Socialist Quotes · Page 23

They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all…

— Karl Hess

During the battles last night and at dawn, they [ Ba'th Socialist Party fighters] had destroyed three American helicopters

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is…

— C. L. R. James

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away…

— George Oppen

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the…

— Winston Churchill

It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one…

— Joe Slovo

All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual.…

— Ronald Reagan

Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that…

— Ron Paul

No matter what Donald Trump says, he has deep socialist leanings. He's a nationalist and a populist. And throughout history, whenever you…

— Glenn Beck

And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation

— Christine O'Donnell

The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the…

— Roger Scruton

The ways sexuality plays out in political economies is central. And Cambodia's political economy is organized around this notion of family. So…

— Anne Elizabeth Moore

The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than…

— James P. Cannon

If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They…

— Erich Fromm

I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly…

— Robert Sirico

I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian,…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high…

— Ivan Illich

While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would…

— Leon Trotsky

I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed.

— Edward Snowden

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

— Hendrik Hertzberg

I would caution my Republican friends that [Obama has] three years to go, and in that three years the American people are…

— Colin Powell

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich represent the big government frugal socialist wing of the party. And I represent the true constitutional conservative…

— Michele Bachmann

The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a…

— Rosa Luxemburg