Socialism Quotes

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...

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...