Communist Quotes - Page 14

• I believe that we have to strive for a transition to a socialist society ... all the way to communism. I mean I think we should, uh, I think we should all study what the word means and I believe that if everyone knew what the word meant we would all be on our knees praying that we would, as soon as possible, be able to live under, uh, within a communist structure.

  Jane Fonda

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Freedom Hoax". The News and Courier, December 29, 1970.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Party, Believe, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should rely on the majority of the masses and win their support.

  Mao Zedong

  Sacrifice, Winning, Self

  9 Copy quote

• Marxism is what has seduced American liberals - well, liberals worldwide, communists, all leftists.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Marxism

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Luckily I was not born in Eastern Europe, because I might have been born into the communist establishment and I'm glad I was not. But in Israel, communists were dissidents. So you grow up in an environment which is very critical of Israeli policies.

  Amira Hass

  Growing Up, Israel, Europe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The drafters of the [Refugee Convention ] had the Cold War in mind and mainly sought to protect a few thousand dissidents from the Communist bloc. They did not envision the mass displacements of people we are seeing today.

  Kofi Annan

  War, People, Mind

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural. Economic determinism is an objectionable creed where men and women espouse it in its communist or capitalist form because it treats human beings as economic units and not as responsible persons.

  Davis McCaughey

  Leadership, Business, Men

  4 Copy quote

• I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Coal, Pits, Alive

  "Khrushchev: A Career". Book by Edward Crankshaw, p. 12, 1966.

  140 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some people say 'what would happen if we had a Communist Chancellor of the Exchequer?' I would ask in reply, 'what would happen if he had a lot of Fascist or Mosleyite bank chairmen?' In that event it might be thought disadvantageous to have publicity.

  Hugh Dalton

  People, Events, Might

  4 Copy quote

• The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or in the Soviet Union, is rarely hostile to the institutions - the private business enterprise, the Communist Party - that reflect the dominant economic power. Not to notice this takes effort, although many succeed.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Party, Believe, Ideas

  6 Copy quote

• We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be widened, take on new aspects, become truly a rule of the people, only when it is extended to the economic life of the people, as in the Soviet Union. As far as women are concerned, the U.S.S.R. is a trailblazer for equal rights and equal opportunities.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Women, Party, Opportunity

  27 Copy quote

• Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Women, People

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

  George Monbiot

  People, Climate, Saint

  "This crisis demands a reappraisal of who we are and what progress means" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2007.

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Russians would like to] undermine the West and its institutions, create doubts about NATO, create doubts about the European Union, support nationalists on the right just as the Soviet communists supported communists on the left. Weaken the West in general and create an atmosphere in which we`re uncertain about ourselves.

  Daniel Fried

  Support, Atmosphere, Doubt

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My entire life was dedicated to defeating communism. I felt really great when Ronald Reagan helped us establish peace and the elimination of communism from Russia. We are now dealing with a national power, and, you know, it is a big power in the world. It's no longer being motivated by communist ideology that has it trying to overthrow democratic governments and replace them with atheistic communist dictatorships.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Russia, Government, Trying

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• People are actually very good at being communists in the sense that they instantly abandon capitalism, that they love these relationships of mutual aid, because the astonishing thing about disasters is that people are often weirdly joyous in them, because they've recovered a sense of agency, a sense of power, etc.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Agency, People, Etc

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• People don't realize that when Iranians marched against the shah, their goal was not to have a religious government take over. Everybody marched against the shah. There were communists and feminists and student groups. It's very much like what's going on in the U.S. now, with people following Trump. It's not that they want Trump. They want a radical change, is really what people are saying. With the shah, people were just so sick of the corruption they said just get rid of him.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Religious, People, Sick

  Source: www.hbook.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Communism, Bureaucrats, Ifs

  11 Copy quote

• We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward to socialism and communism. Both the name of our Party and our Marxist world outlook unequivocally point to this supreme ideal of the future, a future of incomparable brightness and splendor.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Views, Names

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.19, Lulu.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which are two essentially different revolutionary processes, and the second process can be carried through only after the first has been completed. The democratic revolution is the necessary preparation for the socialist revolution, and the socialist revolution is the inevitable sequel to the democratic revolution. The ultimate aim for which all communists strive is to bring about a socialist and communist society.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Taken, Two

  4 Copy quote

• How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Party, Drunk, Lines

  4 Copy quote

• Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able to exercise an inordinate degree of power in shaping the course of America in the dangerous postwar era. I could not help wondering and worrying whether we were faced with open enemies across the conference table and hidden enemies who sat with us in our most secret councils.

  Mark W. Clark

  Exercise, Government, America

  8 Copy quote

• The Communists claim that they liberated the Russian people. Yet, when the Great Patriotic War began, these same Russians greeted their foreign invaders with tears, with flowers and with enthusiastic hospitality. What can have brought them to the point at which they would greet even Hitler as their saviour and liberator?

  Viktor Suvorov

  War, Flower, Patriotic

  8 Copy quote

• Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Communism, Cannabis

  88 Copy quote

• 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.

  49 Copy quote

  Show source