Quotes About Communism

Ma il comunismo, Steve, qui non attaccherà mai, te lo dico io, non solo perchè ci stiamo noi, ma perchè gli italiani sono troppo pigri, gli piace troppo vendersi il futuro per arrangiare il presente, guadagnarsi la giornata e ingravidare tutte le femmine che toccano. No, Steve, niente comunismo qua. Troppa fatica.

Until 1967, when the Soviet Union superseded the PRC, China was the largest Communist state supplier of war materials to North Vietnam, providing about 44.8 percent of Hanoi's total international military aid that year.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool.

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

People are not embracing Communism as Communism, but they are discontented, insecure and unsettled and they embrace anything that looks like it might be better than what they have to endure. . . . It is very easy for anybody who has a job and is getting along all right to cry for democracy . . . but if you cannot feed your children and you do not know where the next meal is coming from, nobody knows what kind of freak you will follow."13

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

Seen from this perspective, the sexual revolution is to the family what Communism is to the market. Both entail statist assaults on core institutions of civil society, leading to human misery that the state is not equipped to put right. In both cases, what results from the erosion of a core institution is a citizenry ill-equipped to be self-governing; accordingly, state power inevitably grows.

In 1950, at Orange, a train full of Far East wounded had been stopped by the Communists who had insulted and struck the men lying on the stretchers. A Paris hospital advertising for blood donors had specified that their contribution would not be used for the wounded from Indo-China. At Marseilles, which could now be seen looming over the horizon, they had refused to disembark the coffins of the dead.

Communism existed once, during two 45 minute half-times, when Honved, from Budapest, won over England by 6-3. The English played individually, and the Hungarians, collectively.

It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

A nation could choose to observe socialist tenets. Communism meant rigid government control—people had no choice other than to comply, and government mandate rather than personal accomplishment determined the course of their lives. Peoples Temple socialism was intended to change hearts through example, not coercion.

The consensus was what they termed "Christian communism," since they believed that "from each according to ability, to each according to need" was the proper church approach.

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.

By reducing the population, it would alleviate the conditions of poverty and unrest that might lead developing nations to embrace communism, and instead promote the growth of markets for consumer goods and the embrace of capitalism.

For northern liberals, Vietnam was a much more divisive issue than voting rights and integrated drinking fountains, and many supported Johnson's effort to stem the spread of international Communism.

have often thought that the terrible thing in communism was not just that we turned against each other. It was that we turned away from each other.

Los únicos que no han hecho nada mal, son los que no han hecho nada, porque esa es la única manera de no equivocarse. Yo nunca me arrepentiré de ser comunista.

Ellos son comunistas, y conocen por experiencia la temperatura a la que hierve el agua en la dirección de su partido, el tiempo necesario para que los procesos internos alcancen su punto de ebullición.

La dirección del Partido Comunista de España, por razones igual de evidentes, hace lo que puede, que es casi todo, para que no se hable del valle de Arán, ni de las circunstancias del ascenso de Monzón, ni de las causas que lo hacen posible, ni de su gestión al frente del Partido en Francia y en España

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

If the job of capitalism is to create wealth for those who put up the capital, no fund group comes close to Vanguard's success in serving its owners. So we're probably as far away from communism as is realistically possible.

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.