Quotes About Communism Communist

#1. Fuck socialism!
No, really..... fuck socialism. Socialism sucks!

A.E. Samaan

#2. All Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#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.

Teodor Flonta

#4. Philosophically, Communism and Anarchism are poles apart. Practically - i.e. in the form of society aimed at - the difference is mainly one of emphasis, but it is quite irreconcilable. The Communist's emphasis is always on centralism and efficiency, the Anarchist's on liberty and equality.

George Orwell

#5. How easy it was to be a Communist when you weren't living under Communism!

Julian Barnes

#6. Communists are frustrated capitalists.

Eric Hoffer

#7. Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

Catharine MacKinnon

#8. 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.

Bruce Perens

#9. 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.

Jim Stanford

#10. No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-Kantian, a Subjectivist, an Agnostic, or, God forbid, a Revisionist. But "epicurean" sounded so harmless it could not possibly imply that one was not an orthodox Marxist.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#11. Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#12. The Communist leaders respect only firmness and have contempt for persons who continually give in to them.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Norodom Sihanouk

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

ZIZEK

#15. 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.

Winston Churchill

#16. I went to Russia a Communist; but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts, not as to Communism in itself, but as to the wisdom of holding a creed so firmly that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery.

Bertrand Russell

#17. Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.

Ernest Hemingway,

#18. LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about.

A.E. Samaan

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

Michele Bernstein

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

Vladimir Lenin

#21. 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.

Ronald Reagan

#22. We should know why paternalism, collectivism, or unnecessary federal supervision will hold our standard of living down and reduce productivity just as it has in every country where it has been tried. We should also know why the communist leaders consider socialism the highroad to communism.

Ezra Taft Benson

#23. Are you a Communist, Dora?

Sally Wentworth

#24. When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me.

Wislawa Szymborska

#25. The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

Barbara Tuchman

#26. Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

A.E. Samaan

#27. 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.

Helder Camara

#28. From the point of view of the Chinese Communist Party, the greatest casualties of the Cultural Revolution were the Party's prestige and its ability to govern. Pg. 539

Nien Cheng

#29. 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.

Helen Lawrenson

#30. We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

Emanuel Celler

#31. You Bet Your Life's sponsor, Chrysler, was convinced only a Commie would dare promote racial equality.

Kliph Nesteroff

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

Whittaker Chambers

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

Margaret Thatcher

#34. 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.

Ezra Taft Benson

#35. If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist ... I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

Jane Fonda

#36. 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.

Anne Waldman

#37. Als it is hard for America to fight wars in the name of freedom, if those people themselves choose for nonfreedom. Can America and England save India from communism, if they vote communist themselves.

Oswald Mosley

#38. 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.

Milovan Djilas

#39. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. When they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#40. The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

John Boyd Orr

#41. The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

H.L. Mencken

#42. I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.

Pablo Picasso

#43. And believe me, there is nobody who hates Communism more than a former Communist.

Robert D. Kaplan

#44. 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

#45. It was at this time that he published an open letter to a Communist leader assuring him that Nazism and Communism were really the same thing.

William L. Shirer

#46. 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.

Pete Seeger

#47. Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.

Harry J. Anslinger

#48. Some tell me Preach the pure gospel! This reminds me that the Communist secret police also told me to preach Christ, but not to mention communism. Is it really so, that those who are for what is called a pure gospel are inspired by the same spirit as those of the Communist secret police?

Richard Wurmbrand

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

Murray Kempton

#50. Communism is fascism, in all practical applications," he was saying now. "Can you think of a Communist country sans dictator?

Sara Novic

#51. [Taken from a BBC documentary]
Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943. A Catholic school education did nothing to shake his life-long atheism, which he shared with his communist parents.

Tariq Ali