To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

Freedom, democracy, and socialism can only ever exist together; it is impossible to have any one without the other two.

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.

Government should be a floor upon which the good of the people flourishes, not a ceiling upon which people bump their heads!

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.

There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.

The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself — without the assistance of governments.

Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..