Quotes About Socialism

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.

The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism.

Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

The labor leader Eugene V. Debs, for whom Hardie had campaigned years before, left a sickbed in 1918 to give a series of antiwar speeches, for which he, too, was thrown behind bars. The judge told him he might get a lesser sentence if he repented. "Repent?" asked Debs. "Repent? Repent for standing like a man?" Still in his cell in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, in 1920, he would receive nearly a million votes for president on the Socialist ticket.

Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave.

Socialism, which dates back to 1917, when Lenin founded the world's first socialist state, has had a much shorter shelf life. It too collapsed across the world because the people who lived under it considered it to be a form of slavery.

Finally—and this is the seventh familiar theme of Venezuelan socialism—there is getting rich off politics. Once again, that does not occur in Scandinavia. There is not a single politician in Norway, Sweden or Denmark who has gone from zero to $10 million—or $200 million—while largely employed in the public sector.

Remove,' I said to myself, `the impetus to private ownership, and you have made the first giant step toward removing the causes of injustice in the world. There would be no greed if there were no possessions, no jealousy, no envy, perhaps even no hatred.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

first, to successfully carry out the organization of socialism in the northern part of the country; second, to support the revolutionary struggle in South Korea; third, to develop solidarity and unity with the international revolutionary forces.

The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That's how I see football, that's how I see life.

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

Socialismus pÃ…â"¢edstavuje osudný omyl intelektuální pýchy ?i arogance vÄ›dy.

Socialisté se hrubÄ› mýlí, když v??í, že emoce a postoje typické pro malé primitivní skupiny (založené na principech solidarity, altruismu a loajality) mohou dosta?ovat k zachování rozÅ¡íÃ…â"¢eného Ã…â"¢ádu spole?enské kooperace tvoÃ…â"¢ícího moderní spole?nost.

Marx's whole critique of capitalism and his vision of socialism are rooted in the concept that human self-activity is paralyzed in the capitalist system and that the goal is to restore full humanity by restoring activity in all spheres of life.

I refer to the view that we have no alternatives to the models of corporate capitalism, social democratic or Soviet socialism, or technocratic "fascism with a smiling face." The popularity of this view is largely due to the fact that little effort has been made to study the feasibility of entirely new social models and to experiment with them.

La meta del socialismo era la individualidad y no la uniformidad; la liberación de las ataduras económicas, no la realización de los objetivos materiales como primordial preocupación de la vida. Su principio era que cada ser humano es un fin en sí mismo, y jamás debe de ser el medio de otro hombre.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Churchill, Perth

Churchill made his last political speech on 29 September 1959, in the election campaign at Woodford. 'Among our Socialist opponents there is great confusion,' he said. 'Some of them regard private enterprise as a tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk.