Communism And Socialism Quotes

• There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

  Ayn Rand

  Suicide, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.466, Penguin

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  Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

  Winston Churchill

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Democratic Socialism

  Speech at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland, May 28, 1948.

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• The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

  Norman Thomas

  Freedom, Names, Usa

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff - watch out!

  Walter E. Williams

  Equality, Should Have, Taught Us

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• Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, War, Power

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• Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Opiates, Might, Communism

  1955 In Newsweek, 24 Jan.

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• In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

  Karl Marx

  Party, Liberty, May

  Karl Marx (2015). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”, p.18, Booklassic

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• We may first observe that communism and socialism - which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism - cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates a Creator such as the Declaration of Independence recognizes. The slaves of Statism must know no power, no authority, no source of blessing, no God, but the State.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Blessing, Independence, Together

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• Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

  Winston Churchill

  Dream, Military, Reality

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• Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

  Mao Zedong

  Love, Crush, Chinese Revolution

  Zedong Mao (2007). “On Practice and Contradiction”, Verso Books

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• Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Opiates, Communism, Guillotine

  Newsweek, January 24, 1955.

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• The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Nine, Helping

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

  Will Rogers

  Ideas, Communism, Prohibition

  'Weekly Articles' (1981) vol. 3, p. 93 (first published 1927)

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• If they were going to go to London or to the UK to find out how health care is, national health care doesn't work, all they have to do is go to the Soviet Union to find out how communism and socialism didn't work, but it hasn't dissuaded them from trying it here because they think the only thing that hasn't happened is the right people haven't tried it with the proper funding.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Intellectual, Socialism, Communism

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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  Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

  John Steinbeck

  Roots, America, Usa

  Attributed in "A Short History of Progress" by Ronald Wright, Toronto: Anansi Press, (pp. 124), 2004.

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• Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

  Gertrude Stein

  Unhappy Childhood, People, Literature

  Quoted by Thornton Wilder in December 14-15, 1956, interview with Richard Goldstone. "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", 1958.

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• For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Dog, Russia, People

  Broadcast on BBC Russian Service, in Listener 15 Feb. 1979

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• Communism is in conflict with human nature.

  Ernest Renan

  Conflict, Human Nature, Communism

  "Les apôtres". Book by Ernest Renan, 1866.

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• Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Eugenics, Socialism, Communism

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2012). “Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings”, p.361, Courier Corporation

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• You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Lying, Law, Qualms About

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

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• Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Dream, Government, Justice

  "Adlai's Almanac: The Wit and Wisdom of Stevenson of Illinois" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 20), 1952.

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• Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

  Will Rogers

  Practice, Two, Communism

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Power, Socialism

  Report on the Work of the Council of People's Commissars, 22 Dec. 1920

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• 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.

  Milovan ?ilas

  Integrity, Socialism, Communism

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