Keir Hardie Quotes

It was not that socialism failed, it was the lack of socialism.

Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.

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

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

Our intention is not to replace socialism by some other system, but to reinforce it.

The Clarion will convert England to Socialism in seven years. British working classes are not fit for Socialism yet.

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.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

The goal of socialism is communism.

I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.

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.

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 or Death!

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

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.

Socialism is a movement that loves a smear.

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.

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.

I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought I wouldn't want to be here without a lot of money, but I was wrong about that.

Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.

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.

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

The language of priorities is the religion of Socialism.