Socialism famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
-- Milovan ?ilas -
I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
-- Nelson Mandela -
Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism, is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans.
-- Niger Innis -
We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism, until they suddenly awake to find they have communism.
-- Nikita Khrushchev -
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
-- Oswald Spengler -
The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.
-- Peter Brimelow -
Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.
-- Pope Pius IX -
The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
-- Rafael Correa -
Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.
-- Ralph Nader -
Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it.
-- Ralph Nader -
Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
-- Richard John Neuhaus -
I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.
-- Rirkrit Tiravanija -
Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.
-- Robert Heilbroner -
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.
-- Rush Limbaugh -
Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.
-- Russ Roberts -
Somebody once asked me what had attracted me to National Socialism. I replied without a shadow of hesitation: 'Its beauty.'
-- Savitri Devi -
It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can
-- Stafford Cripps -
Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.
-- Terry Eagleton -
Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.
-- Terry Eagleton -
A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to.
-- Thomas Frank -
I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?
-- Tim Allen -
It's only socialism if the money goes down, not up.
-- Tim Dorsey -
Any fourth grade history student knows socialism has failed in every country, at every time in history,
-- Vladimir Putin -
[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.
-- Whittaker Chambers -
What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.
-- William Inge -
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
-- Winston Churchill -
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
-- Woodrow Wilson -
States can be more or less democratic, and so can socialism. I think any ideal society that exists on a large scale, which is what we most likely have in store for us as a human race, will involve some aspects of socialism.
-- Cynthia Kauffman -
Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!
-- Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay -
Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard?
-- Kevin Drum -
To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
-- Rafael Cruz -
You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.
-- Stefan Heym -
Socialism as I understand it is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.
-- Wen Jiabao -
When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.
-- William O'Brien -
In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.
-- Alexander Dubcek -
Sharia has a ruling system, an economic system, a policy and social system, a foreign policy and judiciary system to be implemented, you know, the whole package. Under the Sharia, food, shelter and clothing will be provided for all citizens in addition to basic necessities like gas and water as well. But, it's not like communism or socialism in the respect that you can work for the luxuries.
-- Anjem Choudary -
Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.
-- Roger Ailes -
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.
-- Rosa Luxemburg -
As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.
-- Rose Wilder Lane -
Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.
-- Roy Hattersley -
It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.
-- Salvador Allende -
The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.
-- Hal Duncan -
Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich America on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism.
-- Star Parker -
[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.
-- James Grant -
Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.
-- Theodore Beale -
The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations
-- Kevin Carson -
Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.
-- Kshama Sawant
