Communist Quotes

• How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Government, Political

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

  Hélder Câmara

  Motivational, Inspiring, Wisdom

  "Peace Behind Bars: A Peacemaking Priest's Journey from Jail". Book by Father John Dear, 1995.

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• Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

  Karl Marx

  Country, Communication, Winning

  Karl Marx (2013). “The Communist Manifesto”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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  All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Gun, Political

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• We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

  Mao Zedong

  Roots, People, Soil

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.273, China Books

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• The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Vision, Without God

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.9, Regnery Publishing

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• I will never vote Democrat again, they are Communists.

  Howard Stern

  Vote, Democrat

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• No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Our Generation, Generations, Quitting

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• Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

  Gertrude Stein

  Unhappy Childhood, People, Literature

  Quoted by Thornton Wilder in December 14-15, 1956, interview with Richard Goldstone. "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", 1958.

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• A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

  Winston Churchill

  Political, Democracy, Trying

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Party, Parent, Literature

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• Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Peace, Military

  Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

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• We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.

  John T. Flynn

  Europe, Decision, United States

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• There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

  Oswald Spengler

  Leader, Movement, Facts

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.367, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.

  Janos Kadar

  Teamwork, Real, Men

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• ...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Order, Political

  Karl Marx (2015). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”, p.40, Booklassic

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• For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Struggle, Civilization, Generations

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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• In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

  Karl Marx

  Division Of Labor, Horizon, Phases

  Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).

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• We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

  Emanuel Celler

  Believe, Tactics, Communism

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Silly, Rights, Littles

  "The Death of a President". Book by William Manchester, 1967.

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• I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Kind, Communism

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• When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.

  Bram Fischer

  Party, Mind, Trying

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• In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

  Karl Marx

  Morning, Work, Mind

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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• There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

  Ken Follett

  War, America, Eras

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. December 15, 2000.

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• It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Country, Wall, Different

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