Socialism quotes
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[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
-- Adam Johnson -
Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
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A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.
-- Andrew Joseph Galambos -
Socialism is for the people, not the Socialists.
-- Andrew Wilkow -
Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.
-- Andrey Illarionov -
There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
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There is only one hope for mankind — and that is democratic Socialism.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism.
-- Arthur Seyss-Inquart -
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Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools
-- August Bebel -
We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.
-- August Bebel -
We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.
-- Ayn Rand -
We approach closer and closer to socialism.
-- B. Carroll Reece -
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And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
-- Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn -
Good Old Socialism ... Raping The Pocketbooks Of The Rich To Give To The Poor.
-- Beck -
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.
-- Beck -
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.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
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Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism
-- Benjamin Tucker -
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
-- Bernard Baruch -
I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.
-- Bill Shankly -
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Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it.
-- Cecil Palmer -
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
-- Charles E. Wilson -
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
-- Che Guevara -
I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.
-- Cintra Wilson -
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To me there can be no liberation without socialism. And conversely, there can be no socialism without liberation for everybody.
-- Clara Fraser -
Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
-- Daniel De Leon -
Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
-- Deng Xiaoping -
A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.
-- Deng Xiaoping -
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Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change.
-- Douglas Holtz-Eakin -
Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
-- Earl Browder -
While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
-- Ed Miliband -
Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.
-- Emile Durkheim -
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Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.
-- Erich Honecker -
The future belongs to socialism
-- Erich Honecker -
For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.
-- Ernest Mandel -
The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.
-- Ernst Toller -
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I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.
-- Eugene V. Debs -
National Socialism is simply this - a proposal that the German people rid themselves of the parasitic Jews. The gentile host dared to protest against the continued presence of the parasite, and attempted to throw it off.
-- Eustace Mullins -
The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
-- Francis Parker Yockey -
France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.
-- Francois Mitterrand -
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Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.
-- Gary North -
Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.
-- George Gilder -
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Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.
-- George Orwell -
The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.
-- George Reisman -
I think socialism is really about recognizing that there are limits to what the market can do. The market is very useful; at times it works very well, but it doesn't always work.
-- Gillian Tett -
The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.
-- Gregor Strasser -
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I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.
-- Gunter Grass -
Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.
-- Gus Hall -
Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.
-- Gus Hall -
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
-- H. G. Wells -
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Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.
-- Ha-Joon Chang -
National Socialism is applied biology,
-- Hans Schemm -
We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
-- Harold Wilson -
In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system...The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfilment.
-- Heinrich Himmler -
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Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.
-- Henry Morton Stanley -
I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.
-- Hugo Chavez -
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.
-- Hugo Chavez -
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.
-- Hugo Chavez -
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The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
-- Irving Berlin -
The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.
-- Irving Kristol -
For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.
-- Jacques Delors -
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one....
-- James Madison -
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Socialism destroys everywhere one thing - diversity. Everything is supposed to be best, and as we know, best things are always in shortage. I remind once more that for reds "best" is what they consider "best" for us, and not what we like.
-- Janusz Korwin-Mikke -
Socialism is a monster, which will die.
-- Janusz Korwin-Mikke -
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.
-- Jim Leach -
If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich
-- Jim Rogers -
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To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.
-- John B. S. Haldane -
I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
-- John Burns -
Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.
-- Jose Antonio Viera-Gallo -
The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.
-- Joseph A. Schumpeter -
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To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.
-- Joseph Goebbels -
Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
-- Karl Liebknecht -
But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
-- Karl Liebknecht -
The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
-- Karl Radek -
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I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.
-- Ken Livingstone -
What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?
-- Ken MacLeod -
Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.
-- Kenneth Waltz -
Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
-- Lajos Kossuth -
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.
-- Len Deighton -
Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.
-- Leonard Read -
Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share.
-- Lewis Black -
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... true socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, -- that is another matter ...
-- Lilian Whiting -
Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.
-- Lord Acton -
The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation,
-- Malala Yousafzai -
The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.
-- Margaret Sanger -
National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.
-- Martin Bormann -
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Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.
-- Mary McCarthy -
Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology
-- Michael Foot -
Anarchism is "stateless socialism.
-- Mikhail Bakunin -
In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev -
