Communist Quotes · Page 14

In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward.

— Rose George

Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party.

— Bill Dedman

Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

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

— Whittaker Chambers

I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out…

— Vladimir Bukovsky

Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi…

— Simon Wiesenthal

Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out…

— Wilfred Burchett

“Vodka goes well with a wintery perspective. Nothing else provokes such presentiments of falling snow except, for some, the communist seizure of…

— Michèle Bernstein

I admit that I do not recall the speeches of Comrades [Earl] Browder and [Samuel] Darcy. I do not even recall of…

— Joseph Stalin

Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who…

— Thomas Sowell

As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist I consider myself to have been…

— Leonid Brezhnev

Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial…

— E. B. White

Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should…

— Mao Zedong

Communism then defines a society in which there are communal forms for dealing with resources. Many communal forms exist where there are…

— Cynthia Kauffman

Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the…

— Noam Chomsky

I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of…

— Joe Lhota

It was obvious uh, that uh, the situation in Vietnam was far from stable in 1964 and that there, if in fact…

— McGeorge Bundy

I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools…

— Susan Sontag

My entire life was dedicated to defeating communism. I felt really great when Ronald Reagan helped us establish peace and the elimination…

— Dana Rohrabacher

I do not know what will happen in China politically. I do know that it is impossible to maintain the communist system…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The attack upon Korea was an outright breach of the peace and a violation of the Charter of the United Nations. By…

— Harry S. Truman

The communists basically acted as the police force of the security system of the [Spain] Republic and were very much opposed to…

— Noam Chomsky

There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I will fight to the death for a communist's right to say what they want to say here in the United States.…

— John Dolmayan

The pro-independence movement has all different social sensibilities - from left to right, including pro-liberal, socialist and communist.

— Jordi Cuixart

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

— Noam Chomsky

From a will: And to my communist nephew Oswald, I leave the sum of 10,000 pounds - to be shared equally with…

— John Carpenter

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our…

— Ang Lee

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

— Elia Kazan

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

— Gloria Swanson

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

— Whittaker Chambers

For the anti-Semite, the problems of the world can invariably be ascribed to the Jews; for the Communist, to the capitalists.

— Bret Stephens

The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

— Cynthia Kauffman

The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

— George Soros

“I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Feed the hungry and you're a saint, ask why they are hungry and you're a communist.”

— Rick Steves

How do you tell a communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its…

— Ronald Reagan

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a…

— George Bernard Shaw

There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking.

— Alexis Tsipras