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• The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).

  Herman E. Daly

  Technology, Men, Law

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• Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the
  basic tyrant of the modern age.

  Edward Abbey

  Tyrants, Age, Modern

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.

  Peter L. Berger

  Socialist Economy, Degrees, Possibility

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• Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Trends, Outcomes, Reactions

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• Theres no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off...By the end of this hour I will be seen by many as a terrorist sympathizer, a Zionist tool. A self-hating Jew, an apologist for American imperialism, an orientalist, socialist, fascist, CIA agent, and worse.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Hate, Self, Talking

  "Anthony Bourdain Talks Travel, Food, and War". Interview with John Little, blogsofwar.com. July 20, 2014.

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• To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mistake, Alive, Horror

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• In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming into the slightest conflict with his religious convictions. The mighty common struggle which both carried on against the destroyer of Aryan humanity had, on the contrary, taught them mutually to respect and esteem one another.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Struggle, Catholic

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right.

  Jane Fonda

  Leader, Peaceful, Soldier

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• These guys [liberals] will never tire of spending our money and will never hold themselves accountable for their boondoggles. For them the failure of $5 trillion to eradicate poverty simply means that we haven't spent enough money. Ditto with education. The solution is always more money. No amount of empirical evidence will shake their socialist theology.

  David Limbaugh

  Mean, Guy, Poverty

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• The goals of development are always and everywhere stated in terms of consumer value packages standardized around the North Atlantic-and therefore always and everywhere imply more privileges for a few... Underdevelopment is the result of a state of mind common to both socialist and capitalist countries. Present development goals are neither desirable nor reasonable. Unfortunately antiimperialism is no antidote.

  Ivan Illich

  Country, Goal, Mind

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• The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.

  Newt Gingrich

  America, Machines, Unions

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• In the West everybody recognizes the need for a private sector, pretty much, even the one Socialist group understands this now, and so there tends to be debate about how much public sector intervention you think is needed for a variety of reasons, and there are very important differences on party lines that should be fought out.

  Barney Frank

  Party, Thinking, Differences

  "The Political Scene: Barney's Frank Opinions". Interview with Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.

  Jose Marti

  Confused, Reading, Order

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• The America in which we grew up is vastly different from the America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that's why saving America is the fundamental challenge of our time. The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.

  Newt Gingrich

  America, Challenges, Germany

  "To Save America". Book by Newt Gingrich, www.today.com. May 17, 2010.

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• The Naked Socialist connects the ancient order of oppression with the modern order of oppression. The Naked Socialist is a fabulous book and we need to get everyone to read it NOW!

  Morgan Philpot

  Book, Order, Fabulous

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• The National Socialist state refuses to admit female labour in factories merely because such labour is cheap. There is, of course, a certain amount of industrial work which can only be performed by women, but an essential condition is that this sort of work should not be injurious to health.

  Adolf Hitler

  Essentials, Female, Factories

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• How heartening it is to know that Ken Loach is still out there making committed, polemical cinema, so long as you don't have to watch it. Never go near a Ken Loach film unless you're trying to sleep with a socialist. If you are, however, Land And Freedom should do the trick.

  David Bennun

  Sleep, Land, Long

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• Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Organization, Air, Democracy

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1987). “Toward a better world”, Vintage

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• The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein.

  Carl I. Hagen

  Party, Hussein, Today

  Aftenposten, February 23, 2003.

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• In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities. In socialist society everyone is obliged to work, although he does not, in return for his labour receive according to his requirements, but according to the quantity and quality of the work he has performed.

  J. Stalin

  Quality, Doe, Unemployment

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism is hostile to religion is a lie.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Mean, Catholic

  Letter to the Nazi Party, July 22, 1933.

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• I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, People, Doe

  Source: www.heavenonearthdocumentary.com

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• Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Men, Class

  "War and Revolution: A Lecture Delivered May 14 (27), 1917". Pravda No. 93, April 23, 1929. Collected Works, Volume 24, pp. 398 - 421, www.marxists.org.

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• The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.

  James Connolly

  Rallying Point, Departure, Republic

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.122, Pluto Press

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• I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Equal Treatment, Credit, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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