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Quotes About Communism

trataron de sugerirle que no eran las casitas de ladrillo ni los litros de leche los que hacían a un buen patrón, o a un buen cristiano, sino dar a la gente un sueldo decente en vez de papelitos rosados, un horario de trabajo que no les moliera los riñones y un poco de respeto y dignidad. Trueba no quería oír hablar de esas cosas que, según él, olían a comunismo.
~ Isabel Allende
Man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
~ Russian saying
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
~ Karl Marx
Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
~ Proudhon
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
All fraudulent elections should be condemned, including those in Turkey and Russia. And we need to be doubly mindful not to indulge amateur socialists in this country, because even though a Bernie Sanders presidency is a joke, the consequences of diet communism are deadly serious.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.
~ Marina Abramovic
We thought we'd leave communism behind, and everything would turn out fine. But it turns out you can't leave this and become free, because these people don't understand what freedom is.
~ Svetlana Alexievich
Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.
~ George Reisman
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
As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.
~ Vladimir Lenin
The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.
~ Joseph Stalin
Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.
~ John Doolittle
The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
~ Richard M. Nixon
The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
By then, the coupling of atheism with Communism had become a staple in the rhetoric of anti-Communist crusaders throughout the nation. Intellectuals as a group were highly vulnerable on this score because many were, if not unabashed atheists, secular humanists with little regard for traditional religion. If
~ Susan Jacoby
Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
~ Fidel Castro
Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.
~ Emanuel Celler
In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
~ William Westmoreland
During my childhood in the Cold War, my family saw America as a great ally in our common struggle to keep back Soviet communism.
~ Gavin Esler
Escapees from Communist China and the Soviet Bloc have inoculated America from the evils of Marxism in the past, but it seems every generation needs a new lesson.
~ Miranda Devine
It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
What the French call "the caviar left," la gauche caviar, or what Anglo-Saxons call champagne socialists, are people who advocate socialism, sometimes even communism, or some political system with sumptuary limitations, while overtly leading a lavish lifestyle, often financed by inheritance—not realizing the contradiction that they want others to avoid just such a lifestyle. It is not too different from the womanizing popes, such as John XII, or the Borgias.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb