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Democratic Socialism Quotes

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill
Philosophy, Ignorance, Democratic Socialism
Speech at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland, May 28, 1948.

What democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that the top one-tenth of 1 percent in this country own almost 90 percent - almost - own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. That it is wrong, today, in a rigged economy, that 57 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent. That when you look around the world, you see every other major country providing health care to all people as a right, except the United States.

Bernie Sanders
Country, Democratic Socialism, People
Source: www.counterpunch.org

That democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces something so utterly different that few of those who wish it would be prepared to accept the consequences, many will not believe until the connection has been laid bare in all its aspects.

Friedrich August von Hayek
Believe, Democratic Socialism, Wish
"The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 2 : The Great Utopia, 1940 - 1943.

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.

Aneurin Bevan
Democratic Socialism, Socialism, Democratic
Aneurin Bevan's Statement on his resignation in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. April 23, 1951.

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

Slavoj Žižek
Thinking, Blessing, Democratic Socialism
"'Everybody in the World Except US Citizens Should Be Allowed to Vote and Elect the American Government' - Leading Intellectual Slavoj Žižek". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 11, 2008.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

George Orwell
Democratic Socialism, Serious Work, Lines
George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.

Margaret Thatcher
Country, Democratic Socialism, Government
"The Downing Street Years". Book by Margaret Thatcher, October 18, 1993.

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

Dick Morris
Fighting, Democratic Socialism, Challenges

I did a lot of reading. I read about democratic socialism. And I read about the efforts of people for such a long time trying to create a society in which all people can live with dignity. And that's kind of what I believe.

Bernie Sanders
Believe, Reading, Democratic Socialism
"Bernie Sanders On Being Jewish And A Democratic Socialist". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 6, 2015.

I see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic socialism over a capitalist system, because any approach... or participatory economics, which is another great model that people like Michael Albert are putting out there... any system that encourages us to think about interdependency, and to be able to use the world's resources in a wiser way, for the good of the whole, would be better for the world than capitalism.

Bell Hooks
Thinking, Democratic Socialism, People
Source: nefac.net

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