Communism Quotes - Page 25

• The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.

  Grover Cleveland

  Forgotten, Reaching, Should

  "Letters of Grover Cleveland, 1850 - 1908". Book by Allan Nevins, 1933.

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• The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

  Murray Kempton

  Sin, Communist, Boon

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.33, New York Review of Books

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• There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.

  Mao Zedong

  Principles, Finals, Analysis

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• Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a self-appointed elite. And because it distorts and manipulates the distinctive talents of individuals rather than letting those talents flourish, it prevents progress and prosperity.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Self, Hands, People

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• The best way to make Communists is to put the Americans into a place where there were no Communists before.

  Norodom Sihanouk

  Way, Communist, Best Way

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• There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I.

  Dennis Prager

  Confused, War, Vietnam

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• Communism is the opiate of the people.

  Will Durant

  People, Opiates

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• The scientific world, the materialistic world, the world of commerce, the world of business, the world of individualism, the world of capitalism, world of communism - all these worlds are the old story now. Where we think we exploit nature, we exploit people. Market rules, profit rules, money rules. We work for name, fame, power, money, profit. That's the old story.

  Satish Kumar

  Thinking, Names, People

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion.

  Zachary Lazar

  Religious, War, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

  Michel de Certeau

  Demonstration, Used, Socialist

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

  Gus Hall

  America, Next Steps, Slavery

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• The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Crime, Consideration, Century

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• Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Italian, Common Sense, Stupidity

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• The propaganda of Communism throughout the world, in organization and direction is in the hands of Jewish agents. As for anyone who does not know that the Bolshevist movement in Russia is Jewish, I can only say that he must be a man who is taken in by the suppression of our deplorable press.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Taken, Men, Organization

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• Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918.

  Henry Hamilton Beamish

  Russia, Revolution, Judaism

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• There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.

  Jim Leach

  Socialism, Fascism, Misused Words

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• In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.

  David Levering Lewis

  Determination, Careers, Rights

  "'He Would Not Bleach His Negro Soul': W.E.B. Du Bois" by Kris Broughton, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism, the rise and fall of communism, and the rise of democracy; and now we are witnessing the fall of democracy... the theme of the evolution of life continues, sweeping away with it all that does not blossom into perfection.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Fall, Perfection, Democracy

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• In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Philosophy, Men, Glowing

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Destiny, Men

  "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958". Book by Martin Luther King, Clayborne Carson, Peter Holloran, Ralph Luker, Penny A. Russell (University of California Press), p. 211, 1992.

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• An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimination against all people.

  Shelley Berkley

  People, Ambassadors, Discrimination

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• If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.

  Paul Johnson

  Differences, Evil, Pits

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• Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn't automatically a bad thing.

  Francis George

  Love Is, Justice, Way

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

  Lars von Trier

  Very Romantic, Terrible, Stills

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The difficulty, then, is when you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's the danger. Communism, too, is a beautiful idea, but millions of people died when communism became an ideology.

  Michael Haneke

  Beautiful, Ideas, People

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 30, 2009.

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