Communism Religion Quotes

#1. Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium.

Gideon Defoe

#2. It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion.

Zachary Lazar

#3. A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

#4. If a religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in a superhuman order, then Soviet Communism was no less a religion than Islam.

Yuval Noah Harari

#5. If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

Fidel Castro

#6. Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

Dora Russell

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

H.L. Mencken

#8. Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

Ezra Taft Benson

#9. The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.

Muhammad Iqbal

#10. Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

Fulton J. Sheen

#11. As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

Tony Evans

#12. Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Billy Graham

#13. Religion in this country is worse than communism. Say the wrong thing, think the wrong thing and, look
there's the Stasi knocking at your door.

A. Manette Ansay

#14. It's not man's job to think about whether God exists or not, especially when you know that right in front of your eyes one person is stepping on another's neck.

Eka Kurniawan

#15. By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.

Ella Leya

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

William MacDonald

#17. We first fought ... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Serj Tankian

#18. Communism is Christianity castrated by Ockham's Razor.

Israel Shamir

#19. 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

#20. In the US, what passes for Christianity - and it is, to say the least, a highly perverse, possessive individualist and capitalist version of what I would see as Christ's messianic ethical communism, to say the least - is a new civil religion, a civil religion of freedom.

Simon Critchley

#21. So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And Communism had brought him back full circle to poverty.

Colin Cotterill

#22. Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.

Stefan Molyneux

#23. The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered. Communism and Nazism are religions as well, make no mistake about it.

Lemmy Kilmister

#24. It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.

Dorothy Day

#25. Atheism is humanism mediated by the suppression of religion, communism is humanism mediated by
the suppression of private property.

Albert Camus

#26. We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.

Robert M. Lindner

#27. Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

H.L. Mencken

#28. I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

Marina Abramovic

#29. Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

David Miliband

#30. Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Billy Graham