Socialist Quotes - Page 24

• Some socialist movements in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain, for instance, were genuine. I was making films about the so-called Arab Spring, and I'm well aware of how complex the situation really was. But it goes without saying is that the West immediately infiltrated and 'derailed' the revolutions, turning them into what you have described.

  Andre Vltchek

  Spring, Egypt, Bahrain

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Everyone knows Bob Beckel views, radical left wing, socialist. He says he's a Democrat. But what may surprise you is that he actually has a conservative brother.

  Sean Hannity

  Brother, Views, Wings

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.

  Winston Churchill

  Firsts, Columbus, Taxpayers

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• Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality and despair, have not prompted modern intellectuals to question or revise their dogma. They still think that it is daring, idealistic and unconventional to denounce the rich. They still believe that money is the root of all evil-except government money, which is the solution to all problems.

  Ayn Rand

  War, Believe, Thinking

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• Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

  Roger Scruton

  Past, Hands, Europe

  Roger Scruton (2006). “A political philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the Gaolers, the Informers, and the Hangmen, all would all be Socialist functionaries, as they are State officials - but the ownership by the State of all the land and materials for labour, combined with the co-operative control by the workers of such land and materials, would be Socialism.

  James Connolly

  Army, Land, Judging

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• If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs

  James Connolly

  Mother, Country, Army

  James Connolly (1973). “Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts”

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• For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Differences, Liberty

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.409, VM eBooks

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• Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus.

  John Fugelsang

  Jesus, War, Thinking

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• I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

  Albert Einstein

  Educational, Socialist Economy, Evil

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• The news is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective throats of America.

  Charlie Daniels

  America, People, Evil

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• The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

  Tony Benn

  Christian, Party, Church

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• If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Done, Doe

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the whole world, that we will achieve a new and brighter future-the socialist brotherhood of the workers.

  Alexandra Kollontai

  Inspirational, Country, Future

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• I told Clooney, George, you’re worth $100 million — of course you can afford to be a socialist!

  Kevin Sorbo

  Courses, Millions

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• Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?

  Emma Goldman

  Honesty, Able, Anarchy

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.43, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the cross-roads of history and must choose which way to go. But for us there need be no difficulty or hesitation, no looking to right or left. Our way is straight and clear—the building up of a socialist democracy at home with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Home, Building Up, Democracy

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1965). “Speeches, June 1964-May 1965”

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• We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Order, People, Machines

  "To the Rural Poor: An Explanation for the Peasants of What the Social-Democrats Want (1903)". Collected Works, Volume 6, p. 366, www.marxists.org.

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• First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.

  Martin Niemoller

  Libertarian Party, Poetry, Catholic

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• America is ensnared in self-indulgence and its future hangs in the balance. Our moral and spiritual foundations are rapidly being destroyed. Our arrogance is producing a socialist state that is becoming our god. The entitlement state of mind has created a nation that looks to the government for the answer to our problems, when the only answer is, "Our Father which art in heaven."

  John Hagee

  Spiritual, Art, Father

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• Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Government, Goal, Feminist

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• It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained many other germs – a mass of other germs – and those who lived through the enthusiasm of the first years of the first victorious socialist revolution ought not to forget it. To judge the living man by the death germs which the autopsy reveals in the corpse – and which he may have carried in him since his birth – is that very sensible?

  Victor Serge

  Men, Years, Judging

  "Memoirs of a Revolutionary".

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• Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Rhetorical Strategies, Play, Political

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• Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

  Ronald Reagan

  Party, Names, People

  Radio Address on Socialized Medicine, recorded circa 1961

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• I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society.

  Karl Popper

  Beautiful, Dream, Simple

  "The Lesson of this Century: With Two Talks on Freedom and the Democratic State".

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