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Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward.
Jean Chrétienborn 1934My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Fourteen, Vive le Canada, p. 406
There is no such thing as society.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Interview for Woman’s Own (23 September 1987)
The youth of humanity all around our planet are intuitively revolting from all sovereignties and political ideologies.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Synergetics (1975), “The Wellspring of Reality”
- Youth
You say you are conservative — eminently conservative — while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865The Cooper Union Address (1860)
- Change
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Why Socialism? (1949)
- Economics
World peace is not a party question. […] The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one Nation.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Address to Congress on Yalta (1 March 1945)
- War & Peace
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
George Washington1732–1799George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
- Truth & Lies
By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book IV, Chapter II, p. 488-489.In context
- Economics
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919The New Nationalism (1910)
- Business
Fascism, at any rate the German version, is a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes.
George Orwell1903–1950The Lion and the Unicorn (1941)
- Economics
Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.
Erich Fromm1900–1980The Art of Loving (1956)
- Economics
Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.
George Washington1732–1799George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
- Morality
- Religion
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
Friedrich Hayek1899–1992The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (1988), Ch. 5: The Fatal Conceit.
- Economics
- Knowledge
The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926Open letter to the American Railway Union, Chicago Railway Times (1 January 1897)
- Economics
In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated.
George Orwell1903–1950Preface to the Ukrainian edition of Animal Farm, as published in The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945 (1968)