Socialism Quotes: Reflections on Social Justice and Community
Collection of socialism quotes providing philosophical and societal perspectives on social equity and cooperative economic ideas.
This selection of socialism quotes offers thoughtful insights into ideas of social justice, equality, and communal responsibility. The quotes present various perspectives on economic and social structures centered on cooperation and fair distribution. They invite reflection on the relationship between the individual and society within social systems.
"Through the artifices of banking and monetary policy one can achieve only a temporary illusion of improvement, which must ultimately lead to an even more severe catastrophe. For the longer this artificial boom is sustained by the creation of additional credit, the greater the damage inflicted on general prosperity by the use of such measures."
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
Woodrow Wilson
"Germany is a supertanker—but sitting in the bridge is not the Federal Chancellor. Sitting there are the people here on this podium."
Ernst-Moritz Lipp
"The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens."
Henry Louis Mencken
"The problem is not people being educated. The problem is that they are educated just enough to believe what they've been taught, but not educated enough to question what they've been taught."
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"And if it continues, then we have to keep going as well. We cannot stop—we cannot say, ‘We’re stopping now with Omicron.’ Omicron will not end the pandemic either, even if that were actually the case—which we will prevent."
Karl Lauterbach
"People have no idea how many constraints there are in politics. Politicians are, to some extent, governed by processes, events, and procedures beyond their control. You are not all-powerful—at times, you are simply powerless."
Peter Tauber
"Time and again, we also find ourselves noticing that we live in a country that is deeply ill—in a landscape of lies—and that there are people at every level of education who will lie to the very end."
Joachim Gauck
"You can protect a society, you can protect an economy, and you can even protect personal relationships to death."
Prof. Ferdinand Kirchhof
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is mob rule—incited by demagogues and steered in an unstable manner. German democracy in particular displays traits of a soft totalitarianism, marked by pervasive self-censorship that is often scarcely even recognized as such."
Prof. Hans Hermann Hoppe
"We have a chancellor who is a liar."
Christian Olearius
"As proposals for action along new lines arise to compete for the moral and physical support of masses, propaganda attains eminence as the one means of mass mobilization which is cheaper than violence, bribery or other possible control techniques."
Harold D. Lasswell
"Nothing appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers."
David Hume
"The power structures that have emerged are not democratically legitimized, and they can no longer be voted out of office through any electoral process. The most important power structures in our society are no longer accessible to the voter at all… and one does not want the ordinary citizen to even know that they exist. They are meant to remain invisible within the framework of public debate."
Prof. Rainer Mausfeld
"The fundamental problem with our democracy is that it is not one. The people—the nominal ruler and sovereign—have, in reality, nothing to say. … Behind the democratic façade, a system has been installed in which completely different rules apply than those of the Basic Law. The system is undemocratic and corrupt; it abuses power and unscrupulously deceives citizens. … Every German is free to obey laws to which he has never consented; he may admire the majesty of the Basic Law, whose validity he has never legitimized; he is free to pay homage to politicians whom no citizen has ever elected, and to provide for them lavishly—with his tax money, about the use of which he has never been consulted. Overall, the state and politics are in a condition of which only professional optimists or hypocrites can claim it has arisen from the will of the citizens."
Prof. Dr. Hans Herbert von Arnim
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."
Josef Stalin
"The state is supposed to protect the poor. — From what, exactly? From prosperity."
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