Socialism Quotes - Page 5

• They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

  Wilbur Smith

  Philosophy, Long, Pay

  Wilbur Smith (2008). “The Leopard Hunts in Darkness”, p.105, Pan Macmillan

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• Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs

  Margaret Thatcher

  Eggs, Golden, Killing

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• Democracy is the road to socialism.

  Karl Marx

  Historical, Democracy, Liberty

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• The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Historical, Politics

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• Socialism destroys everywhere one thing - diversity. Everything is supposed to be best, and as we know, best things are always in shortage. I remind once more that for reds "best" is what they consider "best" for us, and not what we like.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Diversity, Shortage, Best Things

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• I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Humanity

  Eugene V. Debs' open letter to the American Railway Union, as quoted in "Chicago Railway Times", January 1, 1897.

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• State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.

  Benito Mussolini

  Political, May, Management

  "Mediterranean Fascism 1919-1945" by Charles F. Delzell, The MacMillan Press, (p. 122), 1971.

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• Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.

  Benito Mussolini

  Real, Giving, Unity

  Benito Mussolini (1935). “Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions”

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• As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

  George Orwell

  Christian, Political, Advertising

  The Road toWigan Pier ch. 11 (1937)

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• One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.

  Ronald Reagan

  Medicine, People, Way

  Radio Address on Socialized Medicine, recorded circa 1961

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• One of the problems with traditional anti-capitalist thought is that it defines capitalism as a totality, which encourages us to imagine another totality, socialism, which we can try to replace it with. This totalizing perspective has colonized the imagination of anti-capitalism and left us waiting for a revolution we can never have.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Imagination, Perspective, Waiting

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Sound, Capitalism

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• Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

  Rafael Cruz

  Government

  "Pastor Rafael Cruz, Father Of Senator Ted Cruz, Offers His Thoughts On America And God". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2014.

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• Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

  Oswald Spengler

  Eugenics, Class, Capitalism

  Jahre der Entscheidung (The Hour of Decision, 1933) pt. 1

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• As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

  James Madison

  Men, Rights, Liberty

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Heart, Twenties, Want

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• In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system... The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfilment.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Red, Revolution, Economic

  Speech in Potsdam on October 13, 1926. "Heinrich Himmler: A Life", Book by Peter Longerich, pp. 92-93, 2012.

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• Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

  Harry S. Truman

  Suicide, Men, Law

  Address at National Archives, Washington, D.C., 15 Dec. 1952

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• There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire management of production and distribution to the government. Either capitalism or socialism: there exists no middle way.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Play, Choices

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Libertarian Party, Democracies Have

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• The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.

  Tony Blair

  Views, Class, Misunderstood

  Tony Blair (2004). “Tony Blair in His Own Words”, Politicos Pub

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• If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

  Isa Blagden

  Truth, Lying, Interesting

  "The crown of a life". Book by Isa Blagden, 1869.

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• To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Office, World, Imagine

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.76, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Religious, Party, Believe

  Diary entry, October 16, 1928.

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• The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to Hitler, render thanks to Stalin; be nice and submissive, then the great man will be kind to you later too.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Nice, Grateful, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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