American dream Quote by Ronald Wright

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

— John Steinbeck

“Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty, socialism sends them back.”

— Jeffrey Fry

“Gradually this truth is beginning to dawn on the political class, so that even socialists have come to accept that the poor are not…

— Roger Scruton

“As a matter of fact I did flirt with Socialism, in my youth." "That when you were in university, was it?" He smiled. "Yes.…

— Iain M. Banks

“In fact, in its most basic form, socialism was a belief in more equitable distribution of wealth, with everyone afforded the opportunity to thrive…

— Jeff Guinn

“Capitalism may be the unequal distribution of wealth, socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as ‘free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich’.”

— Ha-Joon Chang

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“It was ironic—the great socialists could only survive by becoming capitalists.” But”

— Jeff Guinn

“Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“In all the socialist literature I had read, there was hardly a chapter devoted to the creation of wealth, the problem of getting people…

— David Horowitz

“Socialism reached into her mind, to be rejected. She had never understood it clearly, but it seemed to her a state of mind where…

— Zane Grey