“[[I]t's] one thing to talk about the redistribution of wealth. It's quite another thing to talk about the redistribution of power. That's more what interests me.”
Norah Vincent, Sex, Love and Politics, id., p. 41, col. 1.
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Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Pt. 2, ch. 16
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Mark Satin (1946) American political theorist, author, and newsletter publisher
I am afraid to go on and say what I don't like about socialism. ...
Pages 93–94. It's the spring of 1965. Satin had dropped out of college to become a volunteer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Holly Springs, Mississippi. The meeting above had been called by SNCC to explore SNCC workers' views.
Confessions of a Young Exile (1976)
“Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.”
Leonard E. Read (1898–1983) American academic
Anything That's Peaceful (1964)
Context: Socialism depends upon and presupposes material achievements which socialism itself can never create. Socialism is operative only in wealth situations brought about by motes of production other than its own. Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
International Special Report: Princess Diana, 1961–1997, The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/diana/stories/glamor0901.htm,
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.”
Willard van Orman Quine (1908–2000) American philosopher and logician
Ways of Paradox and Other Essays (1976), p. 174
1970s
“Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me?”
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Seduction