Socialist Quotes

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament. - Arthur Scargill

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying. - Ernest Mandel

You cannot have a spontaneous socialist revolution. - Ernest Mandel

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

Without the Free Democrats, there's no coalition and they've proven several times they can use this power to blackmail and coerce the Socialists. - Zoltan Kiszelly

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

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men. - Clara Zetkin

What we asked for were weapons so that we could defend ourselves -- that's what we asked of the Soviet Union, of the socialist countries of Eastern Europe, of the Algerians, of the Vietnamese; and that's what we received so that we could arm the Nicaraguan people and defend ourselves in that war imposed on us by Ronald Reagan's Administration over a number of years. - Daniel Ortega

Were they Socialists? - Scott Joplin

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism. - Newt Gingrich