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Communism Quotes

I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It’s reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.

– Howard Fast

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

– Gary North

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

– H. L. Mencken

I’m disenchanted with Communism and most other things. I’m cynical but not a cynic. I’m cynical about TV, Congress, and commercial peanut butter.

– Howard Fast

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

– Ho Chi Minh

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

– Grover Cleveland

Class was always the domestic issue during the Vietnam War, not communism.

– John Gregory Dunne

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.

– John Kenneth Galbraith

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.

– Jean-Marie Le Pen

The U.S. invaded Vietnam because many in our government – Lyndon Johnson’s best and brightest – imagined it could impose a government on that country that would provide a buffer against China and stop the supposedly rolling dominos of Communism.

– Jay Parini

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.

– John L. Lewis

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.

– Joseph Rotblat

Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn’t fall. It was pushed.

– Jack Kemp

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn’t figure into was human nature, and that’s what corrupts it.

– Jesse Ventura

I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one’s fear. No. Never.

– Adam Michnik

If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

– Johann Most

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

– Benjamin Tucker

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

– Billy Graham

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.

– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

– A. J. P. Taylor

Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

– Boris Yeltsin

In Georgia, people had already understood that communism couldn’t survive, and I came to the institute in Moscow, and people still believed in it. They were completely different people, and I found it very difficult psychologically.

– Bidzina Ivanishvili

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

– Andre Malraux

Ali vs. Stevenson would have served as a symbolic battle between the United States and Cuba, capitalism and communism: Castro’s values instilled in his boxers pitted against the values of ‘merchandise’ boxers from the rest of the world.

– Brin-Jonathan Butler

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

– Pete Seeger

Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of communism led many to aim for a lifestyle derivative of Chicago or Detroit.

– Norman Davies

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

– David Miliband

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

– Ernest Renan

Today’s Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

– Friedrich Durrenmatt

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

– Ezra Taft Benson

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