#socialist

John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins's atheism as vacuous only because 'atheist' is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical convenience when we have to define concisely what we don't believe [...]. No atheist is principally that. What we'd want to call ourselves is humanist or materialist, or biologist or linguist, or for that matter socialist, because one or more of these, or something else again, is what we do and think and are. We have 'purely and simply finished with God', to adapt a phrase of Engels's. ↗

— David Craig

#atheists #biologists #friedrich-engels #god #humanists

In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement. ↗

— Fritz Todt

#highways #movement #national #our #reflect

The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#claim #exercised #governments #his #history

The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#allowed #already #control #enjoys #fact

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#authority #fully #liberty #names #other

My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#born #brazil #communal #corrupt #democracies

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#better life #first #jesus #life #mankind

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#cannot #democracy #life #live #organization

My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning. ↗

— John Grierson

#capitalist #central #entering #function #individual

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#concern #desire #every #every nation #extreme