Quotes About Socialism

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.

I'm just a socialist at heart.

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

Socialisten zijn mensen met gewetensbezwaren over het geld dat andere mensen verdienen. Zodra ze zelf wat verdienen: niet alleen geen gewetensbezwaren, maar ook nog niet eens tevreden.

the tenets of socialism: Own nothing individually. And then no one can take anything away from you.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

The poor man is called a socialist if he believes that the wealth of the rich should be divided among the poor, but the rich man is called a financier if he devises a plan by which the pittance of the poor can be converted to his use.

It had been Ari who proposed the term Kimunism for the strange form of xenophobic nationalism practiced under the Kim family dynasty; it was not really socialism, nor was it communism in even the Maoist form, despite the heaviness of its cult of personality. Ari had felt that it was the severity and chimeric plasticity of the system, so provocative, that made it appealing to French intellectuals.

The end result was that, just as Socialist regimes had created millions of dummy proletarian jobs, capitalist regimes somehow ended up presiding over the creation of millions of dummy white-collar jobs instead.

It's in dramatic contrast to the behavior of the leaders of socialist regimes, from Cuba to Albania, who, when they came to power, immediately began acting as if their system would be around forever—ironically enough, considering they in fact turned out to be something of an historical blip.

Karl Marx, Amaya liked to say, was the last great philosopher of the coal age; his workers were locked into a serflike condition. Had Marx witnessed the industrial explosion of the Oil Century and the rising standard of living it produced among ordinary workers, he might have written differently.