Communism Quotes - Page 20

• Islam is not a religion, but an imperialist ideology like communism or fascism.

  Geert Wilders

  Islam, Fascism, Ideology

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power.

  Davis McCaughey

  Leadership, Business, Men

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• 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.

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• In the early period of Left struggles, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, there were many different trajectories for the struggle, whether you call it 'syndicalism' or 'anarchism' or, at the time, 'social democracy', eventually 'Communism', these were different theories of struggle. But all of them shared a basic understanding that the people...experience exploitation, they experience oppression, but they're not prepared to rise up.

  Vijay Prashad

  Struggle, People, Understanding

  "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.

  Lech Walesa

  War, Nails, Coffins

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• The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

  Edmund Wilson

  Humanity, Causes, Natural

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• There is a reason why you see such an antagonism to religion. Because communism necessitates the destruction of religion for one reason. Communism needs for government to be your God. So there cannot be any alliance to anything but government. So an alliance to God must be destroyed. That's why socialism and anti-religion go together.

  Rafael Cruz

  Government, Together, Needs

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• 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, Communication, Civilization

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• Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy. Its compulsive attractions rob its followers of reason and good sense. It has created unsustainable inequalities and threatened to tear apart the very fabric of society. More powerful than any religion, it has reached into every corner of the globe. It is consumerism

  Jonathon Porritt

  Powerful, Future, Ideas

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• In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strong, Fall, Communist Leaders

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• Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Opposites, Democracy, Fascism

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1995). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• I always thought communism was crap, really.

  Alexei Sayle

  Crap

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• It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work.  Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.

  Colin Quinn

  Sad, Leadership, Work

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• I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.

  Petra Nemcova

  Dream, Freedom Of Speech, Grew Up

  "How supermodel Petra Nemcova's tragedy changed children's lives" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

  Richard M. Nixon

  School, Politics, Indoctrination

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• The John Birch Society is Communism's greatest ally. With its help we will divide and confuse the American people until they have lost faith in their Government, their nation has ceased to be a major world power, and their country is ripe for revolution.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Country, Government, People

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• I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Home, Loss

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• If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

  Jane Fonda

  Thinking, Knees, Way

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• On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their jobs. I see them; if I dared, I would smile at them. I think to myself that I am a socialist, that they are the purpose of my life, of my efforts and that they do not know it yet.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Morning, Jobs, Men

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• The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.

  Larry McDonald

  Mean, Government, Order

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• For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Looks, World

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.23, Best Books on

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• When Chinese people want liberal reforms, they are delivered. When they want more Communism and an epic fight against corruption, like now, China's government immediately reacts. It is powerful and democratic, although a very specific and complex arrangement.

  Andre Vltchek

  Powerful, Fighting, Epic

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

  Bill Ayers

  Unions, Allure, China

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• Everyone has so much hope for a better humanity, and many, including [Jean Paul] Sartre, turned to the idea of communism in its beginnings. Generosity had a place in people's hopes.

  Catherine Camus

  Ideas, People, Generosity

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

  Mason Cooley

  Stupid, Power, Marxism

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