SOCIALISM

Related Subjects: Capitalism, Fascism, Society

1. I am afraid to read radical books lest they should lead me perforce to radical conclusions and I should feel bound to sell all I have and give to the poor.—GAMALIEL BRADFORD
   

2. In metaphysics I am content to be above the battle; in morals and politics, since there is a battle, I must be on the left, meaning by the left those who wish to participate in the adventure of a cooperative life for mankind.—IRWIN EDMAN, I Believe
   

3. The awakening of what the socialist vocabulary calls class consciousness in the working multitudes appears to us an important step forward if we regard it as the arousing of a consciousness of human dignity, rebuffed and humiliated, and of a consciousness of a vocation.—JACQUES MARITAIN, I Believe
   

4. The socialist minister of the future must try to be as good a man at business for public ends as the ablest of the capitalists or managing directors are for private ends. It is essential that socialism should be sound public business as well as being healthy in its social morality.—HERBERT MORRISON
   

5. But we must realize that the philosophy of Socialism has gradually permeated the entire structure of society the world over, and almost the only points in dispute are the pace and the methods of advance to its full realization. India will have to go that way, too, if she seeks to end her poverty and inequality, though she may evolve her own methods and may adapt the ideal to the genius of her race.—JAWAHARLAL NEHRU, India and the World
   

6. Letting yourself be robbed is Americanism; defending yourself against robbery is Socialism.—UPTON SINCLAIR