“It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.” WorldStatesInterestHigherClaimsSocialismSocialistDefendersNational InterestsFatherland Author:Vladimir Lenin
“Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.” TodayHatePleasureExistenceTeachRightsSourceEqualI HateClaimsInstinctWorkersSatisfactionRevengeSocialistEqual RightsApostlesEnvious Book:The Portable Nietzsche Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing. The salient need of this country to produce more and much more efficiently hardly figured on the agenda.” NeedsI CanIdeasCountryLeftLosesFailingDangerProduceListeningClaimsDebateAgendasSensibleConventionalSocialistUnemploymentConventional Wisdom Author:Jo Grimond
“I would caution my Republican friends that [Obama has] three years to go, and in that three years the American people are going to want to see some progress and not just claims that this guy is out of office and we're going to do everything to destroy him or that somehow he is a 'socialist' taking over the country. Have we so lost our faith in this country that we think one person, one man can be can suddenly change our entire system? That's kind of absurd.” PeopleThinkingMenWantYearsKindPersonsCountryGuyThreeLostProgressRepublicanOfficeClaimsAbsurdOne ManThree YearsSocialistThis GuyCaution Author:Colin Powell
“The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called "state capitalism," then they moved on to Stalinism. They called it democracy and called it socialism. The one claim was as ludicrous as the other.” FirstsSaidStatesBigsMovingGoalSecretDemocracyRevolutionPeriodsCapitalismClaimsMovedUnionsSocialismTendenciesRevolutionaryGermanyOrthodoxSovietExpectingSocialistThey SaidSoviet UnionMarxistMoved OnStalinismBolsheviks Author:Noam Chomsky
“If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.” IfsStatesLyingCapitalismClaimsSocialismSocialist Author:Erich Fromm
“The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.” YearsGovernmentCenturyTaxesYears AgoClaimsExperimentsIncomeSocialistTwentieth CenturyIncome TaxTariffs Author:Alan Keyes
“There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.” DoeBornFoodRedClaimsLiarsSocialistBiscuitsLobsterCheddar Author:Tina Fey
“Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.” HumansPoliticsWealthHuman BeingsMoneyLibertyRightsCapitalismTreatsClaimsNovelistsTreatmentSocialistFamous Women Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z