Socialism Quotes

“We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.”

“There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.”

“One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.”

“Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it.”

“Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.”

“If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.”

“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.”

“To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.”

“The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.”

“The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.”

“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.”

“If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.”

“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.”

“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems it falls victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.”

“I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. This is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.”

“Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.”

“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.”

“No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.”

“Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.”

“Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.”

“Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs”

“Socialism is in no way a curate's egg”

“Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.”

“To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.”

“The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.”