Communism Quotes

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.

Communism is just one big telephone company.

The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism.

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

You have never suffered-how can you be a leftist?

In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.

You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept.

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

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.

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.

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

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

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

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 was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

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

I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism and his efforts to defend human rights.

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.

Communism didn't fall. It was pushed.

Communism is the flower of idleness.

Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.

There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

My communism attempts basically to create a shared society, that's all; a shared society in which individuality will flourish, along with love, and along with mutual respect.

Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.

We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.

Hunger justifies the middle classes.

I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore.

[T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went into the environmental movement.

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under communism for example.

Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent?

Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.

The problem of an atomic war must not be confused by minor problems such as Communism versus capitalism. An atomic war would kill everyone, left, right, or center.

Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception.

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

Communism is fascism with a human face.