Socialist Quotes · Page 5

Since China has a population of 1.1 billion, it won't feel lonely even if it becomes the only socialist country.

— Li Peng

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

— Ernest Mandel

I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is…

— William J. Casey

When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.

— Nikita Khrushchev

I told Clooney, George, you’re worth $100 million — of course you can afford to be a socialist!

— Kevin Sorbo

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

— Hendrik Hertzberg

If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

— John Irving

“In a gesture of socialist support, the Dear Leader placed his hand upon her.”

— Adam Johnson

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment,…

— Joseph Stalin

We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of…

— Ai Weiwei

In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and…

— Janos Kadar

We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary…

— Robert Menzies

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom.…

— Thomas Peterffy

If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist.…

— Jane Fonda

“Nineteen seventy-six come and bring an election with it. The man who bring guns to the ghetto made it clear, that there…

— Marlon James

We didn't have any solution to the world's problems. I mean, we were trying to grow up in a socialist way to…

— Joe Strummer

“The truth, however, is that – to speak only of what I know personally – if I had kept a diary for…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

The America in which we grew up is vastly different from the America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that's why…

— Newt Gingrich

State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the…

— James Connolly

I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw…

— Jack Kemp

On the world scene, it is our position that there is a resurgence of socialism taking place. The world's socialist and Communist…

— Gus Hall

Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men…

— C. Wright Mills

Government provided free tuition tends more and more to produce a uniform conformist education, with college faculties ultimately dependent for their jobs…

— Henry Hazlitt

Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do…

— Werner Herzog

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

— Winston Churchill

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

— Ernest Mandel

I am Left-wing. I am a socialist. I believe in sharing wealth. There's no two ways about it.

— Jess Phillips

Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.

— Margaret Thatcher

The trouble with Russia is not that she is socialist but that she is Russia.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.

— Ken Follett

“The navy is like a socialist country. Efficiency isn't part of the jargon.”

— James W. Blinn

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

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

— Marianne Faithfull

And I don't want my assets to be stuck inside a banana republic in the midst of a huge socialist experiment.

— Porter Stansberry

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

— Karl Marx

“The law of socialist economy is this: from each according to his exploitability, to the nomenklatura according to its greed.”

— David Horowitz

“Vicious fights among socialist and leftist factions are a recognized feature of the history of socialism.”

— Dinesh D'Souza

“If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad”

— George Orwell

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life

— Mikhail Gorbachev

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

— Bill Ayers