Socialism Quotes

Peace isn't the absence of wars provoked by a series of delinquents of all sort, but a dynamic process of cooperation between states and people...

~ Ahmed Padia Binkatabana

If you are a beautiful lair, you are the most wanted person in the world.

~ Rajesh

You could always industrialize,” she refilled Jimmy’s wine glass. “You know, get a job stunning chickens in a factory to earn the trust of the working class.” Jimmy laughed again and accidentally spat Chablis on my legs. “It’s a pretty silly idea, isn’t it?” said Grace, getting a rag. “Leaping out of the closet in a crisis?” She lowered her voice, “Don’t worry, sir. I’m a revolutionary socialist. Everything’s going to be okay.

~ Vanessa Veselka

Socialism is the way, the truth, and the light.

~ Carl-John X. Veraja

Someday this war will be over. A new order of the world will appear in its place. The idea of Socialism will prevail. In the future they’ll remember us as heroes.”Thorkild aka ‘Borge’The Informer by Steen Langstrup

~ Steen Langstrup

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.

~ George Orwell

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

~ Barbara Kingsolver

For my part, while I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.

~ Bertrand Russell

Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

~ Bertrand Russell

For the writer under Actually Existing Socialism describing sex is a simple matter: he simply does not do it (the describing, I mean, not the sex).

~ Philip Sington

Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of the Christian cult and would feel that, when the best of gold and jewels were given to the God Who made them, there was some slight made to the poor - not because they were interested in the poor, but because they were envious of that wealth.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

Why am I a socialist? Simple: Because I believe in freedom.

~ Michelle Templet

What we do to others, we do to ourselves.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

~ Zygmunt Bauman

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

~ Thomas Sowell

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

~ Dennis Prager

Socialism is a sacred cause for realizing the demand and desire of the masses of the people for independence it is a revolutionary cause that advances amid a fierce struggle against imperialism and all other counterrevolutionary forces.

~ Kim Jong-Un

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

~ George Orwell

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

~ Slavoj Žižek

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

~ Margaret Thatcher

All socialism involves slavery.

~ Herbert Spencer

Socialism means slavery.

~ Lord Acton

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

~ Lyn Nofziger

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

~ Karl Marx

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

~ Karl Liebknecht

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

~ Nelson Mandela

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

~ Daniel De Leon

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

~ George Bernard Shaw