Scientific Socialism Quotes

#1. For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Ernest Mandel

#2. But every
kind of socialism is Utopian, most of all scientific socialism. Utopia replaces God by the future.

Albert Camus

#3. Scientific socialism, is the most religious of all religions, and the true Social Democrat is the most deeply religious of all human beings.

Anatoly Lunacharsky

#4. When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

Paul Krugman

#5. When the disaster began to hit the wealthy as well, the "modern scientific methods of development based solidly on capitalism" (Haines) suddenly became proofs of the evils of statism and socialism - another quick transition that takes place when needed. To

Noam Chomsky

#6. I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.

Christopher Parker

#7. Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#8. Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine.

A.E. Samaan

#9. We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

Harold Wilson

#10. Class analysis can thus function not simply as part of scientific theory of interests and conflicts, but of an emancipatory theory of alternatives and social justice as well. Even if socialism is off the historical agenda, the idea of countering the exploitative logic of capitalism is not.

Erik Olin Wright

#11. What happens to the space that two people occupied together? How can it just disappear? Why can't it just become something else?

Melissa Broder

#12. To know worldly relations as being 'relation' (temporary) will resolve everything. However, if they are believed to be true (real) relations, there will be insistence. In relative relations, one is not to prove 'I am correct'. One has to bring about a closure by saying, 'you are correct'.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. We are the only species on this planet without full employment.

Paul Hawken

#14. Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. Somebody once told me that a hero's bravery has to be unplanned - a genuine response to a crisis. It has to come from the heart, without any thought of reward.

Rick Riordan

#16. The appeal by twentieth-century pluralists to scientific method was also ideologically - and even messianically - driven. It ignored scientific data that interfered with environmentalist assumptions and misrepresented socialist faith as "scientific planning.

Paul Edward Gottfried

#17. Socialism is ... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#18. Churchill's 2,054 page book "Second World War" makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic legislation prior to the outbreak of WWII.

A.E. Samaan

#19. Hitler learned his eugenics from the infamous "Baur-Fischer-Lenz" book that documented American and British eugenics.

A.E. Samaan