Socialism Quotes - Page 18

• Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me - they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are pogroms.

  Rand Paul

  Book, Iphone, Choices

  "Nine pre-debate questions with Rand Paul". Interview with David Weigel, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

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• We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose the path of a socialist market economy. We have achieved strong economic growth, and yet the sense of solidarity in our society has not been lost. This is very important to people.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Strong, War, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The world is a big place, and there are many paths that lead to success. This applies to both political and economic concepts. For this reason, we see no need to stoically pursue the Chinese, American or French way. But we have socialism in common with China.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Political, Chinese, Needs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning.

  Ricardo Semler

  Morning, Organization, People

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• With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

  Noam Chomsky

  Order, Enlightenment, Development

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.114, The New Press

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• Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

  Noam Chomsky

  Enlightenment, Libertarian, Ideals

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.115, The New Press

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• Now what has happened in our country during the time we have been plunging toward socialism? Are we actually at that point where the Constitution may be hanging by a single thread and we need to step in to save it?

  Ernest L. Wilkinson

  Country, Needs, May

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• I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.

  Tennessee Williams

  Art, Race, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

  Annie Besant

  Selfish, Men, States

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• The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich.

  Noam Chomsky

  Cost, Benefits, Pay

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• Socialism never took root in America.

  John Steinbeck

  Roots, America, Proletariat

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• I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Rights, Truth Is

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.

  Cintra Wilson

  Fun, Writing, Ghetto

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• ... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.

  Fidel Castro

  Doe, Imperialism, Capitalism

  Fidel Castro (2007). “Fidel Castro Reader”, p.206, Ocean Press

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• While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Revenge, Mean, Race

  Bertrand Russell, Kenneth Blackwell (2008). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell”

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• Marx and Engels openly declared that the progressive income tax and the death tax are 'economically untenable' and that they advocated them only because 'they necessitate further inroads' upon the capitalist system and are 'unavoidable' as a means of bringing about socialism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Income, Progressive

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• Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern art has become. Atonal music is to music what subsidized art is to art. ...The fact that cacophony has reigned almost supreme since 1900 is a testimony to Mises' original observation. Atonal music is to music what socialism is to economics: planned chaos.

  Gary North

  Art, Facts, Cacophony

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• Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

  Walter E. Williams

  Form, Tyranny

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• What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that the dream of democratic socialism is inferior to the dream of democratic capitalism, and that the latter's superiority in actual practice is undeniable.

  Michael Novak

  Dream, Thinking, Practice

  Michael Novak (1991). “The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism”, p.26, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.

  Peter L. Berger

  Economic, Linkages, Inefficiency

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• Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Political, Pay

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• Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any other known substitute for the market order could sustain the current population of the world.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Race, Order, Population

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• Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx failed to recognize the incentive system built into the capitalist model - consumer choice and the profit motive of the entrepreneur. The irony is that capitalism, not socialism or Marxism, that has liberated the worker from the chains of poverty, monopoly, war, and oppression, and has better achieved Marx's vision of a millennium of hope, peace, abundance, leisure, and aesthetic expression for the 'full' human being.

  Mark Skousen

  War, Expression, Ideas

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• Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Years, Contests, Capitalism

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• Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Tragedy, Century, Has Beens

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