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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, Philosophy

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

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

Money, Government, Problem, Run, You

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

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

Peace, Meaning, Absence, Opposition

The goal of socialism is communism. - Vladimir Lenin

The goal of socialism is communism. Vladimir Lenin

Communism, Goal

Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution. Ben Shapiro

Service, Help, Capitalism, Me, Moral

Democracy is the road to socialism. - Karl Marx

Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx

Democracy, Road

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, Equality, One Word, Liberty

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, Sharing

Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects. Ben Shapiro

Success, God, People, Charity, Rich

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country. Bernie Sanders

Democracy, People, Government, Me, Us

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. Kim Jong-un

Struggle, People, Independence, Fierce

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. Noam Chomsky

Capitalism, Injustice, Enlightenment

When we talk about the word 'socialism,' I think what it really means is just democratic participation in our economic dignity and our economic, social, and racial dignity. It is about direct representation and people actually having power and stake over their economic and social wellness, at the end of the day. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Power, Day, Think, People, End, Dignity

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

Poverty, Rich, Glorious

Democracy is indispensable to socialism. - Vladimir Lenin

Democracy is indispensable to socialism. Vladimir Lenin

Democracy, Indispensable

Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy? Ben Shapiro

God, Money, Happy, Government, Care, You

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. Charles E. Wilson

Great, Society, Communism, Dictatorship

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

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

Comedy, Fraud, Phantom

Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. 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. Michael Moore

Live, Tired, Democracy, Think, Need

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

Democracy, World, Way, Dictatorship

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

Freedom, Time, Revolution, Forward, Back

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

Great, Challenge, Fight, Capitalism, Now

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

Compassion, Weakness, Concern

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, Capitalism

When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free market. After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility. Ben Shapiro

Responsibility, People, Security, Free

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population. George Bernard Shaw

Legal, Property, Division, Expression

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