Socialist Quotes · Page 6

The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.

— Roger Scruton

A country where a man is afraid to criticise another one is no socialist country.

— Enver Hoxha

We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.

— Rick Perry

I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.

— Roseanne Barr

Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

— Zaha Hadid

I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.

— Stephen Lewis

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a…

— Robert Kiyosaki

Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are a few sinister people who know exactly what they are…

— Dan Smoot

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative…

— Peter L. Berger

I was unlucky enough to grow up under a military dictatorship which had very Left-wing, socialist policies. It's not something I would…

— Kemi Badenoch

What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats…

— Glenn Beck

Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus…

— Hugo Chavez

The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.

— Mikhail Kalinin

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language…

— John McCarthy

I am convinced that there are few, if any, American people that could even start believing or understanding what living in a…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

The socialist parties of all countries are duty bound to fight energetically for the implementation of universal women's suffrage which is to…

— Clara Zetkin

Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The…

— Mao Zedong

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American…

— Ronald Reagan

Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon…

— Ludwig von Mises

A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down…

— Noam Chomsky

Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from…

— Joseph Stalin

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

— Carl Andre

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

— Edward Carpenter

“The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist.”

— Anton Chekhov

It's the usual Socialist fiscal math of 1 + 1 = You're paying, so who cares.

— Rachel Marsden

What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress.

— Rutger Bregman

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

— Pope Pius XI

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

— Hector Hugh Munro

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“Whether he knows it or not, the middle-income American is taxed as though he were living in a socialist society.”

— Gore Vidal

My father was a socialist, so we had some of the most extraordinary people at home.

— Gina Miller

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

— Karl Liebknecht

The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

— David R. Brower

In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

— Fritz Todt

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

— Martin Niemoller

Destroying history, good or bad, is straight from the socialist playbook.

— Bill Hagerty

The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist

— Kwame Nkrumah