Socialist Quotes - Page 21

• I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

  Ken Livingstone

  Law, Rational, Believer

  "Ken Livingstone tells Jewish Chronicle of his contrition over leaked remarks" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

  Alan Keyes

  Government, Years, Tariffs

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• The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

  Newt Gingrich

  Ideas, Political, Politics

  "Master of DISASTER". David Beers, Mother Jones Magazine, Volume 14, No. 8, October 1989.

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• We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

  Newt Gingrich

  Proud, Welfare, Politician

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• My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Husband, Israel, Years

  "Leadership Begins With Character". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2012.

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• A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

  David Lloyd George

  Heart, Men, Young

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• I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

  Marianne Faithfull

  War, Wings, Empires

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• The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

  Jim DeMint

  America, Mind, Enemy

  "Come Together" by Hendrik Hertzberg, www.newyorker.com. March 8, 2010.

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• There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

  Sean Connery

  Government, Years, Scotland

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• Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

  Hugo Chavez

  Gorgeous, Dictator, Interest

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• We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

  John Lydon

  Dog, Needs, Want

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• Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

  Thomas Mann

  Should, Humans, Reasonable

  "Thomas Mann: A Critical Study". Book by R. J. Hollingdale. Chapter 2, 1971.

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• "Socialist" is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

  Jay McInerney

  Politician, Quarters

  "Jay McInerney on Obama: 'We have to give him a second chance'" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2012.

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• I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed.

  Edward Snowden

  Issues, Communist, Radical

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Rich, Poor

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.146, Penguin

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• But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Nice, People, Progress

  "Alarms and Discursions". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.

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• - What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Law, Likes, Common

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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• Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies.

  Muriel Barbery

  Cat, Principles, Firsts

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September, 2008.

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• If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

  John Irving

  Want, Ifs

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• The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Community, Deception, Rooms

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

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• Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.

  Terry Eagleton

  Optimistic, Usa, Negativity

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• These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk and talk about things that they have no say in ... Would they do it this time? Would they beat the Great Socialist and win the elections? Had they raised enough money of their own, and bribed enough policemen, and bought enough fingerprints of their own, to win? Like eunuchs discussing the Kama Sutra, the voters discuss the elections in Laxmangarh.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Winning, People

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those.

  Penn Jillette

  Mean, Security And Freedom, Differences

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• A decade ago young people en masse began declaring themselves as Yugoslavs. It was a form of rising Yugoslav nationalism, which was a reaction to brotherhood and unity and a feeling of belonging to a single socialist self-managing society. This pleased me greatly.

  Josip Broz Tito

  Self, People, Feelings

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• A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

  Terry Eagleton

  People, Toil, Astonishment

  Terry Eagleton (1991). “Ideology: An Introduction”, p.82, Verso

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