Socialism Quotes

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

Socialism works ... [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it's conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people at least stabilized at a certain level.

To me there can be no liberation without socialism. And conversely, there can be no socialism without liberation for everybody.

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.

Socialism is a monster which will die.

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations

True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, - that is another matter.

The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.

The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism.

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.

I don't have time to beat around the bush. The health-care plan as proposed by Mrs. Clinton is socialism. There's no soft way to peddle it. There is not other way to describe it.

Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.

And the other issue is Gore, $4.6 trillion - the single largest expansion of government in American history, from universal preschool, now, to prescriptions to health care - it is Socialism 101.

It's only socialism if the money goes down, not up.

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

In reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.

If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.

Good Old Socialism ... Raping The Pocketbooks Of The Rich To Give To The Poor.

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

National Socialism is applied biology.

There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

Art is socialism but life is capitalism.

The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich.