Thomas Sowell Quotes

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible.

The future belongs to socialism

Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go back far enough it meant basically control of production by producers, elimination of wage labor, democratization of all spheres of life; production, commerce, education, media, workers control of factories, community control of communities, and so on. That was socialism once. But it hasn't meant that for a hundred years. Socialism meant something different.

Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any other known substitute for the market order could sustain the current population of the world.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple of other spots, no one in the world today would define socialism that way. That will never come back.

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

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.

Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

I am against the use of capitalist mechanisms to build socialism.

The ideas of socialism are not modern ideas.

I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

Socialism and freedom are not compatible, regardless of repeated convincings.

There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.

What we're already doing is communism. The first step we have to make is to realize that we're already closer to it than we think.