Christian, in the sense of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." These people have nothing, so you have to share.

  Lewis Black

  Christian, People, Kind

  "Lewis Black on politics, aging, and being the guy who yells". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2012.

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• That Solidarity was a religious movement no one, least of all the Soviets, can deny. In November 1981, Pravda denounced 'religious fanaticism' as a grave challenge to socialism; failure to contain it, Pravda said, was at the root of the problems in Poland.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Roots

  Charles W. Colson (2010). “God and Government”, p.216, Zondervan

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