Quotes About Communists

#1. As a newspaper man, Doremus remembered that the only reporters who misrepresented and concealed facts more unscrupulously than the Capitalists were the Communists.

Sinclair Lewis

#2. Communists are the last optimists.

Nadine Gordimer

#3. Ran "Inchon" - it is a brutal but gripping picture about the Korean War and for once we're the good guys & the Communists are the villains. The producer was Japanese or Korean which probably explains the preceding sentence.

Ronald Reagan

#4. My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

Curtis LeMay

#5. We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#6. Communists disavow the existence of God and religion. They hate it, because it's a competitor.

Rush Limbaugh

#7. My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.

Audrey Meadows

#8. 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

#9. All over India policemen were arresting people, all opposition leaders except members of the pro-Moscow Communists, and also schoolteachers lawyers poets newspapermen trade-unionists, in fact anyone who had ever made the mistake of sneezing during the Madam's speeches,

Salman Rushdie

#10. The Communists , following Hegel , speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

Simone De Beauvoir

#11. The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure.

Elliott Abrams

#12. The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set an example in fighting bravely, carrying out orders, observing discipline, doing political work and fostering internal unity and solidarity.

Mao Zedong

#13. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?

Pat Robertson

#14. Fascism offered false solutions, simplistically blaming groups such as Jews and Communists for complex problems such as unemployment and crime.

Ken Follett

#15. The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

Earl Browder

#16. I hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I question whether members of the committee are interested in defending our form of government or whether they are attempting to suppress political opinion at odds with their own.

Gregory Peck

#17. God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.

Adolf Hitler

#18. There's a preacher on the radio that says the Beatles are trying to hypnotize us and turn us all into Communists. I was listening to 'Hey, Jude' the other day and I had the urge to move to Cuba, so there might be something to it.

Chris Fabry

#19. Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.

E.B. White

#20. After the Soviet withdrawal, many Afghan Communists had rebranded themselves as Islamists and joined the mujahedeen.

Anand Gopal

#21. You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you are fighting for. I hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think that's obscene.

Karl Lagerfeld

#22. Allan had never imagined it would be easy to cross the Himalayas. But later he had realised just how lucky he had been to bump into those kind Iranian communists. It

Jonas Jonasson

#23. The way I understand it is the communists are in, the atheists are in, the agnostics are in, but religion is out.

Jay Sekulow

#24. Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

Johann Most

#25. The word "collective" is not so often used because it has been basically used by socialists and communists and has a different history. The word "cooperative" means the workplace itself is organized cooperatively, rather than in the conventional capitalistic, hierarchical form.

Richard D. Wolff

#26. The Japanese are a disease of the skin ... the Communists are a disease of the heart. Everything personal was political ... Two reds sandwiching a black ...

Jung Chang

#27. Both the nationalists and the communists disapproved of jazz and feared it. They thought it would weaken people's resolve to fight off the invasion. And most Americans know, China did ban all Western music for about 30 years, starting in 1949. This is where it started.

Nicole Mones

#28. Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Gertrude Stein

#29. With small-town America it's always either zombies or communists isn't it.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#30. When the communists won the Chinese civil war in 1949, they accepted neither the semi-independence of Tibet nor the boundary lines drawn by British imperialism between Tibet and India.

Bruce Riedel

#31. Above all, Suharto had been hunting down communists, presumed communists, suspected communists, possible communists, highly unlikely communists, and the odd innocent person.

Jonas Jonasson

#32. When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in every level of government and they concentrated on Hollywood and especially on Hollywood writers.

Kirk Douglas

#33. The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

Richard M. Nixon

#34. In seventy years, Russia's Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.

Roger Lowenstein

#35. We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

Leonid Brezhnev

#36. In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

Fritz Sauckel

#37. The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution.

John T. Flynn

#38. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

Graham Greene

#39. The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

Ignazio Silone

#40. I will never vote Democrat again, they are Communists.

Howard Stern

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

H.L. Mencken

#42. 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

#43. When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.

Martin Niemoller

#44. 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

#45. Stalin has stolen more than lands. Hannelore, he has stolen human dignity. I see it in their forlorn eyes and broken posture. It's all the fault of the Communists.

Ruta Sepetys

#46. The implication of nonconformity is intolerable to Communists.

Doan Van Toai

#47. Give money to universities - that would be asking for trouble. All those places do is turn out more Communists.

Lang Hancock

#48. Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

Eric Liu

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

Norman Davies

#50. To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

#51. If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

Jenny Holzer

#52. Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward.

Mao Zedong

#53. Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.

H. Allen Smith

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

H.L. Mencken

#55. Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#56. We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs ... (soon) we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper-hand ...

Leonid Brezhnev

#57. Italy is now a great country to invest in ... Today we have fewer communists and those who are still there deny having been one. Another reason to invest in Italy is that we have beautiful secretaries ... superb girls.

Silvio Berlusconi

#58. In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

William Westmoreland

#59. 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

#60. The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#61. Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.

Ben Stein

#62. after all we had been through, we would still risk death rather than live under communists. The craving for freedom was too strong.

Joan D. Criddle

#63. 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

#64. Why do they murder and why do they hate us? Because all of them ... 80 years of history, they all want to conquer the world, they all rejected Jesus and they're all famous for murder. Nazis, Shintoists, Communists and the Mohammedists. Every one of them the same way.

Phil Robertson

#65. In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's Communists established the People's Republic of China, and the following year, his People's Liberation Army invaded central Tibet.

Barbara Demick

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

Kurt Vonnegut

#67. 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

#68. Here in Prague they say that although the traffic police are communists the drivers are fascists, which would be all right if it were not that the pedestrians are anarchists.

Len Deighton

#69. No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists

C.F.W. Walther

#70. Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down.

Oscar Romero

#71. The attitude of the Indian millionaires was similar. Gandhi called upon them to repent, and naturally they preferred him to the Socialists and Communists who, given the chance, would actually have taken their money away.

George Orwell

#72. Of all the charges made against the Communists these days of congressional investigations, the charge of loose morals is seldom heard, so very loose have become those of "Christian" people.

Dorothy Day

#73. Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should rely on the majority of the masses and win their support.

Mao Zedong

#74. 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

#75. The Soviet Union at this time was being run by the Communists, a group of men fierce in their dedication to wearing hilariously bad suits. Their leader was Josef Stalin (Russian for "Joey Bananas")

Dave Barry

#76. The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.

Michael Foot

#77. I'm a Red-baiter; I'm a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.

Adolphe Menjou

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

William MacDonald

#79. The majority of the American population had questioned the justification for the war in Vietnam. They did not appreciate the government's rationale for sending American boys to die halfway around the world; communists in Vietnam had absolutely nothing to do with them.

Calvin Murphy

#80. 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

#81. I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

Elia Kazan

#82. Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so you began to associate them.

Jack Kirby

#83. You can always somebody who is worse than you are to make you feel virtuous. It's a cheap shot: those awful terrorists, perverts, communists
they are the ones who need to repent! Yes, indeed they do, and for them repentance will be a full-time job, exactly as it is for all the rest of us.

Hugh Nibley

#84. Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.

John Clayton

#85. What would happen if the Communists occupied the Sahara? Answer: Nothing - for 50 years. Then there would be a shortage of sand.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#86. It's high time that Christians made up their minds to do something ... What are we going to show in the way of resistance-as compared to the Communists, for instance-when all this terror is over? We will be standing empty-handed. We will have no answer when we are asked: What did you do about it?

Hans Scholl

#87. 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

#88. Neither the Nazis nor the Communists, he affirms, acted because of their atheism. They were simply keen to kill a great many people. Atheism had nothing to do with it. They might well have been Christian Scientists.

David Berlinski

#89. 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

#90. It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

Carroll Quigley

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

A.E. Samaan

#92. Eisenhower admitted that the budget can't be balanced and McCarthy said the communists are taking over. You don't know what to worry about these days - whether the country will be overthrown or overdrawn.

Bob Hope

#93. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.

Carroll Quigley

#94. The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists in united fronts.

Roger Nash Baldwin

#95. The communists pave the way for him (the Jew).

Julius Streicher

#96. Look, the communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to corrupt the Catholic Church? It is a big enemy.

Rush Limbaugh

#97. These top-water nigger preachers . . . like apes . . . mouths like Number 2 cans . . . twist the Gospel . . . the court prefers to listen to Communists . . . take 'em all out and shoot 'em for treason . . . Against

Harper Lee

#98. 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

#99. There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.

Joe Slovo

#100. The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.

Sun Myung Moon