Socialist Quotes

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

It's the usual Socialist fiscal math of 1 + 1 = You're paying, so who cares.

Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.

The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.

in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

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.

America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.

The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx.

Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.

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

Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

Since China has a population of 1.1 billion, it won't feel lonely even if it becomes the only socialist country.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany must know Wagner.

The [National Socialist] Party...is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest.

The whole world may begin to burn, but the National Socialist State and Idea will emerge from the conflagration like platinum.

We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard to achieve, very hard to achieve, but is a longing worth fighting for.

People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer.

I'm not that much of a socialist compared to Eisenhower.

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein.

I'm a very friendly socialist.

Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people.

Tough Olympic news for the Romneys. Ann Romney's horse Rafalka did not advance to the Olympic finals. Apparently it was beat by a smooth-talking socialist horse from Kenya.

I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you can't talk about a socialist revolution.

The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.

I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings.

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed.

I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism.

If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.

Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.

What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly.

No matter what Donald Trump says, he has deep socialist leanings. He's a nationalist and a populist. And throughout history, whenever you combine those three things it never ends well.

I think it's been time for a new party. I think it's time for two new parties. If you watch the Democratic convention, that has become a socialist party now.

There are Marxists and there are people that are socialists. But the label of Marxist takes on a whole new meaning. Even socialist for a while took on a whole new meaning.