Socialism Quotes

YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example. - Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs. - Thomas Peterffy

When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines - doctrines of paternalism and state socialism. - Herbert Hoover

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

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. - Alice Hamilton

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand. - Sigmar Gabriel

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. - Thomas Mann

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. - Slavoj Zizek

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible? - Ken MacLeod