Communist Quotes - Page 18

• The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.

  Ernst Zundel

  Judging, Lobbyists, Sitting

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• England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to the degree that tax-consumers will have a living standard comparable to that of taxpayers; the idea that government exists for the purpose of plundering those who work to give the product of their labor to those who do not work. The economic and social cannibalism produced by this communist-socialist idea will destroy any society which adopts it and clings to it as a basic principle – ANY society.

  Dan Smoot

  Strong, Ideas, Government

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• Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

  Alexei Sayle

  Nice, People, Nice People

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• Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Teaching, Reading

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• My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

  Pete Seeger

  Father, Movement

  "The Old Left". New York Times Magazine Interview (Section 6, p. 13), www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

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• A Communist officer told a Christian he was beating, 'I am almighty, as you suppose your God can be. I can kill you.' The Christian answered, 'The power is all on my side. I can love you while you torture me to death.'

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Love You, Sides

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• Libertarianism and communism are equally crazy in opposite ways. Libertarians believe that it is possible to privatize everything without anarchy, while communists believe that it is possible to socialize everything without tyranny.

  Michael Lind

  Crazy, Believe, Opposites

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• You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you are fighting for. I hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think that’s obscene.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Live Life, Fighting

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• What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  People, Torture, Surprising

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• You may claim to love Jesus but your life proves you are still walking in darkness—confused, befuddled and foggy! When you are truly in love with Jesus, conversing with Him, He turns up the light. There is no darkness at all in His presence. The worst possible darkness to mankind is not in the hearts of God-hating Communist leaders or Christ-hating atheists. It is, rather, the horrible darkness that blinds so-called Christians who refuse to walk in the light.

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, Jesus, Atheist

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• We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist: The communist 'has convinced himself that nothing is evil which answers the call of expediency.' This is a most damnable doctrine. People who truly accept such a philosophy have neither conscience nor honor. Force, trickery, lies, broken promises are wholly justified.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Lying, Philosophy, Book

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

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• No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Saint, Communism, Latter

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

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• The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  America, Rights, Movement

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• Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the USSR, it would be nice to see more protest inside the Communist Party but it's not democracy. It's not going to happen. [Shareholder actions] are a good step, but they're mostly symbolic.

  Noam Chomsky

  Nice, Party, Democracy

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones, some communist ones, and many where economics are not separated out of the broader fabric of life (such as sharing and gift giving, and mutual support).

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Mutual Support, Fabric Of Life, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Thinking, Important, World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Communism then defines a society in which there are communal forms for dealing with resources. Many communal forms exist where there are not communist governments. The Mondragon cooperatives in Spain and the thousands of worker-owned cooperatives in the United States, are viable alternatives to capitalism.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Government, United States, Spain

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a series of essays called "The Iron Law of Oligarchy" and in these essays he discusses how no matter what sorts of freedoms are advertised or put into a society structure, that all societies, all form of governments - whether they be a Roman republic, whether they be a democracy, whether they be a Russian communist system, whatever, a tribe... a tribal council - all of the continuously, throughout the ages, have all converted back into an oligarchy.

  Immortal Technique

  Writing, Government, Law

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• My mother went to demonstrations. I remember her going to a big demonstration for Earl Brower and she came home crying and said the Communists were very mean and booed their people. I remember feeling sad at her feeling sad.

  Grace Paley

  Mother, Home, Mean

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• The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Party, Believe, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Judging by their positions at the time, rather than their post hoc allegations, Democrats adored the Soviet Union. Congressional Democrats repeatedly opposed funding anti-Communist rebels, they opposed Reagan's military build-up, they opposed building a shield to protect America from incoming missiles, they opposed putting missiles in Europe. As a rule, Democrats opposed anything opposed by their cherished Soviet Union.

  Ann Coulter

  Military, Europe, America

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• Americans cannot comprehend how their fellow countrymen could not love their country. But the left's anti-Americanism is intrinsic to their entire worldview. Liberals promote the right of Islamic fanatics for the same reason they promote the rights of adulterers, pornographers, abortionists, criminals, and Communists. They instinctively root for anarchy against civilization. The inevitable logic of the liberal position is to be for treason.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, Islamic, Civilization

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• My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

  Alexei Sayle

  Dad, Mean, Years

  "Fictional character: Alexei Balowski". "The Young Ones/ Oil", www.imdb.com. 1982.

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• On the other hand, Surrealism has been a part of Romanian literature since forever. Even before Tzara, who was originally Romanian, we had Urmuz, who was a surrealist before the term even existed. During Breton's era too, there was a very active Romanian Surrealist group (Ghérasim Luca, Gellu Naum, etc.) closely related to the French. They had to quit their activities as soon as the Soviet communists took over.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Hands, Forever, Groups

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Westbrook Pegler suggested that in the period, I think the late 40s, when the investigations of Communism were opening up during the Cold War, that she ought to be called and required to testify about what she knew. I remember he said, "Would the world vanish in a blast of flame if this old woman were subpoenaed and compelled to tell what she knows about the Communist Party's activities in the United States?"

  William A. Rusher

  War, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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