Memorable Socialist Quotes

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"The lesson of history is that you do not get a society of greater freedom and equality by fighting for greater freedom and equality. You get it by fighting for the elimination of exploitation and alienation; you get it by fighting for socialism."
Michael Harrington
"Socialism is the logical outcome of the evolution of capitalism, a society that acknowledges the collaborative nature of human life."
Albert Einstein
"The ideas of private property must be subjected to a more rigorous examination in the light of socialism."
Karl Marx
"Socialism means that you get what you deserve and no more."
Henry Ford
"The greatest sin is that we do not do enough; we are not living in and building a truly socialist society."
W.E.B. Du Bois
"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."
Mao Zedong
"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog."
Mark Twain
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"Collective bargaining is a way of achieving a social contract."
Rusty Hicks
"What we seek is a society in which the exploitation of man by man is abolished."
C. L. R. James
"The goal of socialism is to eliminate the domination of one class over another."
Ernest Mandel
"Socialism is about putting people ahead of profits."
Bernie Sanders
"There are no such things as utopias. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. People will always let you down."
George Orwell
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
V for Vendetta
"Every worker is a part of a greater collective, and their efforts should result in collective benefit."
David Harvey
"The people cannot be free until the last capitalist is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
Denis Diderot
"Nothing would be more foolish than to think that capitalism can be reformed."
Noam Chomsky
"A little socialism is good. A little socialism is enough."
Thomas Frank
"To live is to be a revolutionary."
Fidel Castro
"The theory of communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property."
Karl Marx
"The capitalist class is not a class of gentlemen, it is a class of thieves."
Duncan Hallas
"Socialism requires the belief that people are good."
Angela Davis
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"Freedom is not a privilege, it is a right. It is not granted; it is taken."
Nelson Mandela
"Democracy is something we must strive for at all costs – a true working democracy is the socialist vision."
Julián Castro
"We don't need a complex system to make a society. All we need is common sense and common goals."
Howard Zinn
"Socialism is not a theory but a promise to be fulfilled."
Rosa Luxemburg
"The goal of socialism is communism."
Vladimir Lenin
"There is a contradiction between beauty and socialism."
Pablo Picasso
"A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of communism."
Karl Marx
"To do a great right, do a little wrong."
William Shakespeare
"Socialism is like a pyramid scheme: the socialists take from the rich and give to everyone else—not providing incentives to innovate or produce."
Murray Rothbard
"Everyone has a right to a decent life, with food, clothing, and shelter."
Michael Moore
"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
Vladimir Lenin
"For a revolution to succeed, it is not enough to simply desire it; we must be relentless in seeking it."
Fidel Castro
"The individual is the only reality, the abstract idea is meaningless."
Simone de Beauvoir
"In capitalist society, there can be no political freedom without economic freedom."
Vladimir Lenin
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"Socialism means far more than the withering away of the state; it means a revolution in human relations."
Murray Bookchin
"We do not view the question of socialism as a question of goods, but of justice."
Francois Hollande
"The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
Vladimir Lenin
"Socialism is not a science; socialism is a value system."
Ernesto Che Guevara
"The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order."
Ayn Rand
"The workers of the world want nothing but liberty and equality."
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
"All great historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
Karl Marx
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The purpose of socialism is not to provide more government, but to liberate the individual from excessive government."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"If you stand for a reason, be prepared to stand alone."
Roy T. Bennett
"The only way to get rid of a bad government is to overthrow it."
Che Guevara
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
Che Guevara
"In a society founded on injustice, it is not enough to be a good citizen. One must also be a good rebel."
Howard Zinn
"It is not enough to be passive, it is necessary to be militant."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Where there is oppression, there is resistance."
Angela Davis
"Freedom is a constant struggle."
Angela Davis
"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too."
Rose Schneiderman
"Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth."
Archimedes
"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine."
Ernesto Che Guevara
"There is no such thing as an innocent bystander."
Cesar Chavez
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"People don't get what they deserve; they get what they negotiate."
Susan Cain
"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."
Nelson Mandela
"A people that does not have the knowledge of its past, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."
Marcus Garvey
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated."
Thomas Sankara
"Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."
Gustav Landauer
"An injustice to one is an injustice to all."
Unknown
"We are the ones we have been waiting for."
June Jordan
"Solidarity is when we find strength in each other."
Laverne Cox
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."
David Brower
"No one is free until we are all free."
Maya Angelou
"The only thing to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."
Robert F. Kennedy
"The philosophy of Marxism is that the dominant economic system—capitalism—is the fundamental problem, and that workers should direct the economy."
Vladimir Lenin
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
Jeremy Bentham
"If we want to live in a world where we are free, we must not forget that we have a responsibility to each other."
Bernie Sanders
"Socialism is the logical conclusion of capitalism."
Albert Einstein
"The workers of the world have nothing to lose but their chains."
Karl Marx
"In a capitalist society, all human relationships are reduced to relationships of money."
Vladimir Lenin
"Wealth, as it is presently organized in our capitalist system, is distortionary and can make the distribution of resources dangerously imbalanced."
Angela Davis
"The aim of socialism is to make the poor richer, not to make the rich poorer."
Nicolas Maduro
"Socialism means the end of capitalism and private property; it means the transformation of the family, of human relations, and above all, of work and production."
Ernest Mandel
"The more we can create economic democracy, the more we can sustain democracy in the political realm."
William J. Barber II
"What we need is a little bit of socialism, and a little bit of capitalism, so we can get it just right."
Cory Booker
"There can be no real freedom without economic security."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Socialism is just the name of communism for people who are not good at math."
Ronald Reagan
"The productive forces are the foundation of the economic structure of society."
Friedrich Engels
"I think we’ve got to stop the right-wing attempts to make socialism seem like a dirty word."
Elizabeth Warren
"The state is a product of society at a certain stage of development."
Friedrich Engels
"To be a socialist is to be in solidarity with all those who struggle against oppression and exploitation."
Noam Chomsky
"The point of socialism is to create a society free of class struggle, where all can share equally in life's bounty."
Mikhail Gorbachev
"To create a sustainable future, we must aim for economic and social justice through the redistribution of wealth."
AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)
"Socialism aims to eliminate the contradictions of capitalism that inevitably foster inequality."
Leo Panitch
"There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about."
Margaret J. Wheatley
"The economic and technological developments of our time need to be guided by socialist principles."
Thomas Piketty
"Socialists believe that we can create a society where resource allocation is not determined by market forces alone."
David Graeber
"A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Collective ownership is a means of ensuring equality and fighting against the exploitation of the many by the few."
Michael Harrington
"The best way to get a right idea is to have a wrong idea."
Albert Einstein
"There is no such thing as a free lunch."
Milton Friedman
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
Karl Marx
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains."
Karl Marx
"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
Friedrich Engels
"Socialism is the great equalizer."
Bernie Sanders
"The socialist is a man who is always ready to sacrifice his rights for the rights of others."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"Wealth is not a thing; it is a social relationship."
David Graeber
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall."
Che Guevara
"There can be no real freedom without social and economic justice."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Governments must evolve in a meritocratic direction, not a politicized one."
Bertolt Brecht
"Socialism is the way of the future."
Jeremy Corbyn
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."
Karl Marx
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t."
Margaret Thatcher
"There is no single definition of socialism. It is a term of contention."
Michael Harrington
"Freedom is not just the absence of oppression; it must also be the presence of equity."
Angela Davis
"If we want a better world, we have to create it ourselves."
Rosa Luxemburg
"Socialism means the abolition of the state."
Mikhail Bakunin
"Capitalism is not an economic system, it’s a political system."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"We cannot have an honest conversation about social class without recognizing that there are other layers."
Barbara Ehrenreich
"I don't think capitalism has the power to deliver what we need."
Naomi Klein
"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The essence of capitalism is the unending accumulation of capital."
David Harvey
"True progress cannot be measured by the accumulation of wealth, but by the reduction of suffering."
Noam Chomsky
"The system is not working in favor of the people."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
"What we really need is a revolution of values."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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