Collectivism Quote by Ezra Taft Benson

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism…

— Ludwig von Mises

We want to make sure, particularly young people, understand that socialism is not something grand.

— Nicole Malliotakis

Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.

— Vladimir Lenin

Communists should be the first to be concerned about other people and country and the last to enjoy themselves.

— Zhao Ziyang

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

— Leonid Brezhnev

Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal.…

— Walter E. Williams

The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!

— Nelson Mandela

Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds…

— Mao Zedong

...We should try to link our personal lives with the cause for which we struggle, with the cause of building communism.

— Nadezhda Krupskaya

It's expensive to keep communism alive today. I've already got a huge foreign debt staring me in the face, and I can't reduce it…

— Nicolae Ceausescu

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

— David Limbaugh

You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.

— Margaret Thatcher