Socialism Quotes

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

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

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.

If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.

National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.

I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.

Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!

All socialism involves slavery.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Socialism? We've had way too much of it already.

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.