Socialism Quotes

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  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

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Democratic Socialism

  Speech at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland, May 28, 1948.

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• The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

  Adrian Rogers

  Government, Bbq, Giving

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• Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Names, Free Education, Numbers

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• Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Example, Pathology, Capitalism

  Robert L. Heilbroner (1980). “Marxism: For and Against”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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  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

  Patriotic, Equality, Differences

  "Discours prononcé à l'assemblée constituante le 12 Septembre 1848 sur la question du droit au travail". Oeuvres complètes, Volume IX, p. 546, 1866.

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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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• There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

  Ayn Rand

  Suicide, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.466, Penguin

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  If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Years, Political

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• The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas, all they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems. The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Liars, Blessing

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• The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Country, Government, Expectations

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Freedom, Independent

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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  Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

  John Steinbeck

  Roots, America, Usa

  Attributed in "A Short History of Progress" by Ronald Wright, Toronto: Anansi Press, (pp. 124), 2004.

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• We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Hate, Writing, Language

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• Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Eugenics, People, Politics

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• A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Humor, Debt, Welfare

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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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• Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Intellectual, Liberty, Records

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.144, Basic Books

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• Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.

  Antonio Gramsci

  School, Media, Order

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• The term "Socialism" becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of communal control at the expense of the family and individual freedom.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Principles, Labels

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.116, TAN Books

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• Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.

  Joseph Sobran

  Loyalty, Mean, Independence

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• What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

  Adrian Rogers

  Bbq, Receiving, Other Half

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• The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Freedom, Government

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• You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Fall, Acceptance, Fighting

  "They Never Said it: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by Paul F. Boller and John H. George, 1990.

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• To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Men, Ideas

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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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