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148 Socialist Quotes

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Chains Move Notice Those
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Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

Against Bourgeois Capital Class
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Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

Advance Blood Democracy Flesh
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The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

Classes Country Course Every
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Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

Alone Course Democracy Development
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The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Creating Development Leaders Masses
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The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Becomes Democracy Destinies Determination
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Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

Action Brought City Conscious
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History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
Best History Only Proletariat
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The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

Built Decisive Element Final
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Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

Freedom Government Members Numerous
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Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.
Always Marxism Must New
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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Always Differently Freedom Thinks
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Between social reforms and revolution there exists for the social democracy an indissoluble tie. The struggle for reforms is its means; the social revolution, its aim.

Aim Between Democracy Exists
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Credit reproduces all the fundamental antagonisms of the capitalist world. It accentuates them. It precipitates their development and thus pushes the capitalist world forward to its own destruction.

Antagonism Capitalist Credit Destruction
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Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.

Alexander Apparent Collapse Depression
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People finally understood that the role of the social-democratic party rests on its conscious leadership of the mass struggle against the existing society, a struggle that must reckon with the vital, necessary conditions of capitalist society.

Against Capitalist Conditions Conscious
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Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.

Believe Cause Colour Deeply
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The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development.

Accelerate Action Although Determining
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The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.

Act Classes Constitution Constitutional
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Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

Created Form Framework Last
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Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible.

Because Both Conquest Contrary
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In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.
Acquire Capitalist Countries Era
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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Purpose Getting Power Able
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

Know Happens People Stay
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You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

You Gaze Crystal ball Read
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Freedom By-product Economic Surplus
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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

Fascism New Order Society
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Read Newspapers Avidly One
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If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

Freedom Saved Enlarged Poverty
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Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets.

Soon We Prudent People
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He refers to a defeat as if it came from God, but a victory as if it came from himself.

He Refers Defeat Came
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There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

There Can Immaculate Conception
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

No philosophy Religion Ever brought So glad
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The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate.

The Atheist Waits For proof God
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Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

Sun worship Pure forms Nature worship Noble religions
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths.

Karma Brings us Ever back To rebirth
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Religions are branches from a common trunk,human ignorance.

Religions Branches Common trunk Human ignorance
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I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy.

That woman More free Islam In Christianity
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A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

A people Can prosper Bad government Suffer
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime.

Beautiful story The sacrifice Noble father His child
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Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

Socialism Ideal state Can never Achieved
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A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

A myth Far truer History Story
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After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

After death We live Some time Astral body
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The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or intermediate world, the mental or heavenly world.

The worlds Man Evolving He treads
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Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.

Imperious intellectual Moral necessity Can drive Religious mind
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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

Ever been Queerest mixture Weakness Strength
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Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.

Nation born Not begin The spirit The heart
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There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

Wise politics Without thought Beforehand
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The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

The birth Science Death knell An arbitrary
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