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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad. — Napoleon III
Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them. — Margaret Thatcher
If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will… — Margaret Thatcher
If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist… — Margaret Thatcher
Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures,… — Margaret Thatcher
Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man… — Vladimir Lenin
We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all… — Vladimir Lenin
The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein. — Carl I. Hagen
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life — Mikhail Gorbachev
Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the… — Jose Marti
The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head. — Aristide Briand
The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point… — James Connolly
State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the Gaolers, the Informers,… — James Connolly
Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against… — James Connolly
If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic… — James Connolly
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes. — Ernst Zundel
Hitler did not have Mussolinis revolutionary socialist background. . . . Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the bourgeoisie and capitalism and… — Richard Pipes
The trouble with Russia is not that she is socialist but that she is Russia. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus. — John Fugelsang
I have no problem with two teams claiming to be national champions at the end of the year. But that's our society. We're dying to… — Kirk Ferentz
True Socialism, in which everyone is truly equal, does not just resemble a prison - it is a prison. It can not exist unless it… — Viktor Suvorov
I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are… — Jonathan Krohn
They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all it is. It… — Karl Hess
The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development. — Alexander Kotov
Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all… — Donna J. Haraway

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