Communism Quotes - Page 14

• The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

  George Orwell

  Intellectual, Enough

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.

  Edmund A. Opitz

  America, Rights, Government

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• There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Philosophy, Differences, Principles

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• Communism is the basis of all sociality and it's the basis of cooperation.

  David Graeber

  Cooperation, Bases

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it used to be said that spies practically kept the Party going with their dues and contributions.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Party, Spy, Communist

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• It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

  Winston Churchill

  Real, Patriotic, Loss

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• Sociologically, I think it is the most important thing going on in the world today. Because you can't change people by force. Communism made a great mistake in trying to inflict its beliefs on everybody. People have to find their own understanding, and if you can offer them an example that will inspire, they will come naturally to it. Ananda tries to offer this inspiring example.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

  Mao Zedong

  Book, Revolution, Renegades

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

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• Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

  Mao Zedong

  Teacher, Pupils, Mass

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• We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, Vietnam, Killing

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• The color of communism was not red but gray.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Color, Red, Gray

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• Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.

  Joseph Stalin

  People, Valuable, Selection

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• Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice, Defense, Bombs

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• We are in the middle of a world revolution, and I don't mean Communism. The revolution I'm talking about is that of the little, poor people all over the world. They're beginning to learn what there is in life, and to learn what they are missing.

  George C. Marshall

  Mean, Talking, People

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• But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Jail, People

  "The Old Left". New York Times (section 6, p. 13), www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

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• A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Successful, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Numbers, Selfishness

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.44, Aristotle

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• Communism then defines a society in which there are communal forms for dealing with resources. Many communal forms exist where there are not communist governments. The Mondragon cooperatives in Spain and the thousands of worker-owned cooperatives in the United States, are viable alternatives to capitalism.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Government, United States, Spain

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Ronald Reagan reignited the American economy, rebuilt the Military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and defeated Soviet Communism. I will do the same thing.

  Ted Cruz

  Military, Unions, Defeated

  The fifth Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Evil, Purpose, Barren

  Margaret Thatcher (1987). “In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986”

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• A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Freedom Of Speech, Democracy, Isms

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• It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

  Amy Poehler

  Art, People, Trying

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• A spider web of 'patriots for profit', operating from the highest positions of special trust and confidence, have successfully circumvented our constitutional system in pursuit of a New World Order.

  Bo Gritz

  Trust, Order, Special

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• Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.

  Jack Anderson

  Country, Espionage, Soviet

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• Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Historical, Patterns, Consciousness

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