Thorstein Veblen Quotes

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

Socialism is a monster which will die.

No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the most ambitious creations of the human spirit, . . .so magnificent, so daring, that it has rightly aroused the greatest admiration. If we wish to save the world from barbarism we have to refute Socialism, but we cannot thrust it carelessly aside.

I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.

Everything brought forward in favor of Socialism during the last hundred years, in thousands of writings and speeches, all the blood which has been spilt by the supporters of Socialism, cannot make socialism workable.

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.

The Bible does not say anything about communism, OK? The Bible has a whole lot to say about sex. It has a whole lot to say about homosexuality. And so you can't compare the two and say these are - these are the same. That's just ludicrous. It's just - it's not the same.

If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

The goal of socialism is communism.

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

Communism is the basis of all sociality and it's the basis of cooperation.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement.