Socialism Quotes

All socialism involves slavery.

— Herbert Spencer

Welfare sucks, literally.

— Rock Cowles

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

— Vladimir Lenin

“For you not to look scandalous, act educated.”

— Jerson Armecin

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

— Walter E. Williams

My district does not want socialism, period.

— Nicole Malliotakis

Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave

— Anonymous

Democracy is the road to socialism.

— Karl Marx

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

— Robert Heilbroner

“Socialism is replaced by a smartphone connected to the internet …”

— Manos Abou Chabke

“If everyone stopped pretending capitalism would drop dead”

— Carl-John X Veraja

“Veal! Trust these bloated plutocrats to eat the flesh of poor, newly-born calves!”

— Sally Wentworth

The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.

— Mao Zedong

“Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— William Morris

Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share.

— Lewis Black

Let's not forget that one poll after another clearly demonstrates that well over 50% of Russian citizens still wants both socialism and…

— Andre Vltchek

I am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to feed people…

— Lewis Black

The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how…

— Bill Shankly

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

— Fidel Castro

Socialism may have failed as an economic theory, but global warming alarmism, with its dire warnings about the consequences of industry and…

— Bret Stephens

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“Yeah, it always amazes me how quickly people turn into good little socialists when they run out of their stuff. As long…

— A. American

No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always…

— Vladimir Lenin

Whether you believe in a creed, or what you call religion, or not, there is something in Socialism that must move you.…

— Rose Pastor Stokes

Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems - the kind of problems that are inevitable…

— Star Parker

One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to…

— Tony Kushner

When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free…

— Ben Shapiro

I embraced Hinduism because it was the only religion in the world that is compatible with National Socialism. And the dream of…

— Savitri Devi

The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand…

— Leon Trotsky

Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from…

— Mao Zedong

Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied…

— Albert Einstein

I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of…

— Che Guevara

“Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Modem Socialism developed when profound observers of social life came to see more and more clearly that political constitutions and changes in…

— Rudolf Rocker

“The experience that makes possible the “breakthrough” is a “collective” experience. However, usually someone or another will, individually, put forward and explicate…

— Paulo Freire