Quotes About Democracy And Communism

#1. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Leon Trotsky

#3. With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.

Jack Kemp

#4. Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.

Leon Trotsky

#5. You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Malcolm X

#6. As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar the free market with the crimes of slavery, segregation, colonialism and genocide; piss me off and I'll add fascism and the Nazis.

Greg Erwin

#7. Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#8. Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Adam Smith

#9. We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.

Alain Badiou

#10. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

Jose Marti

#11. As much as I say that market economy is a more aggressive, expansile form of command economy, I say now that democracy is a more aggressive, expansile form of dictatorship. The sin of democracy and any types of -cracy is their numbers.

Andreas Laurencius

#12. Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Bertrand Russell

#13. The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Thomas Sowell

#14. Prosperity and democracy does seem to be a good way to wean a population off massive alcohol abuse.

Oliver Bullough

#15. I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Michael Collins

#16. Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.

Fran Lebowitz

#17. But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

Vladimir Lenin

#18. The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers from the great tactical liability that anyone who is not specifically for it is eventually forced to oppose it.

Edwin O. Reischauer

#19. There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

Fidel Castro

#20. Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Leon Trotsky

#21. From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

Jack Kingston

#22. LENIN = "Revolutionary Social Democracy"
American Socialists = "Democratic Socialism". What is the difference? The USSR held democratic referendums too; all of which increased the power of the central planners and reduced the individual to nothingness.

A.E. Samaan

#23. If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of this century will be the changes wrought by astonishing scientific breakthroughs

Cynthia Tucker

#24. In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.

Ken Wilber

#25. Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century. One advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so.

Timothy Snyder

#26. The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba
yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

#27. Democracy is the breeding ground of communism,

Augusto Pinochet

#28. In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

Fran Lebowitz

#29. Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

David Korten

#30. We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

Joichi Ito

#31. The good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism

Martin Luther King Jr.

#32. 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

#33. A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

Jose Marti

#34. Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy.

Juan Bosch

#35. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#36. Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

Norman Mailer

#37. Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#38. The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.

Jack Kemp

#39. Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.

Vaclav Klaus

#40. Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers' cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#41. The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Albert Einstein

#42. The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

Robert Kennedy

#43. We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

Heather Marsh

#44. The first duty of a man is to think for himself

Jose Marti

#45. Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

Andre Malraux

#46. Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#47. I feel uncomfortable with the words DEMOcracy, SOCIALism and COMMUNism. Common social demonocracy?

Robin Sacredfire

#48. Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

Ezra Pound

#49. We have developed communications systems to permit man on earth to talk with man on the moon. Yet mother often cannot talk with daughter, father to son, black to white, labour with management or democracy with communism

Hadley Read

#50. Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#51. The Soviet Union attempted to export communism to the entire world. We know what came of that. Now the West is trying to export democracy, including to regions where there is no traditional foundation for it. That cannot end well.

Vladimir Yakunin

#52. The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#53. All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.

A.E. Samaan