Communist Countries Quotes

#1. Has the pope questioned the faith of any communist leaders? He spends a lot of time in communist countries.

Rush Limbaugh

#2. North Korean students and intellectuals didn't dare to stage protests as their counterparts in other Communist countries did. There was no Prague Spring or Tiananmen Square. The level of repression in North Korea was so great that no organized resistance could take root.

Barbara Demick

#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.

Richard Riordan

#4. 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.

Al Gore

#5. Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world - or in the communist countries - has been successful.

Peter Drucker

#6. Those who claim to be shamans there (Old East-Block Countries) today are just trying to pick up those remnants that they can remember; or shards they can find; as there has been no practice of traditional shamanism in those Communist countries for over 100 years.

Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls

#7. How many Christians of the free world visit communist countries and other nations where Christians are persecuted but never ask permission to visit a jail and encourage their brothers and sisters in pain?

Richard Wurmbrand

#8. The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

Neil Sheehan

#9. 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.

Loretta Napoleoni

#10. 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.

Milos Forman

#11. You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.

Margaret Thatcher

#12. In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.

Kate Braverman

#13. 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.

Ismail Kadare

#14. Sometimes in life - very rarely, I might add - you meet someone and you know instantly they're going to mean something special to you.

Anonymous

#15. It has been denied that any direct pressure was exerted by the Russian Government, but the point is not of great importance, for the Communist parties of all countries can be taken as carrying out Russian policy, and it is not denied that the Communist Party was the chief

George Orwell

#16. For a moment, it was just him. Him and the wind. He fought with her, and she laughed.

Brandon Sanderson

#17. I'd never seen any television before I started.

Nigel Kneale

#18. I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.

Sada Thompson

#19. Art takes different forms ... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.

George Clooney

#20. I love to kind of people watch; that's part of what I do as an actor and creative person and sort of step back and watch others.

Kate Walsh

#21. I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

Dennis Miller

#22. It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin