#socialism

There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#greed #responsibility #socialism #education

I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy ↗

— John Green

#socialism

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#democracy #freedom #marxism #radicalism #rebellion

My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human being. You need good material conditions, a high level of culture, much freedom and friendship. And it won't come today or tomorrow. It's a long and winding road ↗

— Marek Edelman

#quoted-by-paul-mason #socialism #freedom

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#democracy #funny #humour #politics #revolution

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#capitalism #inevitability #inspirational #marxism #resistance

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#intelligence

Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#economy #politcal-pandering #socialism #music

One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England. ↗

— George Orwell

#leftists #socialism #nature

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system? ↗

— Tim Allen

#combine #democracy #each #either #get