Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

Benito Mussolini

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Hubert H. Humphrey

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Dennis Prager

The goal of socialism is communism.

Vladimir Lenin

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

Sidney Hook

She was not a resistance fighter, yet she was skeptical of socialism; but then she went ahead and joined the Communist youth party. She's not open about her life's choices.

Gerd Langguth

There were two stages to this affair, at first we were demonstrating against all serious culture. The focus changed tremendously as my interest in politics developed. I was meeting people who were calling my attention to issues of socialism, which I'd never really thought about.

Henry Flynt

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 failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

Lester Brown

The vicissitudes of history, however, have not dissuaded them from their earnest search for a "third way" between socialism and capitalism, namely socialism.

Richard John Neuhaus

These are groups that want out-of-control spending, want essentially socialism.

Bob Beers

This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.

Alexander Herzen

Socialism, born and raised in France, is unpersuasive even to the promiscuously persuadable French.

George F. Will

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Oswald Spengler

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

Ambrose Bierce

India's problem isn't too much democracy, it's too much socialism.

Prannoy Roy

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

The officer is a composite of various Americans who said the same thing. For everyone, it was an important decision whether to return home or go somewhere else. Those who had an idea there would be socialism in Hungary did not go back. I couldn't imagine going anywhere except home. I was like a stray dog.

Imre Kertesz

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

Brian Harris

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Deng Xiaoping

In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.

Jinato Hu

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

Polish Proverb

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

David Horowitz

He approved of the mass murder of Jews during national socialism. He approved of terror acts and he approved of the violent conversions of infidels to Islam.

Kay Nehm

Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.

Hermann Goering

The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either.

Joseph Grimond

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

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

My granddaddy was Man of the Year for Agriculture in 1950 for the whole county. He blended the socialism from his parents with capitalism.

Glenn Dickman

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Karl Marx

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Fidel Castro

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

Norman Mailer

It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.

Raymond Williams

Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.

George Reisman

The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.

Norman Brenner

The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.

Slobodan Milosevic

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

George Reisman

'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.

John Enoch Powell

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

Ernest Mandel