Socialism Quotes

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

Failure, Ignorance, Envy

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

Blessings, Capitalism, Virtue

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

Equality, Nothing, Democracy

Democracy is the road to socialism.
Karl Marx

Democracy, Road

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

Compassion, Weakness, Concern

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas Sowell

Failure, Ignore, General

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
George Bernard Shaw

Same, English, Communism

The goal of socialism is communism.
Vladimir Lenin

Goal, Communism

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
Nelson Mandela

Society, System, Tie

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

Trying, Disease, British

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

Peace, Meaning, Absence

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

Path, Possible, Capitalism

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Vladimir Lenin

Time, Freedom, Forward

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

Religion, Christian, Worst

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
Margaret Thatcher

Money, Problem, Run

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.
Lyn Nofziger

Good, Government, Nothing

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

Control, Goal, Social

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
Vladimir Lenin

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Fidel Castro

Success, Failure, America

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
Vladimir Lenin

Shall, Five, Realized

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

Path, Left, Capitalism

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
H. G. Wells

America, Working, Else

All socialism involves slavery.
Herbert Spencer

Slavery, Involves

Socialism values equality more than liberty.
Dennis Prager

Equality, Liberty, Values

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
Earl Warren

Government, Others, Progress

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
Simone Weil

Hope, Society, Today

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
Christopher Hitchens

Change, Best, Political

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

Become, Turn, Soon

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

Money, May, Said

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
Benito Mussolini

Comedy, Fraud, Phantom

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