Socialist Quotations

Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born in Maastricht in 1992. The intent was to save socialism in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the predictable bankruptcy of the welfare state in the West as well.

Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits get competed away.

The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

My mother - she's a good old classic Northern European socialist - she's totally wonderful, but she raised me up believing that rich people have stolen their money from poor people.

Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.

I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings.

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.

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.

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

This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.

While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States?

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

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry.

I'm a very friendly socialist.

We shall endeavor to activate and deepen our partnership with our allies of the Progressive Socialist Party and Tayyar Al Mustaqbal. Our hand will remain always stretched out to all,

What we asked for were weapons so that we could defend ourselves -- that's what we asked of the Soviet Union, of the socialist countries of Eastern Europe, of the Algerians, of the Vietnamese; and that's what we received so that we could arm the Nicaraguan people and defend ourselves in that war imposed on us by Ronald Reagan's Administration over a number of years.

Of all the measures to be taken in building the new socialist countryside, the national fitness project is one that needs the smallest investment but will produce an instant effect.

Of course, it will take a long time in history for the new socialist countryside to materialize in China. Formerly meant to be a vision to pursue and a direction for development, the notion is now deemed as both a long-term goal and an urgent, immediate task.

No one could accuse the British law lords, in their black robes and starched wigs, of being part of an international socialist conspiracy.

My father was a bank clerk. He was also a Utopian Socialist and he wrote a Utopian novel. It was a kind of allegory or fairy tale.

Obamacare is a perfect tool to crush free enterprise and force all Americans into a socialist health care system.

One of the concerns I have is that cities should not be in the business of business. That is a move toward socialism and America is not a socialist country.

Building a new socialist countryside is a strategic measure of our party to better advance the process of building a society of moderate prosperity in an all-round way and China's modernization.

Building a 'new socialist countryside' is a major historic task.

Building a harmonious socialist society is a major task put forth by our Party in making the Chinese society more affluent and ushering in new advancement of the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics,

He says it doesn't matter if people are socialist -- we're going to fight together with them to destroy everything that we can.

He was systematically killed by all the years he spent in The Hague and this is a great loss for Serbia, the Serbian people and the Socialist Party of Serbia.

It could fairly be said that the U.S. is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world. As our neighbors to the south elect left-wing or even socialist governments, we are lurching further to the right. As Europe becomes less engaged to the Church, we are becoming more fundamentalist.

It indicates our party has gained a deeper understanding of how to build a socialist country with Chinese characteristics under the rule of law and the law of governance.

It is our historical duty to protect the land rights of farmers. This is our top priority in building a new socialist countryside.

Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.

Members of the new social classes have made a contribution to socialist production forces through honest work and legal operations,

We must sternly warn that those with ill-gotten wealth and those who use illegitimate means to reap staggering profits, destroy the order of the socialist market economy and disrupt market order, will meet legal punishment.

We must make energetic efforts to give wide publicity to and carry forward the lofty spirit of veteran revolutionaries, and push forward the great cause of building a socialist society with Chinese characteristics.

well-off society and pressing ahead with socialist modernization.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Socialist society is a society of officials.

The project is a major part of the drive to build socialist new countryside. It's very important for improving rural cultural life.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.

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

Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany must know Wagner.

As long as the National Socialist Movement is leading Germany-and that will be the case for the next few centuries, no matter how often our emigrants conjure up the opposite view- this opinion will not change.

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

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

Why do I hate Obamacare? Because it is a blast against freedom. It is a socialist program which will not work. It hasn't worked anywhere in the world. It will be repealed.

There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified educations is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An education that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must teach by homily and precept in the service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and unmistakable tyranny.

There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified educations is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An education that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must teach by homily and precept in the service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and unmistakable tyranny.

The Party counts on the support of every honest worker who declares himself in favour of the socialist objectives of the working class.

The reason I agreed to go to Indonesia because at one time it was a socialist country for one year-that was under Sukarno.

The real winner so far has been the Socialist Party. They have found a cause to fight for and rally around.

I'm not that much of a socialist compared to Eisenhower.

We are a National Socialist group based on (Adolph Hitler's) German National Socialist Workers Party, ... We believe very much in the mission of national, racially based socialism. We support the interests of white working class people in the United States faced with the Jewish domination of the economy.

There was a conviction that the socialist cause was a just one, and so wherever there were struggles against colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism, the Soviet Union would support those struggles and those causes, in the form of economic and military help. The economic assistance that the Soviet Union gave Nicaragua was invaluable.

The victory shows that our socialist system has tremendous advantages,

The script humanizes Marx and his ideas of a socialist society. It is generally well received by audiences because the author does an excellent job disarming the subject and truthfully interprets Marx's life.

The Socialist Party has a mission of peace,

Properly handling petitions is an indispensable and irreplaceable job that should not be neglected in building a socialist harmonious society.

On this basis, the basis of national independence, it will build fraternal relations with any progressive socialist movement and party in the world.

This is very good news for the Socialists. I think it is important that the Socialist Party closed ranks on a leftist ticket.

As rural areas benefit from the central government's new drive to build a 'new socialist countryside' during the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-10), farmers' income will continue to grow this year.

About one out of five voters cast their ballots for Milosevic in Serbia's parliamentary elections in December, making his Socialist Party the main opposition group,

It's a big loss for Serbia and for the Socialist Party.

superior ability in spearheading the nation's large-scale socialist modernization.

The National Socialist (Nazi) party had 10 million members, of whom at most 150,000 were criminals. It would be grotesque to stick the label of criminal on every former member of the party.

I introduced a bill to create the minimum wage in Iowa when I was a freshman legislator. I set it at a buck an hour, and they called me a socialist for trying.

I knew that the National Socialist Party was anti-Semitic, and I knew that the Jews were being evacuated from Germany.

In the light of these principles, it is clear that no socialist or communist society exists anywhere in the world today.

In the building of a harmonious socialist society, the development of an advanced socialist culture is of much importance as it can provide a strong ideological guarantee, as well as powerful spiritual support, for our efforts,

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

No matter what Donald Trump says, he has deep socialist leanings. He's a nationalist and a populist. And throughout history, whenever you combine those three things it never ends well.

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

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

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.

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 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.

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

I'm just a socialist at heart.

I told Clooney, George, you’re worth $100 million — of course you can afford to be a socialist!

That's the problem with the socialist model, because the socialist model - if you work twice as hard as I do, and you get just the same amount, pretty soon you decide that it's foolish for you to do more than I.

When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.

I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through.

The Freedom Party and its leadership is a democratic party far removed from any totalitarian or national socialist sympathies.

The Chinese is a peace-loving nation and China is a responsible member of the international community. We focus on economic development, persist in reform and opening up, continue to improve people's living standards, and strive to build a harmonious socialist society.

The trouble with Russia is not that she is socialist but that she is Russia.