Communist Quotes

• How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Government, Political

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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  All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Gun, Political

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• When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

  Hélder Câmara

  Motivational, Inspiring, Wisdom

  "Peace Behind Bars: A Peacemaking Priest's Journey from Jail". Book by Father John Dear, 1995.

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• You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Fall, Acceptance, Fighting

  "They Never Said it: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by Paul F. Boller and John H. George, 1990.

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• A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

  Winston Churchill

  Political, Democracy, Trying

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

  Karl Marx

  Country, Communication, Winning

  Karl Marx (2013). “The Communist Manifesto”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, War, Power

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• ....thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that stealing from the local supermarket makes you a Communist.

  Joanna Russ

  Girl, Nice, Thinking

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• We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

  Mao Zedong

  Roots, People, Soil

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.273, China Books

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• Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Peace, Military

  Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

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• The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Vision, Without God

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.9, Regnery Publishing

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• Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Race, People, Political

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• A number of years ago, people were saying normal relationship with Cuba, what a bad and silly idea. They're Communists, they are our enemy. Well guess what? Change has come.

  Bernie Sanders

  Silly, Years, Ideas

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• I will never vote Democrat again, they are Communists.

  Howard Stern

  Vote, Democrat

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• I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

  Pete Seeger

  Russia, Church, Politics

  "The Old Left". Interview, www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

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• President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

  Dennis Hastert

  Leadership, People, Imagination

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• I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.

  Janos Kadar

  Teamwork, Real, Men

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• Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

  Iain Banks

  Technology, Matter, Possibility

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• I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Believe, Communism

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• Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

  Alvin Dark

  Baseball, Trying, Racist

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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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• No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Our Generation, Generations, Quitting

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• He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Silly, Rights, Littles

  "The Death of a President". Book by William Manchester, 1967.

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• I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

  Fidel Castro

  Movement, Revolutionary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.53, Open Road Media

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