Edmund White Quotes

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

I'm a socialist.

I am a socialist, and everyone knows it.

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

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?

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

Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

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.

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.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

Most actors are socialists, aren't they?

… a communist program

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

I certainly did not know what the word 'socialism' meant growing up, because I was brought up in a very nonpolitical family. My brother was somewhat active, but my parents were not.

My mind might be conservative, but at heart, I was always a socialist.

But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.

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.

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.

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

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

The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.