Communists Quotes
181 quotes by 128 authors
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It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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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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In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off…
— Milan Kundera
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To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts…
— John F. Kennedy
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Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even…
— David Sedaris
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I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she…
— Karl Lagerfeld
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That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory,…
— Hannah Arendt
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The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community…
— Pete Seeger
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If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or…
— Eric Hoffer
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The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats...
— T.H. White
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In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that Norsemen…
— Jon Stewart
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Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I…
— Haruki Murakami
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
— Gertrude Stein
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I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.
— H. L. Mencken
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I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
— Vladimir Lenin
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We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward to socialism and…
— Mao Zedong
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Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which…
— Mao Zedong
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How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were…
— Ernest Hemingway
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