Cuba Quotes

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

The goal of socialism is communism.

We shall now proceed to construct the socialist order.

Socialism makes war upon a system not a class…. Labour should capture power, not destroy it.

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

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

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

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

Socialism means slavery.

Long live the workers' republic that the Workers Party fights for!

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

The Socialist group in the Chamber affirms .... that, in conformity with the fundamental thinking of the Socialists in all countries and with the tradition of French Socialism ever since the Revolution, it aims to abolish the capitalist system itself and to put an end to the exploitation of man by man, through the conquest of political power by the proletariat, through the substitution of social property for capitalist property, and through international agreement of the workers.

Well, what are you socialists going to do about me?

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

If the American working people were as I would like them to be, they would all be socialists and I would be President.

Today, “socialism” … is just an all purpose term of abuse.

I'm a socialist.

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

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.

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

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.

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

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.

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.