Communism Quotes

From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect.” “Yes, it is. But it is politically correct.” (The Rise of Political Correctness)

Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based "philosophy, " which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it "progressive".

Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one's intentions.

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".

We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Man is by nature a curious animal. You can hide the truth from him temporarily, but not for ever.

He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again.

Never give up on learning because what you put up there in your brain, ” he indicated my head with his index finger, “the Communists won’t ever be able to take away from you.

Stalin is dead! Stalin is dead! No school today!” we yelled. “Stalin is dead! No school today...” was a chant to linger in my ears for years to come.

The cane leaves a mark on your flesh for a few hours, a day or two. The good answers to the questions leave a mark on your brain for many years, sometimes even for life, ” my father said.

The night I was born, my great uncle Moanea, the village forester, shot a wolf. The villagers roasted it in the fire and fed the meat to the dogs.

People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.

The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian

Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.

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

Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

Finally liberty has come!

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

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

It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism.

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

That day I saw people trying to feed themselves but managing to do so only on a subsistence level. And people who are hungry are not worried about communism or Communists.

All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

Prosperity and democracy does seem to be a good way to wean a population off massive alcohol abuse.

It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, ..

For now, we live in the mall, but I think it's closing soon.

Marx himself wrote that capitalism produces above all its own gravediggers. Do you think that perhaps he wasn't talking about capitalism?

China's success lies on being a communist community within and a capitalist company outside.

Communism in a capitalist world requires eliminating the hope of the citizens for owning what others own.

The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish.

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

Absolute autonomy inevitably leads to tyranny.

Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral system. Freedom could not be begged for: it had to be won.

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

Communism is the friend of the ideologue, and the enemy of mankind.

The difference between communism and socialism is that under socialism central planning ends with a gun in your face, whereas under communism central planning begins with a gun in your face.