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

Quotes by Zygmunt Bauman

It was not that socialism failed, it was the lack of socialism.

Quotes by Wojciech Jaruzelski

Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.

Quotes by Wojciech Jaruzelski

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

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

Quotes by William Howard Taft

Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.

Quotes by Wen Jiabao

Socialism is a movement that loves a smear.

Quotes by Wayne LaPierre

The goal of socialism is communism.

Quotes by Vladimir Lenin

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Quotes by Vladimir Lenin

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

Quotes by Vladimir Lenin

Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born in Maastricht in 1992. The intent was to save socialism in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the predictable bankruptcy of the welfare state in the West as well.

Quotes by Vladimir Bukovsky

There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.

Quotes by Uday Kotak

I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.

Quotes by Tony Judt

One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.

Quotes by Tony Kushner

America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.

Quotes by Todd Akin

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?

Quotes by Tim Allen

The most influential utopian idea of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was socialism, which has failed everywhere. Under the banner of socialism, Stalin's U.S.S.R. and Mao's China gave us not utopias but ghastly anti-utopias.

Quotes by Steven Weinberg

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

Quotes by Steve Steckler

Since the end of the 1970s, free-market capitalism has been in, and socialism has been out.

Quotes by Steve Hanke

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

Quotes by Sigmar Gabriel

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

Quotes by Sidney Hook

Austria used to see itself as the first victim of National Socialism. That is certainly true for all those who fought in the resistance, whom we cannot thank enough, and who will always be shining examples. But... the ones who stood in such great numbers and celebrated in March 1938 in Heroes' Square were no victims.

Quotes by Sebastian Kurz

I think democratic socialism will ultimately prevail in this country because it makes an enormous amount of sense.

Quotes by Ron Dellums

Voluntaryism is the idea that all human interactions should be free of coercion, based on individual self-ownership. This is in contrast to socialism, which is based on coercion justified by collective ownership.

Quotes by Roger Ver

I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.

Quotes by Rirkrit Tiravanija

There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and inseparable. It's a virtuous circle.

Quotes by Rick Perlstein

Socialism doesn't work. A big government doesn't work.

Quotes by Rick Harrison

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

Quotes by Richard John Neuhaus

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.

Quotes by Raul Castro

The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

Quotes by Rafael Correa

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

Quotes by Rafael Cruz

In fact, there is an academic blackout about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of communism and socialism.

Quotes by Rachel Campos-Duffy

Socialism means government dependency, rationed resources, and exorbitant taxation. It means the destruction of every incentive to achieve.

Quotes by Rachel Campos-Duffy

Socialism is the antithesis of opportunity and it's time to reject this failed and dangerous idea once and for all.

Quotes by Rachel Campos-Duffy

The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

Quotes by Peter Brimelow

Marxism, communism, socialism - the ideologies - did not have the automatic answers to the problem of the relations between the lighter and darker races of mankind. They did not even have an answer to anti-Semitism.

Quotes by Peter Abrahams

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

Quotes by Paul Broun

My dad saw himself as part of a historic struggle for human liberation: he met my mum canvassing for the Labour party in a snowstorm in Tooting, he helped lead strikes, and recruited miners to socialism.

Quotes by Owen Jones

The Tories have built a system defined by insecurity - from wages to job contracts to housing to the welfare state. If they want to understand why socialism - long dead, never coming back, or so they thought - has undergone a revival, this is why.

Quotes by Owen Jones

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Quotes by Oswald Spengler

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

Norman Mailer

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

Quotes by Niger Innis

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.

Quotes by Michael Moore

I'm against having a Fed. It's socialism in its worst form. But until the Fed is gotten rid of, the only economic variable the poor have to counteract the injustices of the Fed is the minimum wage law.

Quotes by Max Keiser

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

Quotes by Martin Bormann

There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.

Quotes by Martha MacCallum

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

Socialism is antithetical to freedom, because when it breeds and thrives, people die.

Quotes by Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

The promise of socialism is a lie.

Quotes by Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

The argument that any income redistribution is tantamount to socialism, and that socialism has always been unAmerican, has helped legitimise keeping taxes on America's very wealthy very low.

Quotes by Linda Colley

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

Quotes by Lajos Kossuth

Obamacare is socialism? Nope - as insurance companies vie to sell new policies, competition within private industry is growing rapidly, with the number of participating insurers growing by 26 percent between 2014 and 2015, and the number of products they offer growing by 66 percent.

Quotes by Kurt Eichenwald

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.

Quotes by Kim Jong-un

The political and military position of socialism should be further cemented so that it can be an impregnable fortress.

Quotes by Kim Jong-un

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

Quotes by Ken MacLeod

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

Quotes by Karl Liebknecht

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

Quotes by Karl Liebknecht

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

Quotes by Karl Liebknecht

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Quotes by Karl Marx

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

Quotes by Karl Marx

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

Quotes by Karl Radek

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

Quotes by Karl Radek

Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

Quotes by Karl Radek

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

Quotes by Jules Renard

Republicans paint everything that Democrats have been for as socialism, too far to the left, as extreme, and it didn't matter how moderated it was; it didn't matter that Obamacare started out as a compromise. You might as well say what you're actually for and show what you really are.

Quotes by Jon Lovett

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

Quotes by John McCarthy

I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty.

Quotes by John Mackey

Socialism means slavery.

Quotes by John Dalberg-Acton

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

Quotes by John Burns

I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.

Quotes by John Burns

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

Quotes by John Blair

The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.

Quotes by John Bates Clark

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

Quotes by John B. S. Haldane

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

Quotes by Joe Slovo

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'

Quotes by Jim Leach

For me, it's sort of like a cultural democracy or musical socialism to take a stand and get out of the major cities if you can.

Quotes by Jens Lekman

Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear.

Quotes by Jeff Greenfield

If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

Quotes by Jeff Greenfield

You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.

Quotes by Jeb Hensarling

I grew up during the shift to socialism, and since it was my childhood, I used to think that everything was beautiful and human.

Quotes by Jasmila Zbanic

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

Quotes by Janos Kadar

Seriously, you can't talk socialism in America without going to the OG, Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Quotes by Jaboukie Young-White

Fact check: The examples of failed socialism that critics use are not socialist democracies but authoritarian states led by corrupt, ruthless, and paranoid dictators.

Quotes by Jaboukie Young-White

But I do have one real problem with socialism: I like money.

Quotes by Jaboukie Young-White

Is socialism still for me if I'm a millennial millionaire?

Quotes by Jaboukie Young-White

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.

Quotes by Hugo Chavez

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

Quotes by Hugo Chavez

We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

Quotes by Hugo Chavez

I even believed in a third way; I thought it was possible to put a human face on capitalism. But I was wrong. The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

Quotes by Hugo Chavez

In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.

Quotes by Hu Jintao

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.

Quotes by Howard Fast

I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.

Quotes by Howard Fast

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

Quotes by Herbert Read

Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits of a social order are shared in an equitable and just manner.

Quotes by Henry Giroux

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

Quotes by Harold Wilson

If anyone says that American socialism isn't possible, point them toward the bowling shoe.

Quotes by Hari Nef

To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.

Quotes by Ha-Joon Chang

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