Communist Quotes - Page 13

• We must ever keep in mind that collectivized socialism is part of the communist strategy. Communism is fundamentally socialism. We will never win our fight against communism by making concessions to socialism.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Fighting, Winning, Mind

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

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• No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Philosophy, Evil

  Ezra Taft Benson (1964). “Title of liberty”

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• Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

  Joe Slovo

  Party, Government, Europe

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• We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.

  Dorothy Day

  New York, Government, Suffering

  "On Pilgrimage". "Catholic Worker", September 1956.

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• I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed.

  Joe Lhota

  Rights, People, Gone

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• No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of
  their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Intelligent, Agreement, Ideas

  "Reply to a Peasant's Question". "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 36, (p. 501), www.marxists.org. 1971.

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• If we turn to the differences separating Communist, Fascist, and National Socialist regimes, we find that they can be accounted for by contrasting social, economic, and cultural condition in which the three had to operate. In other words, they resulted from tactical adaptation of the same philosophy of government to local circumstances, not from different philosophies.

  Richard Pipes

  Philosophy, Government, Differences

  "Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime". Book by Richard Pipes, 1993.

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• These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

  Ronald Reagan

  Brave, Unions, Inspired

  Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, delivered 1 September 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey

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• Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party.

  Xi Jinping

  Party, Sea, Iron

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• Only the Communist Party, as the institution that brings together the revolutionary vanguard and will always guarantee the unity of Cubans, can be the worthy heir of the trust deposited by the people in their leader.

  Raul Castro

  Party, People, Leader

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• Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.

  Barbara Amiel

  Movement, Century, Jew

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• No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists

  C. F. W. Walther

  Christian, Men, Effort

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• The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

  Earl Browder

  Champion, Reform

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• The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Genocide, Stage

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• Where have we come as a country, when loving the Constitution, being a patriot, loving Jesus is extremist? Let me tell you what I think is extreme, is a president who was raised by communists, taught by communists, who was supported by communists, and whose self-appointed, self-admitted heroes are communists. And that, I think, is un-American.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Country, Jesus

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• Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.

  John Foster Dulles

  Land, Important, Defense

  John Foster Dulles (1954). “Evolution of Foreign Policy: Text of Speech by John Foster Dulles Secretary of State Before the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, N.Y., January 12, 1954”

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• One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Change, Transition, Might

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?'". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the stand of the Party, keeping to Party spirit and Party policy.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Struggle, Mean

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as much as on the front. Minds must be kept loyal and at the right pitch of hate, so that successive drafts of fighters are accepted without murmurings. Letters and newspapers must be censored while the propaganda mill grinds on. As for decisions of strategy and overall command, they must please many masters: dissenters in the cabinet, the heads of the allied states and public opinion. Hence failures must be disguised or concealed.

  Jacques Barzun

  Hate, Tyrants, People

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• I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

  Nat King Cole

  Usa, America, Proud

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• Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.

  James Traficant

  Thinking, America, Yield

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• Every comrade must be brought to understand that the supreme test of the words and deeds of a Communist is whether they conform with the highest interests and enjoy the support of the overwhelming majority of the people.

  Mao Zedong

  People, Support, Majority

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.137, Lulu.com

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• At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests of the nation and of the masses. Hence, selfishness, slacking, corruption, seeking the limelight, and so on, are most contemptible, while selflessness, working with all one's energy, whole-hearted devotion to public duty, and quiet hard work will command respect.

  Mao Zedong

  Hard Work, Selfishness, Firsts

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.137, Lulu.com

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• Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.

  Mao Zedong

  Mistake, People, Truth Is

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.270, China Books

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• Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and is really well founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness.

  Mao Zedong

  Reality, Thinking, Use

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.270, China Books

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