Communist Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• We should encourage comrades to take the interests of the whole into account. Every Party member, every branch of work, every statement and every action must proceed from the interests of the whole Party; it is absolutely impermissible to violate this principle.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Principles, Branches

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

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• Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward.

  Mao Zedong

  Example, Tasks, Losing

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• Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should rely on the majority of the masses and win their support.

  Mao Zedong

  Sacrifice, Winning, Self

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• Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

  Mao Zedong

  Teacher, Example, Study

  Zedong Mao (1971). “Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu”

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• Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.

  Mao Zedong

  Teacher, Boss, Movement

  Zedong Mao (1971). “Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu”

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• Communists must never separate themselves from the majority of the people or neglect them by leading only a few progressive contingents in an isolated and rash advance, but must take care to forge close links between the progressive elements and the broad masses. This is what thinking in terms of the majority means.

  Mao Zedong

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Zedong Mao (1971). “Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu”

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• We Communists must be able to integrate ourselves with the masses in all things. If our Party members spend their whole lives sitting indoors and never go out to face the world and brave the storm, what good will they be to the Chinese people? None at all, and we do not need such people as Party members. We Communists ought to face the world and brave the storm the great world of mass struggle and the mighty storm of mass struggle.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Struggle, People

  Zedong Mao (1965). “Selected Works: The period of the war of resistance against Japan (II)”

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• The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set an example in fighting bravely, carrying out orders, observing discipline, doing political work and fostering internal unity and solidarity.

  Mao Zedong

  Fighting, Army, Order

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.140, Lulu.com

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• A Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in nothing; he must never shut himself up in his little room, or brag and boast and lord it over others.

  Mao Zedong

  Thinking, Littles, Rooms

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.274, China Books

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• Communists must listen attentively to the views of people outside the Party and let them have their say. If what they say is right, we ought to welcome it, and we should learn from their strong points; if it is wrong, we should let them finish what they are saying and then patiently explain things to them.

  Mao Zedong

  Strong, Party, Views

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.140, Lulu.com

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• As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward.

  Mao Zedong

  People, Should, Despise

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Schram (2015). “Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: v. 6: New Stage (August 1937-1938): Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49”, p.765, Routledge

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• Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and it would be impossible for the revolution to triumph. In these years [the eighteen years since the founding of the Party] the development, consolidation and bolshevization of our Party have proceeded in the midst of revolutionary wars; without armed struggle the Communist Party would assuredly not be what it is today. Comrades throughout the Party must never forget this experience for which we have paid in blood.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, Party

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Army, Past

  "Conversations with Stalin". Book by Milovan Djilas, 1963.

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• Communists are the last optimists.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Lasts, Optimist

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.37, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly.

  Glenn Beck

  Gun, Differences, Revolution

  Keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference, February, 2010.

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• 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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• The Communist torturers often said, 'There is no God, no hereafter, no punishment for evil. We can do what we wish.' I have heard one torturer even say, 'I thank God, in whom I don't believe, that I have lived to this hour when I can express all the evil in my heart.' He expressed it in unbelievable brutality and torture inflected on prisoners.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Believe, Heart, Punishment

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• Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The Communist model of society was a kind of imposed utopia for which the Russian people in particular paid a great price. Still, sometimes we see that attempts are being made to impose some other kind of model on the entire world - maybe a Westernized or Americanized model... This is not the way to go because this can only create conflict.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  People, World, Lessons

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