Quotes About Russian Communism

#1. Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Clement Attlee

#2. I did see, however, what the Russian church had lost in its first decade of "freedom." Under communism, the church had found a way to survive and often thrive. Scripture and holy song was its lifeblood.

Nik Ripken

#3. There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

Patrick Ness

#4. Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

Dorothy Parker

#5. I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#7. At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

John Travolta

#8. We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.

Victor Serge

#9. I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.

Petra Nemcova

#10. He treats the person as if they were fully whole.
We become what others expect us to be. Dad expected me to get better and even assumed I would have something helpful to say. Funny how we rise and fall to the assumptions of others.

Nathan Foster

#11. It feels a long way up and down from zero.

May Sarton

#12. Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. You dont have to let your life be destroyed by diabetes. You can reclaim your life.

Della Reese

#14. Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.

Tullian Tchividjian

#15. I've made him a monster by overloving. Lord knows, if hatred could make him human again.

Munia Khan

#16. The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.

Vladimir Lenin

#17. The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

Whittaker Chambers

#18. 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

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

John Boyd Orr

#20. I hate vodka. It is the second worst thing to have come out of Russia, after communism - which isn't Russian anyway, Karl Marx was Russian.

Param Vyas