Quotes About Communism

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude."

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It's basically socialism and communism.

Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.

Between our way of life and communism there can be no peace, no paralyzing coexistence, no gray neutralism. There can only be conflict-total and without reconciliation.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.

But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.