Quotation Explorer - 'Socialism'

The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism. - Norman Brenner
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked. - George Gilder
Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen. - Leon Trotsky
Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter. - A.E. Samaan
Freedom, democracy, and socialism can only ever exist together; it is impossible to have any one without the other two. - Michel Templet
GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. - Ambrose Bierce
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. - Norman Mailer
After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game. - Günter Grass
If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first. - Oscar Wilde
the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development - Albert Einstein
All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum. - A.E. Samaan
Many people consider the things which government does for them as social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism. - Earl Warren
Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most. - A.E. Samaan
We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Anyone who objects to any government whatsoever as a form of socialism ought not to pull that socialist lever in their home, the one that makes their waste disappear in a whirlpool into the socialized sewage treatment plant. - John Médaille
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher
When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such dichotomy as human rights versus property rights. No human rights can exist without property rights. - Ayn Rand
The central planners of Democratic Socialism tighten their noose when people resist their plans and assert their rights. All Socialism is intended to devolve into Communism, and as a result, Totalitarianism. - A.E. Samaan
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.
Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism. - Frank H. Underhill
Communism and Socialism are like most women's in relationship. "What mine is mine and what yours is mine - Beta Metani' Marashi
Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god. - Stefan Molyneux
Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one's intentions. - Dave Champion
A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. - Ludwig von Mises
We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists. - George Bernard Shaw
Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the powerful few. - A.E. Samaan
In capitalism, man exploits man. In socialism, it’s exactly the opposite. - Ben Tucker
Fuck socialism!No, really..... fuck socialism. Socialism sucks! - A.E. Samaan
Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism. - A.E. Samaan
Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism. - Henry George
Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"?? - A.E. Samaan
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. - Oswald Spengler
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth. - Lester Brown
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. - Sir Winston Churchill
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