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To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.
Joseph Goebbels
To be a socialist is to surrender the ego to the collective; socialism is offering up the one for the benefit of all.
2.
The goal of socialism is communism.
Vladimir Lenin
The target of socialism is collectivism.
3.
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
George Bernard Shaw
A socialist is somebody who has nothing to their name, and is willing to share it equally with all.
4.
There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.
Rosa Luxemburg
'Social and political freedom are inextricably linked.'
5.
Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
Deng Xiaoping
Prosperity is not communism. To be affluent is triumphant.
6.
A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.
Deng Xiaoping
There is no inherent incompatibility between socialism and a free market system.
7.
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.
Rosa Luxemburg
8.
In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system... The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfilment.
Heinrich Himmler
9.
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
Oswald Spengler
10.
Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.
Richard M. Nixon
11.
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
Annie Besant
12.
Somebody once asked me what had attracted me to National Socialism. I replied without a shadow of hesitation: 'Its beauty.'
Savitri Devi
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Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
Ben Shapiro
15.
Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.
Pope Pius IX
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The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
17.
Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?
Kurt Vonnegut
19.
I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.
Hugo Chavez
20.
Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it.
Cecil Palmer
21.
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
Che Guevara
22.
There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.
Aneurin Bevan
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The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.
Mao Zedong
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National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.
Martin Bormann
25.
As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.
Rose Wilder Lane
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Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
Vladimir Lenin
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No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
Vladimir Lenin
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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
29.
Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.
Kenneth Waltz
30.
Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained
similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not both been achieved at the price of privation and personal liberty sacrificed for the good of the state?
Joseph Stalin
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Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it.
Ralph Nader
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Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.
Winston Churchill
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We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.
Ayn Rand
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill
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Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.
Malala Yousafzai
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Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
Will Rogers
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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.
Vladimir Lenin
42.
The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
Irving Berlin
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Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
Vladimir Lenin
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Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.
Leonard Read
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
John Steinbeck
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Socialism Is For The People, Not The Socialist.
Andrew Wilkow
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National Socialism is simply this - a proposal that the German people rid themselves of the parasitic Jews. The gentile host dared to protest against the continued presence of the parasite, and attempted to throw it off.
Eustace Mullins
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Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
Rafael Cruz
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Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.
Roger Ailes
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Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.
Terry Eagleton