819 Quotes About Socialism

In Shanghai, there were several pro-right circles of former officers. They realized that the Great War and European revolutions were a direct consequence of rotten liberalism. Words like order, family, discipline and duty didn't mean anything anymore. Civil liberties, so dear to Nina Kupina and people like her, resulted in monstrous egotism and total moral degradation: I do what I want and don't give a damn about others.

The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. When they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them.

Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates... Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service, should learn to think and act as a mass.

I am no worshiper of cloth of any color, but I love the red flag and what it symbolizes to me and other Socialists. I have a red flag hanging in my study, and if I could I should gladly march with it past the office of the Times and let all the reporters and photographers make the most of the spectacle.

They say hell is other people. I believe that. But what I didn’t know until now is so can heaven be.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

Мъчителят знае, че човек, подложен на абсолютно мълчание, изгубва разсъдъка си. Ние загубихме нашия, докато строихме светлото бъдеще на социализма. Ето защо в океанските дълбини на мълчанието няма да открия човешките същества от моето детство, а уродливи мутанти. Ще разпозная моите родители и близки (ще разпозная и себе си), ще ги прегърна и ще пожелая да остана с тях, но последната глътка въздух ще ме изтласка към повърхността.

Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?

You won't mind my calling you Comrade, will you? I've just become a socialist. It's a great scheme. You ought to be one. You work for the equal distribution of property, and start by collaring all you can and sitting on it.