Socialism Quotes

“Self-management is the only way to overcome the alienation of labor.”

“The purpose of our reform is to establish a socialist market economy.”

“I'm a socialist. I'm not a communist, but I'm a socialist.”

“It is to violence that Socialism owes those high ethical values by means of which it brings salvation to the modern world.”

“The case for socialism is not that it will create a paradise, but that it will create a better society.”

“The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I believe that they are incapable of any great effort for the good of humanity.”

“We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, now we are the builders.”

“Competition is for the people a system of extermination.”

“They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?”

“The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland, the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour.”

“Art should be for the people, and by the people.”

“I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.”

“Socialism is that social system under which the necessaries of production are owned, controlled and administered by the people, for the people.”

“The day of individualistic democracy is gone. The democracy of the future will be a social democracy.”

“There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, — that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.”

“The aim of the Socialist Labour Party is to bring about a fundamental transformation of society.”

“All socialism involves slavery.”

“What is needed is a cooperative commonwealth in which the motive of service replaces the motive of profit.”

“The socialist seeks a distribution of rewards, status, and privileges egalitarian enough to minimise social resentment, to secure justice between individuals, and to equalise opportunities.”

“My objective is to bring about a fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people and their families.”