Communism Quote by Eric Hobsbawm Download Open image “The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.” — Eric Hobsbawm ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communism Conservative Inspirational Paradox
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you. — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism. — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
“He believed in Communism the way most people believed in God: he would not be greatly surprised or disappointed if he turned out to… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking. — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
“They all agreed that under communism they had been just as poor, but at least there was food and security, whereas independence had brought… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky. — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past,… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in its majesty… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
I didn't understand Southland Tales script at all! Is there a single word to describe it? Cacophony? It's celebrity meets pornography meets politics -… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Motherland is our property and we have right to handle our properties as pleased. The jokes about death for the sake of the motherland… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Your best friends are your principles, if you havent them, dont look for another friend. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
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