Socialism Quotes - Page 12

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

  Dennis Prager

  Idiot, Failing, Socialist

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• Socialism is when government's taking care of you, you send all your money to the government, the government decides how to spend it instead of letting the people spend it and make all those decisions.

  Bob Latta

  Government, People, Decision

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• By the way, if socialism is so damn hot, why doesn't the pope ask all Mexicans to return home? If capitalism is such a bad thing, why doesn't the pope say to every Cuban living in America, "Get the hell back to Cuba"?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Home, America, Hot

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.

  Indira Gandhi

  Germany, Forget, Interpretation

  Source: sangam.org

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• If they were going to go to London or to the UK to find out how health care is, national health care doesn't work, all they have to do is go to the Soviet Union to find out how communism and socialism didn't work, but it hasn't dissuaded them from trying it here because they think the only thing that hasn't happened is the right people haven't tried it with the proper funding.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's no thought given to the individual because there aren't any individuals in socialism; everybody's the same.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Individual, Given

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and - in Germany, the Soviet Union and other nations - millions of lives.

  Rick Perry

  Germany, Looks, World

  Source: stream.org

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• What democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that the top one-tenth of 1 percent in this country own almost 90 percent - almost - own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. That it is wrong, today, in a rigged economy, that 57 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent. That when you look around the world, you see every other major country providing health care to all people as a right, except the United States.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Democratic Socialism, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Practice, Politics, Method

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• What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.

  William Inge

  Earning, Share, Profit

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• Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this respect a source of strength for socialism which traditional liberalism sadly lacks. Speculation about general principles provides an opportunity for the play of the imagination of those who are unencumbered by much knowledge of the facts of present-day life. Their ideas suffer from inherent contradictions, and any attempt to put them into practice must produce something utterly different from what they expect.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Philosophy, Character, Opportunity

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• German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Political, Human Nature

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.

  Karl Marx

  Play, Done, Development

  Karl Marx (1973). “The Karl Marx Library: On the First International”

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• Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.

  Hugo Chavez

  Jesus, Eye, Thinking

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• Socialism is not about big concepts and heavy theory. Socialism is about decent shelter for those who are homeless. It is about water for those who have no safe drinking water. It is about health care, it is about a life of dignity for the old. It is about overcoming the huge divide between urban and rural areas. It is about a decent education for all our people. Socialism is about rolling back the tyranny of the market. As long as the economy is dominated by an unelected, privileged few, the case for socialism will exist.

  Chris Hani

  Drinking, Water, Long

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• Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism; Individualism and Mutualism, resting upon property, involve a development of the private policeman not at all compatible with my notion of freedom.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Effort, Development, Demand

  Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell (2005). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.79, SUNY Press

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• History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

  George Gilder

  Debt, Prosperity, Threat

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.198, Regnery Publishing

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• And what have we now in Germany? A land of bankers and car-makers. Even our great army has gone soft. Soldiers wear beards and question orders. I am not ashamed to say I believed in National Socialism. I still wear the Iron Cross with diamonds Hitler gave me. But today in all Germany you can't find a single person who voted Adolf Hitler into power. Many Germans feel guilty about the war. But they don't explain the real guilt we share - That we lost.

  Hanna Reitsch

  Real, War, Army

  "The first astronaut: tiny, daring Hanna" by Ron Laytner in The Deseret News (pp. C1+, 12C), February 19, 1981.

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• People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Impossible, Achieve

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• The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Democracy, Ambitious, Arrogant

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• Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

  Winston Churchill

  Political, Police, Politics

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• There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The forces that seek power over others have gained the upperhand against those that seek freedom. By harming wealth creation,they cause even more strain on society. Historically, this is nothingnew. State domination over its subjects has roots that connect statism,totalitarianism, communism, and socialism to more modern-day variantsof liberalism and progressivism. It is a constant fight and we mustwin.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Fighting, Roots, Wealth Creation

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• There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Fifty, Rooms

  Speech in Saratoga, 19 July 1918, in Roosevelt Policy (1919) vol. 3, p. 1079

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• . . I think the Adam Smith role was played in this cycle i.e. the late twentieth century collapse of socialism in which the idea of free-markets succeeded first, and then special events catalyzed a complete change of socio-political policy in countries around the world by Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

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• We must ever keep in mind that collectivized socialism is part of the communist strategy. Communism is fundamentally socialism. We will never win our fight against communism by making concessions to socialism.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Fighting, Winning, Mind

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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