Jesus Was A Socialist Quotes & Sayings

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ
who I think was the first socialist
only socialism can really create a genuine society. — Hugo Chavez

All joy ... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings. — C.S. Lewis

Let us instill into the hearts of our children the love of freedom. Teach them that to be free is as precious as life itself. Fight every influence - Socialist, communist, whatever it may be - that would deprive an American citizen of the liberty vouchsafed by the Constitution. Liberty is truth. In truth we find liberty. You teachers, feel it in your hearts; instill it into the hearts of these precious children. May the Church of Jesus Christ ever stand true to the ideals of freedom. — David O. McKay

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ. — Ezra Taft Benson

Jesus is not a white, middle-class Republican. Jesus is not a Democrat, a Libertarian, a Marxist, or a Socialist. Jesus is not a Baptist, a Catholic, a Lutheran, or a Buddhist. Jesus isn't even a Christian. Jesus Christ is Lord. — Ronnie McBrayer

But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say. Christ crucified rules, and it may be that the true business of modern Christianity is to crucify him again and again so that he can never get a word out of his mouth. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus. — John Fugelsang

The socialist tradition ... goes back to Jesus Christ,
not (Karl) Marx. — Mikhail Gorbachev

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier. — Ellen Wilkinson

It's fun to be loose. Just like on stage, all of your great ideas come from looseness. — Debra Winger

Gabriel drew the strength up his calves and thighs to spin himself in a dizzying turn. Most angels didn't take the time to train their legs, but Gabriel wasn't like most angels. — A.J. Flowers

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. — Paul Cezanne

Indeed, within Castro's periphery there evolved a bizarre mutation known oxymoronically as "liberation theology," where priests and even some bishops adopted "alternative" liturgies enshrining the ludicrous notion that Jesus of Nazareth was really a dues-paying socialist. For a combination of good and bad reasons (Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a man of courage and principle, in the way that some Nicaraguan "base community" clerics were not), the papacy put this down as a heresy. Would that it could have condemned fascism and Nazism in the same unhesitating and unambiguous tones. — Christopher Hitchens

The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces. — August Strindberg