#socialism

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product. ↗

— Brian Harris

#creators #demand #encouraging #failure #higher

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#best #change #come #disillusioned #ever

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#capitalism #guilty #hopes #i #judging

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#concern #socialism #unfortunate #weakness

It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty….The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious cases in history. It was decided to do everything that had ever been denounced in Socialism, and nothing that had ever been desired in it…we proceeded to prove that it was possible to sacrifice liberty without gaining equality….In short, people decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#equality

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism. ↗

— August Bebel

#atheism #called #domain #economics #politics

Equality not only in quantity is the best way of quality. ↗

— Paola Calvillo

#karl-marx #socialism #equality

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable. ↗

— Martin Bormann

#irreconcilable #national #socialism

There is also the basic inequality of being born either with a natural talent or without one. Clever or stupid. No matter how much you try to argue against it, Dora, we are not born equal. All we can ever strive for is the equality of opportunity for those who have the ability to make the most of it. ↗

— Sally Wentworth

#inequality #socialism #equality

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#always #churchill #even #had #how