SOCIALISM QUOTES
quotations about socialism
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
RONALD WRIGHT, America & Americans
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Socialism is a scareword they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called farm price supports. Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
HARRY S. TRUMAN, speech, October 10, 1952
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I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society. It took some time before I recognized this as no more than a beautiful dream; that freedom is more important than equality; that the attempt to realize equality endangers freedom; and that, if freedom is lost, there will not even be equality among the unfree.
KARL R. POPPER, Unended Quest
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The ripeness of society for Socialism is not to be disproved by the number of wrecks and ruins which abound.
JOHN SPARGO, Elements of Socialism
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech in the House of Commons, "Demobilisation", October 22, 1945
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Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.
DARIO FO, London Times, April 6, 1992
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It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.
ALDOUS HUXLEY, The Perennial Philosophy
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Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.
WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland, May 28, 1948
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Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean--power over people, power to the State.
MARGARET THATCHER, speech to Conservative Central Council, March 15, 1986
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I, who said forty years ago that we should have had Socialism already but for the Socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism, and Fascism
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Socialism provides safety in numbers. And that's OK, if you don't mind trading your name--your identity and individualism--for a number.
JAROD KINTZ, 99 Cents for Some Nonsense
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We comes from God, I from the Devil.
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN, We
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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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, Popular Government
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In socialism of the future ... what counts is the whole, the community of the Volk. The individual and his life play only a subsidiary role. He can be sacrificed--he is prepared to sacrifice himself should the whole demand it.
ADOLF HITLER, attributed, Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant
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Socialism is in a way the shadow of capitalism. Nothing guarantees the future of socialism so much as capitalism, because socialism is capitalism's self-criticism.
RICHARD WOLFF, interview, Fox Business, August 2017
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Stripped down to its essence, and returned to its roots, socialism is an ideology of radical democracy. In an era when liberties are under attack, it seeks to empower civil society to allow participation in the decisions that affect our lives. A huge state bureaucracy, of course, can be just as alienating and undemocratic as corporate boardrooms, so we need to think hard about the new forms that social ownership could take.
BHASKAR SUNKARA, "Socialism's Future May Be Its Past", New York Times, June 26, 2017
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
KARL MARX, attributed, Communism
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Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.
KARL MARX, The Communist Manifesto
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Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.
ÉMILE DURKHEIM, Le socialisme
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Socialism is also unselfishness embraced as an axiom.
ROGER KIMBALL, The New Criterion
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