Socialism Quotes

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...

You see," I said, "I'm a socialist. I don't think this world was made for a small minority to dance ...

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In...

For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history...

In a covenant...among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private p...

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to de...

Government programs didn’t arise because the people demanded them or because the free market was una...

I am no worshiper of cloth of any color, but I love the red flag and what it symbolizes to me and ot...

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed...

What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in brin...

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it the...

All socialism involves slavery.

All Socialism involves slavery.

A society dedicated to the protection of equally distributed, modern and effective tools for the exe...

There is nothing illogical in the desire of the "have-nots" to appropriate the wealth of the "haves"...

Give with a free hand, but give only of your own.

I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.

For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help.

Socialists try to convince us that the tea becomes sweet not because of sugar, but because of mixing...

Socialism is a monster, which will die.

Whenever socialism appears it destroys at least one thing: diversity. Everything has to be "the best...

I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve...

It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that r...

Then all at once he´d hear his own voice enunciating clearly and firmly, feel its reverberance along...

Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the s...

They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.

It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being...

No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty;...

The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end ...

Nationalism and socialism as actually lived and applied in the 20th century are the same thing (and ...

If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicki...

…The story of the Pledge of Allegiance and its National Socialist roots is a fascinating one. Dr. Re...

Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freed...

Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to buil...

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wonderin...

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common deno...

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exe...

Schumpeter remarked how pleased he was with the Russian Revolution. Socialism was now no longer a di...

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather suffici...

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled ...

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations ...

Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible witho...

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directio...

Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police st...

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change i...

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; th...

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilit...

The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossa...

When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been ...

The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the...

...it happens that "society is saved" as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as oft...

The difference between communism and socialism is that under socialism central planning ends with a ...

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the o...

The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,...

‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sha...

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every p...

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic:...

The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulti...

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Everybody knows that the dice are loadedEverybody rolls with their fingers crossedEverybody knows th...

Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has ...

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method pos...

Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and t...

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization ...

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologie...

Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a small...

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it ...

The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is charac...

All Nazi champions insist again and again that Marxism and Bolshevism are the quintessence of the Je...

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism an...

These self-styled liberals and progressives are honestly convinced that they are true democrats. But...

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his...

I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victo...

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in...

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human b...

And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain (...) I...

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

The alienation, the downright visceral frustration, of the new American ideologues, the bone in thei...

Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom o...

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Our athiests are pious people.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Ruin, therefore, is not caused by lavatories but it's something that starts in people's heads. So wh...

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be w...