Socialist Quotes · Page 4

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

— Noam Chomsky

I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings.

— David Lloyd

The socialist tradition…goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

— H. L. Mencken

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

— A.E. Samaan

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

— Joseph Sobran

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

— Ronald Reagan

Enough generations of socialist policies have now passed for us to judge their effects. They are bleak. Socialism undermines the character of…

— Dennis Prager

We're talking about the Communist Party, the Socialist worker's movement, those movements basically have been underlined. We have other movements, but they're…

— Henry Giroux

There is a buffet of ideologies for me to choose from. I've been a fan of certain communist and socialist ideals. Some…

— Kamal Haasan

I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge…

— Erich Fromm

Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean…

— Margaret Thatcher

I was a minister in the Frente Popular (Popular Front) government, one of the three in Chile during the Pedro Aguirre Cerda…

— Salvador Allende

Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres.…

— Aravind Adiga

I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you…

— Cornel West

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

William Howard Taft, who he embarrassed in these congressional hearings, attacks him as an emotionalist and a socialist and a cosmopolitan in…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions…

— Bernie Sanders

Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,'…

— Elliott Abrams

“Any conception of socialism defined in national terms, within so extreme and predatory an oppressor nation as the US, is a view…

— Weather Underground

I believe employers should be aware that employees who earn under $10 an hour cannot lead an independent life. But I do…

— Richard Riordan

If you can't see that the glass is half full, you can never be a socialist. You have to believe in the…

— Billy Bragg

Theres no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off...By the end of this hour I…

— Anthony Bourdain

Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

— Maurice Druon

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

— George Bernard Shaw

Bill Clinton is a moderate Democrat. I'm a democratic socialist.

— Bernie Sanders

America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a…

— Paul Broun

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.

— Wilfred Burchett

Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies.

— Muriel Barbery

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

— Robert Nozick

The whole world may begin to burn, but the National Socialist State and Idea will emerge from the conflagration like platinum.

— Adolf Hitler

“Vodka was a liquid cultural yardstick, an eighty-proof vehicle of escape from the socialist daily grind.”

— Anonymous

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

— Hugo Chavez

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

— Larry Niven

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

— Mark Poster

It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

— Samora Machel

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

— Dennis Prager

Back in the early days of my political career, I was called Socialist Cindy. I just hate the nickname Cindy.

— Jacinda Ardern

I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.

— Alan Bennett