Communism Quotes - Page 15

• It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.

  Raymond Williams

  Names, Intellectual, Needs

  Raymond Williams (2013). “Loyalties”, p.331, Random House

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• We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Hate, Writing, Language

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• Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Wish, Abhorrent

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.48, Vintage

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• What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.

  Leonard Read

  Names, Disease, Causes

  Leonard E. Read (1990). “The freedom philosophy”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

  Cal Thomas

  Brutality, Problem, Humankind

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• I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Russia, World, Care

  "Communists: The Battle over the Tomb". The Time, content.time.com. April 24, 1964.

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• After the fall of communism in Poland, we had a post-communist as president for two terms: Aleksander Kwasniewski. He was very good. He brought Poland into NATO and the European Union. The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns. Kaczynski appointed a judge to the position of deputy justice minister who had once sentenced current President Bronislaw Komorowski to a prison term.

  Adam Michnik

  Fall, Judging, Justice

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

  John Lennon

  Father, Style, Figures

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.

  Barry Goldwater

  War, Men, Have Faith

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• People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.

  Immortal Technique

  People, Viewpoints, World

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, War, Differences

  "The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism". "Quest for Peace: an Introduction". Book edited by John M. Whiteley, 1986.

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• Socialism, communism, literally kills the lifeblood of opportunity and energy and creativity because there is no outlet for it, and yet all of those things are a natural part of the human existence, desire, ambition, energy, creation. We all have those things in different amounts, different allocations. And they change.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Creativity, Ambition, Opportunity

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think it's sort of the hypothetical point where communism and fascism meet. They love tragedy, and they love surface beauty. You just watch it play out over and over in the media. It was the English edition of Glamour who were looking for stories of Iraqi war widows, but specified that they had to be attractive.

  Emma Forrest

  War, Thinking, Tragedy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Conservatives recognize there's gonna be winners and losers. The communists say that's not right. There shouldn't be any losers, and they set about trying to create circumstances where people think nobody will lose. But everybody loses under communism. They eventually have to build walls around countries to keep people in, as in the Berlin Wall.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Wall, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Mother, Fate, Plot

  Observations ch. 10 (1970)

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• Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Government, Interesting, Democracy

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.188, Vintage

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• Liberalism, communism, socialism are about denying individual liberty and creating a collective with a top down command-and-control government and economy. Conservatives are individuals and not activists at all, and so there is no such strategy to bend, shape, and form a country.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Liberty, Socialism

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

  Samuel Johnson

  Community, May, Possession

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.192

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• The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Patriotic, Rights, Insightful

  "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81), 2004.

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• Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

  Graham Greene

  Blood, Hands, Water

  The Comedians pt. 3, ch. 4 (1966)

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• The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Powerful, Independent

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• Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

  John Gay

  Men, Animal, Together

  John Gay (1791). “The Beggar's Opera: A Comic Opera”, p.73

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• Leftists are activists. This is a strategy. Liberalism, communism, socialism, you don't need to go too deep - a peripheral study of Marxism. And you'll learn that Marxism, leftism, liberalism, they have long-term strategies for taking over and controlling whole populations. It is their objective.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Study, Socialism, Strategy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Trust, Freedom

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• Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Communist, Horrible

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1954). “Poems and prose”

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