Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

I even believed in a third way; I thought it was possible to put a human face on capitalism. But I was wrong. The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

Marxism, communism, socialism - the ideologies - did not have the automatic answers to the problem of the relations between the lighter and darker races of mankind. They did not even have an answer to anti-Semitism.

All socialism involves slavery.

Socialism means slavery.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

What the collectivist age wants, allows, and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.

There is the fundamental paradox of the welfare state: that it is not built for the desperate, but for those who are already capable of helping themselves.

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.