public ownership of the means of production Quotes

I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It also includes the recognition of the value of democracy. When we speak about social justice, it means that freedom should be used not only in the interest of profit but also in the interest of the advancement of the people who create all values.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

According to a Pew poll, 49% of young Americans have a favorable view of socialism. What is socialism? it is a system that leads to mass misery, mass impoverishment, and human slaughter. That's what it means. Yet almost half of the young think it's benign.

Socialism works ... [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it's conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people at least stabilized at a certain level.

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

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.