“The ruling class is opposed to the lower class—that is, ‘closed’ to the outside—insofar as it ‘excludes, restricts, or makes admission conditional.’… — Franz Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“Nationalism and socialism as actually lived and applied in the 20th century are the same thing (and in the 18th and 19th… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced society is not, strictly… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class… — Michel Aflaq Copy Share Image
I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
“It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and… — Heda Margolius Kovaly Copy Share Image
I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
At home: I want to go out, I want friends. When I go out: I want to go home, I hate people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
It was not that socialism failed, it was the lack of socialism. — Wojciech Jaruzelski Copy Share Image
Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
We have ground for believing that a noble form of socialism existed among the prehistoric and primitive people on this planet, the… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
“It is so true, that the Socialists look upon mankind as a subject for social experiments, that if, by chance, they are… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
[T]rue socialism must be voluntary - not coerced. Even in the most complete system of society we can conceive the individual must… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image