P. J. O'Rourke Quotes About Communism

Quotes about: Communism

• Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drink, Communism, Liberalism

• Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• You can't get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Chinese, Cuba, Needs

  "Give War a Chance". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1992.

• If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Humor, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• In the end we beat them with Levi's 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system...has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Years, Jeans, Shoes

  "Thrown Under the Omnibus". Book by PJ O'Rourke, October 21, 2015.

• Then there was communism's weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn't take all the money away from all the people since all the people don't have money. We should take all the money away from only the people who make money. Then, when we run out of that, we could take more money from the people who...hey, wait! Where'd you people go? What do you mean you're "tax exiles in Monaco?"

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Mean, People

  P.J. O'Rourke (2014). “The C.E.O. of the Sofa”, p.83, Atlantic Books Ltd

• The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Long, Wonder, Communism

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The CEO of the Sofa”, p.83, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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