Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.
Dick Morris

Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!
Elizabeth A. Sherman

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
Deng Xiaoping

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.
Dario Fo

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
Havelock Ellis

Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.
John Bates Clark

Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.
Jose Antonio Viera Gallo

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

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

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 good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
Karel Capek

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
Oswald Spengler

Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.
Earl Browder

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
Daniel De Leon

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.
Gary North

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
Richard John Neuhaus

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

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.
Joe Slovo

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Socialism means slavery.
Lord Acton