Socialism Quotes

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

  

  Ernst Toller
  • Socialism
  • Realized
  • Working Class

• Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Rich
  • Revolutionary

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Men
  • Gun
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  James Cook
  • United States
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism

• The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Organization
  • Socialism
  • Remains

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

  

  Clara Fraser
  • Socialism
  • Liberation

• The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.

  

  James Cook
  • Results
  • Socialism
  • Application

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Political
  • Democracy
  • Path

• 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

• Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Democracy
  • Completion
  • Negation

• 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

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