Socialism Quotes

“I have staked my whole life on the gradual spiritualisation of the collective man.”

“Poverty is the worst of all crimes.”

“Education is a right, not a privilege.”

“We want to create a socialism that will have a humane, democratic face.”

“For us, the people's rule is not just a slogan but the very essence of our socialist democracy.”

“The twenty years of experience since February 1948 show that socialism cannot be decreed from above.”

“The struggle for peace is inseparable from the struggle for socialism.”

“For me, socialism is not a theory, a doctrine or a dogma. It is a value-judgment.”

“I believe that the great tragedy of the Labor party is that it is not a socialist party. It is a party of social amelioration.”

“What the socialist misunderstands is that we don't live in a world of statistics, but in a world of men and women.”

“In order to build socialism, there must be socialist people.”

“I'm a poet, a playwright, and a journalist. It's a bit of a cliché, but I've been a socialist since I was 15.”

“Socialism, when the last shred of the old superstitions and idolatries are cast off, what is it but the religion of humanity?”

“The artist must be a socialist. He must have a social conscience.”

“We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance.”

“All the ills of the working class are summed up in these two words: poverty and ignorance.”

“The emancipation of the workers will be the work of the workers themselves.”

“I am not only a socialist but a democrat and a republican as well—in a word, a partisan of all the revolution.”