Peter L. Berger Quotes

Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.

Socialism can also practice market economy.

Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits of a social order are shared in an equitable and just manner.

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.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

Socialism? We've had way too much of it already.

My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be widened, take on new aspects, become truly a rule of the people, only when it is extended to the economic life of the people.

Socialism is communism without the firing squad.

I am against the use of capitalist mechanisms to build socialism.

No less than 50 percent of the means of production must be in the hands of the state.

The Constituent Assembly ratifies the transfer of all banks to the ownership of the workers' and peasants' government as one of the conditions for the emancipation of the toiling masses from the yoke of capitalism.

I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting

There would be but one article in the constitution of a State Socialistic country: “The right of the majority is absolute.”

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

What is the difference between democracy and democratic socialism? The same as between a chair and an electric chair.

People like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been very busy educating America about just how much socialism we have, from Social Security to Medicare to public schools to public universities, and how much we love that. The truth is that there is no pure socialist or capitalist economy on earth.