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By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.

Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change.

Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not both been achieved at the price of privation and personal liberty sacrificed for the good of the state?

France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.

Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

If the electrician who comes to mend my fuse blows it instead, so I should stop having electricity? I should cut off my light? Socialism is my light, can you understand that?

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one.

If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.

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

If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.

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.

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.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.

[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!

Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead promotes the overutilization of all resources, ending in bankruptcy.

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.

One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.