Communism Quotes

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. (Will Rogers)
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. View quote
Frank Zappa
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. View quote
Karl Marx
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world. View quote
Earl Warren
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
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)
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. View quote
Clement Attlee
The goal of socialism is communism. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
The fall of Wall Street is for market fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for communism. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land. View quote
Francisco Franco
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative. View quote
Eric Hobsbawm
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government. View quote
Grover Cleveland
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. View quote
Clare Boothe Luce
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda. View quote
Martin Buber
I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh. (Norman Wisdom)
The fact that Communism and Fascism assigned contradictory roles to history and reason-the emancipation of the proletariat versus the domination of the Aryan race-mattered little. View quote
Francois Furet
In Fascism, as in Communism, the idea of the future was based on a critique of bourgeois modernity... It rose from a variety of currents and from authors of very different origins, all of whom demonized the bourgeoisie. The doctrine was cast as post-Marxist, not as pre-liberal. View quote
Francois Furet
Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades. View quote
Gary North
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. View quote
Charles E. Wilson