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Quotes About Communism

In the 1950s the three most heinous things in America were heroin use, communism, and homosexuality.
~ Edmund White
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Communism is a Russian autocracy turned upside down.
~ Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
The United States will rightfully go on deploring human rights excesses in the Soviet Union. And it is hardly likely Americans will one day espouse the communist ideology. But nowhere does it say we cannot live in peace with the U.S.S.R. In the nuclear age, there is truly no alternative.
~ Antony Blinken
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.
~ Benjamin N. Cardozo
We have plenty of examples from twentieth-century history where, out of fear of liberalism or Communism, religious conservatives made alliances with secular populists and nationalists, and it ended up going pretty badly for everybody.
~ Ross Douthat
Lots of us have been plugging away, building a platform to talk about libertarian communism and post-scarcity economics.
~ Ash Sarkar
I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.
~ Norman Wisdom
I fled communism as a child. That's an experience that can shape you forever.
~ Ana Navarro
Technology helped end communism by bringing in information from the outside.
~ Lech Walesa
My family played a part in bringing communism to Lebanon.
~ Yasmine Hamdan
I was 6 when communism was finished.
~ Joanna Kulig
I lived in a kind of dream of communism.
~ Bernardo Bertolucci
Communism has not died. We naively thought in the '90s we had buried communism, but this is not true. It is not dead, and it will be coming back.
~ Svetlana Alexievich
But communism is the only thing which says all things should be brought into the hands of commons to benefit all people. In the past, you'd call that communism. I think in the future, we'll have to call that common sense.
~ Ash Sarkar
I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
~ Nadia Comaneci
I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.
~ Helen Mirren
I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.
~ Elliott Abrams
I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
~ G. Edward Griffin
I was growing up in a communist time, especially, and the other music, the western music, was banned, so on radio half of the music was Chopin. So my colleagues and I were a little bit allergic to this music because it was everywhere - everywhere!
~ Krzysztof Penderecki
I want to leave this world as a Communist.
~ Mikis Theodorakis