Socialism Quotes - Page 3

The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.

The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1

We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla is a social reformer, who takes up arms responding to the angry protests of the people against their oppressors, and who fights to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and poverty.

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning.

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.

Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa baba kwa familia yake. Kwa Tanzania alikuwa mlezi; wa ndoto ya haki, amani, uzalendo, ujamaa, na uhuru.

Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one's intentions.

El socialismo es un sistema que prefiere que los pobres sean más pobres con tal que los ricos sean menos ricos.

Socialism is a monster, which will die.

In capitalism, man exploits man. In socialism, it’s exactly the opposite.

Peace isn't the absence of wars provoked by a series of delinquents of all sort, but a dynamic process of cooperation between states and people...

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

Man's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it's to level the playing field.