Pius XI Quotes

If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.

I was raised a socialist by two very socialist parents, and I still feel very animated about socialist principles.

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

A communist is a man who has nothing and wishes to share it with the world.

… a communist program

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Let me tell you, communism does not work! Socialism does not work!

Everything brought forward in favor of Socialism during the last hundred years, in thousands of writings and speeches, all the blood which has been spilt by the supporters of Socialism, cannot make socialism workable.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.

Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

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.

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

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.