Socialism Quotes
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A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
The Kingdom of God is neither the thesis of individual enterprise nor the antithesis of collective enterprise, but a synthesis which reconciles the truths of both.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
We should have had socialism already but for the socialists.
You can be socially minded without being a socialist.
The trouble with socialism," a European observer once remarked, "is socialism. The trouble with capitalism is capitalists.
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it.
Socialism or any other alternative to private enterprise, would inevitably mean a vast federal government. General Motors would disappear; it would be lumped with Ford, chrysler, Boeing, Pan American and so on in a vast Ministry of transportation. And bureaucracy would conquer all.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
A socialist is someone who has nothing and wants to divide it with you.
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Tart in the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.
Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name.
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.
We shall be judged more by what we do at home than by what we preach abroad.
Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden.
Diplomacy is the art of fishing tranquilly in troubled waters.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise.
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
Socialism is ... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
One of the bittersweet things about growing old is realizing how mistaken you were when you were young. As a young political leftist, I saw the left as the voice of the common man. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
