Socialism Quotes

Great Socialist statesmen aren’t made, they’re stillborn.

A sure way to keep you from reading it. (to Winston Churchill, on why he named his book “The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism”)

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn’t work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.

All socialism involves slavery.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for […]

Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the […]

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.