Top Socialism Quotes

Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"??

I have always preferred the contemplative to the active life. I prefer the freedom to see matters from several viewpoints, to appreciate ironies, and indeed to change my opinion as I learn something n...

Socialism Definition

(n.) A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism.

All conservative ideologies justify existing inequities as the natural order of things, inevitable outcomes of human nature. If the very rich are naturally so much more capable than the rest of us, wh...

The disdain of profit is due to ignorance, and to an attitude that we may if we wish admire in the ascetic who has chosen to be content with a small share of the riches of this world, but which, when...

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may h...

Having a Constitutional political party is a little like telling a car-jacker, "You're not allowed to do what you're doing! And if you don't stop it right now, we are going to ask you to order yoursel...

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers.

Give with a free hand, but give only of your own.

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.

Socialism, communism, and fascism are the political manifestations of unachievable ideals, carried to genocidal extremes.

Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question.

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensate...

Resentment is a powerful and corrosive force, both on the slippery left and the slippery right, and the history of humankind can largely be read as a history of resentment. Aside from a profound philo...

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.