Communism Quotes - Page 9

• During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out that Camus had said things no one wanted to hear in the political arena. They said it was [Albert] Camus who was right, not those who had slid under the influence of Sartre, that is to say an unconditional devotion to Communism as seen in the Soviet Union. And ever since then the evaluation of Camus has continued to modify up until today

  Catherine Camus

  Political, Unions, Today

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Inspirational, Humor, Government

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• According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must practise the principle "to each according to his work" and combine the interests of the state, the collective and the individual, for only thus can we arouse people's enthusiasm for labour and develop socialist production.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Long, People, Historical

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Art

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• I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

  Jesse Ventura

  Government, Support, Type

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• Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.3, Hayes Barton Press

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• Free enterprise democracy has proven the best system by far for maximizing freedom, prosperity, and happiness. Dictatorship, Soviet style communism, and hereditary aristocracy have proven about the worst environments for people to achieve all three of these goals.

  James Stone

  People, Goal, Style

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• What we were striving for was a kind of modified form of communism.

  Harold L. Ickes

  Kind, Strive, Form

  "They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by John H. George and Paul Boller, p. 52, 1989.

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• I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Way, Life Is

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• I have one of the strongest records in fighting for senior citizens. I led the effort to prevent cuts to Social Security. But I think for some seniors, they remember the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. They conflated the term "democratic socialism" with communism.

  Bernie Sanders

  Senior, Fighting, Cutting

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• We must ever keep in mind that collectivized socialism is part of the communist strategy. Communism is fundamentally socialism. We will never win our fight against communism by making concessions to socialism.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Fighting, Winning, Mind

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.

  Theodore Beale

  Atheist, Atheism, Bureaucracy

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• Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.

  Nikolai Bukharin

  Christian, Enemy, Worst

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• National Defense A strong USA defense brought down the Soviet Union. It was Ronald Reagan - first in a speech at Notre Dame University in May 1981, then his 'Evil Empire' speech of March 1983 - who most eloquently declared communism's imminent demise. Reagan was right. And even Soviet officials attribute Ronald Reagan's rhetoric and foreign policy to bringing down that 'evil empire.' By Christmas Day, 1990, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Liberals wished it were other things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Strong, Usa, Evil

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• Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Communist, Cannabis

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• The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

  George Soros

  Perfection, Laissez Faire Capitalism, Doe

  "The Capitalist Threat". www.theatlantic.com. February 1997.

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• Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice.

  Henry M. Morris

  Christian, Practice, Roots

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• I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him.

  T. Coleman Andrews

  Ideas, Return, Income

  U.S. News & World Report, May 25, 1956.

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• In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children that the leaders are good and their policies are wise. The core is religious intolerance. The sides simply change between the Atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Unitarians, etc., depending whether you are talking about the Soviet Union, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, America, etc. A common second reason is to prepare the boys to go to war and the girls to cheer them on.

  Marshall Fritz

  Girl, Wise, Country

  "The Separation of School and State Alliance". Interview with Mary Leggewie, www.homeschoolchristian.com. June 3, 1999.

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• The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers from the great tactical liability that anyone who is not specifically for it is eventually forced to oppose it.

  Edwin O. Reischauer

  Real, Suffering, Democracy

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• Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market capitalism everywhere from Thatcher's England to Deng's China, where just the partial abolition of socialism lifted more people out of poverty more rapidly than ever in human history.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Two, People, Forever

  "Carbon Chastity" by Charles Krauthammer, www.washingtonpost.com. May 30, 2008.

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• Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.

  Jim Stanford

  Details, Modern, Communist

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Bourgeoisie, Republic

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• It's expensive to keep communism alive today. I've already got a huge foreign debt staring me in the face, and I can't reduce it by exporting tomatoes or toilet paper. We should be making dollars any way we can. And we should be exporting arms any way and every way, openly and secretly, legally or by smuggling, I don't care how.

  Nicolae Ceausescu

  War, Live For Today, Dollars

  "Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief". Book by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 119, 1987.

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• I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood against banning Communism or other extremist organisations because, if you do that, they go underground and it gives them an excitement that they don't get if they are allowed to pursue their policies openly. We'll beat them into the ground on argument...

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hate, War, Giving

  "Hornsey Journal" Interview with Robert Eddison and Barry St John Nevill, www.margaretthatcher.org. April 21, 1978.

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