Quotes of Socialism - somelinesforyou

“ Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. ”

- William Howard Taft

“ Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave. ”

- Detroit Journal

“ If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born. ”

- Hector Hugh Munro

“ The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. ”

- Norman Mailer

“ Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. ”

- Oswald Spengler

“ 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. ”

- Chief Justice Earl Warren

“ As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for socialism is its adherents. ”

- George Orwell

“ It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism. ”

- Norman Tebbit

“ Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism. ”

- Earl Warren

“ Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished. ”

- Dario Fo

“ Socialism can only arrive by bicycle. ”

- Jose Antonio Viera Gallo

“ Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked "Take it or leave it. ". ”

- Arthur Seldon

“ Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart. ”

- Jules Renard

“ The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. ”

- William J. Durant

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

- Oscar Wilde

“ Under socialism, all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away. ”

- Fidel Castro

“ The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country. ”

- Tim McGraw

“ Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer. ”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“ Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. ”

- John L. Lewis

“ Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. ”

- Alexis De Tocqueville

“ A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of communism. ”

- Karl Marx

“ It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed. ”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“ The goal of socialism is communism. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ We have constantly perfected the socialist system, while exploring and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics. ”

- Hu Jintao

“ There will be no communism. ”

- Francisco Franco
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