Quotes About Socialism

The first is the decline of communism (together with intrusive socialism). For reasons we have seen, market economies can generate wealth prodigiously while totalitarian planned economies impose scarcity, stagnation, and often famine.

Of course, my socialist colleagues and I weren't out to hurt anyone – quite the reverse. We were out to improve things – but we were going to start with other people. I came to see the temptation in this logic, the obvious flaw, the danger – but could also see that it did not exclusively characterize socialism. Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.

I came to understand, through the great George Orwell, that much of such thinking found its motivation in hatred of the rich and successful, instead of true regard for the poor. Besides, the socialists were more intrinsically capitalist than the capitalists. They believed just as strongly in money. They just thought that if different people had the money, the problems plaguing humanity would vanish.

The socialism that soon afterward became so attractive to me as an alternative proved equally insubstantial; with time, I came to understand, through the great George Orwell, that much of such thinking found its motivation in hatred of the rich and successful, instead of true regard for the poor.

If I was the dictator, with my profound understanding of Marx's real intent, and my universal benevolent compassion, uncontaminated by any proclivity toward darkness or sin, I would bring on the socialist Utopia.

The socialism Nietzsche referred to was not the relatively mild version later popular in Britain, Scandinavia, and Canada, with its sometimes genuine emphasis on the improvement of working-class life, but the full-blown collectivism of Russia, China, and a host of smaller countries.

Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator.

en junio se liquidó el partido socialista (el SPD), los nacionalistas abandonaron y los católicos se disolvieron, a cambio de un concordato con el Vaticano que se firmó el 8 de julio. Una ley de 14 de julio de 1933 proclamaba: «El NSDAP es el único partido político de Alemania». En cuatro meses, y con la tolerancia de los representantes de las clases elevadas de la sociedad alemana, se había liquidado la democracia. Instalado

Nunca se ha empleado, en cambio, el término «capitalismo», que era el que usaban para definirlo sus enemigos del llamado bando socialista. Incluso hoy, al cabo de tantos años de acabada la guerra fría, se mantiene el tabú:

As a matter of practical necessity, socialist democracy may eventually turn out to be more of a sham than capitalist democracy ever was.

And it is a good thing that many ideas have a relatively short shelf-life. Some because they are bad, even pernicious ideas: the Master Race, the class struggle, the Oedipus complex, and Socialism are four bad ideas with wretched consequences that come immediately to mind.

We are socialists because we see in socialism, that is the union of all citizens, the only chance to maintain our racial inheritance and to regain our political freedom and renew our German state.

The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

Anarchy is synonymous with Socialism. Because both signify the abolition of exploitation and of the domination of man over man, whether maintained by the force of arms or by the monopolization of the means of life.

If we just go back to the basics... I do not want to give up our republic and become a socialistic ideological nation. That's not who we are.

Dad's a socialist who wants a revolution to improve the lot of all of mankind literally

During this first term [as Burlington mayor in 1981] I discovered that the city was wasting substantial sums of money on its insurance policies. Companies, year after year, were getting the city's business at substantially higher than market rates. I instituted a radical socialist concept, 'competitive' bidding, which saved the city tens of thousands of dollars.

It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to aim at making of it one large team, as positivist socialism seeks to do.

En el socialismo, el espíritu de solidaridad propuesto tiene como ingrediente necesario la desconfianza y el odio hacia otra sociedad o una parte de otra sociedad. Así, la solidaridad conseguida no es, como se pretendía, una solidaridad en la caridad, sino, al menos parcialmente, una solidaridad en la lucha.

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

Once the tentacles of redistributionism wrap themselves tightly around every part of the economy - and around our psyches - they can never be unwound.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity— he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of the weak and timorous against the strong and enterprising, of the botched against the fit.