I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered…

“In great ceremony they entered the prison. They were never to be seen again.”

— Catherine Fisher

“I know she re-entered her prison with pain, with reluctance, with a moan and a long shiver. The divorced mates, Spirit and Substance, were…

— Charlotte Brontë

The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and…

— Christopher Hitchens

Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me…

— Seamus Heaney

In 1962 (Engel v. Vitale), the Supreme Court explained that the word 'church' would no longer mean a federally established denomination; it would now…

— David Barton

In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was…

— Kim Jong Il

“Engels’s view of evolution was Lamarckian, rather than strictly Darwinian, in that he believed that characteristics acquired by individuals could be inherited by later…

— Terrell Carver

Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state,…

— Enver Hoxha

“Those who have been forced to study 'dialectical materialism', the strange concoction that was supposed to form the philosophical foundation of Marxism in the…

— Eugene V. Koonin

“Lenin clearly and unambiguously poses the question of the relationship between the ‘form’ of materialism and its ‘essence’, of the impermissibility of identification of…

— Evald Ilyenkov

“After attempting to outline Engels' thesis on the development of the family the following is said: "we are possessed of the myth of the…

— Catalina Adrianzen

They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if…

— Nikita Khrushchev

“As Engels memorably put it: “The overthrow of mother-right was the world historical defeat of the female sex. The man took command in the…

— Anonymous

In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive…

— Paul Robeson

We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

— Mao Zedong