#socialists

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

— Evangelos Venizelos

#head #i #i am #party #property

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

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

— A. N. Wilson

#frightening #happy #i #i think #made

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#far #general #general rule #go #hands

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

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

#believe #cannot #case #confusing #fail

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

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

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