Communism Quotes

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

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

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

I don't believe that either fascism or communism is the solution or that they may come back on this earth.

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.

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

The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.

Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.

The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

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

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

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

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

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.

We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live communism and anarchism in a million forms everyday.

I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.

Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.

Communism means barbarism.

People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.

From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.