P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Let me tell you, communism does not work! Socialism does not work!

The goal of socialism is communism.

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

… that veiled sister of communism – legalistic socialism

I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word 'socialist,' get very, very nervous.

The Jew is an inborn Communist.

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.

Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.

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.

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

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

Then there was communism's weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn't take all the money away from all the people since all the people don't have money. We should take all the money away from only the people who make money. Then, when we run out of that, we could take more money from the people who...hey, wait! Where'd you people go? What do you mean you're "tax exiles in Monaco?"

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.

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore.

I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

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.

Communism means barbarism.

Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

Socialism is a dead horse.

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.