Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. – Thomas Sowell
Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes. – Zygmunt Bauman
I don’t understand why it has to be either – or – either socialism or democracy. Why can’t we combine things to get the best of each system? – Tim Allen
The goal of socialism is a fairer allocation of economic resources, which its advocates often claim will also be a less wasteful one. Socialism is about who gets the goods and how. Socialism objects to markets because markets allocate resources in ways socialists believe to be unfair on both counts: both the who and the how. – Virginia Postrel
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. – William Howard Taft
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. – Vladimir Lenin