Socialism Quotes

Socialism Quote of the day

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

The goal of socialism is communism.

We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

All Socialism involves slavery.

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

I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.

To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

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

What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place.

Socialism means slavery.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

Somebody once asked me what had attracted me to National Socialism. I replied without a shadow of hesitation: 'Its beauty.'

The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

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

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

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.

The Socialist Party will no longer be running a candidate for president. The Democratic Party is leading this country to Socialism much faster than we could ever hope to.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.