Socialism Quotes

• Socialism with authentic, political power must lead to tyranny and cruelty.

  

  Alan Charles Korsun
  • Socialism
  • Tyranny
  • Cruelty

• Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy.

  

  Alexander Fraser Tytler
  • Moments
  • Democracy
  • Politics

• I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Art
  • Sometimes
  • Audience

• 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.

  

  Tim Scott
  • Problem
  • Capitalism
  • Mantra

• If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Political
  • Government
  • Desert

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

  

  Ernst Toller
  • Socialism
  • Realized
  • Working Class

• Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Democracy
  • Liberty
  • Socialism

• Now what has happened in our country during the time we have been plunging toward socialism? Are we actually at that point where the Constitution may be hanging by a single thread and we need to step in to save it?

  

  Ernest L. Wilkinson
  • Country
  • May
  • Needs

• NDCC is an admirable job of amassing information to prove that communism is socialism and socialism (a plot to enslave the world) is not a movement of the downtrodden but a scheme supported and directed by the wealthiest of people. If enough Americans read and act upon NDCC, they really can save the Republic from the conspirators--whose plans for the destruction of our country are galloping fast toward completion.

  

  Dan Smoot
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Past
  • Destiny
  • Socialism

• I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.

  

  Rirkrit Tiravanija
  • Everyone
  • Putting
  • Dictators

• When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and - in Germany, the Soviet Union and other nations - millions of lives.

  

  Rick Perry
  • World
  • Economy
  • Nations

• All the future of socialism resides in the autonomous development of workers’ syndicates.

  

  Georges Sorel
  • Future
  • Socialism
  • Workers

• If the electrician who comes to mend my fuse blows it instead, so I should stop having electricity? I should cut off my light? Socialism is my light, can you understand that?

  

  Arnold Wesker
  • Light
  • Understand
  • Socialism

• Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.

  

  William Hurrell Mallock
  • Suffering
  • Values
  • Contract

• The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society - we are on the eve of universal change.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Change
  • Humanity
  • Civilization

• If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems, then I welcome it.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Problem
  • Justice
  • Economic

• It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

  

  James Cook
  • United States
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism

• To me there can be no liberation without socialism. And conversely, there can be no socialism without liberation for everybody.

  

  Clara Fraser
  • Socialism
  • Liberation

• All socialism involves slavery.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Slavery
  • Socialism

• When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Backwards

• According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Democracy
  • Concepts
  • Construction

• Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State.

  

  Daniel Guerin
  • Men
  • Liberty
  • Anarchy

• 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.

  

  Sidney Hook
  • Judging
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism

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