German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
“We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor'… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Today, rather than talk in terms of ideology or ideas like socialism, I think more important issues to discuss are things like… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I have a political philosophy by which I judge political events. It's called socialism, which at its core is about achieving equality,… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
“I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts."… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“Although we had been warned by some of the greatest political thinkers of the nineteenth century, by Tocqueville and Lord Acton, that… — Friedrich Hayek Copy Share Image
The progress of the human race is effected by the operation of two forces which correspond in most respects to what in… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Graças a Churchill, não foi a Alemanha que passou a dominar a Europa, mas sim os Estados Unidos e a Rússia. Graças… — Sebastian Haffner Copy Share Image
“The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“We don’t think you fight fire with fire best ; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of… — George Will Copy Share Image
Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
“It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.” — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“The socialist submerging of the individual under the collective’s prerogative is a perverse and putrid vision for humanity.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“True socialism is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Socialism is the freedom that comes from shedding the capitalist-made fear of being replaced and refusing to live by their engineered competition.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The market economy of its own cannot destroy socialism. But to build socialism with success, it is necessary to develop a market… — Nguyen Phu Trong Copy Share Image
Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“That theme is individual freedom. The economic redistribution that progressives demand is not “fairness,” as they maintain. Socialism is theft and a… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as ‘free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results. — James Cook Copy Share Image
If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems,… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
“It's time, more than ever, to shrug off apathy. For Socialism not to be a dirty word any more. This is a… — Jake Copy Share Image
