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Quotes About Communists

Lawyers were vastly overrepresented among the commanders of the Einsatzgruppen, the special task forces who carried out the mass murder of Jews, Gypsies, Polish elites, communists, the handicapped, and others.
~ Timothy Snyder
Because enough people in both cases voluntarily extended their services to the new leaders, Nazis and communists alike realized that they could move quickly toward a full regime change. The first heedless acts of conformity could not then be reversed. In
~ Timothy Snyder
The Republic of China, founded in 1912, was supposed to modernize the country and regain sovereignty. But by the beginning of the 1930s, China had degenerated into a fragmented country. Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Nationalists and heir to the Republic of China, was fighting both warlords and Communists. In 1931, the Japanese seized control of Manchuria, where a substantial part of China's industry was located, and breached the Great Wall.
~ Daniel Yergin
The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.
~ T. H. White
Birch fallacy is the assumption that you can infer subjective intention from objective consequence: we lost China to the Communists, therefore the President of the United States and the Secretary of State wished China to go to the Communists.
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
Thus was parliamentary democracy finally interred in Germany. Except for the arrests of the Communists and some of the Social Democratic deputies, it was all done quite legally, though accompanied by terror. Parliament
~ William L. Shirer
He was now convinced that Hitler had brought the movement to a dead end. The more radical followers were going over to the Communists.
~ William L. Shirer
indeed: more than five hundred National Socialists were murdered by the communists. Thousands were grievously injured. The SA was a volunteer, non-government organization
~ Leon Degrelle
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love chocolate, and communists.
~ Leslie Moak Murray
The Sino-Soviet conflict was not due to any ideological heresy but to the independence of the Chinese Communists and the fact that, as we may suppose, the Chinese revolution was contrary to the interests of Russian imperialism.
~ Leszek Ko?akowski
The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution.
~ John T. Flynn
God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.
~ Adolf Hitler
Overall, we think religion is a good thing. I mean, if we were godless society, we would have many other problems; the communists found that out.
~ Lee Hsien Loong
What is particularly clear is that these Satanists seek to remove God from the center of the universe and replace God with man—akin to communists' goals. To repeat, as Whittaker Chambers said of communists' first and most fundamental ambition: Ye shall be as gods.
~ Paul Kengor
Bella would later greatly regret what she did. As a teacher who was a leader in the union, she was especially concerned about how communists manipulated children through the educational system. "There is no doubt in my mind that the Communists will use the schools and every other educational medium," she told the US Senate. "They will use every educational medium … from the nursery school to the universities.
~ Paul Kengor
Mr. Johnson: Yes; that is true, because I know from my own experience in working in labor organizations, for example, that we had an organization with 10,000 members, and there were only about 60 or 70 Communists, and we controlled the organization. So with small minority of ministers who work in an organized manner, they can always win over and subvert and dupe the majority who are disorganized and are individualistic.
~ Paul Kengor
More than that, the Communists hated those whom the liberals loved. As this book will make clear, the Communists maligned the Democratic presidents whom liberals adored. Throughout the twentieth century, each and every Democratic leader was a target for Communist vilification, beginning with Woodrow Wilson, whom Lenin called a "shark" and a "simpleton." The Communists, whether American or Soviet, demonized icons of the Democratic Party.
~ Paul Kengor
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and a long line of implementers candidly admitted that force and violence would be necessary. In the close of the Manifesto, Marx said, "The Communists … openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions" (italics added).
~ Paul Kengor
The so-called cultural element of Western Europe and America," averred Lenin, speaking of the elite, "are incapable of comprehending the present state of affairs and the actual balance of forces; these elements must be regarded as deaf-mutes [idiots] and treated accordingly." These so-called useful idiots—the title of a bestselling book on the Cold War by Mona Charen9—were to be major components of the Communists' campaigns.
~ Paul Kengor
Of course your bleeding-heart-liberal-secular-humanist left-wing communists will tell you that it's a bad thing to own a gun, but as any knowledgeable gun nut will tell you, there are countless factual anecdotes concerning alert gun-toting homeowners who have thwarted the forces of evil.
~ Dave Barry
Neither the Nazis nor the Communists, he affirms, acted because of their atheism. They were simply keen to kill a great many people. Atheism had nothing to do with it. They might well have been Christian Scientists.
~ David Berlinski
los comunistas, luchando contra los nazis en las calles y contra el gobierno por medio de huelgas, contribuyeron a hacerle imposible gobernar.
~ Winston S. Churchill
We can't disrespect, by way discounting or misunderstanding our different sticking points, the beliefs of the various groups comprising the tea party movement, but we all have more in common with each other than we do with factions on the Left: the communists, the socialists, the say-they're-anarchists-but-are-actually-socialists.
~ Dana Loesch
Let me make this perfectly clear. Those of us who inspired and then led the antiwar movement did not want just to stop the killing, as so many veterans of those domestic battles now claim. We wanted the Communists to win.
~ David Horowitz