Quotes on Communism And Socialism

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

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

You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.

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

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

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

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 not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

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