Life Quote by Steven Lee Myers

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

“Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a smaller production of wealth; nevertheless the…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Nothing in its life so became the Soviet Union as the leaving of it”

— Tony Judt

“Most of the states of Europe had no prospect of social transformation, and thus little ability to rival or counter the Nazis and the…

— Timothy Snyder

“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

“There was a fetid atmosphere throughout the cities of Germany during the postwar years that laid its breath on all of the generation who…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“The quest to remove all inequality is the deadening hand of socialism and results in social stagnation.”

— Cory Bernardi

“They all agreed that under communism they had been just as poor, but at least there was food and security, whereas independence had brought…

— Isabel Allende

When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and - in…

— Rick Perry

“Morally, there was the extreme disappointment at the failure of the classical socialist ideal. The great ideal of Marxism had failed to materialize. The…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“Having lived in a mythical country, a place neither here nor there, these intellectuals from Vilna and Gomel helped create another and called it…

— Alan Furst

“In the end, the “model” that came into existence in the USSR was not socialist but totalitarian. This is a serious matter to be…

— Mikhail Gorbachev