"The paradox of communism in power was that……" — Eric Hobsbawm
"The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative."
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18 Quotes by Eric Hobsbawm
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Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international…
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The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when…
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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group,…
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Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.
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It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're…
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It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose…
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Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy
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The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system
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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…
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The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.
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The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.
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As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
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More Communism Quotes
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American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took…
— Russell Baker
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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did…
— John Adams
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You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle…
— Bernard Baruch
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
— Frederic Bastiat
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Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all…
— Isaiah Berlin
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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
— James Bovard
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Communism is like one big phone company.
— Lenny Bruce
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
— Madeleine Albright
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America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
— George W. Bush
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
— Fidel Castro
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