Communism Quotes - Page 14

• Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.

  Lech Walesa

  Needs, World, Shots

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• The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Conservative, Paradox

  Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”

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• 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

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• 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

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• In China the struggle to consolidate the socialist system, the struggle to decide whether socialism or capitalism will prevail, will still take a long historical period. However, we should all realize that the new system of socialism will unquestionably be consolidated. We can assuredly build a socialist state with modern industry, modern agriculture, and modern science and culture.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Agriculture, Long

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the Soviet Union's experience, will require a long time and painstaking work. Without socialization of agriculture, there can be no complete, consolidated socialism.

  Mao Zedong

  Agriculture, Long, Judging

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.29, China Books

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• That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Numbers, Selfishness

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.44, Aristotle

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• Every system tries to get people to conform to support that system. That goes for communism, socialism, free enterprise, or any other civilization. If they don't demand loyalty, they can't keep their civilization together. So what they do is they teach things that would support an established system. We do not advocate an established system. TVP talks of an emergent system into state of change. So that we always prepare people for the next changes coming ahead. So that people will not cling to the past.

  Jacque Fresco

  Loyalty, Past, Civilization

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• Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.

  Pope Pius IX

  Mean, Pests, Socialism

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• In addition to the leadership of the Party, a decisive factor is our population of 600 million. More people mean a greater ferment of ideas, more enthusiasm and more energy. Never before have the masses of the people been so inspired, so militant and so daring as at present.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Mean, Ideas

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are “poor and blank”. This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for changes, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written; the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.

  Mao Zedong

  Beautiful, Character, Reality

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".

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• After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in China. The first is internal, that is, the contradiction between the working class and the bourgeoisie. The second is external, which is the contradiction between China and the imperialist countries. Consequently, after the victory of the people's democratic revolution, the state power of the people's republic under the leadership of the working class must not be weakened but must be strengthened.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Chinese Revolution, Land

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• 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

  Tests, Way, Firsts

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

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• The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary. The entire history of revolution proves that without the leadership of the working class revolution fails and that with the leadership of the working class revolution triumphs.

  Mao Zedong

  Class, People, Triumph

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly on the alliance of the workers and the peasants, because these two classes comprise 80 to go per cent of China's population. These two classes are the main force in overthrowing imperialism and the Kuomintang reactionaries. The transition from New Democracy to socialism also depends mainly upon their alliance.

  Mao Zedong

  Class, Two, People

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.

  John Taft

  Home, Men, Enemy

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• When you guys win, you get to keep your money. When we win, we take your money.

  Cy Thao

  Winning, Guy

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• 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

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• Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

  Gus Hall

  America, Historical, Socialism

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• Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.

  Peter Kreeft

  Atheist, Powerful, Atheism

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• I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

  Bill Maher

  Marriage, Lying, Hypocrisy

  "I'm against gay marriage--and straight marriage too" By Dean Obeidallah, www.cnn.com. June 30, 2011.

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• The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told us about communism? There's a good reason why you don't care about soccer - it's because you are an American and hating soccer is more American than mom's apple pie, driving a pick-up and spending Saturday afternoon channel-surfing with the remote control.

  Tom Weir

  Soccer, Mom, Hate

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• A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

  Milton Friedman

  Liberty, Principles, Coercion

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• Communism begins where atheism begins.

  Karl Marx

  Atheism

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of this century will be the changes wrought by astonishing scientific breakthroughs

  Cynthia Tucker

  Change, Communication, Science

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