Socialism Quotes · Page 18

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

— George Bernard Shaw

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

— Ludwig von Mises

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of…

— Erich Fromm

In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

— Ludwig von Mises

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say,…

— Michael Moore

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

— Adam Johnson

Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.

— Paul Broun

I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Socialism is about claims of justice, and it is also about money: about wealth, income, physical and financial capital. It is an…

— Virginia Postrel

The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures… The separate…

— Adolf Hitler

In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic…

— Heinrich Himmler

Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay…

— Roger Ailes

We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with…

— Richard T. Ely

Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man…

— Daniel Guerin

In socialism, everything is supposed to be equal. And yet, it's always fascinating how the elite government bureaucrats (in socialist places like…

— Trish Regan

The Capitalist system with its exploitation of those who are economically weak, with its robbery of the workers labour power, with its…

— Gregor Strasser

The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Andrei Yanuaryevich (one longs to blurt out, “Jaguaryevich”) Vyshinsky, availing himself of the most flexible dialectics (of a sort nowadays not permitted…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The old revolutionary chant "Power to the People," usually accompanied by a raised clenched fist, has gone out of fashion. The failure…

— Walter B. Wriston

“The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is…

— Karl Popper

“Nationalism and socialism as actually lived and applied in the 20th century are the same thing (and in the 18th and 19th…

— Jonah Goldberg

“Now, you look here! The first thing you got to understand is that all this uplift and flipflop and settlement-work and recreation…

— Sinclair Lewis

Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market … What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral…

— Jacque Fresco

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

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

— Ronald Reagan

The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.

— Greg Gutfeld

The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

— Rose Wilder Lane

“I think it's wrong that only one percent of the people should own ninety percent of the country.”

— Sally Wentworth

We either go one direction, left, which would be socialism. Or right, which would be people trying to make the money themselves.

— Chuck Norris

Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.

— Newt Gingrich

“...socialism had somehow made time more flexible. There were often situations when 1 PM and 5 PM were interchangeable.”

— Colin Cotterill

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

— Ernest Mandel

...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at…

— Arnold Beichman

While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense…

— Chris Matthews

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in…

— Bernie Sanders

If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich

— Jim Rogers

Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.

— Ralph Nader

The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the…

— Andrew Joseph Galambos

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all…

— Martin Luther King, Jr