Socialism Quotes

• The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely any one at all escapes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Advantage
  • Condition
  • Necessity

• When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.

  

  August Bebel
  • Power
  • Church
  • Slavery

• Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution." In the course of a single year Stalin ascribed to [Vladimir] Lenin two directly opposed conceptions of the fundamental question of socialism. The first version represents the real tradition of the party; the second took shape in Stalin's mind only after the death of Lenin, in the course of the struggle against "Trotskyism".

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Question
  • Revolution
  • Conceptions

• The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Consequences
  • Workers
  • Bureaucracy

• The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented. It's that socialism has been faithfully implemented.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Problem
  • Faithfully
  • Implemented

• If you have total government it makes little difference whether you call it Communism, Fascism, Socialism, Caesarism or Pharaohism. It's all pretty much the same from the standpoint of the people who must live and suffer under it.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Live
  • Pretty

• Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.

  

  William Morris
  • Mind
  • Communism
  • Militant

• Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.

  

  Enver Hoxha
  • Struggle
  • Destiny
  • Departure

• For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the history of our revolution. For the definitive victory of Socialism, for the organization of Socialist production, the efforts of one country, especially of a peasant country like Russia, are insufficient - for that are required the efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • History
  • Revolution
  • Victory

• Many understand "state socialism" in this way. Sometimes a system is concealed behind this term in which the capitalist state, in the interests of preparation for the conduct of war, takes upon itself the maintenance of a certain number of private enterprises.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • War
  • Preparation
  • Enterprises

• The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Breeding
  • Socialisation

• What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.

  

  William Inge
  • Share
  • Equal
  • Socialist

• Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Dying
  • Capitalism
  • Imperialism

• In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • History
  • Study
  • Bolshevik

• The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Heart
  • Sound
  • Argument

• Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Treatise
  • Marx`s
  • Kapital

• It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • World
  • Interest
  • Socialist

• The method of this great philosopher Kant can serve as a pointer to the satisfying solution to our problem. Of course we don’t have to slavishly adhere to Kant's form, but we must match his method to the nature of our own subject socialism, displaying the same critical spirit. Our critique must be direct against both a scepticism that undermines all theoretical thought, and a dogmatism that relies on ready-made formulas.

  

  Eduard Bernstein
  • Problem
  • Spirit
  • Philosopher

• Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Welfare

• If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Achieve
  • Socialism
  • Adopt

• Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Country
  • Victory
  • Achieve

• Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Democracy
  • Socialism
  • God's Children

• I embraced Hinduism because it was the only religion in the world that is compatible with National Socialism. And the dream of my life is to integrate Hitlerism into the old Aryan Tradition, to show that it is really a resurgence of the original Tradition. It's not Indian, not European, but Indo-European. It comes from back to those days when the Aryans were one people near the North Pole. The Hyperborean Tradition.

  

  Savitri Devi
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• The fact that younger people are more inclined to socialism may well come with the fact that so many young people's first experience with capitalism is as a debtor.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • People
  • May
  • Experience

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