The day has passed for patching up the capitalist system; it must go. And in the work of abolishing it the Catholic and the Protestant, the Catholic and the Jew, the Catholic and the Freethinker, the Catholic and the Buddhist, the Catholic and the Mahometan will co- operate together† For, as we have said elsewhere, Socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic,Christian norFreethinker,Buddhist,Mahometan, nor Jew; it isonly HUMAN.

-Connolly,James
  Labour, Nationality, and Religion.

A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.

-Deng Xiaoping
  Address to US businessmen organized by  Time magazine, 18 Dec.

There is nothing in Socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

-Durant,WilliamJames
Attributed.

All thistime [San Francisco, from1955] Irealized we were involved as a community with a historical change of consciousness and some kind of cultural revolution† I thought it wasreally insomerespects a contest between further liberation or1984 authoritarianism, police state; that it was creeping police state or creeping socialism- libertarianism.

-Ginsberg, Allen
  Quoted in Gordon Ball (ed)  Allen Ginsberg:  Journals Mid- Fifties (1995),'Meditations on Record Keeping by Poet, Transcribed by Editor'.

   Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism, and from it, extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly, middle-class parties their nationalism.Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as crystal, the synthesis öGerman National Socialism.

-Goering, HermannWilhelm
  Speech, Berlin, 9  Apr.

We will now proceed to the building of socialism.

-Lenin,Vladimir Ilyich originally Vladimir IlyichUlyanov
  Speech, Oct. Quoted in  A  J P  Taylor From the Boer War to the Cold War: Essays on Twentieth-Century Europe (1995), p.192.

The Socialist papers†came out full tothethroat of well- printed matter†admirable and straightforward expositions of the doctrines and practice of Socialism, free from hasteand spiteand hard words†with a kind of May-day freshness amidst the worryand terror of the moment.

-Morris,William
  News from Nowhere.

Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.

-Morris,William
   Addressing Hammersmith Socialist Society.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.11.

To the ordinary working man, the sort you would meet in any pub on Saturday night, Socialism does not mean much more than better wages and shorter hours and nobody bossing you about.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.11.

The Labour Party's election programme†is the most fantastic and impracticable programme ever put before the electors. This is not socialism. It is bolshevism run mad.

-Snowden, Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount
  Radio broadcast,17 Oct.

We are redefining and restating our socialism in terms of thescientific revolution† The Britain that will be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.

-Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron
  Labour Party Conference,1Oct. His phrase has since been memorably rendered as 'the white heat of the technological revolution'.

In a recent interview, I was asked what, above all, I associated with socialism inthismodernage.Ianswered that if there was one word I would use to identify modern socialism, it was 'Science'.

-Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron
  Speech,17 Jun.