“The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End Poverty in California]. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.” PeopleThinkingEndsFactsUseBigsRunningLyingEnemyPovertyCasesFrontsVoteSocialismLabelsCaliforniaTicketsSocialistEpicSlogansAttacking Book:The Jungle Source: The Jungle
“I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people.” PeopleThinkingDoePovertyMovementSocialistBetter LifeStagnationOverwork Author:Christopher Hitchens
“Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up the seed corn - the tools - which will increase poverty in the long run.” WayLongRunningEasyPovertyEatingToolsIncreaseSeedsEnterpriseLong RunsSocialistCornSpectacularPrivate Enterprise Author:Raymond C. Hoiles
“These guys [liberals] will never tire of spending our money and will never hold themselves accountable for their boondoggles. For them the failure of $5 trillion to eradicate poverty simply means that we haven't spent enough money. Ditto with education. The solution is always more money. No amount of empirical evidence will shake their socialist theology.” MeanEnoughGuyPovertyHavensAmountSolutionsEvidenceSpendingTheologyShakesMore MoneySocialistTireEmpirical Evidence Author:David Limbaugh
“Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to which path any rational and sane people should never follow again. Government planning brought poverty and ruin...Unfortunately, America is not absorbing the lessons that should be learned from the socialist experience and, instead, is following the same path of destruction.” PeopleShouldCountryGovernmentAmericaPovertyPathLessonsDestructionUnionsCleanFollowingPlanningSocialismRationalRuinsFormerWarningSovietSaneSocialistSoviet UnionAbsorbingSocialist Countries Author:Richard Ebeling
“I don't think losing things - in my case, the use of my legs - really damages or hurts you. What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation. A lot of the wars going on right now in the Middle East aren't about poverty and exploitation. They're about humiliation. For a long time, the British and French have been humiliating the people of the Middle East, and encouraging people like Israel to do the same. Israel started out as a socialist state, but we always encouraged them to become rather racist and look down on the local inhabitants, which they now do. It's sad that's happened.” PeopleThinkingLongWarHurtPovertyLosingRacistExploitationSocialistHumiliationHumiliating Author:Robert Wyatt