Socialism Quotes

"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."
-Benito Mussolini

"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism."
-Hubert H. Humphrey

"We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Marriage is socialism among two people."
-Barbara Ehrenreich

"Socialism values equality more than liberty."
-Dennis Prager

"The goal of socialism is communism."
-Vladimir Lenin

"I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature."
-Sidney Hook

"She was not a resistance fighter, yet she was skeptical of socialism; but then she went ahead and joined the Communist youth party. She's not open about her life's choices."
-Gerd Langguth

"Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished."
-Dario Fo

"There were two stages to this affair, at first we were demonstrating against all serious culture. The focus changed tremendously as my interest in politics developed. I was meeting people who were calling my attention to issues of socialism, which I'd never really thought about."
-Henry Flynt

"The vicissitudes of history, however, have not dissuaded them from their earnest search for a "third way" between socialism and capitalism, namely socialism."
-Richard John Neuhaus

"These are groups that want out-of-control spending, want essentially socialism."
-Bob Beers

"This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us."
-Alexander Herzen

"Socialism, born and raised in France, is unpersuasive even to the promiscuously persuadable French."
-George F. Will

"Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes."
-Oswald Spengler

"More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life."
-Mikhail Gorbachev

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

"India's problem isn't too much democracy, it's too much socialism."
-Prannoy Roy

"The officer is a composite of various Americans who said the same thing. For everyone, it was an important decision whether to return home or go somewhere else. Those who had an idea there would be socialism in Hungary did not go back. I couldn't imagine going anywhere except home. I was like a stray dog."
-Imre Kertesz

"If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked."
-George Gilder

"The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product."
-Brian Harris

"Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious."
-Deng Xiaoping

"Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true."
-Polish Proverb

"In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy."
-David Horowitz

"He approved of the mass murder of Jews during national socialism. He approved of terror acts and he approved of the violent conversions of infidels to Islam."
-Kay Nehm

"Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism."
-Hermann Goering

"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
-Alexis De Tocqueville

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