- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism Quotes
One word, defined a dozen different ways.
One definition here ties socialism directly to democracy, arguing neither can exist without the other, while another imagines it as something that keeps returning after every setback. This range of views sits alongside our Politics collection.
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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
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Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.
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- Nov 07, 2020