"The function of socialism is to raise suffering……" — Norman Mailer
"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level."
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160 Quotes by Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer has 160 quotes on this site.
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We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
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One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing…
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In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the…
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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
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Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative…
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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new…
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A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a…
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At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do…
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I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary…
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Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it…
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
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Socialism means slavery.
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I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
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Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the…
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Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a…
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The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the…
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No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed…
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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put…
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