Quotes About Socialism

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

We either go one direction, left, which would be socialism. Or right, which would be people trying to make the money themselves.

I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.

The political and military position of socialism should be further cemented so that it can be an impregnable fortress.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.

Traditional Marxism attempted to argue against free enterprise by saying that capitalism causes poverty and that, therefore, socialism is necessary. That didn't work, because it was false.

I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

We can't keep flirting with communism and socialism.

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

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.

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

Ultimately, and I believe this is one of the fundamental problems with socialism, it's that human beings do have self-interest. It's very hard to ignore that self-interest when you're creating a government structure.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

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 perverse gift of the Chinese coronavirus is that it has given Americans an up close and personal look at the horrors of big government - and, by extension, socialism.