Civil society Quote by Anne Applebaum

“When reason, common sense, and decency are assaulted often enough, then personality is crippled, and human intelligence disintegrates or is warped. The barrier between…

— Frank Ellis

“The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“When the Communist Party took over Eastern Europe, its first work was to destroy the civil associations that it did not control.”

— Roger Scruton

“...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which…

— Michael Burawoy

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

— Karl Marx

“Communists talked to the masses and urged violence, if necessary, to encompass their ends; the Socialists appealed to their own kind—to the intelligentsia, the…

— Robert L. Heilbroner

“Communism went against life, against man’s fundamental needs, against the need for freedom, the need to be enterprising, to associate freely against the will…

— Gordon G. Chang

“Most of the states of Europe had no prospect of social transformation, and thus little ability to rival or counter the Nazis and the…

— Timothy Snyder

“I belong to a generation that came of age listening to news of the collapse of the Communist dicatorships and never felt the slightest…

— Thomas Piketty

“History can familiarize, and it can warn. In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of global trade…

— Timothy Snyder

“The Soviet state was, in fact, almost perfectly designed to make people unhappy. It denied its citizens not just hope, but also trust. Every…

— Oliver Bullough

“Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two…

— Barbara Kingsolver