Communism Quotes

• One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Sacrifice
  • Sin
  • Bitter

• The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Sacrifice

• You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • World
  • Struggle
  • Genius

• Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • People
  • Ready
  • Individualism

• Communism is in conflict with human nature.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Humans
  • Communism

• I think what happened with 9/11 is that people sort of felt that it came from nowhere. Whereas I think now we understand the roots are very deep. I say it's like revolutionary Communism, something that is going to have to be knocked out over a very long period of time. This strain of extremism continues to be very strong, whether it's in Afghanistan, or Somalia or Yemen, or any of these places.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Long
  • Revolutionary

• The collapse of communism as an ideology and of the Soviet Union as a world power has made possible an unprecedented internationalization of current American values, among them free choice in the consumer marketplace, reduced government economic regulation and an emphasis on individual self-fulfillment rather than the social good, all promoted by an internationalized mass media and consumer culture.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Culture
  • Government
  • Values

• Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers". Thomas Sowell .

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Names

• Communism is one of the options that can improve people's lives.

  

  Tom Hayden
  • People
  • World
  • Communism

• 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.

  

  Alexander Zinoviev
  • Communism
  • Inequality
  • Evils

• Communism is the flower of idleness.

  

  George Ticknor
  • Flower
  • Communism
  • Idleness

• By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.

  

  Ella Leya
  • Religion
  • Communism

• Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Political
  • Reading

• The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Running
  • Economic
  • Socialism

• I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Views
  • Communism

• In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Philosophy
  • Principles
  • Capitalism

• First, we should become informed about communism, about socialism, and about Americanism. What better way can one become informed than by first studying the inspired words of the prophets and using that as a foundation; against which to test all other material. This is in keeping with the Prophet Joseph Smith's motto, "When the Lord commands, do it."

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Foundation
  • The Lord
  • Prophet

• It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Important
  • Reputation
  • Empires

• American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Victory
  • Policy
  • Communism

• What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Political
  • Communism

• ISIS represents the worst threat to freedom since Communism!

  

  Rick Perry
  • Worst
  • Threat
  • Communism

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