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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• 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.

  

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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
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  • 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

• It will level the playing field, ... It will give American workers choice, confidence and also control.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • American
  • Control
  • Confidence

• 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
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• The goal of socialism is communism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Goal
  • Historical
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• For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Communication
  • States
  • Communism

• 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
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  • Socialism

• As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Christian
  • Vote
  • Socialism

• speaking in unknown languages, showing a disproportionate physical strength beyond one's natural capacity, the repulsion to sacred things, such as crucifix and prayers, and knowledge of events that have happened far away, in terms of times and places.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Knowledge
  • Unknown
  • Physical

• Returning to the source is serenity.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Source
  • Serenity
  • Returning

• None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-being disappear and are transformed into omens of destruction. The luxury liner becomes a battleship, or the black jolly roger and the red executioner’s flag are hoisted on it.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Changes
  • Destruction
  • Considered

• Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Reason
  • Enemy

• 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