Socialist Quotes

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My grandfather was a Polish Jew and a socialist, and as a youngster he helped to organize special camps to teach agriculture to all the young men that were moving to Israel, where in 1930, they created the first kibbutz.

- Natalie Portman

This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.

- Jon Voight

As a kid - as a kid I saw socialist - the socialist country that Austria became after the Soviets left. Now don`t misunderstand me: I love Austria and I love the Austrian people. But I always knew that America was the place for me. In school, when the teacher would talk about America, I would daydream about coming here. I would daydream about living here. I would sit there and watch for hours American movies, transfixed by my heroes, like John Wayne. Everything about America seemed so big to me, so open, so possible.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

By the end of the miner`s strike I was defining myself as a socialist, clued in and looking for the next opportunity to defeat the Tories.

- Ernie Pyle

(on his role as Spike in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) and "Angel" (1999)) "This job is so far beyond any expectations I had. I mean, I`m on a postage stamp in Russia (issued in Karakalpakia, a region within the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Uzbekistan). There`s no way you can plan for that. You just have to sit back and giggle and go, `Oh, wow.`" (2 May 2004)

- James Marsters

I, a Socialist, think we should strive toward a Socialist society, all the way to Communism.

- Jane Fonda

There`s something fundamentally wrong with a system where there`s been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

- Sean Connery

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

- Newt Gingrich

(Feminism is) a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

- Pat Robertson

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

- Pope John Paul II

By the end of the miner`s strike I was defining myself as a socialist, clued in and looking for the next opportunity to defeat the Tories.

- Billy Bragg

Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I`m proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.

- Don Young

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

- Alan Keyes

I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

- Hans Frank

In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.

- Hans Frank

I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.

- Stephen Lewis

Great Socialist statesmen aren`t made, they`re still-born.

- Hector Hugh Munro

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

- Larry Niven

But to establish its cause upon nothing and yet not to burn all bridges behind it: that is the nobility of character of the National Socialist era.

- Alfred Rosenberg

I was a woman, separated, a socialist, an agnostic ... all possible sins together.

- Michelle Bachelet

I am a woman, a socialist, separated and agnostic - all the sins together.

- Michelle Bachelet

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

- Albert Lasker

You cannot have a spontaneous socialist revolution.

- Alejandro Aviles

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

- Alejandro Aviles

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

- Alejandro Aviles

Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation.

- Alejandro Aviles

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

- Alejandro Aviles

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

- Alejandro Aviles

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.

- Alex McKinney

It`s not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

- Alice Paul

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

- Alice Schwarzer

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

- Allen Holmes

To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.

- Allen Holmes

This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.

- Allen Holmes

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

- Allen Holmes

I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.

- Amy Handlin

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

- Andre Manning

Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn`t matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.

- Andrea Gilbert

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that`s where I belong.

- Andrea Plemons

About one out of five voters cast their ballots for Milosevic in Serbia`s parliamentary elections in December, making his Socialist Party the main opposition group,

- Andy Warren

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

- Pat Robertson