Socialism Quotes

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. (Winston Churchill)
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. View quote
Norman Mailer
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. View quote
Oswald Spengler
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? View quote
Fidel Castro
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. View quote
Earl Warren
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. View quote
William Howard Taft
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? View quote
H. G. Wells
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. (Margaret Thatcher)
I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism. View quote
Hugo Chávez
We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism. View quote
Fred Hampton
The goal of socialism is communism. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
All socialism involves slavery. View quote
Herbert Spencer
For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility. View quote
Jacques Delors
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss. View quote
George Reisman
Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism. View quote
Erich Honecker
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. View quote
John Steinbeck
We already had success in creating a democratic, national government that is revolutionary and popular. That is how socialism begins, not with decrees. (Salvador Allende)
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism. View quote
Alfred Rosenberg
National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable. View quote
Martin Bormann