Socialism never took root in America.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

— John Steinbeck

I saw so many boys whipped, it took root in my head.

— Albert Fish

Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties…

— Hermann Goring

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily…

— Ronald Wright

“Council housing, once the cherished centrepiece of Bevanite socialism, took just twenty years for successive governments to pick apart.”

— Lynsey Hanley

You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make…

— Desiderius Erasmus

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by…

— Ayn Rand

The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be…

— Milovan ?ilas

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the…

— Karl Marx

There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The forces that…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

If they were going to go to London or to the UK to find out how health care is, national health care doesn't work,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.

— Andrey Illarionov

Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful,…

— Neal Stephenson

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

— Walter Benjamin

We may first observe that communism and socialism--which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism--cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that…

— J. Reuben Clark