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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Telling The Truth, Realism, Solemn

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They believe that the authorities of a socialist commonwealth would pay them higher salaries than those that they earn under capitalism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Believe, Envy, Feelings

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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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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• 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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• No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Catholic, Politics

  Pope Pius XI (1935). “Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order”

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• Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Dictator

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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 dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Party, Communication, Triumph

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• What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.

  William Inge

  Earning, Socialism, Share

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• Socialist society is a society of officials.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Officials

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.161, VM eBooks

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• If positive Christianity means love of one's neighbour, i.e. the tending of the sick, the clothing of the poor, the feeding of the hungry, the giving of drink to those who are thirsty, then it is we who are the more positive Christians. For in these spheres the community of the people of National Socialist Germany has accomplished a prodigious work.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Mean, People

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

  Aristide Briand

  Heart, Men, Twenties

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