Christopher Hitchens Quotes

I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!

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

… that veiled sister of communism – legalistic socialism

The calls for socialism on the left get louder and louder, and they don't stop.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

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.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

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 appeals to Jews because it embraces the interests of the oppressed.

Socialism was embraced by the greater part of the intelligentsia as the apparent heir of the liberal tradition: therefore it is not surprising that to them the idea of socialism's leading to the opposite of liberty should appear inconceivable.

I think democratic socialism will ultimately prevail in this country because it makes an enormous amount of sense.

I am a socialist, and everyone knows it.

Liberals amuse me. I am a socialist.

I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.

Communists are the last optimists.

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

Communism will win.

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

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

I'm a very friendly socialist.

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

When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.

Jesus the Socialist