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Quotes About Socialism

Communism, Marxism, Socialism, Fascism." Roarke jerked his shoulders. "Democracy, republic, monarchy. One is the same as the other to them. It's power, it's glory. It's revolution for the sake of it. Politics, religion, for some it remains their own narrow and personal view." "Conquer and rule?" Eve wondered.
~ J.D. Robb
I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.
~ Jack London
I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two 'I's' struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.
~ Che Guevara
The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
~ Jim DeMint
Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it lasts all day.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.
~ Pope Pius XI
When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
~ William Morris
"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.
~ Pope Pius XI
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
~ Octavian Paler
Our socialism does not include extreme materialistic concepts, since Indonesia is primarily a God-fearing, God-loving nation. Our socialism is a mixture. We draw political equality from the American Declaration of Independence. We draw spiritual equality from Islam and Christianity. We draw scientific equality from Marx.
~ Sukarno
And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.
~ Albert Maltz
My parents, they were both Socialists; they were young - 30, 31. They were both successful career people. They had been teachers, and my dad spoke English.
~ Maria Cornejo
A country where a man is afraid to criticise another one is no socialist country.
~ Enver Hoxha
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
~ Annie Besant
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
~ H. L. Mencken
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
~ Che Guevara
The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
~ Kwame Nkrumah
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
~ Will Rogers
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.
~ Winston Churchill
Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
~ Jack London
Socialists believe otherwise - a man is not competent enough to make decision should he use seatbelt, should he buy insurance, and the same man is competent enough to elect president and government.
~ Janusz Korwin-Mikke
No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists
~ C. F. W. Walther
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.
~ Len Deighton