Socialists Quotes

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Science, Today, Cannot

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
Carl Sandburg

Through, Sometimes, Wild

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Fidel Castro

Money, Away, Capitalism

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney

Men, Wise, Ignore

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to.
Thomas Frank

Thought, After, Off

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.
Steve Wynn

Money, Truth, Government

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
A. N. Wilson

Happy, National, Regime

I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.
Nicolas Sarkozy

Talk, Union, Leaders

The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.
Conrad Black

Government, Enough, Rich

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
John B. S. Haldane

Business, Single, Nation

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
Ian Mcewan

Faith, Good, Future

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
Johann Most

Society, Result, Property

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
Karl Liebknecht

Great, Country, Yes

Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.
John McCarthy

Work, Money, Hard

In my book, 'The Big Three in Economics,' I found that the press has frequently and prematurely written the obituary of Adam Smith and his free-market philosophy, only to see a new and more vibrant global marketplace reemerge after being savagely attacked by Keynesians, Marxists, and assorted socialists.
Mark Skousen

Book, Philosophy, After

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.
Martin Niemoller

Speak, Socialist

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
Karel Capek

Stress, Important, Sense

Most actors are socialists, aren't they?
Samuel West

In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.
Benjamin Tucker

School, Children, Keep

The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
Benjamin Tucker

Life, History, State

The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.
Benjamin Tucker

Control, Liberty, Matter

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.
Frederick Pollock

Pretty, Far, Public

I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property.
Evangelos Venizelos

Head, Party, Property

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
Kenneth Baker

Success, Cannot, Succeed

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.
Michael Bennett

Parents, Less, Build

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