Quotes and Sayings About Communism
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
-- A. J. P. TaylorSource : Origins of the Second World War (1962) ch. 2
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[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
-- Adam JohnsonSource : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.136, Random House
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Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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I always thought communism was crap, really.
-- Alexei Sayle -
Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.
-- Allan H. Meltzer -
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
-- Andre Malraux -
Democracy is the breeding ground of communism,
-- Augusto Pinochet -
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The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism
-- Benjamin Tucker -
I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and Anti-Christ.
-- Billy Graham -
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Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
-- Billy Graham -
Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.
-- Charles Bukowski -
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
-- Charles E. Wilson -
I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.
-- Che Guevara -
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
-- Clare Boothe LuceSource : 1955 In Newsweek, 24 Jan.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
-- Clement AttleeSource : Speech at Aarhus University, 11 Apr. 1956, in The Times 12 Apr. 1956
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When you guys win, you get to keep your money. When we win, we take your money.
-- Cy Thao -
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Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.
-- David Korten -
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
-- Earl Warren -
The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.
-- Edmund Wilson -
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
-- Eldridge CleaverSource : "'He was a symbol': Eldridge Cleaver dies at 62". www.cnn.com. May 1, 1998.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
-- Elia Kazan -
We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.
-- Emanuel CellerSource : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
-- Eric HobsbawmSource : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”
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The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Communism is in conflict with human nature.
-- Ernest RenanSource : "Les apôtres". Book by Ernest Renan, 1866.