George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody."
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Socialism
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Rosa Luxemburg
Political Theorist, Activist
"There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy."
Deng Xiaoping
Politician
"Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious."
Deng Xiaoping
Politician
"A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy."
Rosa Luxemburg
Political Theorist, Activist
"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism."
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"Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?"
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"I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism."
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"There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man."
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"The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism."
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"We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor."
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"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?"
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"Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state."
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"We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody."
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"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry."
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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."
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"Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional."
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"We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution"
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"The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!"
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"... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism."
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"[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich."
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"In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved."
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"Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat."
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"I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything."
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"We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state."
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"It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition."
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