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Socialism may be all right when men are fit to be socialists.

— Milton Mayer I Think I'll Sit This One Out (1939)

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Justice alone knows liberty, equality, and fraternity, and justice is a human virtue arising from man's human capacity to reason.

I Think I'll Sit This One Out (1939)

Men who did not know that they were slaves do not know that they have been freed.

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

The masses of the people could not be held back from Nazism, so powerful was its appeal, and this same priest, who would not leave his people, went with them to Nazism, too.

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

National Socialism did not make men unfree; unfreedom made men National Socialists.

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

The love of material goods above all others is as animal as of love of war. The love of justice above material goods must save us in the end it saved we may be.

I Think I'll Sit This One Out (1939)

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Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

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In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated.

George Orwell

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