Awful Quote by Kirk Douglas

I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers.…

— Kirk Douglas

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists…

— Ken Follett

In communism, we never had any freedom - of movement, of speech, of press. We didn't even make own decisions for our lives, our…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

— Ho Chi Minh

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful…

— Warren Farrell

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned…

— Arthur Koestler

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

— Elia Kazan

“Of the things I had not known when I started out, I think the most important was the degree to which the legacy of…

— David Halberstam

It was in prison that we found the hope of salvation for the Communists. It was there that we developed a sense of responsibility…

— Richard Wurmbrand

The portrayal of Senator Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't cowering in fear during the…

— Ann Coulter

I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there was no…

— Noam Chomsky