Communism Quotes

He was afraid that the world struggle today was not of Communism against Fascism, but of tolerance a...

Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream?

The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbli...

Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. I...

If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of ph...

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built ...

The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the r...

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that th...

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different...

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on th...

If we regard the state as the father, and the citizens as children, there are three alternatives. Fi...

Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because...

Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have of...

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

The hide was being flayed off the still living body of the Revolution so that a new age could slip i...

We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, ask...

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapa...

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Fr...

Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxist...

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of...

The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all comp...

We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other...

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable ...

[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.

Economics is not the central problem of this century. It is a relative problem which can be solved i...

It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in t...

...Communism, it's a reactive formation derived from capitalism. For this reason it's less flexible ...

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted ...

A highway, a bridge, a navigable canal, for example, may in most cases be both made and maintained b...

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the math...

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly posses...

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been foll...

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely f...

Or why should one refrain from burning hatred, whatever its basis--race, class, or ideology? Such ha...

The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormo...

It is here that we see the dawn of hope: for no matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks ...

On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the co...

No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-K...

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

And even in the fever of epidemic arrests, when people leaving for work said farewell to their famil...

Communism has never concealed the fact that it rejects all absolute concepts of morality. It scoffs ...

This is Communism's view of war. War is necessary. War is an instrument for achieving a goal.But unf...

You have theoreticians who say, "The U.S. must stop the process of nuclear armament. We have enough ...

All Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage befo...

Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerr...

The Communist leaders respect only firmness and have contempt for persons who continually give in to...

That Marxism is not a science is entirely clear to intelligent people in the Soviet Union. One would...

Of course, peace treaties are very attractive to those who sign them. They strengthen one's prestige...

Communism is as crude an attempt to explain society and the individual as if a surgeon were to perfo...

Of course in the present situation the Communists have to use various disguises. Sometimes we hear w...

These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: … the men in Kentucky [neither] ...

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health car...

You opposed fascism, then you ditched communism.'No, I didn’t. Communism ditched me by turning into ...

For the movement was without scruples; she rolled towards her goal unconcernedly and deposed the cor...

Ivanov- "Up to now , all revolutions have been made by moralizing diletantes. They were always in go...

...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Pre...

It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half...

Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.

I don't approve of mixing ideologies," Ivanov continued. "There are only two conceptions of human et...

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men f...

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know y...

Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as ...

When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such d...

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from...

There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those...

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting b...

Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what an...

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state mono...

Those who are weak don't fight.Those who are stronger might fightfor an hour.Those who are stronger ...

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve...

In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstance...

This was 1990 the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the wor...

It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if ...

The rulers of your minds indulge in proverbs, but they've forgotten the main one, that love cannot b...

Or again, take your red banner. You think it's a flag, isn't that what you think? Well, it isn't a f...

Those who reject Christianity will not be moved by Christ’s statement that poverty is blessed. But h...

My last penny! I think I'll squander it on myself. I never feel badly about spending money my dad ha...

The Koran is empathetic about the rights of other religions to practice their own beliefs. It unequi...

You might think that the Left could have a regime-change perspective of its own, based on solidarity...

I dispute the right of conservatives to be automatically complacent on these points. My own Marxist ...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in...

Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front f...

I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since...

I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony...

Sceptical Ketman is widely disseminated throughout intellectual circles. One argues that humanity do...

Professional Ketman is reasoned thus: since I find myself in circumstances over which I have no cont...

If the world is divided between Fascism and Communism, obviously Fascism must lose since it is the l...

Visible alternatives shatter the sense of inevitability, that the system must, necessarily, be patch...

This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of natu...

Your leaders must know powerful magic. Yes, said one of the women. The magic is called Marx, Stalin,...

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.

Given the amount the human suffering Communists have caused, why is Communist so much less a term of...