Socialism Quotes · Page 18

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in…

— Bernie Sanders

While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense…

— Chris Matthews

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

— Ernest Mandel

...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at…

— Arnold Beichman

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

— Ludwig von Mises

I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.

— Alfred Rosenberg

Interaction goes smoothly when connections are established with time and energy with genuine intentions.

— Kishore Bansal

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The words Socialism and Communism have the same meaning. They indicate a condition of society in which the wealth of the community:…

— Sylvia Pankhurst

You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll…

— Nikita Khrushchev

Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of…

— Che Guevara

Austria used to see itself as the first victim of National Socialism. That is certainly true for all those who fought in…

— Sebastian Kurz

All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and…

— Ronald Reagan

So I shamelessly say, no, I want him [Obama] to fail, if his agenda is a far- left collectivism, some people say…

— Rush Limbaugh

From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I…

— Ben Horowitz

The term "state socialism" is not precise. Under this term many understand an order under which a certain part of the wealth,…

— Joseph Stalin

And what have we now in Germany? A land of bankers and car-makers. Even our great army has gone soft. Soldiers wear…

— Hanna Reitsch

The revelation of the secret of water will put an end to all manner of speculation or expediency and their excrescences, to…

— Viktor Schauberger

It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. It began quite openly as a reaction against the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“A time of ongoing cultural revolution when the adversaries of Christianity have made plain their intent to use the state machinery to…

— Thomas Woods Jr

Friedrich Hayek made the point that one of the keystones of socialism is the denial of individual responsibility. Thus, the crusade for…

— Thomas DiLorenzo

“Nationalism and socialism as actually lived and applied in the 20th century are the same thing (and in the 18th and 19th…

— Jonah Goldberg

“Now, you look here! The first thing you got to understand is that all this uplift and flipflop and settlement-work and recreation…

— Sinclair Lewis

“For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.”

— China Miéville

“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” —WSC, PERTH, 28 MAY 1948”

— Winston Churchill

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

— Ludwig von Mises

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

— George Bernard Shaw

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

— Ronald Reagan

In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

— Ludwig von Mises

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of…

— Erich Fromm

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

— Adam Johnson

Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.

— Paul Broun

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say,…

— Michael Moore

I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

— Rose Wilder Lane

The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.

— Greg Gutfeld

Any fourth grade history student knows socialism has failed in every country, at every time in history,

— Vladimir Putin

It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work…

— Sun Yat-sen

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

— Mikhail Bakunin