Communist Party Quotes - Page 4

• At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Party, Political, Events

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• While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205.

  Joseph McCarthy

  War, Party, Men

  "'Communists in Government Service,' McCarthy Says". Joseph McCarthy's Lincoln's birthday address to the Women's Republican Club of Wheeling in West Virginia, www.senate.gov. February 9, 1950.

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• My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

  Tim Roth

  Country, Dad, Party

  "Tim Roth: who's the daddy?". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2012.

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• Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government in violation of the Smith Act and which took orders directly from Moscow.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Party, Government, Order

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• And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.

  Paul Robeson

  Party, Home, Leader

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• I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

  Dennis Miller

  Country, Party, Dignity

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• I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?

  Tim Robbins

  Mean Girls, Party, Sake

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• Whatever organisation we try to create, it always ends up looking like the Communist Party.

  Viktor Chernomyrdin

  Party, Trying, Communist

  "Obituary". The Economist, (p. 107), November 6, 2010.

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• When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.

  Bram Fischer

  Party, Mind, Trying

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• One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Party, Principles, Literature

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• Some non-communist parties and CPPCC members have, at CPPCC meetings or in their proposals, called for the enactment of a law against secession at the earliest date, to resolutely fight and curb 'Taiwan independence' activities in any forms.

  Jia Qinglin

  Party, Fighting, Law

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• Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Party, Splits, Firsts

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• That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory, is obvious. One of the most beautiful examples of this kind of sophistry occurred after 1933 when the German Communists for nearly two years refused to recognize that Hitler's victory had been a defeat for the German Communist Party.

  Hannah Arendt

  Beautiful, Party, Years

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

  Alexei Sayle

  Party, Nuance, Belief

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• My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs, democracy. Sound familar? The communist party is the democratic Party.

  David Horowitz

  Jobs, Party, America

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• The main form of struggle is war; the main form of organization is the army... . Without armed struggle there would be no place for the proletariat, there will be no place for the people, there will be no place for the Communist Party, and there will be no victory in revolution.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Party, Struggle

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• To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants.

  Helen Foster Snow

  Party, Mean, Doe

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• Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

  Dorothy Day

  Party, Political, Trying

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• With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names. I did not want to remain a martyr to something that I absolutely believed was immoral and wrong. It's as simple as that.

  Edward Dmytryk

  Party, Simple, Names

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• The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks peace, harmony and reconciliation, unlike the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union

  Zheng Bijian

  Party, Unions, Harmony

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• Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn't endorse Barack Obama, but that's just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Party, Media, Covering

  "Shiny Happy Communists". littlegreenfootballs.com. October 15, 2008.

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• Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee.

  Xi Jinping

  Party, Leader, Promise

  "China's Xi to tread peaceful, patient path on Taiwan", www.reuters.com. February 25, 2013.

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• Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China].

  Xi Jinping

  Party, People, Republic

  "Opinion: Corruption as China's top priority" by Jaime A. FlorCruz, edition.cnn.com. January 7, 2013.

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• The Communist Party of China should represent the development trends of advanced productive forces, the orientations of an advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people of China.

  Jiang Zemin

  Party, People, Majority

  "The Three Represents". CPC Theory credited to Jiang Zemin, February 25, 2000.

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• When Nikita Khrushchev wrapped himself in the bloody mantle of the Czars he broke Hungary, he broke the little Communist parties over the western world, and he broke the hearts of many honest men who had trusted a little too far, a little too long.

  James Cameron

  Party, Heart, Men

  The News Chronicle, November 14, 1956.

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