"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of everyone else's money."
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"Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business."
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"The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations"
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"In reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism."
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"We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic."
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"Socialism is in no way a curate's egg"
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"It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism."
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"People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad."
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"I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray."
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"I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization."
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"The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism."
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"If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism."
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"What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture."
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"I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise."
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"[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes."
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"I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?"
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"What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats."
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"I am convinced Socialism is the only answer."
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"We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing."
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"Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment."
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