Appropriate Quote by Edgar Friedenberg

Youth is a period of idealism. The Communists attract young people by appealing directly to that idealism. Too often, others have failed either to…

— Douglas Hyde

“a communist conspiracy among the youth ... speakers on campuses/trained to condition idealistic brains”

— Allen Ginsberg

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than…

— Bram Fischer

I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.

— Douglas Rushkoff

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

— Gertrude Stein

I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.

— John Lennon

The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments.…

— Mike A. Males

During the entire communist era, communist ideology was imposed on children. That was Bolshevism.

— Andrzej Duda

In the face of such a threat, they had no other choice but to throw themselves to the far left. But now that the…

— Indira Gandhi

“This school is enough to make anyone a communist.”

— Jo Walton

“Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for…

— Harold Edmund Stearns

“By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.”

— Ella Leya