Quotes About Communism

Palestine is far too small to accommodate more than a fraction of the Jewish race, nor do the majority of national Jews wish to go there." He argued that the Jews, persecuted in Russia and eastern and central Europe, should be allowed- and encouraged- to emigrate to Palestine. Zionism, he believed, would weaken Bolshevism, because it was 'in violent contrast to international communism

Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism

Negara Republik Indonesia tidak mungkin memerangi dirinya sendiri. Pilih satu di antara dua, Sukarno-Hatta atau partai komunis yang membentuk pemerintahan Sovyet di bawah Alimin dan Muso. Dengan rahmad Tuhan Yang Maha Esa, Sukarno akan memimpin rakyat menuju Indonesia Merdeka yang tidak tunduk kepada negeri manapun juga.

Orang kiri adalah mereka yang menghendaki perubahan kekuasaan kapitalis yang ada, orde imperialistis. Keinginan untuk menyebarkan paham keadilan sosial adalah kiri. Dia tak perlu komunistis. Seseorang yang memiliki idealisme seperti itu adalah seorang kiri. Bahkan orang kiri tampak aneh bila bersama orang komunis.

Seorang komunis menginginkan dunia yang terdiri dari satu bangsa. Mereka menghapuskan nasionalisme untuk kepentingan internasionalisme.

Tak ada orang progresif yang berpikiran sehat akan menentang cita-cita komunis, yang mencakup bantuan di bidang sosial dan ekonomi. Kami menyetujui ini semua. Tetapi aku tidak mungkin meninggalkan Tuhan. Aku tidak mungkin membuang nasionalisme dan aku tidak dapat membayangkan bagaimana aku bisa melepaskan diri dari sifat angkuh, jadi aku tidak mungkin menjadi seorang komunis.

Komunisme dapat diberantas dengan pikiran sehat, bukan dengan sikap histeris.

Amerika bersikap toleran pada negara Asia yang terbelakang karena dua alasan. Pertama, kami merupakan pasar yang bagus. Kami membayar kembali dengan memberi bunga. Dan yang kedua, mereka takut kami menjadi komunis. Ia mencoba membeli kesetiaan kami. Ia membagi-bagi hadiah dan banyak, hanya karena ketakutan. Lalu, kalau kami tidak berbuat sesuai yang ia inginkan, ia mencabut kembali pinjaman yang telah diberikan dan memperingatkan "Tak ada lagi pinjaman, kecuali jika kelakuanmu berubah!

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals -- With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Communist interpretation is never wrong. Logicians will object in vain that a theory which exempts itself from all refutations escapes from the order of truth. —RAYMOND ARON, L'OPIUM

Jean-François Revel (1924–2006) was the man who defined the Communist world as the first society in history condemned to live behind walls in order to stop people getting out.

So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And Communism had brought him back full circle to poverty.

He'd come to believe two conflicting ideas with equal conviction: that communism was the only way man could be truly content; and that man, given his selfish ways, could never practice communism with any success. The natural product of these two views was that man could never be content. History, with its procession of disgruntled political idealists, tended to prove him right.

A good communist," the man had said, "does not let go of the plough halfway across the paddy and leave the buffalo to find its own direction. He eats with her, tends to her injuries, and sleeps with her until the job is done." Siri had resisted the temptation to spread the word that the Party was advocating bestiality.

A good communist,' the man had said, 'does not let go of the plough halfway across the paddy and leave the buffalo to find its own direction.

So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And communism had brought him back full circle to poverty. There was a PhD dissertation waiting to be written about such a cycle.

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.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

No, Mr. Khrushchev, you may not have a wall. It will not prove that communism works. It will not work out well at all. Now, look, I agree capitalism isn't the be-all and end-all! Let me show you my last credit card bill. But you really need to put your thinking cap back on.

No, Mr. Khrushchev, you may not have a wall. It will not prove that communism works. It will not work out well at all.

And her nephew, getting his PhD at Wisconsin, was declared insane and committed to a state asylum when they discovered he was a leader in the Communist Party there.

I'm not just influenced by the '60s - it's who I am. I grew up with Allen Ginsberg and Che Guevara. I flirted with various forms of communism when it was way out of style. It was this really strange and creative time in music and culture, and it was fabulous.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

Every anti-communist is a dog.