Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years.
‐‐ James Roosevelt
Social Security was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.
‐‐ Judd Gregg
Social Security was designed to give a few years of modest benefits to people whose bodies were worn out through coal mining, factory work and other physically demanding labor.
‐‐ Louis Navellier
Social service has always been my priority, and I want to help the poor.
‐‐ Girija Vyas
Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning.
‐‐ Donella Meadows
Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.
‐‐ Ray LaMontagne
Social support is everything.
‐‐ Jordan Knight
Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring
Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'
‐‐ Alan Kay
Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.
‐‐ Kenny Chesney
Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with water that is lukewarm, sweet and murky.
‐‐ Michael Leunig
Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis
Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people's money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don't go broke.
‐‐ Louie Gohmert
Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.
‐‐ Ellen Key
Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.
‐‐ John Bates Clark
Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share.
‐‐ Lewis Black
Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
‐‐ Benito Mussolini
Socialism is about claims of justice, and it is also about money: about wealth, income, physical and financial capital. It is an ideology based on allocating economic resources. It may try to achieve that goal by nationalizing assets, by command-and-control regulation, or by taxation and redistribution.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel
Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
‐‐ Karel Capek
Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
‐‐ Jawaharlal Nehru
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
‐‐ Oswald Spengler
Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.
‐‐ Earl Browder
Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
‐‐ Daniel De Leon
Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.
‐‐ Gary North
Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born in Maastricht in 1992. The intent was to save socialism in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the predictable bankruptcy of the welfare state in the West as well.
‐‐ Vladimir Bukovsky
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
‐‐ Annie Besant
Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
‐‐ Richard John Neuhaus
Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw
Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.
‐‐ Joe Slovo
Socialism is when government's taking care of you, you send all your money to the government, the government decides how to spend it instead of letting the people spend it and make all those decisions.
‐‐ Bob Latta
Socialism means slavery.
‐‐ Lord Acton
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
‐‐ Jules Renard
Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
‐‐ Benjamin Tucker
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw
Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
‐‐ Rafael Cruz
Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.
‐‐ David Cunliffe
Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro
Socialism values equality more than liberty.
‐‐ Dennis Prager
Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?
‐‐ Ben Shapiro
Socialism? We've had way too much of it already.
‐‐ Steve Steckler
Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.
‐‐ Ernest Mandel
Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.
‐‐ Maurice Druon
'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
‐‐ Jay McInerney
Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.
‐‐ Michel Onfray
Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
‐‐ Kenneth Baker
Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki