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Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?
— A.E. Samaan
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
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
If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich
— Jim Rogers
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
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
Socialism is a dead horse.
— Thorstein Veblen
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
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
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 socialistsbelievers 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
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
If everyone stopped pretendingcapitalism 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
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
Proposed Roads to FreedomIn 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
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
