Communism And Socialism Quotes

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

Communism is like one big phone company.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

Socialism never took root in America.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won’t work.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

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