#socialism

It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty….The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious cases in history. It was decided to do everything that had ever been denounced in Socialism, and nothing that had ever been desired in it…we proceeded to prove that it was possible to sacrifice liberty without gaining equality….In short, people decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#equality

Equality not only in quantity is the best way of quality. ↗

— Paola Calvillo

#karl-marx #socialism #equality

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable. ↗

— Martin Bormann

#irreconcilable #national #socialism

There is also the basic inequality of being born either with a natural talent or without one. Clever or stupid. No matter how much you try to argue against it, Dora, we are not born equal. All we can ever strive for is the equality of opportunity for those who have the ability to make the most of it. ↗

— Sally Wentworth

#inequality #socialism #equality

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#always #churchill #even #had #how

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#better #capitalism #convinced #i #i am

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible? ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#impossible #socialism #unsustainable #what if

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism. ↗

— Norman Tebbit

#certainly #death #intellectuals #movement #political

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#certain #economic #economic problems #life #only

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism. ↗

— Karl Radek

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