There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is merely democratic absolute monarchy—that is, a system of absolutism without a fixed head, open to seizure of power by all corners, by any ruthless climber, opportunist, adventurer, demagogue or thug.
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DANIEL DE LEON Whether between man and women, man and man, or woman and woman; look not towards any system that bin... FORREST CURRAN The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any me... MARSHALL MCLUHAN The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any me... MARSHALL MCLUHAN The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any me... MARSHALL MCLUHAN The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism... NORMAN THOMAS The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. 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SIDNEY HOOK Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleash... GüNTER GRASS In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, wi... CARL ROGERS I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate ... RICHARD M. NIXON No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes ... CHARLES E. WILSON Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the pow... A.E. SAMAAN Democratic socialism means that we must reform a political system that is corrupt, that we must crea... BERNIE SANDERS Our policies are based on the principles of religious doctrines. They are not policies that in any w... CARRI JENKINS We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and des... HOWARD FAST A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung. ALFRED ROSENBERG when you obey the rules, the rules obey you ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The choice open to us is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according... FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy;... HUGO CHAVEZ Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those t... A.E. SAMAAN Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige ot... JACQUES MARITAIN Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of any... JEFFREY TUCKER Well, let me just end with one last point to do with your question. One of the issues which has deva... NOAM CHOMSKY This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds—but more than anything, this g... SETH ADAM SMITH There is a deep sense of pessimism and anger that may burst into the open and become violent without... ELDRED MASUNUNGURE And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're ... HIRO FUJIWARA She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. WILL DURANT I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism. NELSON MANDELA If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or pett... ROBERT JACKSON I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism... RAND PAUL Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever go... ZACH WAMP My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don't fully implement it, when y... LAWRENCE W. REED Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by ob... EUGENIE CLARK Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf. ORLANDO BLOOM You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better. ROBERT F. KENNEDY Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the l... BERNIE SANDERS The rand is no longer influenced by what happens between the euro and the dollar. The rand is now in... DEBBIE ORGILL That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerc... JAMES A. GARFIELD Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commer... JAMES GARFIELD I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democr... FRIEDRICH ENGELS The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another--no less so in a democr... FRIEDRICH ENGELS Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented, but that socialism has b... DONALD J. TRUMP Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It ca... JOHN MCCARTHY The vicissitudes of history, however, have not dissuaded them from their earnest search for a "third... RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all p... 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