Communism Quotes - Page 27

• What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Morning, Justice, Brotherhood

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• Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.

  Thomas Friedman

  People, Facts, World

  Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.52, Macmillan

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• Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.

  Arundhati Roy

  People, Evil, Style

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.44, Penguin Books India

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• Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  1963 Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28 Aug, during the March on Washington.

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• The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Freedom, Democracy

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• It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to people? Is sorrow not, one asks, the only thing in the world people really possess?

  Vladimir Nabokov

  People, Sorrow, Why Not

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.52, Vintage

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• What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

  Charles Taylor

  Running, Should Have, Principles

  Charles Taylor (1992). “The Ethics of Authenticity”, p.110, Harvard University Press

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• Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,” with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive menace. And “terrorist” is a more flexible word than “communist.” It can unify a larger number of quite different struggles and interests. What this may mean is that the war will be endless---since there will always be some terrorism.

  Susan Sontag

  War, Struggle, Islamic

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.200, Macmillan

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• There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system that means the most to me.

  Tony Hoagland

  Mean, Thinking, Feminism

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• The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

  Martin Buber

  Education, Real, Struggle

  "Encounter with Martin Buber". Book by Aubrey Hodes, 1972.

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• Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Communist Manifesto, Riddle

  Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

  Billy Graham

  Christ, Decided

  Billy Graham (1950). “Revival in our time: the story of the Billy Graham evangelistic campaigns, including six of his sermons”

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• He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you." "Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Wall, Mean, Army

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• The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Success, Cheating, Freedom

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• NDCC is an admirable job of amassing information to prove that communism is socialism and socialism (a plot to enslave the world) is not a movement of the downtrodden but a scheme supported and directed by the wealthiest of people. If enough Americans read and act upon NDCC, they really can save the Republic from the conspirators--whose plans for the destruction of our country are galloping fast toward completion.

  Dan Smoot

  Country, Jobs, People

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• I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism and his efforts to defend human rights.

  Yelena Bonner

  War, Rights, Effort

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• Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.

  Unknown

  Taken, Global Warming, Evidence

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• We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under the leadership of the Party, and second, that the Party is capable of leading the peasants along this road. These two points are the essence of the matter, the main current.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Essence, Two

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

  Joichi Ito

  Fighting, Opportunity, Japan

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• We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

  Salman Rushdie

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Differences, Criticism

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• Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise.

  Leon Trotsky

  Men, Average, Voice

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• Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

  Allan H. Meltzer

  Government, Libertarian, Revenue

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• We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties. As long as the government provides largesse for the majority, the special interest lobbyists will succeed in continuing the redistribution of welfare programs that occupies most of Congress's legislative time.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Welfare Programs, Long

  Speech in the House of Representatives, September 17, 1997.

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• To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!

  Charlton Heston

  Gun, Hands, Want

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