Socialist Quotes - Page 22

• I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Funny, Heart, People

  "India's Man for All Seasons". Interview with Siddharth Srivastava, www.atimes.com. September 29, 2004.

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• We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.

  Jon Voight

  America, Support, Causes

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• You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.

  John Podhoretz

  Israel, Two, Roots

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• In the developed countries of the capitalist world, the mass media are beginning to become businesses, and huge businesses at that. The freedom of journalists is now becoming, in most cases, a very relative thing: it ends where the interests of the business begin... In socialist areas, it is enough to recall that the means of social communication are the monopoly of the party.

  Hélder Câmara

  Country, Communication, Party

  Hélder Câmara (1971). “Spiral of Violence”, Burns & Oates

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• There is no independence of law against National Socialism. Say to yourselves at every decision which you make: "How would the Führer decide in my place?" In every decision ask yourselves: "Is this decision compatible with the National Socialist conscience of the German people?" Then you will have a firm iron foundation which, allied with the unity of the National Socialist People's State and with your recognition of the eternal nature of the will of Adolf Hitler, will endow your own sphere of decision with the authority of the Third Reich, and this for all time.

  Hans Frank

  Law, Iron, People

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• My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

  Alan King

  Father, Smart, Hero

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• As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present rotten and irrational system cannot endure; because the day is past for your man on horseback. The slaves won't stand for it. They are too many, and willy-nilly they'll drag down the would-be equestrian before he gets astride. You can't get away from them, and you'll have to swallow the whole slave-morality. It's not a nice mess, I'll allow. But it's been a-brewing and swallow it you must.

  Jack London

  Nice, Past, Men

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with far less justice, about the Eixample itself. And all its critics concurred that the basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist.

  Robert Hughes

  Mistake, Hands, Cities

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• I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.

  Anita Roddick

  Thinking, Leader, Wealth

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• I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.

  Barack Obama

  Used, Young, Used To Be

  "The diplomat-studded and desirable neighborhood the Obamas look set to call home" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2016.

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• The main fighter for the DSP [Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei or German Socialist Party], as I have said, was Julius Streicher, then a teacher in Nuremberg. At first he, too, had a holy conviction of the mission and the future of his movement.

  Adolf Hitler

  Teacher, Party, Firsts

  Adolf Hitler (1943). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer.

  Barack Obama

  Giving, Answers, Example

  "CBS's Smith Asks Obama About Talk Radio 'Enmity': 'Does it Bother You?'". Interview with Harry Smith, newsbusters.org. April 2, 2010.

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• Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Years, Nine, Young

  "Przepisy celne, ale ulgowe" ("Customs regulations, but reduced"), Essay by Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Angora magazine, 1998.

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• The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.

  Mikhail Kalinin

  Strong, Groups, Teeth

  "Inside the Middle East" by Dilip Hiro, (p. 232), 1982.

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• I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings.

  David Lloyd

  Strong

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• Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Flower, Simple

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• I'm just a socialist at heart.

  Ted Turner

  Heart, Politics

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• I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.

  Jack London

  Men, White Man, Firsts

  Jack London (1999). “The Valley of the Moon”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• Since China has a population of 1.1 billion, it won't feel lonely even if it becomes the only socialist country.

  Li Peng

  Country, Lonely, Socialist Countries

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• Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

  Christina Stead

  Uplifting, Character, Order

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• The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades. Streets and highways carry the name of the Führer. Settlements today are not isolated communities, but rather parts of greater city-construction plans. Every work site must be properly located within its neighborhood and surrounding setting (i.e., the natural world).

  Fritz Todt

  Construction Projects, Cities, Names

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 209, May 1938.

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• A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Christian, Atheist, Progressive

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate them especially in their nationalism against the West. But mutated by Saddam Hussein it became also one that very, very much admired, and grew a special moustache in admiration of the work of Yosif Vissarionovitch Dzugashvili, the great Georgian known to us historically as Stalin. So you had him in modern Iraq, a regime in our own time, that was openly, directly modelled upon the two most extreme examples of European totalitarianism.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Two, Iraq

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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

  Dennis Prager

  Idiot, Failing, Socialism

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• You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, Doctrine, Genius

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.129, Wildside Press LLC

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