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Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism. — Paul Broun

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse? — A.E. Samaan

Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism. — Lord Acton

In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors. — Ludwig Von Mises

Our athiests are pious people. — Max Stirner

I think it's wrong that only one percent of the people should own ninety percent of the country. — Sally Wentworth

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism. — Karl Radek

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come. — John Burns

National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order. — Adolf Hitler

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all? — Kurt Vonnegut

The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does. — Greg Gutfeld

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth. — Lester R. Brown

You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place? — A.E. Samaan

Socialism is always wrong. — George Ayittey

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races. — A.E. Samaan

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution. — Harold Wilson

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. — Terry Eagleton

Socialism without democracy is unthinkable. — Karl Kautsky

Socialism is a monster, which will die. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. — Mike Norton

If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich — Jim Rogers

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible. — Gus Hall

Somebody once asked me what had attracted me to National Socialism. I replied without a shadow of hesitation: 'Its beauty.' — Savitri Devi

The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations — Kevin Carson

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

The man who is not permitted to own is owned. — George Santayana

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature. — Frans De Waal

...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt. — Francis Wheen

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. — Vladimir Lenin

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

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism. — Rosa Luxemburg

There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy. — Rosa Luxemburg

If collectivizing highly personal medical decisions is evil, then so follows that collectivized medicine is evil. — A.E. Samaan

Marriage is socialism among two people. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. — Hubert H. Humphrey

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost. — Murray N. Rothbard

THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN. — Harold Covington

Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: Learn from socialism, but don't join it. — Barbara W. Tuchman

No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except for the ones that succeed. — Michael Parenti

We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism. — James Cook

It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge. — Jean Baudrillard

What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings. — William Inge

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism. — John Blair

You eat the wealthy, sir, and it will be your last meal. — J.S.B. Morse

Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies ... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means. — Pope Pius IX

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. — Norman Mailer

Socialism is a dead horse. — Thorstein Veblen

Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking. — A.E. Samaan

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose socialism. — Margaret Thatcher

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism. — Charles Spurgeon

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

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. — Winston Churchill

Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism. — Andrey Illarionov

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing. — Oscar Wilde

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital. — Edmund Morris

Atheism, which is mere emptiness and too depressing for words, and leads to socialism. — Julian Barnes

Believers in aristocracy and socialism share a faith in centralized rule, in rule by command rather than by voluntary cooperation. — Milton Friedman

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep. — Stefan Molyneux

Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change. — Douglas Holtz-Eakin

The goal of Socialism is Communism. — Vladimir Lenin

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. — Winston S. Churchill

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. — George Bernard Shaw

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power
power sufficient to interfere with property. — Lord Acton

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized. — Ernst Toller

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy. — Ludwig Von Mises

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism. — Francis Parker Yockey

The first duty of a man is to think for himself — Jose Marti

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face. — Alexander Dubcek

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists
believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic. — Woodrow Wilson

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes. — Ilana Mercer

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain. — Tony Benn

Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism, is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans. — Niger Innis

Fuck socialism!
No, really..... fuck socialism. Socialism sucks! — A.E. Samaan

I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist. — Jack London

If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems, then I welcome it. — Evo Morales

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism. — Catharine MacKinnon

Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism. — A.E. Samaan

Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter. — A.E. Samaan

The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system. — Hal Duncan

As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely. — Tony Evans

If everyone stopped pretending
capitalism would drop dead — Carl-John X. Veraja

Socialism? We've had way too much of it already. — Steve Steckler

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before. — Michael Collins

Proletarians of the world, look into the depths of your own beings, seek out the truth and realise it yourselves: you will find it nowhere else. — Peter Arshinov

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people. — Tony Benn

The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims! — Che Guevara

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it — Karl Marx

Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (London: Jonathan Cape, 1936, 1969) — Henry Hazlitt

Hillary Clinton, President Obama, they're trying to turn the American dream into the European nightmare. We need to rescue the country from socialism. — Bobby Jindal

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys. — Hugo Chavez

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group. — Robin Hobb

Proposed Roads to Freedom
In this book Russell weighs the respective advantages and disadvantages of Socialism, Marxism and Syndicalism. — John Stuart Mill

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. — Winston Churchill

Things you call wrong, describe your levels of acceptance and understanding.. — Himmilicious

Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism. — Ludwig Von Mises

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

Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism! — Elizabeth A. Sherman

In capitalism, man exploits man. In socialism, it's exactly the opposite. — Ben Tucker

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone's different needs. — Terry Eagleton