Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
~ Kenneth Baker

People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.
~ J. G. Ballard

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
~ Lord Byron

I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.
~ William Casey

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.
~ Michel De Certeau

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
~ E. M. Cioran

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.
~ Dario Fo

Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.
~ Jose Antonio Viera Gallo

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
~ John Gay

This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.
~ Alexander Herzen

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
~ Eric Hoffer

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
~ William James

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
~ Alfred Jarry

We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
~ Ben Johnson

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
~ Thomas Mann

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
~ Ian Mcewan

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
~ Hector Hugh Munro

Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer