Communism Quotes
639 Communism quotes by 344 unique authors
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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
— Malcolm X
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The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
— Albert Einstein
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Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and…
— Vladimir Lenin
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There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system…
— Tony Hoagland
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If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
— Mark Twain
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Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,” with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive…
— Susan Sontag
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The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The power to tax is the power to destroy.
— John Marshall
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What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under…
— Charles Taylor
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We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
— Ronald Reagan
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It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river…
— Arthur Koestler
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The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.
— H. L. Mencken
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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first…
— Arundhati Roy
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Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.
— Charles Bukowski
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You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively,…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . .…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The way people get their living determines their social outlook.
— Karl Marx
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The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching…
— George Monbiot
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Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not…
— Leon Trotsky
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The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion…
— Milton Friedman
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