Communism Quotes

639 Communism quotes by 344 unique authors

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more. — Allan H. Meltzer
The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated. — George Orwell
All I know is I'm not a Marxist. — Karl Marx
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. — Clare Boothe Luce
Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of… — Leon Trotsky
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. — Walter Benjamin
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is… — Winston Churchill
Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. — Winston Churchill
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. — Gertrude Stein
Communism is in conflict with human nature. — Ernest Renan
In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman.… — P.J. O'Rourke
I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or… — Sigmund Freud
We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define… — Salman Rushdie
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. — Winston Churchill
You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off… — Desiderius Erasmus
It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art,… — Amy Poehler
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward… — Mikhail Gorbachev
With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of… — John Doolittle
I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal. — Mikhail Gorbachev
A spider web of 'patriots for profit', operating from the highest positions of special trust and confidence, have successfully circumvented our constitutional system in pursuit… — Bo Gritz
Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country. — Jack Anderson
I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men. — H. L. Mencken
Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false… — Herbert Marcuse
As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both… — Jerry Brown
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the… — Albert Einstein

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