Socialist Quotes · Page 7

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

— Ernest Mandel

I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is…

— William J. Casey

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

— Hendrik Hertzberg

Since China has a population of 1.1 billion, it won't feel lonely even if it becomes the only socialist country.

— Li Peng

Representative Spencer Bachus is one of the only people I know from Alabama. I bet I'm the only socialist he knows.

— Bernie Sanders

The Christian religion and National Socialist doctrines are not compatible.

— Martin Bormann

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

— Jay McInerney

Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want…

— Georges Clemenceau

When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was…

— Sergio Leone

I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants.…

— Julie Burchill

I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so…

— Philip Gibbs

It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the…

— Michal Kalecki

If we take the pope at his word and socialism is highly preferable to capitalism and he was really concerned about these…

— Rush Limbaugh

Copyright is fundamentally socialist - it is radical and redistributive, subversive even. How else would you describe a form of property that…

— Mick Hucknall

“The left’s redemption, of course, comes not through the agency of a divine Messiah but through the actions of a political vanguard…

— David Horowitz

She is the elephant’s eyebrows,” Evie whispered appreciatively. “Those jewels! How her neck must ache.” “That’s why Bayer makes aspirin,” Mabel whispered…

— Libba Bray

They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all…

— Karl Hess

The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second…

— H. G. Wells

“The Socialist social contract was tartly summed up in the popular joke: ‘you pretend to work, we pretend to pay you’. Many…

— Tony Judt

According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must…

— Deng Xiaoping

Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth…

— Emma Goldman

We have won on the Arlov, Kursk, Belgorod, and Kharkov grounds. We won because the country was being defended not only by…

— Ivan Bagramyan

I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This…

— Pankaj Mishra

Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a…

— Enver Hoxha

You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.

— Ken Livingstone

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

— Johann Most

What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.

— William Inge

Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus.

— John Fugelsang

The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

— Neil Kinnock

Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

— Glenn Reynolds

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

— Douglas Sirk

Our objectives are socialist. That means an irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people.

— John McDonnell

The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.

— Arthur Seyss-Inquart

The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.

— Che Guevara

While no famine has ever taken place in a democracy, they're the rule rather than the exception in socialist countries.

— Dan Bongino

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.

— Newt Gingrich

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

— Vladimir Lenin

My mind might be conservative, but at heart, I was always a socialist.

— Marco Pierre White

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

— Ezra Taft Benson