“Wolf’s answers rarely praised communism outright, and he didn’t use Marxist language. But almost all of them praised the Red Army or… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact I did flirt with Socialism, in my youth." "That when you were in university, was it?" He… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“For the movement was without scruples; she rolled towards her goal unconcernedly and deposed the corpses of the drowned in the windings… — Koestler Arthur Copy Share Image
Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We may first observe that communism and socialism--which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism--cannot live with Christianity nor with any… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
“Should we wrap it all up and simply say that they arrested the innocent? But we omitted saying that the very concept… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Russian bolshevism, replacing eastern Christendom by the grim religiosity of Marx, produced a caricature of the evangelical counsels with many a diabolical… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
“Take Tom Jones and mix him with Enrico Caruso, the Italian tenor-cum-castrato singer. Then add tons of pathetic love songs, faked sex… — Terje B. Englund Copy Share Image
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The effort of building an ideal society always leads to violence, often to very extensive violence. Because, whether we like it or… — Mart Laar Copy Share Image
I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“By sanctifying History in order to discredit God, Marxism has merely rendered Him more peculiar and more haunting. You can stifle every… — E. M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“As a youth I enjoyed — indeed, like most of my contemporaries, revered — the agitprop plays of Brecht, and his indictments… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Communism is an aspiration, an aspiration is an ideal, a dream, a longing of something that would be perfect, but hard to… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“Now we will live!” This is what the hungry little boy liked to say, as he toddled along the quiet roadside, or… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“In return for their faithful service, they would receive Red Army food rations, which amounted to a generous ladle, twice daily, from… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all compromises, but to be… — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Copy Share Image
First, we should become informed about communism, about socialism, and about Americanism. What better way can one become informed than by first… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“The Bolshevik Revolution, which had happened only a quarter century earlier, had in contrast involved the embrace of concentrated authority as a… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“One of the founding European settlements of what would become the United States, Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, first attempted communal farming on… — Todd Seavey Copy Share Image
The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The capitalist empires, with their affirmations of sacrifice for the free world, of defence of private enterprise, of safeguarding order from subversion… — Helder Camara Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know whether it caused anguish in China, but it was not a wise way to proceed. But one has… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
“Life is about means not ends. There is no utopia to be gained, there is no end-state that is static and eternal,… — Carne Ross Copy Share Image
I think what happened with 9/11 is that people sort of felt that it came from nowhere. Whereas I think now we… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“Communism is a judgment on our failure to make democracy real and to follow through on the revolutions that we initiated. Our… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“In Shanghai, there were several pro-right circles of former officers. They realized that the Great War and European revolutions were a direct… — Elvira Baryakina Copy Share Image
“No society has succeeded in abolishing the distinction between ruler and ruled... to be a ruler gives one special status and, usually,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“I knew that coming from a family with an unhealthy social origins, things would be harder for me. Nonetheless, in my heart,… — Teodor Flonta Copy Share Image
“We ate away, reminiscing about our victories over the enemies from different streets and villages and competing with each other in casting… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
“Authoritarian Communism is, and should be, forever tainted by those real-world laboratories. But what of the contemporary crusade to liberate world markets?… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Every argument that Margaret Thatcher ever made internationally didn't have a great deal to do with her contempt for Communism - she… — Brian Mulroney Copy Share Image