Western intellectuals, and also Third World intellectuals, were attracted to the Bolshevik counter-revolution because Leninism is, after all, a doctrine which says… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. When they fail to come off its clergy simply say… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Ivanov- "Up to now , all revolutions have been made by moralizing diletantes. They were always in good faith and perished because… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Know thyself!” There is nothing that so aids and assists the awakening of omniscience within us as insistent thoughts about one’s own… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“A dock worker from East Ham also spoke of freedom. "You'll never find the English going Communist" he said. "We don't like… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
“Have private property, capitalist exploitation and class rule ceased to exist? Or, have the propertied classes in a spell of patriotic fervour… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism. We… — Andrey Illarionov Copy Share Image
In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by… — Marshall Fritz Copy Share Image
“...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you… — Michael Burawoy 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
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“How could a large land empire thrive and dominate in the modern world without reliable access to world markets and without much… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I want here to make three suggestions: first, that the doubts the ordinary man feels about religion are justified, and need not… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
“The Soviet state was, in fact, almost perfectly designed to make people unhappy. It denied its citizens not just hope, but also… — Oliver Bullough Copy Share Image
The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood… — Marina Abramovic 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
It is not to save capitalism that we fight in Russia … It is for a revolution of our own. … If… — Leon Degrelle Copy Share Image
“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
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“After all, Malthus was wrong. Marx was wrong. Democracy did not die during the Great Depression as the Communists predicted. And Khrushchev… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Communism then defines a society in which there are communal forms for dealing with resources. Many communal forms exist where there are… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
For two generations up through the mid-1980s, many thought we were losing the Cold War, even in early 1989, few believed that… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
“Look now,' Vesna's mother continued, 'what do you know, a civil war might break out any minute: Serbs would fight with Croats,… — Slavenka Drakulić Copy Share Image
I've seen my kids' work at school, and I think they're better than when I was young, 'cause I was brainwashed into… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“They say, 'No private property', and immediately after strive to maintain private property in its daily manifestations. 'You shall be a commune… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We have got to fight it [Communism] with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Socialism, communism, literally kills the lifeblood of opportunity and energy and creativity because there is no outlet for it, and yet all… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image