Quote by Norman Mailer
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. – Norman Mailer

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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. – Norman Mailer

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Theres a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements. – Norman Mailer

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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you. – Norman Mailer

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Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns. – Thomas Sowell

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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. – Jane Addams

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave. – Detroit Journal

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