Quotes on Socialism

It always shocks Americans when I inform them that free and compulsory schooling is one of the ten "planks" of the Communist Manifesto and that public schooling is a key aspect of the Soviet, Chinese, and Cuban ways of life.

Letting Go of Socialism, Jacob G. Hornberger

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

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights; under socialism, the right to property (which is the right of use and disposal) is vested in 'society as a whole,' i.e., in the collective, with production and distribution controlled by the state, i.e., by the government. Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - or by vote, as in Nazi (National Socialist) Germany. The degree of socialization may be total, as in Russia - or partial, as in England. Theoretically, the differences are superficial; practically, they are only a matter of time. The basic principle, in all cases, is the same.

The Monument Builders, Ayn Rand

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

H.L. Mencken

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

Richard Neuhaus

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Karl Marx

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

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 Toqueville

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

Gary North

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

George Bernard Shaw

Look people, we can throw quotes and dictionary definitions at each other until doomsday. Communism and capitalism are economic theories that are not actually practiced anywhere. Socialism is simply an attempt to create a working model of communism. And the end result is indistinguishable: slavery. All collectivist roads lead to the enslavement of humanity by the state. Liberal Americans who preach the abstracts of socialism, whether they couch it in euphemisms like "social justice" or whether it is simply an empty-headed declaration of "caring for people," the result will be the same. Sadly for the rest of us, the American liberal will not wake up to this reality until he or she is being "frog-marched off to the firing squad." And that is why some of us will fight you, either in ideological battlegrounds or on actual ones, until the day we die.