#Socialism

"To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex."

"After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was."

"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."

"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures."

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."

"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."

"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."

"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"

"But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove."

"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker"

"Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects."

"Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism."

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them."

"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?"

"In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable."

"Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."

"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."

"I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before."