Eduard Bernstein quotes

The increase of social wealth is not accompanied by a diminishing number of capitalist magnates, but by an increasing number of capitalists of all degrees. (Eduard Bernstein)
The parties which assumed the names of liberals were, or became in due course, simple guardians of capitalism. View quote
Eduard Bernstein
We may think as we like theoretically, about man's freedom of action, we must practically start from it as the foundation of the moral law, for only under this condition is social morality possible. View quote
Eduard Bernstein
Democracy is the high school of compromise. View quote
Eduard Bernstein
Democracy is in principle the suppression of class government, though it is not yet the actual suppression of classes. View quote
Eduard Bernstein
If democracy is not to excel centralised absolutism in the breeding of bureaucracies, it must be built up on an elaborately organised self-government with a corresponding economic, personal responsibility of all the units of administration as well as of the adult citizens of the state. Nothing is more injurious to its healthy development than enforced uniformity and a too abundant amount of protectionism or subventionism. View quote
Eduard Bernstein
The aim of all socialist measures, even of those which appear outwardly as coercive measures, is the development and the securing of a free personality. Their more exact examination always shows that the coercion included will raise the sum total of liberty in society, and will give more freedom over a more extended area than it takes away. View quote
Eduard Bernstein