Britain Quote by Margaret Thatcher

It was not that socialism failed, it was the lack of socialism.

— Wojciech Jaruzelski

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

— Margaret Thatcher

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

— Stefan Heym

But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party…

— Richard Posner

In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and…

— David Horowitz

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and…

— David Horowitz

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist…

— Sean Connery

Socialism most always leads to a failure of democracy because the economic system ultimately cannot provide for its people.

— Trish Regan

If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this…

— Stefan Heym

One of the greatest own goals in modern British political history helped create one of the biggest political parties in the western world, but…

— Owen Jones

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

— Lester R. Brown