Socialism Quotes

Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question.

The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself — without the assistance of governments.

Here’s the solution. We need a CO2 tax, revenue-neutral, to replace taxation on employment, which was invented by Bismarck — and some things have changed since the 19th Century.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land

Give with a free hand, but give only of your own.

You Need To Gauge, To Engage.

The difference between communism and socialism is that under socialism central planning ends with a gun in your face, whereas under communism central planning begins with a gun in your face.

No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except for the ones that succeed.

Socialism, communism, and fascism are the political manifestations of unachievable ideals, carried to genocidal extremes.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

Our athiests are pious people.

Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us.

Socialism is a monster, which will die.

You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.

They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..

I think it's wrong that only one percent of the people should own ninety percent of the country.

Veal! Trust these bloated plutocrats to eat the flesh of poor, newly-born calves!

Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.

The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example of a market left flourishingly to its own devices and dynamics.

Unchecked Corporate power leads to tyranny just like unchecked Government power.

The ritual denunciation of the so-called ‘socialist’ states is replete with distortions and often outright lies.

sometimes try not to judge, not to think ...& let the situation speak because wisdom lies there.

A man with a golden gun may have a ruthless heart & may have a golden Heart too

A man with a golden gun may have a ruthless heart... & may have a golden Heart too

Socialism is socialism. Government run enterprises are just as inept under democratic governments as they are under autocratic governments.

Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.

Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.

You see, " I said, "I'm a socialist. I don't think this world was made for a small minority to dance on the faces of everyone else.

The history of the GDR journalism is a story of partisanship.

I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.

Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.

They say hell is other people. I believe that. But what I didn’t know until now is so can heaven be.

It may well be that there will be this socialism, Juliana, ’ she said, ‘but I can tell you right now that no amount of socialism will make my madam was her own underwear.’ - ‘Aunt Juliana’s Indian

It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge.

History's shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is Hell.

A life spent waiting for your paycheck, measured out in work hours...A lifetime spent buying everything retail while selling oneself wholesale - L'amour Existe (1960)

We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Great Britain which can do it - and that is the Labour Party.

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same thing

Everything is subjective.

Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator.

Yeah, it always amazes me how quickly people turn into good little socialists when they run out of their stuff. As long as they have something, it's theirs. Let them run out, and you need to share.

The quest to remove all inequality is the deadening hand of socialism and results in social stagnation.

For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.

Peace isn't the absence of wars provoked by a series of delinquents of all sort, but a dynamic process of cooperation between states and people...

If you are a beautiful lair, you are the most wanted person in the world.

Socialism is the way, the truth, and the light.

Why am I a socialist? Simple: Because I believe in freedom.

What we do to others, we do to ourselves.