Community Quote by Orson Bean

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

— Alexei Sayle

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

— Gertrude Stein

I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

— Woody Guthrie

Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.

— H. Allen Smith

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

— Douglas Rushkoff

I've never said I'm a communist.

— John Lydon

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of…

— Karen Morley

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

— Elia Kazan

People were, in good faith perhaps, writing history books about the Indian working class, Indian peasantry, et cetera, and at no point did Communists…

— Vijay Prashad

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.

— Martin Niemoller

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

— David Crosby