Socialist Quotes

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.

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.

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

I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.

The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument.

We feel that there is a necessity to strengthen unity and that it will be strengthened and the bloc, the monolithic bloc of socialist countries will be formed again.

The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.

And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation

Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are a few sinister people who know exactly what they are doing: They want America to become part of a worldwide socialist dictatorship.

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?

This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

Socialist society is a society of officials.

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.

We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

The key to the defeat and eventually the end of imperialism as a a whole is the unity of all socialist countries and progressive forces in capitalist countries.

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.

I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into peoples minds better than we Liberals.

I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!

The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it.

Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.

In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques.

The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.