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315 Socialist quotes by 218 unique authors

England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to… — Dan Smoot
America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation. — Paul Broun
People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House, — Tom Tancredo
There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses. — Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody. — George Bernard Shaw
No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist. — Ezra Taft Benson
The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community. — David Boaz
A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its… — Ivan Illich
What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun? — Don Feder
Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn?t know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at… — Winston Churchill
Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!. — Johann Most
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism. — Ernest Mandel
Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly… — Jawaharlal Nehru
Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century. — David Hare
I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well. — David Hare
Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff… — Vladimir Lenin
It is not national interests we are upholding -- we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national… — Vladimir Lenin
If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on… — Vladimir Lenin
I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality… — Ayn Rand
Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort… — Sarah Brady
As the books got more and more Zionist and less and less socialist, my entire generation, at least a large percentage of it, simply left… — Roseanne Barr
A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head. — David Lloyd George

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