Socialism Quotes

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

All socialism involves slavery.

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.

I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat.

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.

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.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.