John Dos Passos Quotes

The difference between eastern Europe and the United States is that the United States still has a Communist party.

There is little real difference between the Socialist Party and the Communists

I was a Socialist for two weeks but when a couple of Socialists assured me I had no right to think differently from any other Socialist and then quarreled with each other about what Socialism meant, I ran away.

The Socialist group in the Chamber affirms .... that, in conformity with the fundamental thinking of the Socialists in all countries and with the tradition of French Socialism ever since the Revolution, it aims to abolish the capitalist system itself and to put an end to the exploitation of man by man, through the conquest of political power by the proletariat, through the substitution of social property for capitalist property, and through international agreement of the workers.

Well, what are you socialists going to do about me?

In time the Democratic party will fade away and we will have a capitalistic party and a socialistic party.

We are all socialists now.

I'm passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I'm despondent. I'm disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic.

I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.

To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.

Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.

The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

I believe that the madness of Communism would be the sole victor.