819 Quotes About Socialism

if we center our efforts on war prepa­rations, we cannot build what we want, we cannot devote ourselves to creative work. All work, all capital invested in preparing for military action, is labor lost, money lost. Unfortunately, it has to be done, because others are preparing. But the money I am most saddened to see leave the National Bank coffers-and I say this with all honesty and pride as a soldier-is money to pay for some weapon of destruc­tion.

You Need To Gauge, To Engage.

There is nothing more comfortable, convenient and energizing than living a socialist lifestyle in a rich capitalist country.

If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

Some things are made way more appealing than they are by our lack of them.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.