Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

When capitalism changes, so must socialism.

The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society - we are on the eve of universal change.

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

Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.

Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.

If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.

If experts were usually right, socialism would prevail.

Our intention is not to replace socialism by some other system, but to reinforce it.

… that veiled sister of communism – legalistic socialism

As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These “humanitarian parts” are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its “antirent and anticapital parts,” means to get rid of the poodle..

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

We are all socialists now.

This is mere socialism. Every Socialist and Communist in the country has been supporting the proposed legislation since it was first dreamed up and submitted to Congress.

I think democratic socialism will ultimately prevail in this country because it makes an enormous amount of sense.

Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.

The New Deal saved capitalism - saved it from the big-time capitalists - though many of the big-timers didn't see it that way.

I am convinced that there are few, if any, American people that could even start believing or understanding what living in a socialist country does to a person.