Socialist Quotes · Page 5

My father was a socialist, so we had some of the most extraordinary people at home.

— Gina Miller

“Whether he knows it or not, the middle-income American is taxed as though he were living in a socialist society.”

— Gore Vidal

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

— Hector Hugh Munro

And I don't want my assets to be stuck inside a banana republic in the midst of a huge socialist experiment.

— Porter Stansberry

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

— Karl Marx

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

— Marianne Faithfull

And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation

— Christine O'Donnell

It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men…

— Alexandra Kollontai

The Naked Socialist connects the ancient order of oppression with the modern order of oppression. The Naked Socialist is a fabulous book…

— Morgan Philpot

I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as…

— Hans Frank

I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a…

— Gary Numan

Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are…

— Don Young

Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and naziism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world…

— Vladimir Lenin

I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a…

— Rirkrit Tiravanija

This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live…

— Jon Voight

The left's inability to understand the most basic economic fact - that people need an incentive to produce - has caused the…

— David Horowitz

All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist…

— Anonymous

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a…

— Lewis H. Lapham

The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that…

— Herbert Spencer

After the Second World War, facilitating the establishment of the UN and aiding the reconstruction of Europe, the United States was widely…

— Richard A. Falk

“Morally and politically, in practice every liberal capitalist country has a solid record for being humane, for by and large respecting rights…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the…

— Noam Chomsky

“The navy is like a socialist country. Efficiency isn't part of the jargon.”

— James W. Blinn

“The law of socialist economy is this: from each according to his exploitability, to the nomenklatura according to its greed.”

— David Horowitz

Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.

— Margaret Thatcher

The trouble with Russia is not that she is socialist but that she is Russia.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.

— Ken Follett

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

— Ernest Mandel

I am Left-wing. I am a socialist. I believe in sharing wealth. There's no two ways about it.

— Jess Phillips

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

— Winston Churchill

“In a gesture of socialist support, the Dear Leader placed his hand upon her.”

— Adam Johnson

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.

— Stephen Lewis

My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

— Zaha Hadid

We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.

— Rick Perry

A country where a man is afraid to criticise another one is no socialist country.

— Enver Hoxha

I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.

— Roseanne Barr

Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke