Socialism Quotes

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

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.

[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Socialism starts when government creates a problem, and then government steps in to solve the problem.

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are cause and effect, they feed on each other!

Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

Margaret Thatcher said,you know the problem with socialism is that eventually it will run out of other people's money. And she was absolutely right.

The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven.

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

Hillary Clinton, President Obama, they're trying to turn the American dream into the European nightmare. We need to rescue the country from socialism.

True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.

The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed - socialism doesn't work.

A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

Anarchism is "stateless socialism."

National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.

The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans.

I am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to feed people in this country, and that is not socialism.

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.

We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.

In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.

Socialism with a human face.