819 Quotes About Socialism

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

Those who seek, or have thrust upon them, unearned benefits and privileges do not know that there is a price for every benefit, a collateral required for every loan of artificial compensation. The collateral that must be given up, the price that must be paid is the dignity, honor, and self-respect of the recipient. He or she will never be exposed to the satisfaction of true achievement, and so never become a whole person.

Schumpeter remarked how pleased he was with the Russian Revolution. Socialism was now no longer a discussion on paper, but had to prove its viability. Max Weber responded in great agitation: Communism, at this stage in Russian development, was virtually a crime, the road would lead over unparalleled human misery and end in a terrible catastrophe. "Quite likely", Schumpeter answered, "but what a fine laboratory". "A laboratory filled with mounds of corpses", Weber answered heatedly.

There will be a qualitative transformation, a new living, life-giving revelation, a new heaven and a new earth, a young and mighty world in which all our present dissonances will be resolved into a harmonious whole.

In all countries, there are people, in numbers large or small, who are moved by the vision of a new social order in which democracy, egalitarianism and cooperation - the essential values of socialism - would be the prevailing principle of social organization. It is in the growth in their numbers and in the success of their struggles that lies the best hope for humankind.

Liberal socialism is a good system, as long as economics grows. But when facing a huge economic competition, this system won't work anymore.

Socialism; institutionalized stupidity

The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label.

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.