Socialist Quotes

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

The trouble with Russia is not that she is socialist but that she is Russia.

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.

I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on the surface.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.

I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.

Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes.

As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.

I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.

The seed has been sown that will grow one day . . . to the glorious rebirth of the National Socialist movement of a truly united nation.

.....they had burnt and destroyed around 30 vehicles, including tanks and APC's and damaged three enemy helicopters. God bless the fighters of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party.

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.

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

A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

I was a minister in the Frente Popular (Popular Front) government, one of the three in Chile during the Pedro Aguirre Cerda years, and I was as much a Socialist then as I am today.

The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.

In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.

The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.

I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

Hitler was never a socialist.

The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.

To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.

Socialist is not a human but animal - because human differs from animal in this that he has moral rules, and reds, as their program states, they disobey them.

In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.