Quotes about Socialism

Fascism is socialism which has been clever enough to fool the vigilance of the church, as no other socialism has done.

When I worked picking cotton as a boy with my grandparents, when blacks were moral and hard-working, we loved the country, too. It only makes sense to love the place where you were born - especially the United States of America. But as blacks fell for the lies of socialism and communism, they also fell away from love.

All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with — and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism.

Socialism is the epithet they have hurled at every advance the people have made.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

Property is organized robbery.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists

socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.

Did it ever occur to you that I have a life to live - in my spare time? The Soviet State recognizes no life but that of a social class.