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I'm not that much of a socialist compared to Eisenhower.
— Bernie Sanders
The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.
— Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?
— A.E. Samaan
The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
— Karl Radek
There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.
— Johann Most
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
— Ernst Zundel
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.
— Ernest Mandel
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.
— Joseph Stalin
I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.
— Roseanne Barr
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
— George Bernard Shaw
The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.
— Mikhail Kalinin
The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.
— John Dos Passos
There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
— Jay McInerney
I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.
— David Hare
A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.
— Aneurin Bevan
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
— Wilfred Burchett
I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!
— Cindy Sheehan
When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.
— Nikita Khrushchev
America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.
— Christine O'Donnell
A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.
— Ronald Reagan
I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
— Marianne Faithfull
Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.
— Edward Carpenter
Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.
— Hector Hugh Munro
In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.
— George Orwell
The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein.
— Carl I. Hagen
A Socialist State demands precisely the same human symbols as that of Fascist or Nazi, and the same surrender of human liberties if it is to succeed.
— Eden Phillpotts
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.
— Winston Churchill
And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation.
— Christine O'Donnell
During the battles last night and at dawn, they [ Ba'th Socialist Party fighters] had destroyed three American helicopters
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.
— Paul Samuelson
Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.
— A.E. Samaan
I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic ... all possible sins together.
— Michelle Bachelet
The ritual denunciation of the so-called 'socialist' states is replete with distortions and often outright lies.
— Noam Chomsky
The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.
— A.E. Samaan
Every command slaps liberty in the face.
— Mikhail Bakunin
My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.
— Mahatma Gandhi
When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.
— Adolf Hitler
Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
— Elbert Hubbard
Whether he knows it or not, the middle-income American is taxed as though he were living in a socialist society.
— Gore Vidal
Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"??
— A.E. Samaan
Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
— P. Chidambaram
The seed has been sown that will grow one day ... to the glorious rebirth of the National Socialist movement of a truly united nation.
— Adolf Hitler
A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."
— Hendrik Hertzberg
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
— Milton Friedman
She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you can't tell exactly what any of them are.
— E.L. Doctorow
LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about.
— A.E. Samaan
My father was an ardent socialist for many years.
— Leon Askin
Hitler was never a socialist.
— Ian Kershaw
Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.
— Ernest Mandel
If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.
— John Irving
Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow,
— Dick Armey
I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.
— William J. Casey
The typical socialist ... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.
— George Orwell
A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.
— David Lloyd George
Socialist society is a society of officials.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
— Noam Chomsky
If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad
— George Orwell
I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
— Kwame Nkrumah
I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?
— Hugo Chavez
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
— Karl Liebknecht
Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.
— Catharine MacKinnon
The force driving the Israelis decisively out of their socialist past into the modern world of finance was the ingenuity of Netanyahu.
— George Gilder
I'm a REAL National Socialist, you'd better believe it!
— Aleksandr Dugin
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
— Larry Niven
Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through.
— James Cook
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
Representative Spencer Bachus is one of the only people I know from Alabama. I bet I'm the only socialist he knows.
— Bernie Sanders
The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.
— Che Guevara
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.
— Oswald Spengler
Since China has a population of 1.1 billion, it won't feel lonely even if it becomes the only socialist country.
— Li Peng
The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.
— Alexander Kotov
Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.
— Monica Crowley
I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.
— Ken Livingstone
I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit.
— Jennifer Westfeldt
People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.
— Barack Obama
What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.
— William Inge
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past
— Roger Scruton
The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.
— Neil Kinnock
With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.
— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero