Best Socialism Quotes
608 Socialism quotes by 333 unique authors
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and…
— Ludwig von Mises
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force,…
— Ayn Rand
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Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to…
— Ayn Rand
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Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody…
— Walter E. Williams
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I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
— Sidney Hook
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War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness…
— Joseph Sobran
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A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.
— Milton Friedman
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Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own. They know the…
— Milton Friedman
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A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.
— Andrew Joseph Galambos
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We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop…
— Frank Chodorov
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On the world scene, it is our position that there is a resurgence of socialism taking place. The world's socialist and Communist forces are now…
— Gus Hall
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You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be…
— Winston Churchill
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When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.
— August Bebel
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Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.
— Unknown Author
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Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of…
— Unknown Author
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...the transition from capitalism to Socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by slow changes, by…
— J Stalin
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Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
— Doug Larson
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The words Socialism and Communism have the same meaning. They indicate a condition of society in which the wealth of the community: the land and…
— Sylvia Pankhurst
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Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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In brainwashing communism deceit lies manipulation marxism socialism truth A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
— Vladimir Lenin
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You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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