Communism Communists Quotes

#1. If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

Eric Hoffer

#2. The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

Murray Kempton

#3. The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.

Pete Seeger

#4. If collectivizing highly personal medical decisions is evil, then so follows that collectivized medicine is evil.

A.E. Samaan

#5. Communists are frustrated capitalists.

Eric Hoffer

#6. That day I saw people trying to feed themselves but managing to do so only on a subsistence level. And people who are hungry are not worried about communism or Communists.

Nick Mills

#7. Nothing is more false than the notion that the triumph of Communism is inevitable or that the Communists are steadily pushing the free world into a corner.

Robert Kennedy

#8. If you think that political correctness is no big deal, just remember that the communists started by eliminating inconvenient people and ended by eliminating inconvenient people.

James "Doc" Crabtree

#9. The best way to make Communists is to put the Americans into a place where there were no Communists before.

Norodom Sihanouk

#10. If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you.

A.E. Samaan

#11. Libertarianism and communism are equally crazy in opposite ways. Libertarians believe that it is possible to privatize everything without anarchy, while communists believe that it is possible to socialize everything without tyranny.

Michael Lind

#12. The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.

Dag Hammarskjold

#13. Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.

Vladimir Lenin

#14. I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian

A.E. Samaan

#15. Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Nelson Mandela

#16. We must hate - hatred is the basis of communism. Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not communists.

Vladimir Lenin

#17. Are you a Communist, Dora?

Sally Wentworth

#18. Violence, of course, is generally associated with frankly totalitarian forms of anti-political utopianism like Communism, but the Second World War shows that liberal universalists are as capable of violence as Communists. They are just less capable of honesty.

Greg Johnson

#19. Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.

A.E. Samaan

#20. I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#21. 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

#22. This is Communism's view of war. War is necessary. War is an instrument for achieving a goal.

But unfortunately for Communism, this policy ran up against the American atomic bomb in 1945. Then the Communists changed their tactics and suddenly became advocates of peace at any cost.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#23. The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

H.L. Mencken

#24. One question that people always ask at home is never asked here: "What happened to Communism in Russia?" Everybody yawns when a visitor brings it up, because the answer is so obvious to every Russian. The answer is that there never was Communism in Russia; there were only communists.

Arthur Koestler

#25. Never give up on learning because what you put up there in your brain," he indicated my head with his index finger, "the Communists won't ever be able to take away from you.

Teodor Flonta

#26. The Fascist utopia, like that of the Communists, was false, and generated immense suffering. But there were those who dreamed it sincerely.

Norman Davies

#27. I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

H.L. Mencken

#28. Whenever the communists are under fire, it [the term "red-baiter"] has served to divert attention from the subject matter to futile discussion of personal motives, the critic's private life and other deliberate tricks of befuddlement.

Eugene Lyons

#29. I believe profoundly that in the struggle against Communists and their organizations [...] we cannot and should not resort to the methods and forms employed by the Communists.

Victor Kravchenko

#30. Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

Kurt Vonnegut

#31. Communists are the last optimists.

Nadine Gordimer

#32. We have spoken out against inhuman slaughters perpetrated by the Nazis and the Communists. But will we speak out also against the inhuman slaughter in Indonesia, where over 100,000 alleged Communists have been not perpetrators, but victims?

Robert F. Kennedy

#33. The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians.

William MacDonald

#34. They said Indonesia was a failure," Al Pope reflected bitterly. "But we knocked the shit out of them. We killed thousands of Communists, even though half of them probably didn't even know what Communism meant.

Tim Weiner

#35. I have decided to denounce communism, though I love the Communists. I don't find it to be right to preach the gospel without denouncing communism.

Richard Wurmbrand

#36. The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish.

Pansy Schneider-Horst

#37. American Progressives have declared war on the sanctity and autonomy of the individual.

A.E. Samaan

#38. What war did for him (hasten disillusionment with communism), childbirth did for me. I began to notice what neglected, neurotic waifs the children of Communists were and to question the genuineness of the love of mankind that didn't begin at home.

Joy Davidman

#39. The important thing is that you should not argue with them [Communists]....Whatever you say, they have ways of twisting it into shapes which put you in some lower category of mankind, 'Fascist,' 'Liberal,' 'Trotskyist,' and disparage you both intellectually and personally in the process.

F Scott Fitzgerald