Communist Quotes - Page 2

• The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

  Karl Marx

  Change, Courage, Peace

  Theses on Feuerbach no. 11 (written 1845). This is the epitaph on Marx's tombstone in Highgate Cemetery, London.

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• I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Goal, Historical, May

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

  Herman Gorter

  Europe, Judging, Might

  "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin" by Herman Gorter, www.marxists.org. 1920.

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• With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.

  Edward Dmytryk

  Party, Names, Communist Party

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• A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Europe, Haunting

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1908). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”

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• And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, People, Political

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• I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-Tung.

  Earl Browder

  Struggle, Communist Leaders, Two

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• I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

  Earl Browder

  War, Breaking Silence, Utterance

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• The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Intelligent, Political

  "The Prevention of Literature" (1946)

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• In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

  Karl Marx

  Division Of Labor, Horizon, Phases

  Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).

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• Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Fighting, Long

  Nelson Mandela (1973). “No Easy Walk to Freedom”, p.180, Heinemann

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• The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

  Milovan ?ilas

  Integrity, Socialism, Communism

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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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• There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

  Oswald Spengler

  Leader, Movement, Facts

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.367, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Shining, Heroism, Moments

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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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• Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

  Walter Benjamin

  Hierarchy, Taught, Communism

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• We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.

  John T. Flynn

  Europe, Decision, United States

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• ...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Order, Political

  Karl Marx (2015). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”, p.40, Booklassic

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• For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Struggle, Civilization, Generations

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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• My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Party, Parent, Literature

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• Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

  Gertrude Stein

  Unhappy Childhood, People, Literature

  Quoted by Thornton Wilder in December 14-15, 1956, interview with Richard Goldstone. "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", 1958.

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• The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

  Neil Sheehan

  Country, War, Two

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• Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.

  Bram Fischer

  Party, Labels, Fifteen

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• No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.

  James P. Cannon

  Victory, Impossible, Strikes

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