Book Quote by Vijay Prashad

Interestingly, if you write preparation out of history, leadership and preparation, the building of confidence among people who are exploited, you've actually methodologically written…

— Vijay Prashad

Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.

— Victoria Finlay

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

— Gertrude Stein

...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and…

— Fran Lebowitz

The communists saw what we did in the arts as the only product of socialism that was known in the West, so they tolerated…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I knew people who were real Communists but never made it onto the blacklist and kept on working. There were also people reputed to…

— Orson Bean

“The dominance of former communists and the insufficient discussion of the past in the post-communist world is not coincidental. To put it bluntly, former…

— Anne Applebaum

The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great…

— John Negroponte

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

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

— H. Allen Smith

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

— Alexei Sayle

It's important to remember that, in the 1930s, a lot of people in the West looked at communism as a pretty good idea. That…

— Chrystia Freeland