Socialism Quotes - Page 6

• Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

  Leonard Read

  Creating, Wealth, Incapable

  "Anything That's Peaceful". Book by Leonard Read, 1964.

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• Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as was the scorpion in Aesop to the dog on whose back he crossed the river. They will destroy commerce and establish socialism, even if it kills them, because that is their nature.

  John Derbyshire

  Dog, Powerful, Class

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• Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Organization, Two

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• Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Inspirational, Kindness, Compassion

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• Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

  Benito Mussolini

  Eugenics, Phantoms, Comedy

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• Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, People, Wish

  Source: www.sharedhost.progressive.org

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• Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Struggle, Answers, Chains

  "Historic 32nd congress of Pakistani section of IMT – First Day". Malala Yousafzai's statement to 32nd Congress of Pakistani Marxists, www.marxist.com. March 10, 2013.

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• The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Party, Revolution

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Party, Government

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

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• Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff - watch out!

  Walter E. Williams

  Equality, Should Have, Taught Us

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• In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Achievement, Machines, Favors

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Issues, Government, Liberty

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.15, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The most extreme types, like Murray Rothbard, are at least honest. They'd like to eliminate highway taxes because they force you to pay for a road you may never drive on. As an alternative, they suggest that if you and I want to get somewhere, we should build a road there and charge people tolls on it. Just try generalizing that. Such a society couldn't survive, and even if it could, it would be so full of terror and hate that any human being would prefer to live in hell.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hate, People, Trying

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.217, Soft Skull Press

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• In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.

  George Orwell

  Country, Philosophy, Russia

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think, 1947-1948”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Envy, Expectations, Illusion

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

  Joseph Stalin

  Freedom, Gun Control, Weapons

  Joseph Stalin (1952). “Works”

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• The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Business, Military

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Eugenics, Communism, Turns

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2012). “Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings”, p.361, Courier Corporation

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• Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Mean, Eugenics, Democracy

  "Basic Approach," repr. in Vincent Shean Nehru: the Years of Power (1960) p. 294

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• According to a Pew poll, 49% of young Americans have a favorable view of socialism. What is socialism? it is a system that leads to mass misery, mass impoverishment, and human slaughter. That's what it means. Yet almost half of the young think it's benign.

  David Horowitz

  Mean, Thinking, Views

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• There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

  Will Durant

  Money, Eugenics, Age

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• The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light of its philosophy the individual is born into a collective and it is "natural" and proper for him to behave as members of this collective are expected to behave. Expected by whom? Of course, by those individuals to whom, by the mysterious decrees of some mysterious agency, the task of determining the collective will and directing the actions of the collective has been entrusted.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Determination, Philosophy, Agency

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• More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Mean, Eugenics, Everyday

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. ... The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Honesty, Mistake

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• We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

  Tony Benn

  Party, Years, Political

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