Socialism Quotes · Page 5

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Art is socialism but life is capitalism.

— Mike Birbiglia

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

— Mary McCarthy

Socialism never took root in America.

— John Steinbeck

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

— B. Carroll Reece

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

— Dennis Prager

Socialism is a dead horse.

— Thorstein Veblen

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

— Lajos Kossuth

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.

— Francois Mitterrand

Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

— Ben Shapiro

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

— Karl Liebknecht

Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

— George Gilder

Socialism? We've had way too much of it already.

— Steve Steckler

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought…

— Bertie Carvel

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

— Vladimir Lenin

“They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation.”

— Richard Adams

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

— Sergio Leone

“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.”

— George Orwell

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

— Ed Miliband

“These southern workers were more interested in protecting their prejudices than their interests.”

— Fred Erwin Beal

“There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.”

— A.E. Samaan

Many understand "state socialism" in this way. Sometimes a system is concealed behind this term in which the capitalist state, in the…

— Joseph Stalin

I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the…

— Rudy Giuliani

Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual…

— Ludwig von Mises

The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is,…

— Luke Scott

The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign…

— Eugene V. Debs

Gentlemen, if ever a generation will come after us which is so weak and soft-hearted that it doesn't understand our task, then…

— Odilo Globocnik

“The difference between communism and socialism is that under socialism central planning ends with a gun in your face, whereas under communism…

— Kevin D. Williamson

Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair…

— Leonard Read

“Socialism is the fantastic younger brother of almost decrepit despotism, which it wants to succeed; its efforts are, therefore, in the deepest…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Sharia has a ruling system, an economic system, a policy and social system, a foreign policy and judiciary system to be implemented,…

— Anjem Choudary

“Time is the ultimate form of socialism. Each receives the same amount equally, yet how we manage our time is reflected by…

— Donald Mol

I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we…

— Peter Greenaway

How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Well, let me just end with one last point to do with your question. One of the issues which has devastated a…

— Noam Chomsky

“Seen from that future time, when every commodity the human mind could imagine would flow from the industrial horn of plenty in…

— Francis Spufford

The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market…

— Tony Blair