Socialism Quotes - Page 6

Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.

There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.

The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

Socialism never took root in America.

I think socialism is really about recognizing that there are limits to what the market can do. The market is very useful; at times it works very well, but it doesn't always work.

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

The Democrats, because they believe in socialism, redistribution, forced the banks and financial institutions to make the risky loans.

Liberalism, communism, socialism are about denying individual liberty and creating a collective with a top down command-and-control government and economy. Conservatives are individuals and not activists at all, and so there is no such strategy to bend, shape, and form a country.

Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

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

To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.

Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.

Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

Under national "socialism", there is also only one party. But nothing will come out of this fascist one-party system.

The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.

Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.

If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.