Communism Quotes · Page 12

Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just…

— Chris Kraus

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

— Timothy Noah

A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.

— Whittaker Chambers

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around…

— Donald Tusk

The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.”

— A.E. Samaan

A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism.

— Ilkin Santak

Are the entire people equal before the god? I do not know. But all gods are equal before the human being, especially…

— Ilkin Santak

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression…

— Emanuel Celler

Libertarianism and communism are equally crazy in opposite ways. Libertarians believe that it is possible to privatize everything without anarchy, while communists…

— Michael Lind

A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and…

— Lech Walesa

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of…

— Cynthia Tucker

“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people…

— Slavoj Žižek

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

— William Blum

Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from…

— Anton Yelchin

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

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit…

— Aristotle

“It's WW2 and there are wage controls in place. Instead of health care, companies decide to offer employees shoes. Having absorbed those…

— Jeffrey Tucker

We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward…

— Mao Zedong

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

— Joseph Sobran

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.

— Nikolai Bukharin

When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and…

— Pol Pot

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

When you guys win, you get to keep your money. When we win, we take your money.

— Cy Thao

Duty of a citizen to the defective state is betraying it. Because the defective state has already betrayed its citizens.

— Ilkin Santak

This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.

— Lech Walesa

Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism act.

— Joost de Blank

'Collective' sounds like communism, but we do work and live in a society where there is a collective well-being.

— Alan Colmes

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

— Frank Zappa

An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimination against all people.

— Shelley Berkley

I grew up learning firsthand what it was like to flee communism and oppression.

— Carlos Lopez-Cantera

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience…

— Os Guinness

As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one…

— Tony Evans

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

— Tom Shadyac