Quotes of Socialist - somelinesforyou

“ In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective. ”

- Christopher Lasch

“ When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists. ”

- Nikita Khrushchev

“ I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head. ”

- William Casey

“ I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside. ”

- Joseph Brodsky

“ To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad. ”

- Napoleon III

“ The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. ”

- Newt Gingrich

“ China has entered a new stage of development in which it will build a well-to-do society in an all-round manner and accelerate the socialist modernization drive. ”

- Jinato Hu

“ The reason I agreed to go to Indonesia because at one time it was a socialist country for one year-that was under Sukarno. ”

- Robert Jenkins

“ Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. ”

- Pat Robertson

“ All I know is I'm not a Marxist. ”

- Karl Marx

“ I do not believe in Communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country; several of the best friends I have got are Communists. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists. ”

- Ignazio Silone

“ I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists. ”

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“ I am not a Marxist. ”

- Karl Marx

“ Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. ”

- Thomas Mann

“ We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children. ”

- Unknown

“ Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. ”

- Mikhail Gorbachev

“ The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss! ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born. ”

- Hector Hugh Munro

“ It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind. ”

- Mikhail Gorbachev

“ One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless. ”

- Kenneth Baker

“ Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men? ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ The consistent anarchist should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat… ”

- Noam Chomsky

“ The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'. ”

- John McCarthy
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