France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support. — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich. — James Grant Copy Share Image
“It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and… — Heda Margolius Kovaly Copy Share Image
“My dear, it is very nice here, every day two or three persons are stabbed by soldiers in the city; there are… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism… — August Bebel Copy Share Image
This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty,… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
I have collected the history of 'domestic,' 'indoor' socialism, bit by bit. The history of how it played out in the human… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“Polticians associate to social causes to get votes, filmstars associate to social causes to sell tickets. Former disappear after election, the later… — Subhasis Das Copy Share Image
In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
“The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Work or die’—this is the essence of slavery, of compulsion. And yet this is our world. Most of our world is enslaved… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
“These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image