Communist Quotes - Page 17

• Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

  Nhat Hanh

  Government, Might, Suspicion

  "The Right Kind of Power". "Beliefnet" Interview, www.beliefnet.com. July 2008.

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• I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

  Elia Kazan

  Taken, Hard Times, Technique

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• The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

  Elia Kazan

  Practice, Democracy, Accustomed

  "A Statement: Communism, Free-Speech, and 'Naming Names'" by Elia Kazan, www.capitalismmagazine.com. April 19, 1999.

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• One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

  Dalai Lama

  Want, Finals, Rebirth

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• I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.

  Artie Lange

  Running, Country, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

  Ang Lee

  Country, Knowing, Guy

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• I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years. We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet. Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.

  Ai Weiwei

  Father, Party, Writing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There is no Croatian dream. There is no European Union dream. There is no Chinese communist dream, except maybe to get out. But there is and always has been an American dream. And the dream is possible. The dream can become real.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Real, Chinese

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Conservatives recognize there's gonna be winners and losers. The communists say that's not right. There shouldn't be any losers, and they set about trying to create circumstances where people think nobody will lose. But everybody loses under communism. They eventually have to build walls around countries to keep people in, as in the Berlin Wall.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Wall, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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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• The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.

  Pete Seeger

  Teamwork, Community, Rich

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• If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

  Eric Hoffer

  Winning, Europe, People

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.

  T. H. White

  Race, Age, Ends

  T.H. White (1988). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.124, University of Texas Press

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• The way she told it, she was such a criminal even the most God-fearing church ladies got bored of reporting on her; she did the marketing on Sunday, dropped by any church she liked or none at all, was a feminist (which Mrs. Asher sometimes confused with communist), a Democrat (which Mrs. Lincoln pointed out practically had "demon" in the word itself), and, worst of all, a vegetarian (which ruled out any dinner invitations from Mrs. Snow).

  Kami Garcia

  Confused, Sunday, Snow

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• What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto!

  Stephen Colbert

  Doe, Pasta, Pun

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• Calvin: Somewhere in Communist Russia, I'll bet there's a little boy who has never known anything but censorship and oppression. But maybe he's heard of America, and he dreams of living in this land of freedom and opportunity! Someday, I'd like to meet that little boy... and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin's Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.

  Bill Watterson

  Dream, Dad, Stupid

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1987.

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• In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that Norsemen had discovered America centuries earlier, or that you really can't get credit for discovering a land already populated by indigenous people with a developed civilization. Those people are communists. Columbus discovered America.

  Jon Stewart

  Ocean, West Indies, Blue

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• Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line.

  George Orwell

  Country, Party, Russia

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Airplane, America

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Breakfast Of Champions”, p.85, Random House

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• Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't.

  Haruki Murakami

  Gay, Pigs, Wind

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami , Chapter 19: Oshima, 2002.

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• I had an interview once with some German journalist - some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists - maybe a week after - and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, "It's impolite; remove your glasses." I said, "Do I ask you to remove your bra?"

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Glasses, Sweaters, Yellow

  "Karl Lagerfeld meets his match". Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2011.

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• Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless.

  David Sedaris

  Distance, Cities, Profound

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here.

  Woody Allen

  Country, New York, Thinking

  Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

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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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• It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the privilege of preaching, so we accepted their [the communists' ] terms. It was a deal; we preached and they beat us. We were happy preaching. They were happy beating us, so everyone was happy.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Pay The Price, Numbers, Privilege

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