Tony Blair Quotes

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

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

I am against the use of capitalist mechanisms to build socialism.

Conservatism, by all means, if there is anything worth conserving, and everything not worth losing. Revolution, if there is nothing worth conserving, and everything worth gaining. These are the class lines upon which the political battle is being fought, and is bound to be fought

Government is on a collision course with the future

Since the war [WWII], the world has been rushing forward at an unprecedented and exhilarating speed … Yet Britain lags behind, lacking the will or the plan which can bring this future within the reach of us all.

The future or the past - It's very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.

Communism will win.

Give us 20 years, and you'll not recognize this country!

The ideas of socialism are not modern ideas.

All political action aims at either preservation or change.

… science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilization.

In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ...

What makes Progressives is their confidence in Progress.

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

When capitalism changes, so must socialism.

There is a buffet of ideologies for me to choose from. I've been a fan of certain communist and socialist ideals. Some have failed, some have succeeded. I've lived long enough to understand where all they failed.

There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.

Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.

The future belongs to socialism

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.