Top 1063 Socialism Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

Socialism with a human face.

The goal of socialism is communism.

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests of the Revolution, to the interests of socialism. That is why Communists and all fighters for socialism believe that the main aspect of the national question is unification of the working people, regardless of their national origin, in the common struggle against every type of oppression, and for a new social system which rules out exploitation of the working people.

Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.

Gasahol is socialism's fuel.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

The future belongs to socialism

Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

Socialism means slavery.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

Socialism never took root in America.

We do not want socialism.

People are interested in authentic long-term, socialist goals, which is not what is usually called socialism. They should be thinking through carefully how the projected society should work, but not in extensive detail because a lot of things just have to be learned by experiment and we don't know enough to plan societies in detail by any means. But, general guidelines could be worked out and many of the specific problems can be discussed. That should just be part of people's popular consciousness. That's how a transition to socialism could take place.

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement. For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralisation of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?

Socialism is a movement that loves a smear.

There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Anarchism is "stateless socialism."

The promise of socialism is a lie.

We can't keep flirting with communism and socialism.

Socialism Is For The People, Not The Socialist.

All socialism involves slavery.

Is socialism still for me if I'm a millennial millionaire?

Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.

Socialism is in no way a curate's egg

When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.

National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.

But I do have one real problem with socialism: I like money.

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian love and your socialism and your American democracy are what you do each day, your manner of thinking each hour, of embracing your life companion and loving your child; they are your attitude of social responsibility towards your work, and your determination not to become like the crushers of life you so hate.

The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

Art is socialism but life is capitalism.

Think of the problem of the world as a cart. It has to have two wheels. If you have one wheel, the cart doesn't go. If you have one wheel called socialism, it doesn't go. If you have only one wheel called capitalism, it doesn't go. It needs two wheels. These two wheels are capitalism and socialism.

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich America on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism.

National Socialism is applied biology.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Socialism is a dead horse.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.

Socialism is always wrong.

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism.