I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“...socialism had somehow made time more flexible. There were often situations when 1 PM and 5 PM were interchangeable.” — Colin Cotterill Copy Share Image
Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“I think it's wrong that only one percent of the people should own ninety percent of the country.” — Sally Wentworth Copy Share Image
We either go one direction, left, which would be socialism. Or right, which would be people trying to make the money themselves. — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
“The modern proletariat was not led by the social-democracy into class struggle. On the contrary, the international social-democratic movement was called into… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients,… — James Cook Copy Share Image
“The train resembles the Soviet type and is quite comfortable, but all socialist structures I have ever encountered have toilets stemming from… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I even believed in a third way; I thought it was possible to put a human face on capitalism. But I was… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
. . I think the Adam Smith role was played in this cycle i.e. the late twentieth century collapse of socialism in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I am very happy here [on Cuba], but I feel I have work to do in the United States. It's where I… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
“In a socialist society, people are always motivated to achieve unity and the truest form of freedom—Organising themselves and coming to help… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
“The right of self-determination of the peoples includes the right to a state of their own. However, the foundation of a state… — Abdullah Öcalan Copy Share Image
“It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society,… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
“From the daily battles against the employers and their allies, the workers gradually learn the deeper meaning of this struggle. At first… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terrorism, the present danger of Soviet advance, the hypocrisy of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at… — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
It is quite possible that China may reach the stages of socialism and communism considerably later than your countries in the West… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“The vice of capitalism is that it stands for the unequal sharing of blessings; whereas the virtue of socialism is that it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The perverse gift of the Chinese coronavirus is that it has given Americans an up close and personal look at the horrors… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The challenge of Jesus to the individual our Socialist agitator hurls at the nation: What doth it profit a nation if it… — John Spargo Copy Share Image
I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first. — Wojciech Jaruzelski Copy Share Image
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