Quotes About Socialism

Put in different terms, profit is the price paid for efficiency. Clearly, the increase in efficiency must be greater than the profit, or else socialism would in practice have resulted in more affordable prices and greater prosperity, as its theorists hoped, but the latter never materialized in the real world.

Confiscating physical wealth for the purpose of redistribution is confiscating something that will be used up over time, and cannot be replaced without the human capital that created it. Nor is human

Puesto en términos diferentes, el lucro es el precio que se paga por la eficiencia. Claramente, el incremento de la eficiencia debe ser mayor que el lucro, o de lo contrario el socialismo habría provocado, en la práctica, precios más asequibles y mayor prosperidad, como sus teóricos esperaban, pero esto último nunca se materializó en el mundo real.

I got to experience socialism firsthand. At first, it's seductive. Free health care, free college, all that. But nothing is free. And anything that's free has no value. Zero means zero.

The fact is America's democracy uses a combination of capitalism (businesses and banks) and socialism (public schools, police, fire fighters and the military) and our most successful times have occurred when government, business and people work together and don't demonize each other.

After two or more centuries of experimentation, socialists should be able to point to an alternative system that works, rather than comparing the actual world with an idealized system of their imagination.

Socialism means equality of income or nothing... under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Socialism, born and raised in France, is unpersuasive even to the promiscuously persuadable French.

Global Warming Is Socialism By The Back Door.

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom on the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Limits to the wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none." Note well: the community's right is "absolute.

No. Charity, like Socialism, is an invention of the weak to exploit the strong and bring them to their knees.        I don't believe in your theory of the weak and the strong, Jaime replied.        That's the way it is in nature. We live in a jungle.

La caridad, igual que su socialismo, es un invento de los débiles para doblegar y utilizar a los fuertes.

He proposed a socialist system that respected civil rights, an experiment that no one had attempted before.

El senador Trueba, que por principio detestaba esas cosas, comprendió lo que habían querido decir sus amigos del Club, cuando aseguraban que el marxismo no tenía ni la menor oportunidad en América Latina, porque no contemplaba el lado mágico de las cosas. «Pan, circo y algo que venerar, es todo lo que necesitan», concluyó el senador, lamentando en su fuero interno que faltara el pan.

I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants. I'm a Christian Zionist, as well as a Christian feminist and a Christian socialist.

Capital is dead labor that, vampirelike, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it suck.

Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

We didn't have any solution to the world's problems. I mean, we were trying to grow up in a socialist way to some future where the world might be less of a miserable place than it is.

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