Communism famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
-- Adam Johnson -
Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I always thought communism was crap, really.
-- Alexei Sayle -
Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.
-- Allan H. Meltzer -
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
-- Andre Malraux -
Democracy is the breeding ground of communism,
-- Augusto Pinochet -
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism
-- Benjamin Tucker -
I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and Anti-Christ.
-- Billy Graham -
Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
-- Billy Graham -
Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.
-- Charles Bukowski -
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
-- Charles E. Wilson -
I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.
-- Che Guevara -
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
-- Clement Attlee -
When you guys win, you get to keep your money. When we win, we take your money.
-- Cy Thao -
Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.
-- David Korten -
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
-- Earl Warren -
The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.
-- Edmund Wilson -
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
-- Eldridge Cleaver -
I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
-- Elia Kazan -
We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.
-- Emanuel Celler -
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
-- Eric Hobsbawm -
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
-- Fidel Castro -
One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no Communism.
-- Francisco Franco -
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright -
I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.
-- Frederick Douglass -
Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
-- George Orwell -
Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore
-- Gianfranco Fini -
Communism is the end of the economy as a separate and privileged field on which everything else depends while despising and fearing it.
-- Gilles Dauve -
The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.
-- Grover Cleveland -
Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.
-- Gus Hall -
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
-- H. L. Mencken -
What we were striving for was a kind of modified form of communism.
-- Harold L. Ickes -
Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.
-- Harry J. Anslinger -
Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
-- Hector Hugh Munro -
The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it used to be said that spies practically kept the Party going with their dues and contributions.
-- Helen Lawrenson -
Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918.
-- Henry Hamilton Beamish -
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
-- Ho Chi Minh -
Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.
-- Jack Anderson -
Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
-- Jack Kemp -
Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
-- Jack Levine -
I have a problem with capitalism, in it's extreme sense. At the same time communism, I have a problem with that, because every man must feel like a lord in his own manor.
-- Jaz Coleman -
The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.
-- Jesse Ventura -
I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.
-- Jesse Ventura -
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.
-- Jim Leach -
Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.
-- Jim Stanford -
We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.
-- Johann Most -
If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?
-- John Desmond Bernal -
Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.
-- John L. Lewis -
Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.
-- John Ray -
Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.
-- John Smith -
Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.
-- Jomo Kenyatta -
Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism act.
-- Joost de Blank -
If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.
-- Joseph Sobran -
Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy.
-- Juan Bosch -
I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
-- Lajos Kossuth -
"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.
-- Lech Walesa -
I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
-- Lech Walesa -
Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
-- Lech Walesa -
Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.
-- Lech Walesa -
One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.
-- Michel de Certeau -
I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.
-- Milos Forman -
The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.
-- Milovan ?ilas -
The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.
-- Muhammad Iqbal -
The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.
-- Murray Kempton -
The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!
-- Nelson Mandela -
Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.
-- Nikita Khrushchev -
Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.
-- Nikolai Bukharin -
I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.
-- Norman Wisdom -
The best way to make Communists is to put the Americans into a place where there were no Communists before.
-- Norodom Sihanouk -
Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.
-- Paul Harvey -
I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.
-- Petra Nemcova -
Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -
Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -
Between our way of life and communism there can be no peace, no paralyzing coexistence, no gray neutralism. There can only be conflict-total and without reconciliation.
-- Ramon Magsaysay -
I have decided to denounce communism, though I love the Communists. I don't find it to be right to preach the gospel without denouncing communism.
-- Richard Wurmbrand -
Communism:Â Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty
-- Rick Bayan -
While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business,
-- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. -
We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.
-- Robert M. Lindner -
If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.
-- Robert Novak
