Quotes About Socialism

It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.

History is the judge — its executioner, the proletarian. - Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper, April 1856

Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.

Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.

Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It's basically socialism and communism.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.

It's only socialism if the money goes down, not up.

Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Great Britain which can do it - and that is the Labour Party.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all