Socialist Quotes - Page 6

• One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

  Michel de Certeau

  Communism, Demonstration, Used

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• National Socialism would have every German decide for himself on spiritual questions, just as in the days of Frederick the Great.  The National Socialist state gives to the church what belongs to the church, and to the state what belongs to the state.

  Rudolf Hess

  Spiritual, Giving, Church

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• The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

  Karl Liebknecht

  World, Republic, Defeat

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• Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

  Douglas Sirk

  Party, Socialist Party

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• Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

  P. Chidambaram

  School, Harvard, Committed

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• Good news from France, where the man picked by Nicolas Sarkozy as his foreign minister is not the execrable Hubert Védrine, but Bernard Kouchner - a socialist who supports Israel and the invasion of Iraq.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Men, Israel, Iraq

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• I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.

  Ken Follett

  Christian, Might, Good Christian

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• My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.

  John Grierson

  Loss, Views, Would Be

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• My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

  Leon Askin

  Father, Years, Ardent

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

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• People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House.

  Tom Tancredo

  White, People, House

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. February 05, 2010.

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• There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  Loss, Risk, Investment

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• Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly. To his contemporaries it appeared frivolous and contradictory to perform as both superman and socialist, sceptic and believer, legalist and heretic, high-brow and mob-orator. But feeling the duty to teach as well as to mirror mankind, Shaw did not accept himself as a contradictory being.

  Jacques Barzun

  Mirrors, Feelings, Gadflies

  "Bernard Shaw in Twilight" by Jacques Barzun in "The Kenyon Review", Volume 5, No. 3 (pp. 321-345), Part II, www.jstor.org. Summer 1943.

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• My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.

  Dorothy Day

  Party, Rejection, Movement

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.203, A&C Black

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• Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.

  Paul Erdos

  Nuisance, Said, Theft

  "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth". Book by Paul Hoffman, 1998.

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• The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End Poverty in California]. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.

  Upton Sinclair

  Running, Lying, Epic

  Upton Sinclair “The Jungle”, Lulu.com

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• Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.

  C. Wright Mills

  Independent, Fate, Men

  "The Sociological Imagination". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1959.

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• Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.

  Fidel Castro

  People, Giving, Revolution

  "Playa Giron/Bay of Pigs: Washington's First Military Defeat in the Americas" by José Ramón Fernández, (p. 58), 2001.

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• The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Party, Struggle, Mean

  "Dirty Hands". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

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• Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Decomposition, Form, Inevitable

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.410, Routledge

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• When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess –- we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. You're not mopping fast enough. That's a socialist mop. Grab a mop –- let's get to work.

  Barack Obama

  Laughter, Sitting, Want

  "Barack Obama, remarks at University of Michigan". www.politico.com. May 1, 2010.

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• The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Self, Class, Roots

  "Revolutionary Socialist Organization". Book by Rosa Luxemburg, www.marxists.org. 1934.

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• Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, Proletariat

  "Problems of Leninism". Book by Joseph Stalin, August 1924.

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• It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Generations, Looks, Inferiority

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.196, Routledge

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• If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Mean, Socialist Countries

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Pension Fund Revolution”, p.11, Routledge

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