John Lennon Quotes

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

John Lennon The Beatles

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• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
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• Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
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• On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.

  

  Jack Dangermond
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• Sting is a father figure to us all.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Father
  • U.S.
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• There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Europe
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  • Haunting

• If you wanted to control the nation's manufacturing, commerce, finance, transportation and natural resources, you would need only to control the apex, the power pinnacle, of an all-powerful SOCIALIST government. Then you would have a monopoly and could squeeze out all your competitors. If you wanted a national monopoly, you must control a national socialist government. If you want a worldwide monopoly, you must control a world socialist government. That is what the game is all about. "Communism" is not a movement of the downtrodden masses but is a movement created, manipulated and used by power-seeking billionaires in order to gain control over the world ...

  

  Gary Allan
  • World
  • Power
  • Game

• Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Society
  • Education
  • Careers

• Until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Children
  • Control
  • Responsibility

• Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Work
  • Education
  • Workers

• Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union.

  

  Francois Mitterrand
  • People
  • Understanding
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• The goal of socialism is communism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Goal
  • Historical
  • Socialism

• For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Communication
  • States
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• The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Nations
  • Workers
  • Endeavor

• If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Create
  • State
  • Socialism

• The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Consequences
  • Socialism
  • Workers

• I have seen workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day stand or sit, stoop or are bent double, who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of excess ways. ... the harvest of diseases reaped by certain workers ... from irregular motions in unnatural postures of the body.

  

  Bernardino Ramazzini
  • Work
  • Exercise
  • Workers

• Socialism almost never has been judged as a goal in value by the experience of communism in power.

  

  Alan Charles Korsun
  • Experience
  • Judged
  • Communism

• The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Kind
  • Dignity
  • Indifference

• The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Night
  • Theater
  • Terrible

• Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Lost

• In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Workers
  • Communism
  • Father figure