Socialism Quotes
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The goal of socialism is communism.
Vladimir Lenin -
Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.
Westbrook Pegler
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Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power.
Alexander Berkman -
Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.
Anderson Cooper -
Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.
James Cook -
The future belongs to socialism.
Erich Honecker -
The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.
Vladimir Lenin -
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
Vladimir Lenin
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When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.
Sergio Leone -
Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.
James Cook -
Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.
Erich Honecker -
Until socialism is confronted with its lived, communist reality, the gravest atrocities of all recorded human life, we live in its age.
Alan Charles Korsun -
The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
Vladimir Lenin -
Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.
Michael Foot
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The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.
Max Lerner -
If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.
James Cook -
History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.
George Gilder -
The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.
Serge Lang -
Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.
Catharine MacKinnon -
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.
Raul Castro
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No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.
Vladimir Lenin -
When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
William Morris -
National Socialism is simply this - a proposal that the German people rid themselves of the parasitic Jews. The gentile host dared to protest against the continued presence of the parasite, and attempted to throw it off.
Eustace Mullins -
I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.
George Bernard Shaw