Socialist Quotes

• While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Equality, Class, Diversity

  Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept. 1918

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• The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

  Norman Thomas

  Freedom, Names, Usa

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

  Pat Robertson

  Husband, Children, Women

  "Robertson Letter Attacks Feminists". www.nytimes.com. 1992.

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• A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Humor, Debt, Socialism

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• Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. 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.

  Sarah Brady

  Lying, Mean, Gun

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• Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mean, People, Fists

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

  Winston Churchill

  Real, Patriotic, Loss

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• A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

  Ronald Reagan

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• The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

  Pope John Paul II

  Country, Socialist Countries, Historical

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Philosophy, Political, Together

  Notes for a Speech on Socialism, 1848.

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• In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

  Larry Niven

  Running, May, Hindsight

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.363, Macmillan

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• Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of socialism existing in America.

  Tom L. Johnson

  School, Government, America

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• The left's inability to understand the most basic economic fact - that people need an incentive to produce - has caused the unnecessary deaths of tens of millions of people - mostly poor - in the last 75 years. But thanks to a politically corrupted media and educational system, their pigheaded pursuit of socialist fantasies goes on.

  David Horowitz

  Educational, Media, Years

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• If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.

  Bill Haywood

  Money, Work, Men

  "Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Peter Carlson (p.146), 1983.

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

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Politics, Economics, Understood

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• Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Dictator

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• Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Rights, Liberty

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.219, Penguin

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• The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

  Winston Churchill

  Party, Men, Add

  Winston Churchill, Colin Coote, Ryōichi Amano (1965). “チャ-チル名言集”

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• America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Government, Socialist Economy, America

  YouTube Chanel "NaughtButEddie"/ "Politically Incorrect August 1998 Part 1 of 2 Eddie Izzard Christine O'Donnell", www.youtube.com. June 21, 2009.

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Telling The Truth, Realism, Solemn

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• The socialist system, however, forbids this fundamental freedom to choose one's own career. Under socialist conditions, there is only one economic authority, and it has the right to determine all matters concerning production.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Careers, Fundamentals

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.27, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• True Socialism, in which everyone is truly equal, does not just resemble a prison - it is a prison. It can not exist unless it is surrounded by high walls, by watchtowers and by guard-dogs, for people always want to escape from any socialist regime, just as they do from a prison. If you continue your attempts to establish a model society you will need to build walls around it. You will be forced to do so sooner or later by the flood of refugees.

  Viktor Suvorov

  Dog, Wall, People

  "Inside the Soviet Army". Book by Viktor Suvorov, 1982.

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• I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Money, Women, Order

  Statement to the Court, delivered 14 [or 18] September 1918, Federal Court of Cleveland, Ohio

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• England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to the degree that tax-consumers will have a living standard comparable to that of taxpayers; the idea that government exists for the purpose of plundering those who work to give the product of their labor to those who do not work. The economic and social cannibalism produced by this communist-socialist idea will destroy any society which adopts it and clings to it as a basic principle – ANY society.

  Dan Smoot

  Strong, Ideas, Government

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• We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this situation radically in a short time, and that only through the united efforts of our younger generation and all our people, working with their own hands, can China be made strong and prosperous within a period of several decades. The establishment of our socialist system has opened the road leading to the ideal society of the future, but to translate this ideal into reality needs hard work.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Strong, Hard Work

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