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Quotes About Socialism

This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.
~ John T. Flynn
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
~ Thomas Mann
I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.
~ Philip Gibbs
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.
~ Ernest Mandel
Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.
~ Hugo Chavez
Bill O'Reilly is a socialist. He is in favor of Medicare, he is in favor of Social Security. Those are socialist programs.
~ Lawrence O'Donnell
A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to.
~ Thomas Frank
For me, politics is about passion. It doesn't matter what you know; it's your actions that count. I meet people who say they're socialists, and that's not what they carry out in their everyday life.
~ Maxine Peake
Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.
~ Johann Most
You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
~ Ernest Mandel
Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.
~ Ernest Mandel
So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.
~ Frederick Pollock
My father was an ardent socialist for many years.
~ Leon Askin
The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
~ John B. S. Haldane
Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
~ P. Chidambaram
I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought I wouldn't want to be here without a lot of money, but I was wrong about that.
~ Bertie Carvel
Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I was raised a socialist by two very socialist parents, and I still feel very animated about socialist principles.
~ Mariella Frostrup
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
~ John Grierson
I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.
~ Jonathan Krohn
I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.
~ Ken Livingstone
We are all socialists now, it seems. John McCain, David Cameron and Gordon Brown attack bankers' irresponsible behaviour and salaries, and call for state intervention in the financial markets. But these calls will not get them elected or re-elected if they are addressed only to the banking sector.
~ Noreena Hertz
I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!
~ Cindy Sheehan
It seems to me that many of the belligerent Jewish movements that were built upon hatred of Arabs - and I'm not only talking about Lieberman, but within the Likud as well - grew out of the patronizing socialist attitude that said, 'They'll be there, and we'll be here.'
~ Reuven Rivlin