Communists Quotes
181 Communists quotes by 128 unique authors
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Give money to universities — that would be asking for trouble. All those places do is turn out more Communists.
— Lang Hancock
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President Roosevelt and President Truman and President Eisenhower had the same experience, they all made the effort to get along with the Russians. But every…
— John F. Kennedy
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The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists in…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.
— Victoria Finlay
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Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and…
— Richard Armour
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Stop calling me communist. Stop calling the rest of us communists. You`ve got to stand up for what you believe should be the American government`s…
— Chris Matthews
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I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People…
— Kirk Douglas
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I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.
— Elia Kazan
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The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
— Elia Kazan
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One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and…
— Dalai Lama
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Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world…
— Eric Liu
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Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond…
— Nelson Mandela
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Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can…
— Johann Most
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Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the…
— Ben Stein
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My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the…
— Donald Tusk
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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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