"Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down"
— Malcolm X

"If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again."
— Malcolm X

"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker"
— Malcolm X

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"
— José Martí

"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."
— Malcolm X

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
— Albert Einstein

"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures."
— Leon Trotsky

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
— Hélder Câmara

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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— Leon Trotsky

"Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
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— Bertrand Russell

"If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.""
— Jonah Goldberg (Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning)

"Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement."
— Vladimir Lenin

"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

"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."
— José Martí

"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
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— - Doug Larson

"Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war."
— Norman Mailer

"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."
— Adam Smith

"But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
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— José Martí

"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"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

"I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before."
— Michael Collins

"There are members of our body politic who tell us that the public interest is best served when government action is reduced to a minimum and especially when it is kept negative in character. But just now, the nation as a whole seems to be moving rather swiftly and decisively—as is the world as a whole—in the opposite direction. More and more, we Americans are initiating new forms of positive government action for the common good. Between these two tendencies the struggle becomes every day more open and more intense. And as we wage that conflict it is well to remember that the logic of the Constitution gives no backing to either of the two combatants, as against the other. We are left free, as any self-governing people must leave itself free, to determine by specific decisions what our economy shall be. It would be ludicrous to say that we are committed by the Constitution to the economic cooperations of socialism. But equally ludicrous are those appeals by which, in current debate, we are called upon to defend the practices of capitalism, of "free enterprise," so-called, as essential to the freedom of the American Way of Life. The American Way of Life is free because it is what we Americans freely choose—from time to time—that it shall be."
— Alexander Meiklejohn (Political Freedom)

"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: A Novel)

"Hanya politik sosialisme yang akan dapat menggerakkan rakyat Indonesia mencapai kemerdekaannya untuk memerintah negaranya sendiri dan membagi secara adil pendapatan negara."
— Semaoen

"Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature."
— Thomas Sowell (Basic Economics: A Citizens Guide to the Economy, Revised and Expanded)

"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

"A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil."
— Terry Eagleton (Ideology: An Introduction)

"...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existence under capitalism, shape their own lives. Collectively they decide who, how, when, and what shall be produced."
— Michael Burawoy (Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism)

"State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all."
— Benito Mussolini

"Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital."
— Edmund Morris (Theodore Rex)