H. L. Mencken Quotes

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.

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.

Socialism is a monster which will die.

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

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

This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.

Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.

I believe that the madness of Communism would be the sole victor.

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

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!

When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.