Socialism Quotes

In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life.

The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.

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

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

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.

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.

We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.

National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it.

Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.