Gustav Stresemann Quotes

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

A Socialist Government cannot carry on a capitalist system better than the capitalists. The men bred by a capitalist system are men of affairs who understand their business. They are not apprentices.

What did the workers and peasants gain when power passed from the kings and nobles to the bankers and manufacturers?

History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.

As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These “humanitarian parts” are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its “antirent and anticapital parts,” means to get rid of the poodle..

When capitalism changes, so must socialism.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.

I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.

Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.

Capitalism is so successful economically that it creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Don't talk to me about socialism. What we have, we hold.