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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 Philosophy Envy

To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Education Me Children Live

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 Sharing Equal

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 Nothing One Word

Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.

Create Economy Just Democratic

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.

People Struggle Independence Fierce

Communism is a way of thinking. Socialism is wimpy communism. When you don't have the courage to become a communist, you become a socialist.

Courage You Thinking Communism

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

Margaret Thatcher

You Money Government Problem Run

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.

Failure Ignore Intellectual Only

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In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

George Bernard Shaw

Selfish Free Capitalism Play

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.

Me You Service Help

The goal of socialism is communism.

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

Day People Power Think

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

Peace Meaning Absence Opposition

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

Success Failure Capitalism America

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Democracy Indispensable

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

Mikhail Gorbachev

People Dawn Capitalism Well-Being

To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.

Success Reality Capitalism Singapore

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.

Capitalism New Enlightenment Ideology

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 simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

Man People Communism Without

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.

People See Intellectual Development

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?

America New Achieve Experiment

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

Religion Christian Worst

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

Day Dreams Like Human

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