819 Quotes About Socialism

At first there appears to be nothing wrong with asking government to perform some extra service for you, but if you ask government for extra services, government, in order to perform its increasing function, has to get bigger, right?...And the government gets bigger. And the individual gets littler. Until the government is all-powerful, and the individual is hardly anything at all. Until the government is all-powerful and the people are cattle.

Government should be a floor upon which the good of the people flourishes, not a ceiling upon which people bump their heads!

Perhaps the aim of Socialism is not to make the world perfect but to make it better.

Socialism, like every other impassioned human effort, will flourish best under martyrdom. It will languish and perish in the dry sunlight of open discussion.

In the name of "class struggle" and "the unified interest of the working class," the Left has always selected certain sectors of the working class as revolutionary subjects and condemned others to a merely supportive role in the struggles these sectors were waging.

The very first conception of a Socialistic State is such a relation of the sexes as shall prevent men and women from falling into selfish family groups. Family life is eternally at war with Socialistic life. When you have a private household, you must have private property to feed it, hence a community of goods; the first idea of a Socialistic State has been found in every case to imply a community of children and to promote a community of wives.

I think that in America there are certain kind of problems and in Russia there are certain kinds of problems, but basically, when you find people who start from a position where human beings are at the core, as opposed to a position where profit is at the core, the solutions can be very different.

If education is truly the key. Then let's all of us become socialists and struggle to make it free to all, instead of making it expensive daily.

Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included).