#socialist

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

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A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#hasn #head #heart #man #old

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'. ↗

— John McCarthy

#beautiful word #between #compulsory #contemporary #difference

Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money. ↗

— John McCarthy

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I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#asking #concentrating #disadvantage #faith #future

The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China's national conditions. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#aimed #build #china #conditions #continue

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#birds #clouds #fly #go #many

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#academic #cannot #decide #differences #economics

It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America. ↗

— Jon Voight

#country #create #demoralize #election #gain