Socialist Quotes - Page 3

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.

In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques.

The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons.

You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.

We have won on the Arlov, Kursk, Belgorod, and Kharkov grounds. We won because the country was being defended not only by the army but by the entire Soviet people. The Socialist economy, Soviet political structure, and Marxist-Leninist ideology proved their unarguable excellence against the Fascist economy, Fascist political structure, and Fascist ideology of Germany.

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it.

I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.

I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.

When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.

If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.

in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.

We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

I'm just a socialist at heart.

I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.

Post-1989 capitalism was far more unfriendly to economic and social rights than was the prior capitalism seeking to win public approval as a more compassionate economic arrangement than that which prevailed in state socialist economies.

In any socialist government, they must destroy all alliances other than your alliance to the government, and they want the government to become your God. That for you to totally depend upon government. So we become slaves to government, through taxation, through regulation, through all kinds of restrictions, that makes us not free anymore.

That's the problem with the socialist model, because the socialist model - if you work twice as hard as I do, and you get just the same amount, pretty soon you decide that it's foolish for you to do more than I.

If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.