Best Socialism Sayings
608 Socialism quotes by 333 unique authors
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I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint…
— Richard M. Nixon
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In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed…
— Tony Blair
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The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist. Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding…
— John Bates Clark
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Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.
— Len Deighton
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Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this respect…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
— Ludwig von Mises
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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day…
— Ludwig von Mises
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In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.
— George Orwell
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The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem…
— Ralph Raico
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Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests…
— Ralph Raico
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As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to…
— Ralph Raico
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The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.
— George Reisman
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As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.
— Gus Hall
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Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.
— Andrey Illarionov
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Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.
— Ronald Reagan
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Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907,…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.
— Ludwig von Mises
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The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.
— Ludwig von Mises
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From the viewpoint of economic democracy, the capitalism-socialism debate was a debate between private and state capitalism (i.e., the private or public employment system), and…
— Unknown Author
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We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.
— Ayn Rand
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Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ,…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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