Quotes about Communist

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. Votes: 7

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. Votes: 7

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin! Votes: 7

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure. Votes: 7

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement. Votes: 5

I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later. Votes: 5

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist. Votes: 5

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines. Votes: 5

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist. Votes: 5

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal. Votes: 5

When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement. Votes: 5

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. Votes: 5

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. Votes: 5

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! Votes: 5

Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member. Votes: 5

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment! Votes: 5

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Votes: 5

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout? Votes: 5

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God. Votes: 4

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life. Votes: 4

Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist. Votes: 4

Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB. Votes: 4

While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire. Votes: 4

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany. Votes: 4

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes. Votes: 4

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America. Votes: 4

I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department. Votes: 4

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. Votes: 4

[He's] a margarine Communist Votes: 3

The Jew is an inborn Communist. Votes: 3

[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist. Votes: 3

So these Red Sox... are they a Communist organization? Votes: 3

Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist. Votes: 3

My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York. Votes: 3

What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto! Votes: 3

People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo. Votes: 3

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist. Votes: 3

It was not Soviet people who formed the American Communist Party. Votes: 3

A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist! Votes: 3

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist? Votes: 3

My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country. Votes: 3

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot. Votes: 3

I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.' Votes: 3

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith. Votes: 3

I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark. Votes: 3

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known. Votes: 3

Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him. Votes: 3

Whatever organisation we try to create, it always ends up looking like the Communist Party. Votes: 3

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist. Votes: 3

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence. Votes: 3

I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization. Votes: 3

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment. Votes: 3

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. Votes: 3

I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist Votes: 3

With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names. Votes: 3

Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution. Votes: 3

A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant. Votes: 3

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. Votes: 3

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag"¦The American people will hoist it themselves. Votes: 3

Historically, it's been wrong to underestimate the Chinese Communist Party's ability to keep growth going in order... Votes: 3

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism. Votes: 3

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten. Votes: 3

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist. Votes: 3

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman. Votes: 3

The Communist Party must be a revolutionary party our it will cease to be a Communist Party. Votes: 3

Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist. Votes: 3

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest. Votes: 3

I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it. Votes: 3

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline. Votes: 3

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism. Votes: 3

By about the year 2000 Communist China will be a “superpower” built by American technology and skill. Votes: 3

The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America. Votes: 3

No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do. Votes: 3

The Rosenberg case had been orchestrated to an anti-Communist frenzy that matched the exuberant hysteria of the Nazi horror. Votes: 3

There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector Votes: 3

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn. Votes: 3

No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible. Votes: 3

Unless the U.N. is completely reorganized without the Communist nations in it, we should get out of it. Votes: 3

Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China? Votes: 3

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party. Votes: 3

A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism. Votes: 3

The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off. Votes: 3

[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections. Votes: 3

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country. Votes: 3

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana. Votes: 3

At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party. Votes: 3

You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government. Votes: 3

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party Votes: 3

That's why we had Louis C.K. portray the harder line Communist, to accuse [Dalton] Trumbo of being a hypocrite. Votes: 3

I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut. Votes: 3

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake? Votes: 3

I entered the [Communist] Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just. Votes: 3

Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party. Votes: 3

The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle. Votes: 3

Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist "˜experiments' of the 1930s. Votes: 3

I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer. Votes: 3

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind. Votes: 3

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's. Votes: 3

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract. Votes: 3

Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society launched an anti-Communist crusade that won the support of millions of Americans in the 1950s. Votes: 3

In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward. Votes: 3

By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security. Votes: 3

The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist. Votes: 3

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country. Votes: 3

Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the State [People's Republic of China]. Votes: 3

I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. It's called the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Votes: 3

The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks peace, harmony and reconciliation, unlike the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union Votes: 3

Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi or Communist. Votes: 3

I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it. Votes: 3

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before. Votes: 3

Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party. Votes: 3

Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn't endorse Barack Obama, but that's just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama. Votes: 3

Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split. Votes: 3

The Communist Party and the Soviet Government display constant concern to strengthen the country's defensive might and raise the combat readiness of the Armed Forces. Votes: 3

Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union. Votes: 3

Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken. Votes: 3

Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death Except when practical. Votes: 3

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Votes: 3

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished. Votes: 3

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have. Votes: 3

You had workers' movements. You had left organizations, the Communist Party, that were mobilizing in profoundly powerful ways to basically address the great injustices of capitalism. Votes: 3

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination. Votes: 3

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination. Votes: 3

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists. Votes: 3

The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political agenda. Votes: 3

He wasn't someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, Communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all of its grisly horror. Votes: 3

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. Votes: 3

If you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. If you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a Communist Votes: 3

To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants. Votes: 3

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains. Votes: 3

They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States. Votes: 3

Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989. Votes: 3

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. Votes: 3

One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class. Votes: 3

Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand. Votes: 3

My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind. Votes: 3

No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design. Votes: 3

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence. Votes: 3

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable. Votes: 3

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia. Votes: 3

And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them. Votes: 3

Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician. Votes: 3

If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws. Votes: 3

Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may enjoy their constitutional rights. Votes: 3

Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee. Votes: 3

Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war anti-Communist paranoia in the United States. Votes: 3

In fact it was always the Communist problem which was responsible for the opposition to [Albert] Camus. It was always and overall a political thing, a kind of misunderstanding. Votes: 3

Honduras is strongly anti-Communist, maintains no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and has provided vital support for United States-backed rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua. Votes: 3

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy. Votes: 3

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction. Votes: 3

No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective. Votes: 3

If the money wasted on arms could be used to help the less developed nations, that would probably be a greater blow against the Communist danger than anything else. Votes: 3

I had been friendly with people who were in the Communist party and all the rest of the Left forces, which were oriented in the direction of mass action. Votes: 3

If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no head. Votes: 3

At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials. Votes: 3

A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom. Votes: 3

What my Republican colleagues often don't understand is that labor is a human-rights issue. I have to remind them Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement brought down the Communist bloc. Votes: 3

My son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then. Votes: 3

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung. Votes: 3

Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism. Votes: 3

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half. Votes: 3

And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic. Votes: 3

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling. Votes: 3

[.....] most of the environmental hype [regarding global warming] is really to help bring about Karl Marx's dream (nightmare) of a Communist world." [by reduction, and ultimately elimination of private property rights Votes: 3

At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness. Votes: 3

You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done.... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause. Votes: 3

Nothing in our time is more interesting than the erstwhile capitalist corporation and the erstwhile Communist firm should, under the imperatives of organization, come together as oligarchies of their own members. Votes: 3

A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam. Votes: 3

The restoration of property would be a complicated, arduous and presumably a lengthy business; the transformation of a Capitalist Society into a Communist one needs nothing but the extension of existing conditions. Votes: 3

Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party. Votes: 3

I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn. Votes: 3

It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors. Votes: 3

....thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that stealing from the local supermarket makes you a Communist. Votes: 3

I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living. Votes: 3

The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. Votes: 3

The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. Votes: 3

I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders. Votes: 3

We're talking about the Communist Party, the Socialist worker's movement, those movements basically have been underlined. We have other movements, but they're not as powerful as the movements that we had then. Votes: 3

Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system, in America - one of the so-called 'founders' was a Communist Votes: 3

As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country', I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy. Votes: 3

The Communist Party of China should represent the development trends of advanced productive forces, the orientations of an advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people of China. Votes: 3

Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the stand of the Party, keeping to Party spirit and Party policy. Votes: 3

The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us. Votes: 3

Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake. Votes: 3

To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people. Votes: 3

The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives delocalized capitalist enterprises cheap labour to lower prices and deprive workers of the rights of self-organization. Votes: 3

When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime. Votes: 3

Writers around the world protested when two Communist writers, Siniavski and Daniel, were sentenced to prison by their own comrades. But not even churches protest when Christians are put in prison for their faith. Votes: 3

Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party. Votes: 3

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure. Votes: 3

There is much evidence indicating that the Capitalistic and Communist conspiracies BOTH are directed by a single master conspiracy which may have continuity with the Order of the Illuminati which was founded 200 years ago... Votes: 3

The so-called materialistic conception of history, with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the Communist Manifesto, still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes. Votes: 3

Dalton Trumbo actually was [ a hypocrite], because he liked his wealth, which was against the grain of being a Communist. I put title cards at the head of the film that explains the context. Votes: 3

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else. Votes: 3

The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity. Votes: 3

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder. Votes: 3

The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash. Votes: 3

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. Votes: 3

In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion. Votes: 3

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era. Votes: 3

The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about socialism with a human face. Votes: 3

Like in [the 1950s] if you wanted to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood you claimed he was a Communist. Nowadays, you want to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood, you claim they are Republican. Votes: 3

Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between peoples. Votes: 3

The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship. Votes: 3

Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International. Votes: 3

Only the Communist Party, as the institution that brings together the revolutionary vanguard and will always guarantee the unity of Cubans, can be the worthy heir of the trust deposited by the people in their leader. Votes: 3

No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism. Votes: 3

It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion. Votes: 3

Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world. Votes: 3

Was Castro sincere when, during his guerrilla war, he swore that he was not a Communist? If so, when did he change, and why? Looking back, does he believe he might have chosen a better course? Votes: 3

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust. Votes: 3

Busy people begrudge the days being short. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. Votes: 3

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics. Votes: 3

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit. Votes: 3

The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.' Votes: 3

Donald Trump just pledged to be loyal to the Green Party, the Communist Party and Party Central, as long as they agree to be nice to that thing on his head. If not, all bets are off. Votes: 3

This manual of the Communist Party should be in the hands of every loyal American, that they may be alerted to the fact that it is not always by armies and guns that a nation is conquered. Votes: 3

Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power. Votes: 3

Anybody looking at the history even of the 20th century would not single out Islam as the bloodthirsty religion; it was Christian/Nazi/Communist Europe and Buddhist/Taoist/Hindu/atheist Asia that set records for mass slaughter. Votes: 3

Walesa was a national hero, a true icon. The vast majority of Poles didn't believe a word the authorities said. They took everything the official media said about Walesa to be a manipulation by the Communist authorities. Votes: 3

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one. Votes: 3

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close. Votes: 3

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one Votes: 3

No, Don Camillo; you didn't exactly steal it. Peppone had two cigars in his pocket. Peppone is a Communist. He believes in sharing things. By skillfully relieving him of one cigar, you only took your fair share. Votes: 3

Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion. Votes: 3

From the outset, when [Ho Chi Minh] became a member of the French Communist Party in 1920, he was an independent thinker who adjusted Marxist-Leninist ideas and tactics to what he perceived to be the concrete situation in Indochina. Votes: 3

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions. Votes: 3

I would say that today the real support for State power and totalitarianism comes from the Communist parties and the Socialist parties and, where they are sizable, the Trotskyist groups. They are the ones that really frighten me. Votes: 3

The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it used to be said that spies practically kept the Party going with their dues and contributions. Votes: 3

This is the band Radical Posture, and my name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five-Year Plan Sputnik Pravda Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean? Votes: 3

I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics. Votes: 3

It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover. Votes: 3

While the new Legionnaire man eliminated his enemies in the name of God, with a cross in his hand, the new Communist man eliminated God altogether and stood on His pedestal. They were both equally thirsty for blood. Votes: 3

Every comrade must be brought to understand that the supreme test of the words and deeds of a Communist is whether they conform with the highest interests and enjoy the support of the overwhelming majority of the people. Votes: 3

China restricts the society's freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals. Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity. Votes: 3

I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former Communist countries, became so-called democratic, people started to be enslaved by their own countrymen. Votes: 3

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal. Votes: 3

With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names. I did not want to remain a martyr to something that I absolutely believed was immoral and wrong. It's as simple as that. Votes: 3

Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages. Votes: 3

Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular. Votes: 3

I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King. Votes: 3

Some girls tell me I'm a sex maniac, or people I don't know think that I'm a fascist, but I don't feel like one. I really think I'm not Communist either, because I don't belong to any political group. Votes: 3

There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The other, equally frankly, is the convinced Christian. The rest of the world are amiable nonentities. Votes: 3

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America Votes: 3

In the final years of his life, when former Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest, in Beijing, his aging friends resorted to donning white doctors' coats in order to slip past the guards stationed outside his home. Votes: 3

When you mention the word ideology, everyone has communism in the back of their minds, which was an entirely well formulated ideology and statement of belief. You read the Communist Manifesto and you know what the core of it is. Votes: 3

While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205. Votes: 3

The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it. Votes: 3

Overriding all of them, however, was the memory of 1918, the belief that the Jews, wherever and whoever they might be, threatened to undermine the German war effort, by engaging in subversion, partisan activities, Communist resistance movements and much else besides. Votes: 3

As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to participate actively in the work of our press. Votes: 3

Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking to become an international leader. He was more accepted actually outside of the Communist Soviet Union than inside. Votes: 3

When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show how a man can pass from literature held sacred to action which nevertheless remains that of an intellectual. Votes: 3

A Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in nothing; he must never shut himself up in his little room, or brag and boast and lord it over others. Votes: 3

You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that. Votes: 3

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations. Votes: 3

Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly. Votes: 3

Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing. Votes: 3

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were. Votes: 3

A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade. Votes: 3

Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head. Votes: 3

...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy which is intended to procure the subservience of the West to Moscow under an ultimate Communist World Government. Votes: 3

The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to our interests. And they must know that we are not bluffing in our determination to defend those interests. Votes: 3

To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil. Votes: 3

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact. Votes: 3

I believe employers should be aware that employees who earn under $10 an hour cannot lead an independent life. But I do not believe that government should dictate wages. We have seen this fail in Socialist and Communist countries. It will do irreparable harm. Votes: 3

I listened to Hillary [Clinton], and I heard the double talk. She's so good at it, and I'm not making this up, that the Communist Chinese have sent their cadres to study her speeches. They say she's the finest propagandist they've ever heard. Votes: 3

What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power. Votes: 3

This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt, that the international Communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer independent nations. An act of aggression such as this creates a very real danger to the security of all free nations. Votes: 3

Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers". Thomas Sowell . Votes: 3

My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family...the Communist Party was the new patriarch. Votes: 3

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. Votes: 3

Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government in violation of the Smith Act and which took orders directly from Moscow. Votes: 3

I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life. Votes: 3

Money, as a sort of drug, has become a great danger to our development. There will be no progress in our country unless we win the fight against corruption. This is a question of survival for the Communist Party of Vietnam and for socialism. Votes: 3

All our officers and fighters must always bear in mind that we are the great People's Liberation Army, we are the troops led by the great Communist Party of China. Provided we constantly observe the directives of the Party, we are sure to win. Votes: 3

Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County. Votes: 3

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home. Votes: 3

We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars. Votes: 3

Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point. Votes: 3

In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism. Votes: 3

A Communist officer told a Christian he was beating, 'I am almighty, as you suppose your God can be. I can kill you.' The Christian answered, 'The power is all on my side. I can love you while you torture me to death.' Votes: 3

When Nikita Khrushchev wrapped himself in the bloody mantle of the Czars he broke Hungary, he broke the little Communist parties over the western world, and he broke the hearts of many honest men who had trusted a little too far, a little too long. Votes: 3

We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy. Votes: 3

This time we'll hate, alright - but we'll hate the ENEMY - the vicious gang of colored scum attackers and Jewish-Communist traitors - rather than one part of our own people hating another part for the benefit of the Jews and their army of SCUM! Votes: 3

The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state. Votes: 3

When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was connected to a very popular movement of artists and intellectuals at that time towards anti fascism, and an alliance with the union movement. Votes: 3

And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever. Votes: 3

It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort for a long while to come. Votes: 3

Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties. Votes: 3

For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed. Votes: 3

Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them. Votes: 3

Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are. Votes: 3

Some people say 'what would happen if we had a Communist Chancellor of the Exchequer?' I would ask in reply, 'what would happen if he had a lot of Fascist or Mosleyite bank chairmen?' In that event it might be thought disadvantageous to have publicity. Votes: 3

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist. Votes: 3

Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible. Votes: 3

In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically a Communist. And if you are a Communist, then therefore you are an anti-American person and a person who is not a patriot. But nothing is further from the truth. Votes: 3

Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Communist China and re-establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. But when he got into office, he pursued a very different policy of engagement with China and of increasing trade and business ties with China. Votes: 3

The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205"”a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. Votes: 3

I've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty. Votes: 3

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. Votes: 2

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. Votes: 2

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart. Votes: 2

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. Votes: 2

Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn't matter anymore - the problem is the media. Votes: 2

A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn. Votes: 2

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go. Votes: 2

I've never said I'm a communist. Votes: 0

I've been called communist, socialist, anti-American. Votes: 0

Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing. Votes: 0

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I. Votes: 0

I believe in a libertarian communist society. Votes: 0

I'm not a communist, just a media theorist. Votes: 0

There's a communist living in the White House! Votes: 0

I am a Christian, therefore I am a communist. Votes: 0

I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist. Votes: 0

As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control. Votes: 0

If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China. Votes: 0

Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile. Votes: 0

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways. Votes: 0

Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business. Votes: 0

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other. Votes: 0

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution. Votes: 0

I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars. Votes: 0

I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen. Votes: 0

Let us have no further blind devotion to the communist dominated United Nations! Votes: 0

The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past. Votes: 0

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim." Votes: 0

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980 Votes: 0

I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life. Votes: 0

I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian. Votes: 0

Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool. Votes: 0

China's success lies on being a communist community within and a capitalist company outside. Votes: 0

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government. Votes: 0

In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves. Votes: 0

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist. Votes: 0

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. Votes: 0

No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist. Votes: 0

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry. Votes: 0

I was never a cardholder. But I was leftist in the sense that I voted communist. Votes: 0

If you don't have a flag sticking out of your ass, you must be a communist. Votes: 0

I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed. Votes: 0

Are you a communist?No I am an anti-fascistFor a long time?Since I have understood fascism. Votes: 0

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom. Votes: 0

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view. Votes: 0

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable. Votes: 0

We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society. Votes: 0

The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people? Votes: 0

The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat. Votes: 0

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism Votes: 0

I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids. Votes: 0

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. Votes: 0

Unfortunately the niveau of political culture is not particularly high in Poland - a relic of the communist past. Votes: 0

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change. Votes: 0

I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people. Votes: 0

Has the pope questioned the faith of any communist leaders? He spends a lot of time in communist countries. Votes: 0

Has the pope questioned the faith of any communist leaders? He spends a lot of time in communist countries. Votes: 0

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana. Votes: 0

In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past. Votes: 0

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp. Votes: 0

If you create a new party... to try to deny the communist party leadership, then not be allowed to exist. Votes: 0

According to the oil and gas industry and their proponents, I am a communist, terrorist, Nazi, Russian-sympathizing, anti-American, arsonist, extremist. Votes: 0

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party. Votes: 0

I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it. Votes: 0

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I. Votes: 0

I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves. Votes: 0

The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise. Votes: 0

Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century. Votes: 0

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. Votes: 0

American capitalism has helped finance the communist take over of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this. Votes: 0

Complaining that a comic is drunk is like going to a titty bar and complaining because your lapdancer is a communist. Votes: 0

Some people say to me, "My God, but Fidel Castro is a communist!" I say: "No, he was a messenger of God." Votes: 0

The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important. Votes: 0

I'm a 'bleeding-heart liberal,' one of those card-carrying Democrats that Rush Limbaugh thinks is a communist. And I'm proud of it. Votes: 0

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that. Votes: 0

There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking. Votes: 0

You're seeing the first communist-produced automobile coming in to the U.S.. What I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism. Votes: 0

As communist atheists allowed no place for Jesus in their hearts, I decided I'd leave not the smallest place for satan in mine. Votes: 0

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism. Votes: 0

Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist. Votes: 0

Vodka goes well with a wintery perspective. Nothing else provokes such presentiments of falling snow except, for some, the communist seizure of the state. Votes: 0

What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly. Votes: 0

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable. Votes: 0

From a will: And to my communist nephew Oswald, I leave the sum of 10,000 pounds - to be shared equally with his fellow Britishers. Votes: 0

It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system. Votes: 0

You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded. Votes: 0

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state Votes: 0

The communists were mainly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish anarchists. Not just in Catalonia - the communist armies mainly destroyed the collectives elsewhere. Votes: 0

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center. Votes: 0

The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In Hollywood, you still have wonderful actors, but it's so hard to work there. To work becomes a Kafka nightmare - it's the last communist country! Votes: 0

The democratic world has come to a dead end; likewise, the communist world has come to a dead end. But the Unification Church is just beginning! Votes: 0

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. Votes: 0

Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat. Votes: 0

If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow. Votes: 0

In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally. Votes: 0

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up. Votes: 0

My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time. Votes: 0

The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russia’s communist workers. Votes: 0

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist." Votes: 0

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist. Votes: 0

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil. Votes: 0

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos. Votes: 0

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking? Votes: 0

Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist. Votes: 0

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers. Votes: 0

Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information. Votes: 0

Everybody goes down to a least common denominator, and as a result, productivity goes down to zero. And we've seen that in every communist country around the world. Votes: 0

I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro. Votes: 0

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party. Votes: 0

Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming the Iranians) were quite legal. Votes: 0

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control. Votes: 0

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing. Votes: 0

Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students. Votes: 0

Liberals never, ever drop a heinous idea; they just change the name. Abortion becomes choice, communist becomes progressive, communist dictatorship becomes people's democratic republic and Nikita Khrushchev becomes Barack Obama. Votes: 0

Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here. Votes: 0

My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony. Votes: 0

I don't want everyone to think of me as just 'that kid who called Jesse Jackson a communist in middle school.' That's why I decided to become a famous actress. Votes: 0

The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought. Votes: 0

"Cap and trade" is just about the most effective tool for controlling most economic activity short of openly declaring ourselves a communist nation and it's a radical environmentalist's dream come true. Votes: 0

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists. Votes: 0

When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist Votes: 0

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool. Votes: 0

We must ever keep in mind that collectivized socialism is part of the communist strategy. Communism is fundamentally socialism. We will never win our fight against communism by making concessions to socialism. Votes: 0

We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way. Votes: 0

Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throwT words at each other. Votes: 0

My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs, democracy. Sound familar? The communist party is the democratic Party. Votes: 0

A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible. Votes: 0

One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding. Votes: 0

Director Oliver Stone says he's going to make a movie about Vladimir Putin. I can't believe anyone would want to work with that insane communist. And Putin is a little crazy as well. Votes: 0

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe. Votes: 0

Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive. Votes: 0

If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing. All you really care is that he comes in and performs. Votes: 0

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing. Votes: 0

I don't think anarchism consists of sitting down and saying let's form a collective. I don't think it consists of saying we're all anarchists: you're an anarcho-syndicalist; you're an anarcho-communist; you're an anarcho-individualist. Votes: 0

In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.' Votes: 0

My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives. Votes: 0

I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed. Votes: 0

Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well. Votes: 0

News for the godless: religion is inescapable. there has never been a human society without some form of worship. And don't point to communist societies like the Soviet Union - they worshipped blue jeans. Votes: 0

The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist, too often, is an atom having ecstasies of self-denial (Thank God I am one in a crowd). Votes: 0

Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women, especially in the former communist East, where it was one of the few freedoms allowed. Votes: 0

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom. Votes: 0

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. Votes: 0

The reason for the success of this somewhat communist-sounding strategy, while the failure of communism itself is visible around the world, is that the economics of information are fundamentaly different from those of other products. Votes: 0

Chinese president Jiang Zemin met with former Bill Clinton in Hong Kong Wednesday. What a contrast. One is a ruthless communist who gains popularity by damaging the United States, while the other guy runs China. Votes: 0