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Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism... Winston Churchill
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export.... Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea -- in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders. Thomas Sowell
Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve. Kurt Vonnegut
Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale. Earl Browder
Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me. I know that my parents who are on Social Security - they've got to continue to receive it. They're dependent on it. It is their primary source of income. Joe Miller
Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member. George H. Mead
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience. George H. Mead
Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments. Havelock Ellis
Karl Marx quote: "Social progress can be measured by the social position of the..."
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. Karl Marx
Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do. Jacob Lew
Paul Krugman quote: "Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not..."
Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k). Paul Krugman
Guy Kawasaki quote: "Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction."
Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction. Guy Kawasaki
Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work. Jeff Bingaman
Jawaharlal Nehru quote: "Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain..."
Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems. Jawaharlal Nehru
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out. Robert A. Heinlein

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