Socialism Quotes

Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

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

First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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.

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.

The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism.

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

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

The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.