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"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level."
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"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level."
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"And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read."
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"As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed."
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"I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism."
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"Socialism? We've had way too much of it already."
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"For my part, while I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race."
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"A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect."
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"Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter."
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"Socialism can only arrive by bicycle."
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"When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit."
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"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."
Art
"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."
Work
"I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for."
Life
"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
Life
"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen."
Influence
"It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions."
History
"The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube."
Creativity
"I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses."
Man
"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."
Democracy
"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."
Evil
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