Socialist Quotes · Page 4

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

— Karl Radek

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

— Ayn Rand

When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.

— Adolf Hitler

I was raised a socialist by two very socialist parents, and I still feel very animated about socialist principles.

— Mariella Frostrup

Destroying history, good or bad, is straight from the socialist playbook.

— Bill Hagerty

I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed.

— Edward Snowden

The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist

— Kwame Nkrumah

Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.

— Fritz Todt

The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a…

— Barack Obama

The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

— Cynthia Kauffman

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they…

— Ludwig von Mises

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Nothing in socialist doctrine argues for the abuse of power, from Thomas More, to Karl Marx, to Chavez, to Ocasio-Cortez. Historically, however,…

— Charlie Kirk

The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and…

— Newt Gingrich

The news is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective…

— Anonymous

The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring…

— Karl Radek

Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into…

— James Connolly

“Change comes hard in France, and its Socialist Party is unlikely to renounce its moss-backed, nineteenth-century ideology overnight. As Le Figaro says,…

— Anonymous

The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared…

— Konstantin Chernenko

Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the cross-roads of history and must choose which…

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate…

— Christopher Hitchens

We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some…

— Cynthia Kauffman

The beauty of a free society is that someone slightly less gifted who works harder than usual can rise; the burden of…

— Ben Shapiro

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

— George Orwell

“The socialist submerging of the individual under the collective’s prerogative is a perverse and putrid vision for humanity.”

— A.E. Samaan

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

— Monica Crowley

As I've had occasion to say before, I'm a pretty anti-sociable Socialist.

— Glenda Jackson

Obamacare is a perfect tool to crush free enterprise and force all Americans into a socialist health care system.

— Marlin Stutzman

We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

— William Pfaff

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

— Pope Pius XI

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

— Carl Andre

It's the usual Socialist fiscal math of 1 + 1 = You're paying, so who cares.

— Rachel Marsden

What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress.

— Rutger Bregman

“The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist.”

— Anton Chekhov

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

— Edward Carpenter

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

— Martin Niemoller

In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

— Fritz Todt

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

— Karl Liebknecht

The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

— David R. Brower