Socialism Quotes

Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.

I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.

Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

So I shamelessly say, no, I want him [Obama] to fail, if his agenda is a far- left collectivism, some people say socialism, as a conservative heartfelt, deeply, why would I want socialism to succeed?

There's no thought given to the individual because there aren't any individuals in socialism; everybody's the same.

YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.

It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and more socialism.

When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.

It is fundamental to Socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can.

We certainly hoped perestroika would win out and that there would be changes. We knew all along that socialism could flourish only with a certain amount of freedom and democracy.

Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

The idea of a socialism with a human face was something that I absolutely could support, because it was my idea from the very first.

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?

I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.

America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.

We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.

Socialism as I understand it is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development

The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.

A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns.

The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage.

Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in.

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.

In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.

I hardly think that any Socialist, nowadays, would seriously propose that an inspector should call every morning at each house to see that each citizen rose up and did manual labour for eight hours.

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them

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

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.

They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.

Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy.

Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".

All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.

People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.

Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"??

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty.

All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

American Progressives have declared war on the sanctity and autonomy of the individual.

For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them.