Communism Quotes - Page 11

• Either these - unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Country, Cities, People

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• War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

  Rush Limbaugh

  War, Nazism, Slavery

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• It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Government, Political, Citizens

  "Eisenhower and the Suez Crisis of 1956" by Cole C. Kingseed, (p. 27), 1995.

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• What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's communism and Mussolini's fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure.

  Leonard Read

  Differences, Details, Individualism

  "Neither Left Nor Right". The Freeman Magazine, January, 1956.

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• If you look at all forms of collectivism, be it communism or fascism, people are reduced to animals.

  Jack Larson

  Animal, People, Looks

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• Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view . . .

  John Wayne

  Views, Point Of View, Threat

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• Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Victory, Defeat, Despotism

  "The Mike Wallace Interview". www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

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• Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Military, Home

  Howard Zinn (2011). “Terrorism and War”, p.38, Seven Stories Press

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• While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Government, Fascism

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• There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

  Karl Marx

  Past, Government, Historical

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.68, Haymarket Books

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• One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no communism.

  Francisco Franco

  Answers, May, Arise

  "Francisco Franco : The Times and the Man" by Joaquin Arraras, (p. 159), 1938.

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• Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by the police force. All of us know this to be true under communism, but it is equally true under our own brand of welfare statism.

  Leonard Read

  Police, Tools, Coercion

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• Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier are simply different labels for much the same thing.

  Leonard Read

  Egalitarianism, Labels, Nazism

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• From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.

  James Cook

  America, Economic, Threat

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• 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.

  Mortimer Adler

  Men, Justice, Trying

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• 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.

  Erich Fromm

  Years, Development, Fifty

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Friendly, Desert, Purpose

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)”, p.59, e-artnow

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• The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of Washington's global attacks. There had never been an International Communist Conspiracy. The enemy was, and remains, any government or movement, or even individual, that stands in the way of the expansion of the American Empire; by whatever name the US gives to the enemy - communist, rogue state, drug trafficker, terrorist.

  William Blum

  Government, Names, Giving

  William Blum (2003). “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”, p.386, Zed Books

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• A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

  Karl Marx

  Party, Europe, Police

  Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism; Individualism and Mutualism, resting upon property, involve a development of the private policeman not at all compatible with my notion of freedom.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Effort, Development, Demand

  Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell (2005). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.79, SUNY Press

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• [Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.

  Lech Walesa

  Would Be, John Paul Ii, Pope

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• Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Enemy, United States

  Gore Vidal (2001). “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000”, Broadway Business

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• The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose. . . Man does not live by bread alone. Those in the United States whose desire to create a strictly secular society is as strong as Lenin's was should study this Cold War lesson closely. Communism was defeated by an alliance spearheaded by 'one nation under God.'

  Richard M. Nixon

  Strong, War, Men

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• It is true to say that for me sanctity consists in being myself and for you sanctity consists of being yourself and that, in the last analysis, your sanctity will never be mine and mine will never be yours, except in the communism of charity and grace. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

  Thomas Merton

  Being Yourself, Mean, Who I Am

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• The effort of building an ideal society always leads to violence, often to very extensive violence. Because, whether we like it or not, it is not possible to create an ideal society with imperfect people. And this, unfortunately, we are. So the main purpose for Nazism as well as for Communism was to create a 'new person'. In order to make room for it, the world needed to be rid of its non-perfect models.

  Mart Laar

  Order, People, Perfect

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