819 Quotes About Socialism

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

Our entire life we chase the wrong things because we think having more money and buying more stuff will make us more happy. But it doesn't. You know why a billionaire has 100 Ferraris? Because 99 weren't enough.

It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

Defiance of inclusion in the name of national security, doesn't actually ensure national security, it only halts a nation's growth.

Some say the socialist way is better, others say the capitalist way is better, I say, learn to be a human first, then whatever way you choose, will produce prosperity.

Marx's aim was to close this gap between state and society, politics and everyday life, by dissolving the former into the latter. And this is what he called democracy. Men and women had to reclaim in their daily lives the powers that the state had appropriated from them. Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

Power to people doesn't mean power, it means responsibility.

The future does not belong to those who believe in socialism. The future belongs to those who believe in freedom.

Given a mechanical civilisation the process of invention and improvement will always continue, but the tendency of capitalism is to slow it down, because under capitalism any invention that does not promise fairly immediate profits are suppressed