Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.
The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism.
By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.
Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.
Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead promotes the overutilization of all resources, ending in bankruptcy.
You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We're not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. We’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If you’re afraid of socialism, you’re afraid of yourself.
I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.
If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.
It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property?
The future belongs to socialism
What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?
A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.
Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.
Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.
France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.
Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.
We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.