Socialist Quotes

Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

I shall die as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.

Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.

"Socialist" is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit.

There's always been this strand of filmmaking in Britain which is like socialist neo-realism. That's always been there. I've never been part of that, really; I've been much closer to fantasy.

The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.

If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

The main priority of the Socialist Party is education".

I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.

Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.

The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

We have a centrist nationalist group of people in this country, lots of them, and we have a socialist group of people in this country, lots of them. And that's not, to me, the American idea.

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich represent the big government frugal socialist wing of the party. And I represent the true constitutional conservative wing of our party.

During the battles last night and at dawn, they [ Ba'th Socialist Party fighters] had destroyed three American helicopters

Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies.

We don't have to go around as the Protestant reformation did, or as the socialist revolution did, and execute each other as soon as we are successful - assuming we'll ever be successful.

We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart.

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation.

If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.

Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up the seed corn - the tools - which will increase poverty in the long run.

The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on the socialist analysis of the market economy.

I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.

There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.

I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.

Everyone knows Bob Beckel views, radical left wing, socialist. He says he's a Democrat. But what may surprise you is that he actually has a conservative brother.

When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.

I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting

I'm just a socialist at heart.

People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House.

We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first.

LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".

Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"??

Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.

There's something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions.