Socialism Quotes - page 4

I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything. (Bertrand Russell)
While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states. View quote
Kenneth Waltz
Democratic socialism means that in a democratic, civilized society the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of taxes. View quote
Bernie Sanders
What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system.... The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfilment. View quote
Heinrich Himmler
The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses. View quote
H. L. Mencken
For you to be a Communist or a Socialist is to be totalitarian; for me no.... On the contrary, I think Socialism frees man. View quote
Salvador Allende
As for the bourgeois state, at the present moment, we are seeking to overcome it, to overthrow it.... Our objective is total, scientific, Marxist socialism. View quote
Salvador Allende
Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence. (George Steiner)
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. View quote
Herbert Read
The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed; socialism doesn't work. View quote
Rand Paul
The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food. View quote
John Pilger
What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N. S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement [namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity] is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities. View quote
Martin Heidegger
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. View quote
Martin Heidegger
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse. View quote
Len Deighton
The factory workers say that it's impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, "Where did you get the watch?" View quote
Len Deighton
The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism. (Irving Kristol)
The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism. View quote
Irving Kristol
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. View quote
Thomas Sowell
And what have we now in Germany? A land of bankers and car-makers. Even our great army has gone soft. Soldiers wear beards and question orders. I am not ashamed to say I believed in National Socialism. I still wear the Iron Cross with diamonds Hitler gave me. But today in all Germany you can't find a single person who voted Adolf Hitler into power. Many Germans feel guilty about the war. But they don't explain the real guilt we share - That we lost. View quote
Hanna Reitsch
For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. View quote
Che Guevara