30+ Best Socialism Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Profoundly inspirational socialism quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.

Famous Socialism Quotes

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed. – Ayn Rand

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility. – Jacques Delors

Socialism values equality more than liberty. – Dennis Prager

Socialism is also unselfishness embraced as an axiom. – Roger Kimball

Socialism requires that government becomes your god. – Rafael Cruz

Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being. – Erich Fromm

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

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another. – Wendy McElroy

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

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. – Benjamin Tucker

The goal of socialism is communism. – Vladimir Lenin

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. – Mike Norton

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

We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody. – Ayn Rand

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies. – Ron Paul

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. – Margaret Thatcher

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. – Winston Churchill

Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain. – Emile Durkheim

Socialism is politicized envy. – Rousas John Rushdoony

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

Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one’s intentions. – Dave Champion

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. – Oswald Spengler

Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism. – Wen Jiabao

Socialism is socialism. Government run enterprises are just as inept under democratic governments as they are under autocratic governments. – Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion. – Richard John Neuhaus

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. – Norman Mailer

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. – William Howard Taft

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. – Ludwig Von Mises

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society. – Daniel De Leon