Characteristics Quote by Ayn Rand

The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned…

— Ayn Rand

Socialism, technically, is when the government owns the means of production. And they don't yet. I mean they own a couple car companies and…

— Rush Limbaugh

Socialists do not merely want a welfare state, they absolutely must have one. They must have a grovelling dependent class from which to obtain…

— Edward Britton

Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not the same…

— Kshama Sawant

We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that the government…

— Thomas Sowell

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Indeed, very few successful socialist propagandists ever bothered to focus on the empirical case for socialism. Rather, when trying to sell socialism as a…

— Jonah Goldberg

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights...

— Ayn Rand

And the only forms of socialism in the world that were then getting results - malign ones, as it was - were the Fascist…

— James Ellroy

Contrary to what many people believe, the welfare state was originally a 'rightwing' invention. It was the arch-conservative Otton von Bismarck who first introduced…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under socialism, government…

— Ayn Rand

The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a…

— Conrad Black