Francis Bellamy Quotes

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

Tampering with the market system to redistribute the wealth or assure that the poor are protected is labeled "socialism." By these standards Jesus was a socialist.

I swear by Christ---the greatest socialist in history.

Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.

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

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

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.

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

… that veiled sister of communism – legalistic socialism

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

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

Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.

I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

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

Either Jesus is the son of God, or he is not.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian. I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. And socialist, well yes, of course, it's not a fashionable word, but I am very much of the Left.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?