Communism Quotes - Page 7

• For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Dog, Russia, People

  Broadcast on BBC Russian Service, in Listener 15 Feb. 1979

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• Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Trying, World, Force

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• There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Europe, Issues

  1963 Address in Berlin's Rudolf Wilde Platz, 26 Jun, 22 months after the erection of the wall dividing the city.

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• Capitalism makes people unequally rich. Communism makes people equally poor.

  Thomas Friedman

  People, Rich, Poor

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• Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Opiates, Guillotine, Communism And Socialism

  Newsweek, January 24, 1955.

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• One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.

  Thomas Sowell

  Sacrifice, Selfishness, Doctrine

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• In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.

  Leon Trotsky

  Death, Wisdom, Country

  Leon Trotsky (1937). “The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?”, p.241, Mehring Books

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• The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, People, Horror

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• When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.

  Martin Amis

  Determination, Russia, Ideas

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Inspiration, Humor

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• To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors).

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Cancer, Faces

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• It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Race, Colonialism, World

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• You can't get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Chinese, Cuba, Needs

  "Give War a Chance". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1992.

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• Communism is as Jewish as the Mafia is Italian. It's a fact that almost all of the convicted spies for communism have been atheist Jews like the Rosenbergs. And international communism was invented by the Jew Karl Marx and has since been led mostly by Jews - like Trotsky.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Atheist, Italian, Mafia

  Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.

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• The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

  Heinrich Heine

  People, Envy, Elements

  "Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts".

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• Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Needs, Ability

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• A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism.

  Saul Alinsky

  Order, Evil, Political

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.10, Vintage

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• The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

  John Boyd Orr

  Real, Evil, Police

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• I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

  Arthur Koestler

  Spring, Cities, Rivers

  Arthur Koestler (1952). “Arrow in the blue: an autobiography”

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• The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

  William Faulkner

  Space, Two, Trying

  1959 Speech to UNESCO Commission, in the NewYork Times, 3 Oct.

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• There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

  David Crosby

  Oligarchy, Dictatorship

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers". Thomas Sowell .

  Thomas Sowell

  Couple, Men, Ideas

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• Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.

  James Traficant

  Thinking, America, Yield

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• It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Design, Path, Difficult

  Interview with Joseph Pearce, www.catholiceducation.org. February 2003.

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• When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.

  Andre Gide

  Care, Take Care

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