Communism Quotes · Page 18

There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector

— Augustine Birrell

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

— Heinrich Heine

“From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.”

— John Gray

Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.

— Vladimir Lenin

“Despite Soviet 'defeat' in 1991, the ideas associated with Communism remain shockingly reputable throughout what we still know as the Free World.”

— Diana West

But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first…

— Pete Seeger

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Rafael Cruz

There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small…

— Nikita Khrushchev

I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the…

— Frederick Douglass

What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's communism and…

— Leonard Read

Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a…

— Max Frisch

Taxpayer is a person who pays for the maintenance of the state, so the phrase obligations of the citizen to the state…

— Ilkin Santak

... As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar…

— Greg Erwin

“You don’t understand the class structure of American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the United…

— Anonymous

Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able…

— Mark W. Clark

I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the…

— Rudy Giuliani

According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must…

— Deng Xiaoping

The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war…

— Albert Pike

People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is…

— Dale Jamieson

“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave…

— Leon Trotsky

The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the…

— Douglas MacArthur

Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody…

— Walter E. Williams

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

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Whittaker Chambers

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

— The Invisible Committee

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

— Edward Said

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

— Johann Most

Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception.

— Mao Zedong

“If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your…

— A.E. Samaan

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

— Samuel Johnson

It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies…

— John Taft

Accuracy is not only in the home. Philosophers often bring accuracy to their thoughts.

— Ilkin Santak

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

— Henry David Thoreau

Communism has not died. We naively thought in the '90s we had buried communism, but this is not true. It is not…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.”

— Ludwig von Mises

Depending on your culture, you can make physician which treats you feel himself like a veterinarian.

— Ilkin Santak

“You know what we learned from living under the rule of Communism?" "No." "We learned to get mad.”

— Joan Bauer

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

— Anonymous