Communist Quotes

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.

Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.

Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system, in America - one of the so-called 'founders' was a Communist

Everybody goes down to a least common denominator, and as a result, productivity goes down to zero. And we've seen that in every communist country around the world.

In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.

Has the pope questioned the faith of any communist leaders? He spends a lot of time in communist countries.

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard to achieve, very hard to achieve, but is a longing worth fighting for.

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York.

I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.

There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector

Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.

In fact it was always the Communist problem which was responsible for the opposition to [Albert] Camus. It was always and overall a political thing, a kind of misunderstanding.

Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn't endorse Barack Obama, but that's just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama.

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it.

If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing. All you really care is that he comes in and performs.

Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.

The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

I grew up in a big Irish family, where everyone played the traditional sports, and I remember my grandfather saying to me, 'Why are you playing that communist game? You won't get anywhere with it.'

The rise of fascism in Europe sent most Americans home. Some black American communists who had emigrated to the Soviet Union perished in Stalin's purges of the late 1930s.

And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic.

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed.

The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

I had been friendly with people who were in the Communist party and all the rest of the Left forces, which were oriented in the direction of mass action.

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

I don't want everyone to think of me as just 'that kid who called Jesse Jackson a communist in middle school.' That's why I decided to become a famous actress.

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people.

In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly.

People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

You had workers' movements. You had left organizations, the Communist Party, that were mobilizing in profoundly powerful ways to basically address the great injustices of capitalism.

It was not Soviet people who formed the American Communist Party.

It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.

[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.