Communist Quotes · Page 38

When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.

— Dorothy Day

I defy my honored opponents to give me the name of a single man imprisoned in the United States, Great Britain, or…

— Richard Wurmbrand

I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were…

— Lars von Trier

But my knowledge of Marxism was limited to knowing that Marx was a Jew, and that he had a long white beard.…

— Marc Chagall

Communists must never separate themselves from the majority of the people or neglect them by leading only a few progressive contingents in…

— Mao Zedong

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded…

— Earl Browder

We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price.…

— Vaclav Klaus

Nothing in our time is more interesting than the erstwhile capitalist corporation and the erstwhile Communist firm should, under the imperatives of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

You're seeing the first communist-produced automobile coming in to the U.S.. What I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism.

— John Raese

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

— Dennis Miller

I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.

— John Lennon

On the world scene, it is our position that there is a resurgence of socialism taking place. The world's socialist and Communist…

— Gus Hall

[.....] most of the environmental hype [regarding global warming] is really to help bring about Karl Marx's dream (nightmare) of a Communist…

— Kent Hovind

I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire…

— Adolf Hitler

I think we're going to have to do better. Mr. Nixon talks about our being the strongest country in the world. I…

— John F. Kennedy

The communists were mainly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish anarchists. Not just in Catalonia - the communist armies mainly destroyed…

— Noam Chomsky

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

— Eldridge Cleaver

If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your…

— Ayn Rand

They came to this country they, they were Hungarians, they were Communists from a Communist country. And right now those Hungarian freedom…

— Malcolm X

This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt, that the international Communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer…

— Harry S. Truman

[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.

— Jay Roach

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world…

— John F. Kennedy

People were, in good faith perhaps, writing history books about the Indian working class, Indian peasantry, et cetera, and at no point…

— Vijay Prashad

I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the…

— Murray Bookchin

Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating…

— Alexander Cockburn