All socialism involves slavery.
Herbert Spencer

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

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.
Albert Maltz

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
Barbara Castle

As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
B. Carroll Reece

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
George Orwell

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

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
Karl Liebknecht

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

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
Jawaharlal Nehru

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.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
Vladimir Lenin

Democracy is the road to socialism.
Karl Marx

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

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.
Jacques Delors

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.
Ernest Mandel

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

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.
Janos Kadar

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.
Hugo Chavez

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.
Roger Nash Baldwin