#socialists

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#grab #ignore #like #men #possessions

I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

#head #i #i am #party #property

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 guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#afraid #businesses #everybody #except #government

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

— John B. S. Haldane

#concern #desire #every #every nation #extreme

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word. ↗

— Karel Capek

#either #i #important #important thing #moral

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#after #became #beginning #century #course

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#crises #defend #great #historical #should

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

#benevolence #benevolent #either #enough #few