Socialism Quotes
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Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from risk. But the result is to shield them from knowledge of the real dangers and opportunities.
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You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
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Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power.
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When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.
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We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism.
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Until socialism is confronted with its lived, communist reality, the gravest atrocities of all recorded human life, we live in its age.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.
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If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.
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Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.
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The future belongs to socialism.
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.
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Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.
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Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.
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The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.
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The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.
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The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
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Socialism, wherever it actually had the means to plan a society, to pursue efficaciously its vision of the abolition of private property, economic inequality, and the allocation of capital and goods by free markets, culminated in the crushing of individual, economic, religious, associational, and political liberty. Its collectivization of agriculture alone led to untold suffering, scarcity, and contempt for property as the fruit of labor.
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History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.
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The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.
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No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.
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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.
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Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.
