Socialism Quotes

Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.

Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.

Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing an effective job communicating that.

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil.

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.

Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.

The fact that younger people are more inclined to socialism may well come with the fact that so many young people's first experience with capitalism is as a debtor.

Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change.

I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism.

Socialism is always wrong.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.

Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.

Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.

If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.

Liberalism, socialism, whatever, it is such a corrupting, destructive thing. And I believe it's the most destructive force in the world today, outside of, militarized weaponry and that kind of thing.

Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton's positions are far more in line with the German National Socialism approach than Trump could even dream of being.

[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.

When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help.

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.

You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!

What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.

When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.

When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed the name.

His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.

Today, rather than talk in terms of ideology or ideas like socialism, I think more important issues to discuss are things like compassion and accountability.

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

It is socialism. It moves the country in a direction which is not good for anyone, whether they be young or old. It charts a course from which there will be no turning back.

Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.

For the love of god, find something actually socially useful to do with your money. Because if you don't, socialism's going to start looking a lot better to a whole lot of people.

A new poll out taken by a Republican group that shows most Democrats prefer socialism to capitalism. Those terms don't mean what they did maybe 40, 50 years ago.

While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense of the difference between socialism and capitalism.