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Quotes About Communism

In all this, financialization has done what people back in the 1950s and '60s and '70s worried and warned that the Communists would do if they took over: centralize control of the economy, turn Americans into interchangeable cogs serving an inhumane system, and allow only a well-connected elite to live well. Extreme capitalism resembles Communism: yet another whopping irony.
~ Kurt Andersen
In all this, financialization has done what people back in the 1950s and '60s and '70s worried and warned that the Communists would do if they took over: centralize control of the economy, turn Americans into interchangeable cogs serving an inhumane system, and allow only a well-connected elite to live well. Extreme Capitalism resembles Communism: yet another whopping irony.
~ Kurt Andersen
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
The source of most of our problems of the past twenty-five years and certainly of the grave problems that beset our country today, lies in this schism between those who believed in the traditional school of national planning and overt diplomacy and those who believed in a passive role of reaction to a general enemy (Communism).
~ L. Fletcher Prouty
They can use the finest intelligence system in the world, and most importantly, they are able to operate under the canopy of an ever-present "enemy" called "Communism." And then, to top all of this, there is the fact that the CIA has assumed the right to generate and direct secret operations.
~ L. Fletcher Prouty
Since World War II, Communism has become a term that is often applied to almost anything, anyone, and any nation, which in the eyes of the zealous pro-American, is opposed to his views of what is American. Thus "anti-Communism" is an epithet hurled at all kinds of opponents, real and imagined, and at all kinds of targets, from groups of people to individual political foes. Thus, to these activists, we are living in a special state of war.
~ L. Fletcher Prouty
Les aspirations accumulées de tout un pays, immergé depuis des décennies dans la sénescente torpeur communiste, convergeaient ici. Et au centre il n'y avait pas la culture, comme le croyaient les intellectuels convaincus d'hériter du sceptre et qui n'avaient rien hérité du tout. Au centre, il y avait la télévision.
~ Giuliano da Empoli
Entre vós, o dinheiro é essencial, é a base de tudo. Aqui, garanto-lhe, não é assim. Na Rússia só conta o privilégio, a proximidade do poder. Tudo o resto é acessório. Era assim no tempo do czar, e durante os anos comunistas ainda mais. O sistema soviético baseava-se no estatuto
~ Giuliano da Empoli
I have found that the average Russian holds the United States and the American people in very high regard. Many Russians also remain deeply religious people—communism never managed to purge their faith.
~ Glenn Meade
the idea of equality was so contagious that the right wing would soon rate feminism as a danger right up there with secular humanism and godless Communism. The
~ Gloria Steinem
The Communist Party has not done much to change China's traditional notions of governance, and the result has been more sorrow for the Chinese people. Tiananmen was neither the last nor the most tragic result of dictatorial rule during the Communist era.
~ Gordon G. Chang
So the Communist Party has shown the world that only force will be able to move it. The people are supposed to be intimidated by this colossal display of obstinacy, and, at least for the moment, many are. But they just wait in silence and let their resentments fester. The Party knows how to suppress, but it no longer has the power to lead. It has forgotten what once made it great.
~ Gordon G. Chang
How many people does the Communist Party think it takes to change a lightbulb in China? About 63.5 million, the number of its members
~ Gordon G. Chang
Communism went against life, against man's fundamental needs, against the need for freedom, the need to be enterprising, to associate freely against the will of the nation," Václav Havel noted. "Something that goes against life may last a long time, but sooner or later it will collapse.
~ Gordon G. Chang
Capitalist societies can always heave a sigh of relief and say to themselves: communism is finished since the collapse of the totalitarianisms of the twentieth century and not only is it finished, but it did not take place, it was only a ghost They do no more than disavow the undeniable itself. a ghost never dies, it remains always to come and to come-back.
~ Jacques Derrida
But if I turn my back on a supposed communist, how do I know that I am not turning my back on the very concept of liberty that I am seeking to protect? Honest men can always get someone to defend them. But what does justice mean if apparently dishonest men can find no one?
~ James A. Michener
They were the ships of Task Force 77 and they had been sent to destroy the communist-held bridges at Toko-ri.
~ James A. Michener
Communism has no greater ally in this country than the half-baked hysterical charges against leaders of this country by political opponents.
~ James D. Hornfischer
I spent a fair amount of time in Communist Poland when I was young - my wife was from there - and I had the impression that boredom was one of the things that was undermining that whole society from the inside.
~ Lawrence Osborne
I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
~ Fidel Castro
When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me.
~ Wislawa Szymborska
In Georgia, people had already understood that communism couldn't survive, and I came to the institute in Moscow, and people still believed in it. They were completely different people, and I found it very difficult psychologically.
~ Bidzina Ivanishvili
To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.
~ Elia Kazan
We didn't take the words of Vladimir Lenin seriously until Communism spread across the globe. And unfortunately, the president didn't take the words of groups like ISIS seriously until they established a sweeping self-proclaimed Islamic Caliphate.
~ Michael McCaul