Communist Quotes

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)
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. View quote
Joseph McCarthy
Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. View quote
George Orwell
I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life. View quote
Woody Guthrie
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. View quote
Henry Kissinger
America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable. View quote
Elia Kazan
One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding. (Andrzej Wajda)
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover. View quote
W. Averell Harriman
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. View quote
Hélder Câmara
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers. View quote
Fidel Castro
The Communist vision is the vision of man without God. View quote
Whittaker Chambers
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Complaining that a comic is drunk is like going to a titty bar and complaining because your lapdancer is a communist. View quote
Doug Stanhope
Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable. View quote
Eldridge Cleaver
Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International. View quote
James P. Cannon
American capitalism has helped finance the communist take over of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this. (Kent Hovind)
No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and even-if need be-to resort to all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuges in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with. View quote
Dorothy Day