Human race Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev

Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and…

— Joseph Stalin

Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an…

— John Dos Passos

From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s - it…

— Jay Roach

What being a socialist means is... that you hold out... a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary, where international relations are not…

— Bernie Sanders

It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A…

— Ricardo Semler

“The USSR model was never a serious threat to anyone's bottom line. People blow up over Germany because, for all its left-wing bent, it…

— Thomas Geoghegan

Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple of other…

— Milton Friedman

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

— George Bernard Shaw

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

— Winston Churchill

“There is a particular view, still popular among left-wing intellectuals in the West, that the Soviet system was “socialism gone wrong.” This thought expresses…

— Roger Scruton

I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative.…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn