Communism Quotes · Page 20

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

— Heinrich Heine

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

— Rafael Cruz

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a…

— Whittaker Chambers

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Communism is the real movement that destitutes the existing state of things.”

— The Invisible Committee

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.

— Johann Most

It was thought that to rally Islam against godless communism would be doing the Soviet Union a very bad turn indeed, and…

— Edward Said

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

— Nikita Khrushchev

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's…

— Ronald Reagan

It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any…

— Richard M. Nixon

We should know why paternalism, collectivism, or unnecessary federal supervision will hold our standard of living down and reduce productivity just as…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems…

— Henry M. Morris

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way…

— Tom Wolfe

If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the…

— Bill Ayers

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust…

— Vladimir Lenin

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being,…

— Tom Clancy

“The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the…

— Karl Marx

It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was…

— Benjamin Tucker

There is a reason why you see such an antagonism to religion. Because communism necessitates the destruction of religion for one reason.…

— Rafael Cruz

The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of Washington's global attacks. There had never been…

— William Blum

I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood…

— Margaret Thatcher

The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The…

— Vladimir Lenin

The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.

— Murray Rothbard

“We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.”

— Victor Serge

“Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.”

— A.E. Samaan

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in…

— Michel de Certeau

“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory… you have a dream.”

— A.E. Samaan

“Exchange, fair or unfair, always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.”

— Anonymous

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

— Mao Zedong

“I can’t take communism nor can you, but to cross this bridge I would hold hands with the Devil.”

— John Lewis Gaddis

“Stalin is dead! Stalin is dead! No school today!” we yelled. “Stalin is dead! No school today...” was a chant to linger…

— Teodor Flonta

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

— Mao Zedong

Of course the state symbols should be respected and especially the large bills of the state.

— Ilkin Santak

In fact, there is an academic blackout about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of communism and socialism.

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

— Vladimir Lenin

Technology helped end communism by bringing in information from the outside.

— Lech Walesa

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

— H. L. Mencken

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

— Ezra Taft Benson