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Why do you care what happens to her? I thought we humans were vapors to you, here today and gone tomorrow.”“Caspida is . . . different. She reminds me of someone, someone I’d give my life for if I could.”“The queen?” he asks. “The one who died?”“Roshana. My dear Ro.” My voice is soft as a ripple on the water. “She once ruled the Amulens, and Caspida is her descendant. She has Roshana’s strength of spirit, and I cannot look at her without thinking of my old friend. If she were to come to harm on my account . . . I could not bear that through the centuries.” I already carry a mountain of shame, a constant reminder of that day on Mount Tissia.Aladdin lifts a hand and brushes the hair back from my face. “You truly are remarkable, Zahra of the Lamp.
— Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish
What was that about?" Henry's voice came out higher than he would have liked."Shh." Peter's eyes shifted around the square."I thought you cared about her," Henry said, careful to steady his voice this time.Peter rubbed his eyes and hen opened them, hoping to find that Henry had gone. He h
— Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, Red Riding Hood
Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when you need it.
— Fred Rogers, You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
A doctor is a patient
—  just as a patient can never be a good doctor for himself.......
Human rights is a numbers game. Who is going to care if only 20 people pitch for a protest?
— Christina Engela
I get so concerned that someone will think I don't care about them that I don't even see they don't care about me.
— Kate McGahan
Control your anger before it controls you
— Faisal Attari
If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him,” Liza tells Bod.
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Take care of yourselves
—  take care of one another.
Because you are in the middle of becoming who you will be. It isn't going to be easy. You may need help. So feel free to ask us for it.
— Cate Tiernan, Blood Witch
Will you come with me?""Ah, Kestrel, that's something you never need to ask.
— Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss
You stay close to me, Mikki Jones. Close enough that I can hear you breathe. Got it? ""You always take care of new recruits?""Never
— Eve Silver, Rush
I don't care... Actually i do... That's the whole problem...
— shivangi lavaniya
Stop proving to others that you are a victim. No one cares!
— Jaspinder Kaur
Chloe. Always Chloe with him and his brother. I know I sound like a whiny brat when I complain, but I think I have a good reason. I’d just discovered that I was a witch and my mother was a bitch—the murderous kind. I was now on the run with three kids who didn’t want me along.No matter how hard I tried to keep up and help out, the guys only cared about Chloe. If I ran in front of this bus to push her to safety, they’d race to her side to see if she was okay. Probably give me crap for bruising her when I shoved her out of the way.
— Kelley Armstrong, Disenchanted
No one cares until someone cares
—  be that one!
All of these white kids and teachers, who were so suspicious of me when I first arrived, had learned to care about me. Maybe some of them even loved me. And I'd been so suspicious of them. And now I care about a lot of them. And loved a few of them.
— Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
A moment of care carries us away!The fragrance of forgiveness elevates usImperfections are essentially universalDivine love drives our desire.
— Balroop Singh
You Have one life one body take care of it. live it and love it. Live you life to the to the fullest without being reckless.
— Bonnie Zackson Koury
Consider a situation where we refuse to pay attention to the less fortunate people in our neighbourhoods. If every single person in the elite of our society will take care of at least one child, most of the street kids would be taken care of. Yet, we act as if it is none of our business.
— Sunday Adelaja
One's true religion is what one cares about most.
— Walter Starcke
It seems shelving is an art, like everything else. I decide to do it exceptionally well.
— Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore
....Love is not only wired, but elusive too.
— Farooq A. Shiekh
Think about someone, such as a teacher who may have inspired you. Their care and love must have shone through. That is the reason to follow those who set a good example of life.
— Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
God indeed could show up, but we must first show good stewardship by taking good care of our land.
— Sunday Adelaja
In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
...and where the Ferris wheel carried its passengers high and brought them low and raised them high and brought them low again, as if it were not merely a carnival ride but also a metaphor for the basic pattern of human experience.
— Dean Koontz, Saint Odd
Love is when two people who care for each other get confused.
— Rahul Rawat
Being naturalized to place means to live as if this is the land that feeds you, as if these are the streams from which you drink, that build your body and fill your spirit. To become naturalized is to know that your ancestors lie in this ground. Here you will give your gifts and meet your responsibilities. To become naturalized is to live as if your children’s future matters, to take care of the land as if our lives and the lives of all our relatives depend on it. Because they do.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
i did'nt even mind her when she was with me, she cared, but i did'nt, i was so addicted to her, i concealed, never showed, and now,so far, so close, no one knows
— nibin
Stop fretting and eat your Madeira Cake..
— Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama
My affection for you is not my problem.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
... ongoing care for the soul rather than seek for a cure appreciates the mystery of human suffering and does not offer the illusion of a problem-free life.I sees every fall into ignorance and confusion as an opportunity to discover that the beast residing at the center of the labyrinth is also an angel.To approach this paradoxial point of tension where adjustment and abnormality meet is to move closer to the realization of our mystery-filled, star-born nature.It is a beast this thing that stirs in the core of our being, but it is also the star of our innermost nature.We have to care for this suffering with extreme reverence so that in our fear and anger at the beast, we do not overlock the star.~Thomas Moore *Care of the Soul*
— Thomas   Moore
An ‘I don’t care’ attitude is a reflection of a feeble minded individual with a personality disorder
—  one who literally denies themselves of the very thing they hold dear to their heart.
Don’t care about day to day things, don’t care about the mundane, but care about what matters.
— Debasish Mridha
I don't want to say something and walk away, I want to wake you up and walk with you to achieve your dreams
— Sivaprakash Sidhu
the people who mostly get angry on you mostly love you
— Abeer rehan
It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's the nobility in patching up a bunch of old tables and chairs? Corrosive to the soul, quite possibly. I've seen too many estates not to know that. Idolatry! Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn't it? And isn't the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Every tomorrow is better because you opened your eyes, but still, memories from your past are meant to be shared and cherished
— Peace Gypsy, Souls Deep : From a Professional Dreamer
...Come home, Bod.' ‘I think . . . I said things to Silas. He’ll be angry.’ ‘If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him,’ was all she said.
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
While filling color to someone's life to whom you really love & care, make sure to fill little color of joy & happiness which should not hurt the beauty of their life. Don't prove that you are an artist just express your art, that's the love and life is...
— Navnath Godse
Roberto reached out to gently stroke a finger down her cheek. “You were like a miracle to me – how could I help loving you and wanting to protect you? I only want the best for you Rosa.
— Emily Arden, Lover by Moonlight: Deception: Book One
I just can’t think of anybody abusing an animal; nor of allowing it to stay around, sick, hurt or hungry. I think that an animal is but a point short of human; and, having a skin varying but slightly from our own, will know as much pain from a whipping as would a human child. A blow upon any animal, if I am within sight, is almost as a blow upon my own body. You would think that, with that vast gap which Mankind is continually placing back of him in his onward march in improving this big world, Man would think, a bit, of his pals of hoof, horn and claw.
— Ernest Vincent Wright, Gadsby
Love is 100% percent practical, oral performance is an ultimate turn-off, whether you like it or not.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Be like a star and shine, whether people care or do not care; the clouds are temporary, but your beauty is permanent.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
And you shouldn't choose to care about someone. There shouldn't be a time and a place for it. Either you do or you don't. Don't try.” He looks off. “There can be falseness in trying to do something that should come naturally to people.
— Celia McMahon, Skye
Follow your heart,,,Go wherever it takes you and Whatever it takes.
— pavankumar nagaraj
Behave like you never care even if you are most caring one.
— Kartik Mehta
I love all those who understand my care.
— Waqar Aamir Katiar
Caring for someone that doesn't care for you doesn't get you any where, take all the love and care you have for them and give it to someone that actually cares about you, but until you find that person... invest it in yourself.
— Jaz Mehat
Just listen. Just be. Just witness. Just care. You don't have to fix it.
— Laura Berman Fortgang
If you care too much about a person you will loose your importance in his life
— Neha Tariq
Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.
— Barack Obama
You don't need to look smart for the one who loves you a lot
— Pawan Mehra
This is an emotional request to the for-profit startups I help to build, strategize, and monetize. I do it for free because I care for you and your vision. I don't take an equity or a salary despite knowing that you and your investors will make money, and loads of it, eventually. I help because I care. Please remember, to pay back. Not to me, but to the world. Preferably, donate to a non-profit which will never receive the investments that you can and you are; donate to children and youth who want to do good things, to families that need you, to social startups that sweat day in and day out to bring smiles, and to anyone who cares for PEOPLE more than PROFITS. My salary will be drawn. I will be paid back in full. Thank you!
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.
— George Orwell, Why I Write
By loving you more, you love the person you are caring for more. 
— Peggi Speers, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love
I guess its because we all want to believe that what we do is very important, that people hang on to our very word, that they care what we think. The truth is, you should consider yourself lucky if you even occasionally get to make someone-anyone-feel a little better.
— J.D Scrubs
sometimes you care and love people but they didn't realize it. they realize it, when you stop caring or loving them but then, everything is meaningless
— Qasim Habib
The net is not a net until it begins to work. Work your network today!
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
If we are really committed, we better get start taking care of our shit.
— M.F. Moonzajer, 30 Pieces
In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.
— Madelaine Standing, Heaven In The Meat Packing District
if you care , let those people knowif you don't , then make sure those people know.
— Stein Willard
Why so many eager to hear the word of “I love you” and so few care to see?
— M.F. Moonzajer
Stop caring and you will be happy forever.
— Pratik Akkawar
If we deny climate change and don’t care about environmental degradation
—  we are no more than those people who are willing to be stupid because someone else was stupid in the past.
If there is no case to take care of, then you will take care to create a case to take care of. Otherwise your system becomes useless.
— Oliver Kemper
I am an inclusive lover, but I only do care about the virgins.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Don't care too much about life, in time you'll learn to know yourself better and better.
— Wouter Van Gastel
Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about.
— Leila Sales, Past Perfect
People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
If I let myself care, all I'll feel is pain.
— L.J. Smith
Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
When You Care, People Notice
— Nicolette Wuring, Customer Advocacy: When You Care, People Notice
The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
My prayer is that before they die, all people know that they are loved
— Maryanne Raphael, What Mother Teresa Taught Me
You can go as far as you dream, think and imagine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Dream big. Start small. Begin today.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
This America of yours, does it always build what you dream?
— Laurie Fabiano, Elizabeth Street
Life is a dream of roses and the thorns prick us back to reality.
— DrDLN
Birds that cannot fly high into the sky rejoice exceedingly and sing sweet melodies when they get to the top of the tallest tree on the highest mountain!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Dream a better dream, an unselfish dream, a dream to make the world a better place, then work to make that dream a reality
— Unkown Author
Everyone has a dream, so why not dream big... it just might happen!
— Patrick Witz
We get so wrapped up in what we should do, what we think we can’t do because of our problems, what material goods we need, what kind of person we wish we were…but we never ask our soul what it wants, at the core of everything.
— Kristin Rath, Meant for More: Create Your Dream Life, Plan Your Path, and Start Living It Now
Dream big, envision a glorious destiny, write your own story, and work each day to arrive @ that destiny. You're able!
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
He was pitching to me before I could walk. He gave me wooden bat before my mother let me use scissors. He said I could make the major leagues one day if I had "a plan," and if I "stuck to the plan"Of course, when you're that young, you nest in your parents' plans, not your own.
— Mitch Albom, For One More Day
i want to become as big as my dreams are...
— shivangi lavaniya
When deciding whether or not to go for your dream, remember that you don't need a bigger net, you just need bigger wings.
— Sheri   Fink
You can't dream it unless you first see it.
— Steven Chopade
Always stay strong to your dream because when you lose sight of it then that is when your dream dies!
— Stephen Richards, Success is Only One Thought Away: Motivational and Inspirational Quotes from Mind Power Professional Stephen Richards
You must dream big and dream often. Take risks and see what happens.
— Debasish Mridha
Their disbelief doesn't make your dream any less true. You're a dreamer. And will be. Forever.
— Sarvesh Jain, Naked Wisdom of the child
Stop letting unnecessary thoughts feed your mind. It's nugatory. Focus on your long-time goals and maximize your 86,400 seconds today.
— Korina Mercado
Design a life! Don't maintain it.
— Shannon L. Alder
If we never challenge our shortcomings, we ensure that they remain our Achilles' heel.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
You can do nothing you put your heart into it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A dreamer must be discovered working or working on it or it is reduced to a wish.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
First learn to dream big, then the possibilities will follow by itself.
— Yuikan Shirik
Do not let fear keep you on the sidelines. Your number has been called, get in the game! It is your time to shine.
— E'yen A. Gardner
Dare to believe in the reality of your assumptionand watch the world play its partrelative to to its fulfillment.
— Neville Goddard
If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.
— Dhirubhai Ambani, Against All Odds: A Story Of Courage, Perseverance And Hope
Most castles in the air are never built. But Walt Disney's was.
— Eve Zibart, The Unofficial Disney Companion
They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation.
— Richard Adams, Watership Down
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 S. Churchill
There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.
— Tina Fey
Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.
— Émile Durkheim
‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
— Leon Trotsky
- What is a Socialist?- That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty….The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious cases in history. It was decided to do everything that had ever been denounced in Socialism, and nothing that had ever been desired in it…we proceeded to prove that it was possible to sacrifice liberty without gaining equality….In short, people decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
— G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it nasty.
— G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
I think it's wrong that only one percent of the people should own ninety percent of the country.
— Sally Wentworth, Summer Fire
You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!
— Sally Wentworth, Summer Fire
What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.
— Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Veal! Trust these bloated plutocrats to eat the flesh of poor, newly-born calves!
— Sally Wentworth, Summer Fire
State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production.Quoted in The Situationists and the City, pg. 194
— Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human being. You need good material conditions, a high level of culture, much freedom and friendship. And it won't come today or tomorrow. It's a long and winding road
— Marek Edelman
Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terrorism, the present danger of Soviet advance, the hypocrisy of the United Nations, the unreliability of Europe, the perfidy of the Third World and the need for nuclear defense policy? Question: Which Mediterranean government is Ronald Reagan trying, with the help of George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger, to replace with a government led by a party which professes socialism and which contains extreme leftists?If you answered 'the government of Israel' to both of the above, you know more about political and international irony than the President does.
— Christopher Hitchens
The train resembles the Soviet type and is quite comfortable, but all socialist structures I have ever encountered have toilets stemming from a single model engineered by the Orthodox Church in Tsarist Russia to ensure that man never be allowed to forget the corruption of the flesh.
— Arthur Miller, Salesman in Beijing
Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example of a market left flourishingly to its own devices and dynamics.
— Gideon Haigh
There is nothing illogical in the desire of the "have-nots" to appropriate the wealth of the "haves"; in fact, it is part and parcel of the law of animal life. The bear robs the hive and the wolf the fold, and when "nature red in tooth and claw" is stretched into its human dimension, there is nothing irrational in Marx's theory that, granted the power, one social class should devour another. But what is irrational is, to assume that by robbing the hive the bear will assume the industry of the bee, or by robbing the fold the wolf will become as pacific as the sheep. It is astonishing that a man of Marx's high intelligence could have believed in ritualistic cannibalism on the social plane; that by wresting the forces of production from the bourgeoisie and centralizing them in the hands of the proletariat, the proletariat would automatically aacquire the skills of the ruling class. And it is equally astonishing that a man of Lenin's mental calibre could have attempted to put this magic into practice.
— J.F.C. Fuller, The Conduct Of War, 1789-1961: A Study of the Impact of the French, Industrial, and Russian Revolutions on War and its Conduct
Tolerance or intolerance can be attributed as the single most important factor in understanding the psychology of any society, viz. a viz., its attitude towards peace, progress and growth. Author (One Vs All: Beware Mr.Prime Minister, It's India Impossible)
— Dr.Ashok Anand
Socialism does not mean getting together in a parliament and passing laws, socialism means for us overthrowing the ruling classes with all the brutality [loud laughter] that the proletariat is capable of deploying in its struggle.
— Rosa Luxemburg
Socialists claim to be in favor of equitable redistribution of income and wealth, but who determines what is equitable and does the actual redistribution?
— Dinesh D'Souza, The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
Not content with the liberal creed of equality of rights, of equality before the law, the socialist State would trample on such equality on behalf of the monstrous and impossible goal of equality or uniformity of results--or rather, would erect a new privileged elite, a new class, in the name of bringing about such an impossible equality. Socialism was a confused and hybrid movement because it tried to achieve the lbieral goals of freedom, peace and industrial harmony and growth--goals which can only be achieved through liberty and the seperation of government from virtuallty--by imposting the old conservative means of statism, collectivism, and hierarchical privilege.
— Murray N. Rothbard, For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
Unchecked Corporate power leads to tyranny just like unchecked Government power.
— J.Adam Snyder
All Nazi champions insist again and again that Marxism and Bolshevism are the quintessence of the Jewish mind, and that it is the great historic mission of Nazism to root out this pest. It is true that this attitude did not prevent the German nationalists either from coöperating with the German communists in undermining the Weimar Republic, or from training their black guards in Russian artillery and aviation camps in the years 1923–1933, or— in the period from August, 1939, until June, 1941—from entering into a close political and military complicity with Soviet Russia. Nevertheless, public opinion supports the view that Nazism and Bolshevism are philosophies—Weltanschauungen—implacably opposed to each other.
— Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government
Dr. Rex Curry, the professor and attorney from Florida, has debated and largely proven the unavoidable evidence that Hitler's National Socialism was significantly influenced by Bellamy's 'nationalistic' form of 'socialism.' Curry is famous for making the claim that Hitler adopted the 'stiff-arm salute' from Francis and Edward Bellamy.
— A.E. Samaan, From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848
In truth, it is no more clear in our time than it was in Marx's how socialism will come about in either developed or undeveloped countries; what is clear is that for humanity to have a decent future, it must come about.
— Benjamin Kunkel
Then all at once he´d hear his own voice enunciating clearly and firmly, feel its reverberance along the walls and ceiling, feel ears growing tense, men and women leaning forward in their chairs, see the rows of faces quite clearly, the groups of people who couldn´t find seats crowding at the doors. Phrases like `protest, massaction, united working-class of this country and the world, revolution´, would light up the eyes and faces under him like the glare of a bonfire.
— John dos Passos, 1919
You are cordially invited to go fuck yourself.
— A.E. Samaan
The right of self-determination of the peoples includes the right to a state of their own. However, the foundation of a state does not increase the freedom of a people. The system of the United Nations that is based on nation-states has remained inefficient. Meanwhile, nation-states have become serious obstacles for any social development. Democratic confederalism is the contrasting paradigm of the oppressed people. Democratic confederalism is a non-state social paradigm. It is not controlled by a state. At the same time, democratic confederalism is the cultural organizational blueprint of a democratic nation. Democratic confederalism is based on grassroots participation. Its decision-making processes lie with the communities. Higher levels only serve the coordination and implementation of the will of the communities that send their delegates to the general assemblies. For limited space of time they are both mouthpiece and executive institution. However, the basic power of decision rests with the local grassroots institutions.
— Abdullah Öcalan, Democratic Confederalism
As the result of its systems and of its efforts, it would seem that socialism, notwithstanding all its self-compaceny, can scarcely help perceiving the monster of legal plunder. But what does it do? It disguises it cleverly from others, and even from itself, under the seductive names of fraternity, solidarity, organization, association. And because we do not ask so much at the hands of the law, because we only ask it for justice, it alleges that we reject fraternity, solidarity, organization, and association; and they brand us with the name of individualists. We can assure them that what we repudiate is not natural organization, but forced organization. It is not free association, but the forms of association that they would impose upon us. It is not spontaneous fraternity, but legal fraternity. It is not providential solidarity, but artificial solidarity, which is only an unjust displacement of responsibility. Socialism, like the old policy from which it emanates, confounds Government and society. And so, every time we object to a thingbeing done by Government, it concludes that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of education by the State--then we are against education altogether. We object to a State religion--then we would have no religion at all. We object to an equality which is brought about by the State then we are against equality, etc., etc. They might as well accuse us of wishing men not to eat, beacuse we object to the cultivation of corn by the State.
— Bastiat, Frederick, The Law
It is so true, that the Socialists look upon mankind as a subject for social experiments, that if, by chance, they are not quite certain of the success of these experiments, they will request a portion of mankind, as a subject to experiment upon. It is well known how popular the ideaof trying all systems is, and one of their chiefs has been known seriously to demand of the Constituent Assembly a parish, with all its inhabitants, upon which to make his experiments. It is thus that an inventor will make a small machine before he makes one of the regular size. Thus the chemist sacrifices some substances, the agriculturist some seed and corner of his field, to make trial of an idea. But think of the difference between the gardener and his trees, between the inventor and his machine, between the chemist and his substances, between the agriculturist and his seed! The Socialist thinks, in all sincerity, that there is the same difference between himself and mankind. No wonder the politicians of the nineteenth century look upon society as an artifical production of the legislator's genius. This idea, the result of a classical education, has taken possession of all the thinkers and great writers of our country. To all these persons, the relations between mankind and the legislator appear to be the same as those that exist between the clay and the potter.
— Bastiat, Frederick, The Law
I have always preferred the contemplative to the active life. I prefer the freedom to see matters from several viewpoints, to appreciate ironies, and indeed to change my opinion as I learn something new. To be politically active means to surrender this freedom. I say nothing against activism for others. It is only through the committed that necessary changes come. But each to his own path. [A Cautious Case for Socialism, Dissent Magazine, 1978]
— Kenneth J Arrow
And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain (...) It’s the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people’s money.
— Margaret Thatcher
The ritual denunciation of the so-called ‘socialist’ states is replete with distortions and often outright lies.
— Noam Chomsky
Ruin, therefore, is not caused by lavatories but it's something that starts in people's heads. So when these clowns start shouting "Stop the ruin!" - I laugh!' 'I swear to you, I find it laughable! Every one of them needs to hit himself on the back of the head and then when he has knocked all the hallucinations out of himself and gets on with sweeping out backyards - which is his real job - all this "ruin" will automatically disappear
— Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument. And the emotional faculties are more highly developed in most men than the rational, paradoxically or especially even in those who regard themselves as intellectuals
— Milton Friedman
sometimes try not to judge, not to think ...& let the situation speak because wisdom lies there.
— Prakhar Singh
A man with a golden gun may have a ruthless heart & may have a golden Heart too
— Prakhar Singh
A man with a golden gun may have a ruthless heart... & may have a golden Heart too
— Prakhar Singh
Everybody knows that the dice are loadedEverybody rolls with their fingers crossedEverybody knows the war is overEverybody knows the good guys lostEverybody knows the fight was fixedThe poor stay poor, the rich get richThat's how it goesEverybody knows
— Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs
I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook, that we should at least permit this socialist economy to prove its superiority. Let's allow it to show that it is advanced, that it is omnipotent, that it has defeated you, that it has overtaken you. Let us not interfere with it. Let us stop selling to it and giving it loans. If it's all that powerful, then let it stand on its own feet for ten or fifteen years. Then we will see what it looks like. I can tell you what it will look like. I am being quite serious now. When the Soviet economy will no longer be able to deal with everything, it will have to reduce its military preparations. It will have to abandon the useless space effort and it will have to feed and clothe its own people. And the system will be forced to relax. Thus, all I ask of you is that as long as this Soviet economy is so proud, so flourishing, and yours is so rotten and so moribund—stop helping it. When has a cripple ever helped along an athlete?
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Warning to the West
If you think equality will stop the fighting, you're deluding yourself! If everyone receives the same compensation, they will stop working for it, which will lead to the weakening of our nation! The only result will be conflict born from poverty!
— Adachitoka
I have been studying the principles of socialism deeply of late, and I came to the conclusion that I must join the cause. It looked good to me. You work for the equal distribution of property and start in by swiping all you can and sitting on it. Ah, noble scheme! Me for it!
— P.G. Wodehouse, The Prince and Betty
Socialism is socialism. Government run enterprises are just as inept under democratic governments as they are under autocratic governments.
— Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The Problem with Socialism
If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of convictions as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith. In another sense, however, conservatism does rest in a system of belief, and is opposed as much to the theory as to the practice of socialist and liberal politics.
— Roger Scruton, Conservative Texts: An Anthology
Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.
— A.E. Samaan
Nine out of ten eugenicists in the 20th Century were also Progressives or Socialists, as central to the eugenic creed is the desire to engineer and centrally plan human reproduction and heredity. These were not people that believed in individual liberty. They certainly didn't believe the individual had the right to chose their own mate freely. They were statists, They were totalitarians at heart.
— A.E. Samaan
Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.
— A.E. Samaan
You see," I said, "I'm a socialist. I don't think this world was made for a small minority to dance on the faces of everyone else.
— H.G. Wells
Richard, Bill has the socialist disease in its worst form; he thinks the world owes him a living. He told me sincerely - smugly! - that of course everyone was entitled to the best possible medical and hospital service - free of course, unlimited of course, and of course the government should pay for it.
— Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
— Margaret Thatcher
Georgi M. Derluguian's Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus tells the extraordinary story of Musa Shanib from Abkhazia, the leading intellectual of this turbulent region whose incredible career passed from Soviet dissident intellectual through democratic political reformer and Muslim fundamentalist war leader up to respected professor of philosophy, his entire career marked by the strange admiration for Pierre Bourdieu's thought. There are two ways to approach such a figure. The first reaction is to dismiss it as local eccentricity, to treat it with benevolent irony - "what a strange choice, Bourdieu - who knows what this folkloric guy sees in Bourdieu...". The second reaction is to directly assert the universal scope of theory - "see how universal theory is: every intellectual from Paris to Chechenia and Abkhazia can debate his theories..." The true task, of course, is to avoid both these options and to assert the universality of a theory as the result of a hard theoretical work and struggle, a struggle that is not external to theory: the point is not (only) that Shanib had to do a lot of work to break the constraints of his local context and penetrate Bourdieu - this appropriation of Bourdieu by an Abkhazian intellectual also affects the substance of the theory itself, transposing it into a different universe. Did - mutatis mutandis - Lenin not do something similar with Marx? The shift of Mao with regard to Lenin AND Stalin concerns the relationship between the working class and peasants: both Lenin and Stalin were deeply distrustful towards the peasants, they saw as one of the main tasks of the Soviet power to break the inertia of the peasants, their substantial attachment to land, to "proletarize" them and thus fully expose them to the dynamics of modernization - in clear contrast to Mao who, in his critical notes on Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (from 1958) remarked that "Stalin's point of view /.../ is almost altogether wrong. The basic error is mistrust of the peasants." The theoretical and political consequences of this shift are properly shattering: they imply no less than a thorough reworking of Marx's Hegelian notion of proletarian position as the position of "substanceless subjectivity," of those who are reduced to the abyss of their subjectivity.
— Slavoj Žižek
The history of the GDR journalism is a story of partisanship.
— Patrick Conley, Der parteiliche Journalist
Every socialist wishes to revolutionize society from the economic angle and all the blessings he expects are to come through a change in economic institutions. This of course implies a theory about social causation—the theory that the economic pattern is the really operative element in the sum total of the phenomena that we call society.
— Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
— Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?
I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.
— Malala Yousafzai
Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.
— A.E. Samaan
For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them.
— A.E. Samaan
I am no worshiper of cloth of any color, but I love the red flag and what it symbolizes to me and other Socialists. I have a red flag hanging in my study, and if I could I should gladly march with it past the office of the Times and let all the reporters and photographers make the most of the spectacle.
— Helen Keller, How I Became a Socialist?: Helen Keller's Articles
Neither Fascist Italy nor Spain adopted eugenics as an ideology central to their form of government the way the National Socialist did. However, socialist and progressive nations such as Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway did adopt and implement eugenics. This is because eugenics is the safety valve of a centrally planned economy. Central planners like John Maynard Keynes fear a population that is not as meticulously planned as the economy. They fear the unproductive sectors out-breeding the productive sectors of the population. This is also why Keynes was a lobbyist for the British eugenics movement both before and after The Holocaust.
— A.E. Samaan
They say hell is other people. I believe that. But what I didn’t know until now is so can heaven be.
— Ella James, Sloth
For what is socialism? With the frills removed, it is people collectively running society. Instead of being the prisoners of anarchic capitalist competition and the mad rush for profit at any cost, it is working together for the common good. Our tremendous co-operative power would be controlled, not by a ruling class in the search for ever greater profits, but democratically and for the fulfillment of human need.
— Alex Callinicos, The Revolutionary Road To Socialism
It may well be that there will be this socialism, Juliana,’ she said, ‘but I can tell you right now that no amount of socialism will make my madam was her own underwear.’ - ‘Aunt Juliana’s Indian
— Petina Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly: Stories
Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
— Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question
Son, it’s easy tae be guid oan a fu’ belly. It’s when a man’s goat two bites an’ wan o’ them he’ll share, ye ken whit he’s made o’. Listen. In ony country in the world, who are the only folk that ken whit it’s like tae leeve in that country? The folk at the boattom. The rest can a’ kid themselves oan. They can afford to hiv fancy ideas. We canny, son. We loass the wan idea o’ who we are, we’re deid. We’re wan anither. Tae survive, we’ll respect wan anither. When the time comes, we’ll a’ move forward thegither, or nut at all.
— William McIlvanney, Docherty
It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge.
— Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?
— Edward St. Aubyn
You won't mind my calling you Comrade, will you? I've just become a socialist. It's a great scheme. You ought to be one. You work for the equal distribution of property, and start by collaring all you can and sitting on it.
— P.G. Wodehouse, Mike and Psmith
Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.
— John Steinbeck, America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
That’s precisely what the governing body should NOT do—manage every detail of their lives. We are not their meddling grandmothers; we exist to keep them safe so they can make their own decisions, resolve their own problems, and live their own lives as their conscience dictates. We are NOT to become that conscience.
— Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. when the last of the chocolate was gone, his mother had clasped the child in her arms. It was no use, it changed nothing, it did not produce more chocolate, it did net avert the child's death or her own; but it seemed natural to do it. The refugee woman in the boat had also covered the little boy with her arm, which was no more use against bullets than a sheet of paper. The terrible thing that the party has done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the same time robbing you of all power over the material world. When once you were in the grip of the Party, what you felt or did not feel, what you did or refrained from doing, made literally no difference. Whatever happened you vanished, and neither you nor your actions were ever heard of again. You were lifted clean out of history.
— George Orwell, 1984
History's shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is Hell.
— Ken Akamatsu
Remember this moment when you first realized that the government can’t properly take care of people. In fact, that’s never been their responsibility. They’re supposed to keep our borders safe so that we can live as we wish. It’s our responsibility—yours and mine and Zenos’s and everyone else’s—to take care of each other.
— Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn
A life spent waiting for your paycheck, measured out in work hours...A lifetime spent buying everything retail while selling oneself wholesale - L'amour Existe (1960)
— Maurice Pialat
We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.
— Raymond Williams
She was convinced the country was about to succumb to revolutionary socialism. Her own circumstances encouraged this belief: just on the edge of the really rich country set, she shared their views and opinions but lacked the financial and architechtural insulation from real or imagined political troubles. She found crushed larger cans and cigarette packets in her front garden and interpreted these as menacing signals from the Perthshire proletariat. Every flicker and dim of electric light was a portent of class war.
— James Robertson, And the Land Lay Still
One person cannot make up for the evils of a whole system and it is the system that is to blame - the system of narrowness and of pride, and of exclusiveness, and of no one doing anything for another, unless there is something to be gained in return.
— Amy Dillwyn, The Rebecca Rioter
There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Great Britain which can do it - and that is the Labour Party.
— Aneurin Bevan
Back then, I think, both sides were just very young. They needed to grow up enough to realize that thing get quite complicated in the business of living, that a lot of things require mutual understanding and compromise. I mean, when you get right down to it, all business for us men on earth is based on material things - so we've just got to work hard and share the fruits of our labors with one another. Only when that is done righteously can we render our faith honorably to God. Within a generation of adopting a school of thought in the name of New Learning, be it Christianity or socialism, we all became such ardent followers that we forgot the way of life we'd led for so long. (2007: 163)
— Hwang Sok-yong, The Guest