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Isn't this all blatantly lopsided? 90% of these quotes are either attacks or apologies for socialism.

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Nearly all the pages here could use some improvement, and many could use MUCH, but the actual laborers are few — and complainers and would-be dictators of what should be the labors of others and how they should proceed tend to be far too many. IF indeed most of the quotes are either of sincere attacks or sincere defense of socialism then things are probably proceeding to a great extent as they actually should — perhaps if there are severe imbalances of either sort, or large proportion of insincere or sarcastic remarks either way, that would probably be very deplorable — but if most remarks were simply vacuous efforts to explain or explain away the passions of people devoted or hostile to various ideas about socialism — that would probably be most regrettable thing of all, as it would then be blatantly banal — and about as nearly worthless as the banal attitude that all things should be reduced to such banalities as the majority of the most cowardly conformists can accept and approve. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:07, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

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• Socialism is theft as a form of state maxim.
  • Lars Johan Hierta

• Socialism is dead. Even the labour party has turned against socialism.
  • Matthew Wharton, Conservative Party member

• Neutrality gets the worm.
  • Jacqueline E. Marcoux

• He who is not a socialist at 19, has no heart. He who is still a socialist at 30, has no brain.
  • Exists in different variations, this one attributed to Otto von Bismarck

• Socialism is workable only in heaven where it is not needed, and in hell where they've got it.
  • Cecil Palmer

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• Socialism is the flame of anger against injustice and the flame of hope that you can build a better world.
  • Tony Benn this statement as rendered has not been located in any published source, but Benn is known to have made similar remarks:

• Inside him burned the flame of anger against injustice, and the flame of hope that we could build a better world. That was what moved him.
  • Remarks in the House of Commons regarding the death of John Smith (12 May 1994)

• If you want change you do it yourself. All progress historically has come from below. The people at the top find life very attractive, but the discontent about injustice bubbles among the population and in every generation, in every country, in every century, two flames are burning, the flame of anger against injustice and the flame of hope you can build a better world. And those two flames are burning very brightly now.
  • Interview in State of Nature (Spring 2006)