Communism Quotes

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--...

Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the s...

…The story of the Pledge of Allegiance and its National Socialist roots is a fascinating one. Dr. Re...

Politically, he was a humanitarian who did know right from left and was trapped uncomfortably betwee...

...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the P...

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who go...

If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdepend...

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to buil...

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wonderin...

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

My mother could see that as far as my father's relationship with the Party was concerned, she was an...

Instead of sniping at her like Mrs. Mi, Mrs. Ting let my mother do all sorts of things she wanted, l...

There were no state regulations about hairstyles or clothes. It was what everyone else was wearing t...

Every time she went home she found herself being criticized. She was accused of being "too attached ...

Over the years of the Cultural Revolution, I was to witness people being attacked for saying "thank ...

Meetings were an important means of Communist control. They left people no free time, and eliminated...

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exe...

Schumpeter remarked how pleased he was with the Russian Revolution. Socialism was now no longer a di...

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather suffici...

The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled ...

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations ...

Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible witho...

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directio...

In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the d...

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change i...

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered int...

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.Freeman and slave, pa...

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyl...

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilit...

The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossa...

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest spr...

The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of pro...

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is t...

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society pr...

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose bu...

When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been ...

The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual ...

Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of v...

Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of ...

The difference between communism and socialism is that under socialism central planning ends with a ...

The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,...

Communism is like one big phone company.

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The ol...

[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of...

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

In the meantime, the first characteristic of a really revolutionary party is -- to be able to look r...

The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated b...

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "g...

Terror is a powerful means of policy and one would have to be a hypocrite not to understand this.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Who is the true friend of the people? Fascism is. Who has done the most for the working man? The USS...

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and t...

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization ...

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it ...

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism an...

These self-styled liberals and progressives are honestly convinced that they are true democrats. But...

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his...

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in...

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

An army of the people is invincible!

In Warsaw, you also remember that you are in a Communist-controlled country, though by all accounts ...

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Perestroika was an impossible idea on the face of it. The Party was setting out to employ its struct...

Our athiests are pious people.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

With them the individual counted for nothing. No one was irreplaceable, because they drew no distinc...

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal...

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

Those who had fought for what they called the revolution maintained a great pride: the pride of bein...

Who was the real me? I can only repeat: I was a man of many faces.At meetings I was earnest, enthusi...

I had all kinds of answers ready for the commissions that called me in and asked me what had made me...

How would I explain to him that I couldn’t make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I ...

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves,...

Communists are the last optimists.

When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed ...

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, b...

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

There are two kinds of Communists: the arrogant ones, who enter the fray hoping to make men out of t...

Als it is hard for America to fight wars in the name of freedom, if those people themselves choose f...

Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-aft...

I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.

After all, Malthus was wrong. Marx was wrong. Democracy did not die during the Great Depression as t...

Marx wrote about finance and industry all his life but he only knew two people connected with financ...

The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Commun...

No society has succeeded in abolishing the distinction between ruler and ruled... to be a ruler give...

Look, everything the Communists say about capitalism is true, and everything the capitalists say abo...

It seems to me that the Russian prestige is declining and that America holds in its hands the immedi...

Out of the magazines I read came a passionate call for the experiences of the disinherited, and ther...

As is now generally admitted, a Soviet bomb would not have been achieved for several years more but ...