Communism Quotes - Page 25

• A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do. When I tell the story of Cinderella, the sprite does not want me to make it into an allegory of the fall of communism. The sprite would be unhappy if I did that.

  Philip Pullman

  Jobs, Fall, Angel

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• Communism is just one big telephone company.

  Lenny Bruce

  Telephones, Bigs, Company

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• Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.

  Pope John Paul II

  Thinking, Two, Tragedy

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• All societies are based on a sort of minimum level of communism. Otherwise, you couldn't have any social relations at all.

  David Graeber

  Levels, Social, Relation

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My communism attempts basically to create a shared society, that's all; a shared society in which individuality will flourish, along with love, and along with mutual respect.

  Murray Bookchin

  Individuality, Mutual Respect, Mutual

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude."

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Tragedy, Reign

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• Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

  Joseph Stalin

  Russia, Socialism, States

  Joseph Stalin (1978). “1934-1940”

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• We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War between the capitalism and communism. Many writers just wasted their energy and their talent because they want to be ideologically correct and of course all they produced was propaganda.

  Wole Soyinka

  War, Struggle, Creative

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this period before nationalism becomes so dominant in China as a substitute for communism, and a kind of self-righteous isolationism in this country that substitutes China for the Soviet Union.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Self, Challenges

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Richard Nixon even before becoming president, before meeting Henry Kissinger, he said, "This is ridiculous. Communism is nationalist. The Chinese and Russian and Yugoslav and Cuban and - none of these communists get along, and the Koreans and the Vietnamese, and we can do business with them." And then he opened up to China, and that's when the Cold War started.

  Robert Scheer

  War, Chinese, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• "Freedom" is probably the word he said more than any other. He used the word freedom constantly. I think for some his frequent calls for freedom became a cliché because he did it so often. They didn't get it, but Reagan certainly did. He thought deeply about the relationship between God and human freedom and the nonrelationship between atheistic communism and that freedom.

  Paul Kengor

  Thinking, Used, Said

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just a synonym for the Empire of Evil.

  Chris Kraus

  Evil, Empires, Ideology

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My entire life was dedicated to defeating communism. I felt really great when Ronald Reagan helped us establish peace and the elimination of communism from Russia. We are now dealing with a national power, and, you know, it is a big power in the world. It's no longer being motivated by communist ideology that has it trying to overthrow democratic governments and replace them with atheistic communist dictatorships.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Russia, Government, Trying

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Horse, Names, Two

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• Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Movement, Affair

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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• The best way to make Communists is to put the Americans into a place where there were no Communists before.

  Norodom Sihanouk

  Way, Communist, Best Way

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• There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.

  Mao Zedong

  Principles, Finals, Analysis

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• The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

  Murray Kempton

  Sin, Communist, Boon

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.33, New York Review of Books

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• The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.

  Grover Cleveland

  Forgotten, Reaching, Should

  "Letters of Grover Cleveland, 1850 - 1908". Book by Allan Nevins, 1933.

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• The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.

  Ronald Reagan

  Powerful, Battle, Weapons

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Long, Wonder, Modern

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The CEO of the Sofa”, p.83, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Communists are frustrated capitalists.

  Eric Hoffer

  Frustrated, Communist, Capitalist

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• The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

  H. L. Mencken

  Gentleman, Facts, Communist

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.21, Knopf

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• It is not to save capitalism that we fight in Russia … It is for a revolution of our own. … If Europe were to become once more the Europe of bankers, of fat corrupt bourgeoisies we should prefer Communism to win and destroy everything. We would rather have it all blow up than see this rottenness resplendent. Europe fights in Russia because it [i.e., Fascist Europe] is Socialist. what interests us most in the war is the revolution to follow The war cannot end without the triumph of Socialist revolution.

  Leon Degrelle

  War, Fighting, Blow

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• There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The forces that seek power over others have gained the upperhand against those that seek freedom. By harming wealth creation,they cause even more strain on society. Historically, this is nothingnew. State domination over its subjects has roots that connect statism,totalitarianism, communism, and socialism to more modern-day variantsof liberalism and progressivism. It is a constant fight and we mustwin.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Fighting, Roots, Wealth Creation

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