Communism Quotes

• How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Government, Political

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

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• What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Christian, Men, Acting

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• Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

  Gary North

  Men, Eugenics, People

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• Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Fighting, Long

  Nelson Mandela (1973). “No Easy Walk to Freedom”, p.180, Heinemann

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• The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Strong, Mean, People

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

  Earl Warren

  Liberty, World, Force

  Earl Warren's speech at Columbia University, January 14, 1954.

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• You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Fall, Acceptance, Fighting

  "They Never Said it: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by Paul F. Boller and John H. George, 1990.

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• The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Political

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• Communism means barbarism.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mean, Barbarism

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “Literary and political addresses”

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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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• The goal of socialism is communism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Goal, Historical, Socialism

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

  Jack Kingston

  Opportunity, Suffering, Democracy

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• One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.53, Open Road Media

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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:  Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

  Rick Bayan

  People, Liberty, Burden

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  From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  Karl Marx

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Political

  Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).

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• Communism is in conflict with human nature.

  Ernest Renan

  Conflict, Human Nature, Humans

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

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• Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

  Doris Lessing

  Party, Views, Self

  "The Sunday Times", May 10, 1992.

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• Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

  Ronald Reagan

  Veterans Day, Freedom, Our Veterans

  Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, delivered 1 September 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey

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• A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

  Winston Churchill

  Political, Democracy, Trying

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• The words Socialism and Communism have the same meaning. They indicate a condition of society in which the wealth of the community: the land and the means of production, distribution and transport are held in common, production being for use and not for profit.

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Mean, Land, Community

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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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• When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.

  Pol Pot

  Stress, Wish, Want

  "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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• I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Taken, Heart, Oath

  "'He was a symbol': Eldridge Cleaver dies at 62". www.cnn.com. May 1, 1998.

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• Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy.

  Juan Bosch

  Democracy, Saved

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