Socialism Quotes (159 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Slavoj Zizek
„Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.“
― Slavoj Zizek ―
Picture of quotation author Slavoj Zizek
„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 Zizek ―
Picture of quotation author Francis Parker Yockey
„The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.“
Picture of quotation author Deng Xiaoping
„Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.“
― Deng Xiaoping ―
Picture of quotation author Harold Wilson
„We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.“
― Harold Wilson ―
Picture of quotation author H. G. Wells
„The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?“
― H. G. Wells ―
Picture of quotation author Anthony Weiner
„Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.“
― Anthony Weiner ―
Picture of quotation author Simone Weil
„The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.“
― Simone Weil ―
Picture of quotation author Earl Warren
„Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.“
― Earl Warren ―
Picture of quotation author Benjamin Tucker
„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.“
― Benjamin Tucker ―
Picture of quotation author Benjamin Tucker
„First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.“
― Benjamin Tucker ―
Picture of quotation author Benjamin Tucker
„Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.“
― Benjamin Tucker ―
Picture of quotation author Benjamin Tucker
„Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.“
― Benjamin Tucker ―
Picture of quotation author Benjamin Tucker
„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.“
― Benjamin Tucker ―
Picture of quotation author Benjamin Tucker
„Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.“
― Benjamin Tucker ―
Picture of quotation author Ernst Toller
„The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.“
― Ernst Toller ―
Picture of quotation author Alexis de Tocqueville
„Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.“
Picture of quotation author Brad Thor
„The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.“
― Brad Thor ―
Picture of quotation author Margaret Thatcher
„To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.“
Picture of quotation author Margaret Thatcher
„The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.“

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