Communism Quotes - page 3

Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes up. When the classic religions decayed, communistic agitation rose in Athens (430 B.C.), and revolution began in Rome (133 B.C.); when these movements failed, resurrection faiths succeeded, culminating in Christianity; when, in our eighteenth century, Christian belief weakened, communism reappeared. In this perspective the future of religion is secure. (Will Durant)
I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The trusts and combinations-the communism of pelf-whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven. View quote
Grover Cleveland
Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that. View quote
Pol Pot
I believe that we have to strive for a transition to a socialist society ... all the way to communism. I mean I think we should, uh, I think we should all study what the word means and I believe that if everyone knew what the word meant we would all be on our knees praying that we would, as soon as possible, be able to live under, uh, within a communist structure. View quote
Jane Fonda
Alternate form: I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope and pray on your knees that we would someday be communists. I am a socialist. I think that we should strive toward a socialist society - all the way to communism. View quote
Jane Fonda
First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism. View quote
Bobby Fischer
The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society - communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism. View quote
Aleksandr Zinovyev
Communism is like one big phone company. (Lenny Bruce)
We're taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don't have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody tell them who the enemy is. View quote
Assata Shakur
The Duce told me that he foresaw the possibility of a conflict between Germany and Russia. He said that we could not stay out of this because it involved the struggle against communism. It was, therefore, necessary to make arrangements for the bringing together between Ljubljana and Zagreb of a motorized division, of an armored division, and of the grenadier division. View quote
Ugo Cavallero
Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore. View quote
Gianfranco Fini
I don't really view communism as a bad thing. View quote
Whoopi Goldberg
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. View quote
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free federation that we can reach Communism - the possession in common of our social inheritance, and the production in common of all riches. View quote
Peter Kropotkin
To build communism it is necessary, simultaneous with the new material foundations, to build the new man and woman. View quote
Che Guevara
Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes” of these "conditions?”. View quote
Thomas Szasz
Our fear that Communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has. (Michael Parenti)
Nazism (national Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Communism was the regime for the privileged elite, capitalism the creed for the common man. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka. View quote
Arthur Koestler
I do not believe in Communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country several of the best friends I have got are Communists. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt