Socialism Quotes

A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.

Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.

The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.

I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.

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

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.

The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop a system of socialism with freedom and democracy.

In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

I think Obama has redefined the Democratic Party. It used to be the party of acid, amnesty, and abortion, and now it's surrender, socialism, and subprime mortgages.

The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.

...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at all. It is what people do if you leave them alone.

Let me tell you, communism does not work! Socialism does not work!

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.

I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.

Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Socialists try to convince us that the tea becomes sweet not because of sugar, but because of mixing.

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement.

We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period.

Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich America on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism.

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.