Winston Churchill om sosialisme

[Gjest Valhalla]

Denne mannen har utrolig mange gode sitater, har lyst å poste noen som gjelder sosialisme.

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

[Describing the difference between capitalists and socialists] We are for the ladder. Let all try their best to climb. They are for the queue. Let each wait his place until his turn comes.

Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is - the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.

Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil.

My friends, I must tell you that a socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom. Although it is now put forward in the main by people who have a good grounding in the liberalism and radicalism of the early part of this century, there can be no doubt that socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state. It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at; but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.

[Gjest Anonymous]

Det Churchillsitatet som passer best i denne sammenhengen er kanskje dette:

I may be fat, but you're stupid - and I can diet!

[villkatt]

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.

Likte best disse jeg da! 8) Selv om det er satt litt for mye på spissen spør du meg. Litt for generaliserende...

[Gjest Anonymous]

Det Churchillsitatet som passer best i denne sammenhengen er kanskje dette:

I may be fat, but you're stupid - and I can diet!

Enda bedre et:

En dame spurte Churchill om han var full hvor han svarte:

"I am drunk, you are ugly. I'll be sober tomorrow."