Communism Quotes · Page 15

We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.

— Maajid Nawaz

When you think that you are free, do you pay attention to the elements of your thoughts and where have they leaked…

— Ilkin Santak

“The vast majority of people cannot possess something they value without being possessed by it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.

— Jim Leach

Your best friends are your principles, if you havent them, dont look for another friend.

— Ilkin Santak

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

— Vladimir Lenin

If you are insulted for your sarcasm, that means you hit the target you killed the person you mocked on.

— Ilkin Santak

You do not have to obey the law you did not sign under, until you hurt anyone.

— Ilkin Santak

Older people still see socialism and communism as dangerous, authoritarian political systems, whereas younger people are more likely to see them as…

— Annie Lowrey

Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression…

— Howard Zinn

Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values,…

— Vaclav Klaus

“Never give up on learning because what you put up there in your brain,” he indicated my head with his index finger,…

— Teodor Flonta

The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community -- are…

— Peter Kropotkin

It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail.…

— Ronald Reagan

When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with…

— Martin Amis

A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket…

— Ellen Willis

The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness…

— Leon Trotsky

“The whole discussion now underway on revolutionary forms in Russia and in China boils down to the judgement to be made of…

— Amadeo Bordiga

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who…

— Aristotle

“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of…

— Hannah Arendt

“You might think that the Left could have a regime-change perspective of its own, based on solidarity with its comrades abroad. After…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Having had occasion in the past to observe Communist statesmen, I saw with surprise that they were often extremely critical of the…

— Milan Kundera

It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply…

— Michel Houellebecq

“communism was in a rush, it had no time for bourgeois things like the past or the environment.”

— Kapka Kassabova

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

— Adam Johnson

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

— Ronald Reagan

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

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

— Albert Einstein

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.

— Boris Yeltsin

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

— Clement Attlee

When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to…

— Lech Walesa

“With relentless selectivity, the Communist machine has winnowed out the grain and retained only the chaff of Western culture.”

— Richard Crossman

“Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps”

— Karl Marx

“He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.”

— Victor Serge

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore.

— Gianfranco Fini

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

— Winston Churchill

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I have been a Republican since I came to this country, fleeing communism when I was eight years old and Ronald Reagan…

— Ana Navarro

I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.

— Elie Wiesel