Socialism Quotes

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapa...

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Fr...

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxist...

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced socie...

How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or Amer...

It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be...

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number...

The poor man is called a socialist if he believes that the wealth of the rich should be divided amon...

You will never find peace with these fascistsYou'll never find friends such as weSo remember that va...

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out hu...

Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

Men were springing up, a black avenging host was slowly germinating in the furrows, thrusting upward...

The right of self-determination of the peoples includes the right to a state of their own. However, ...

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted ...

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same thing

Here’s the solution. We need a CO2 tax, revenue-neutral, to replace taxation on employment, which wa...

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the fu...

If Aliosha had come to the conclusion that neither God nor immortality existed, he would immediately...

the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of hum...

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishmen...

Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the c...

The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By ...

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly posses...

Or why should one refrain from burning hatred, whatever its basis--race, class, or ideology? Such ha...

The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormo...

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...

Andrei Yanuaryevich (one longs to blurt out, “Jaguaryevich”) Vyshinsky, availing himself of the most...

I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook,...

The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the ma...

These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: … the men in Kentucky [neither] ...

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health car...

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the sur...

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Gr...

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do w...

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through ...

The train resembles the Soviet type and is quite comfortable, but all socialist structures I have ev...

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men f...

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state do...

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know y...

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limi...

When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such d...

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from...

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting b...

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. Ho...

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state mono...

Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in on...

For my part, while I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Sociali...

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve...

In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstance...

It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if ...

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect w...

For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.

So what’s your alternative?” people say, as if that’s logic. We don’t have to have an alternative, t...

The Koran is empathetic about the rights of other religions to practice their own beliefs. It unequi...

Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terror...

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good th...

You might think that the Left could have a regime-change perspective of its own, based on solidarity...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to...

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude...

This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of natu...

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry ...

Socialists claim to be in favor of equitable redistribution of income and wealth, but who determines...

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' nam...

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the t...

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capital...

[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being...

There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g...

The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption f...

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it...

The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and...

They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealis...

Why do the anti-authoritarians not confine themselves to crying out against political authority, the...

Capitalist production...was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which w...

State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then d...

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its m...

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they cre...

Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number o...

We disapprove of state education. Than the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We o...

I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anti...

Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of...

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of ...

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator...

Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from...

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love....

It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, becau...

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn hi...

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fund...

A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less...

One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them ...

Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more selle...

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiati...

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security...

Oh, Lord! don't I know it's difficult! ... Don't I know that perhaps it's impossible! But it's the o...