America Quote by Stuart Chase

For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical…

— Agnes Smedley

I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of…

— Frank Marshall Davis

I've expressed concern about the assaults on our institutions, both from external sources - meaning the Russians - and internal sources. And I think…

— James R. Clapper

There is also this great sense of triumphalism, that just as we defeated the Soviet Union, we can do this. And out of this…

— Edward Said

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The bourgeoisie...by its imperialist methods of appropriation is destroying the economic structure of the world and human culture generally. Nevertheless, the historical persistence of…

— Leon Trotsky

“The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolutionary violence and cast doubt on…

— Steven Pinker

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures…

— Margaret Thatcher

Although until recently the Church was closely linked to the established order, it is beginning to take a different attitude regarding the exploitation, oppression,…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

— Thomas B. Macaulay