Socialist Quotes · Page 7

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

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

— George Orwell

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

— Dinesh D'Souza

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

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

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

— Roseanne Barr

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

— Rick Perry

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

— Enver Hoxha

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

— Ken Follett

I tend to not use the word "socialist," because even though more young adults in the United States in a poll say…

— Cynthia Kauffman

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very…

— Arthur Scargill

That's the problem with the socialist model, because the socialist model - if you work twice as hard as I do, and…

— Rafael Cruz

We have a centrist nationalist group of people in this country, lots of them, and we have a socialist group of people…

— Michael T. Flynn

I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many…

— Erich Fromm

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

— Margaret Thatcher

The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein.

— Carl I. Hagen

I was a National-Socialist and I remain one...The Germany of today is no longer a great nation, it has become a province…

— Joachim Peiper

“I do not know whether the needed refinements are possible, nor do I know, speaking more generally, whether the full socialist ideal…

— Anonymous

“We are now more Socialist in many ways than any other developed country outside the Communist bloc—in the size of the public…

— Keith Joseph

We conceive the function of Tribune to be the expression in popular form, and to as large a public as possible, of…

— Anthony Crosland

The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by…

— Adolf Hitler

People are interested in authentic long-term, socialist goals, which is not what is usually called socialism. They should be thinking through carefully…

— Noam Chomsky

America is ensnared in self-indulgence and its future hangs in the balance. Our moral and spiritual foundations are rapidly being destroyed. Our…

— John Hagee

On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand…

— Rosa Luxemburg

The Right said, [Barack Obama] is lying, he's a socialist who pals around with terrorists, he's a secret Muslim and blah blah…

— Bill Ayers

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

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

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

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— David Horowitz

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

— Karl Marx

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

— Porter Stansberry

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

— Marianne Faithfull

“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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Adam Johnson

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

— Jess Phillips

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

— Ernest Mandel

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

— Hendrik Hertzberg

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

— Kevin Sorbo

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 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