Casts Quote by Bram Fischer

I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.

— Klaus Fuchs

At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had…

— Edward Dmytryk

I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

— Elia Kazan

I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

— Elia Kazan

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of…

— Karen Morley

I joined the Communist Party when I was 18. When I was 10, there was the miners' strike, and the Cold War was going…

— Maxine Peake

It cannot be so very surprising that I adopted a Communist viewpoint in the 1930s; so many of my contemporaries made the same choice.…

— Kim Philby

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

— Elia Kazan

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

— Grover Norquist

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

— Rose Wilder Lane