Socialist Quotes · Page 8

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

— Ernest Mandel

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

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

— Li Peng

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

— Joseph Goebbels

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

— Michelle Bachelet

“He's a bar-room socialist, if that's what you mean. Beer and revolution go in, piss come out”

— Pat Barker

I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.

— Michelle Bachelet

Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow,

— Dick Armey

The [National Socialist] Party...is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The…

— Adolf Hitler

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is…

— George Orwell

Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

— Milton Friedman

This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates…

— John T. Flynn

When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the…

— John Wayne

China has a history of thousands of years of feudalism and is still lacking in socialist democracy and socialist legality. We are…

— Deng Xiaoping

I think it's been time for a new party. I think it's time for two new parties. If you watch the Democratic…

— Glenn Beck

Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic…

— Shulamith Firestone

Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich…

— Ben Shapiro

“In all the socialist literature I had read, there was hardly a chapter devoted to the creation of wealth, the problem of…

— David Horowitz

Let's learn from history and take a look at other infamous socialist central-planning experiments like China's Great Leap Forward or the Soviet…

— Lauren Boebert

The National Socialist state refuses to admit female labour in factories merely because such labour is cheap. There is, of course, a…

— Adolf Hitler

In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically a Communist. And if…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“What a country of lazy shits, with fucking hypocritical politicians claiming that people actually wanted to work if they could. Norwegians voted…

— Jo Nesbø

There is no independence of law against National Socialism. Say to yourselves at every decision which you make: "How would the Führer…

— Hans Frank

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

— Winston Churchill

Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany must know Wagner.

— Adolf Hitler

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

— Winston Churchill

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

— Catharine MacKinnon

The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government.

— Fritz Sauckel

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

— Shirley Williams

Bill O'Reilly is a socialist. He is in favor of Medicare, he is in favor of Social Security. Those are socialist programs.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

My grandfather had strong opinions. He was an argumentative character and quite staunchly socialist.

— Bill Bailey

Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.

— Sarah Brady

Ironically, socialist countries do tend to have immediate short term decreases in poverty before collapsing.

— Dan Bongino

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

— Elbert Hubbard

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully…

— David Hare

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

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic…

— Karl Liebknecht

The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

— Cynthia Kauffman